Source · Select Committees · Public Accounts Committee
Recommendation 19
19
Accepted
We questioned the Department about the assessments it had made of the long-term impact on...
Recommendation
We questioned the Department about the assessments it had made of the long-term impact on supply chain organisations.51 It told us that supply chain organisations had been eligible to apply for the fund where they were culturally significant, but we had seen evidence that applicants from such organisations, which often supported numerous freelancers, had felt their cultural significance had not been understood and they had been refused funding.52 The Department told us that its arm’s-length bodies had assessed whether the services applicants provided were predominantly for the heritage or culture sector, whether those services were scarce or particularly innovative and their relevance to the sector.53 ACE explained that the “ecosystem” of the sector had large and small and differentiated sorts of organisations. It acknowledged that, over time, it needed to make sure that the supply chain was represented.54
Government response summary AI-generated
The government explicitly agrees with the recommendation to ensure the supply chain is represented and commits to writing to the Committee on this matter by mid-September 2021, though it disagrees with lacking understanding or support for the identified sectors.
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Government Response
Accepted
HM Government · verbatim extract
Accepted
4.1 The government agrees with the Committee’s recommendation. Target implementation date: mid-September 2021 4.2 DCMS will write to the Committee on this matter by mid-September 2021. However, the government does not agree that it lacks an understanding of the coverage or impact of its funding, nor does the government agree that it has not supported the sectors identified.
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