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

1 session
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

1 letter
DateDirectionTitle
14 May 2026 To cttee Letter from the Permanent Secretary at the Department for Culture, Media & Spor…