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Select committee: Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee

11th Special Report - Lessons from the First World War Centenary: Government Response to the Committee’s Thirteenth Report

Published 10 October 2019

Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee Lessons from the First World War Centenary inquiry Report on parliament.uk ↗

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The government's response

This document responds to 13th Report - Lessons from the First World War Centenary.

This is the government's response, published 10 October 2019.

Summary written by Accountability Index from the government's response. It is not the government's own words.

The Government welcomes the Committee's report, says it will be shared as a reference for future programmes, and responds to each recommendation mainly by describing existing and planned work.

  • On diversity (Recommendation 6), the Government "agrees with the Committee's recommendation" that future national commemorations should aim, "where possible", to engage with a range of different communities.
  • On intergenerational work (Recommendation 3), it says it "agree[s]" that this "should be explored during the planning of any commemoration events of a similar nature".
  • On teaching resources (Recommendation 2), DCMS is providing £100,000 for the IWM's Digital Legacy programme, and DCMS and the DfE "will work together to explore ways to inform schools and teachers about the portal".
  • On digital preservation (Recommendation 11), DCMS is encouraging organisations to plan for preservation "where cost effective to do so", and the IWM digital portal is stated to launch in June 2020.

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