Select Committee · Public Accounts Committee
Financial resilience of government-sponsored museums and galleries
Status: Open
Opened: 12 Dec 2025
Fifteen national museums and galleries, including the British Museum and the Science Museum, are sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), with free access afforded to their permanent collections as a result. These institutions received £480m from DCMS in 2024-25, amounting to almost 25% of the Department’s total spend, and have successfully …
Oral evidence sessions
| Date | Witnesses | |
|---|---|---|
| 20 Apr 2026 | Andrew Pattison · Department for Culture, Media and Sport, Hannah Malik · Department for Culture, Media and Sport, Polly Payne · Department for Culture, Media and Sport, Susannah Storey · Department for Culture, Media and Sport | View ↗ |
Correspondence
| Date | Direction | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 14 May 2026 | To cttee | Letter from the Permanent Secretary at the Department for Culture, Media & Spor… |