DCMS DEPARTMENT FOR DIGITAL CULTURE MEDIA AND SPORT OF GREAT BRITAIN BRITISH GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS UNTITED KINGDOM 100 PARLIAMENT STREET LONDON ENGLAND SW1A 2BQ UK

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The offices of the DCMS, in London

The Department for Digital Culture Media and Sport (DCMS) is a British government organisation based at 100 Parliament Street, London, England, SW1A 2BQ.

The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) is a department of His Majesty's Government, with responsibility for culture and sport in England, the building of a digital economy, and some aspects of the media throughout the UK, such as broadcasting and the Internet.

It also has responsibility for the tourism, leisure and creative industries (some joint with Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy). The department was also responsible for the delivery of the 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games.

The DCMS employs around 3,020 staff. They have an annual budget of some £1.4 billion (current) & £1.3 billion (capital) for 2011–12.

During 2022, into 2023, the DCMS posted two competitions aimed at helping promising concerns, to realise their potential, via grant funding with business mentoring:

1. UK registered micro/SMEs in the creative sector, in six specified regions of England, can apply for £10k-£30k for innovation projects to grow their business. Closes 8th February 2023.

2. UK registered micro and small businesses in the creative industries sector can apply for funding up to £50,000 with a package of support to grow their business. The aim of this competition is to support business innovation within the creative industries by providing a package of targeted and continuous support to help businesses to grow. Closes 15th February 2023.

Rt Hon Michelle Donelan MP - Secretary of State for Digital Culture Media and Sport (DCMS)

MINISTERS RESPONSIBLE

Rt Hon Michelle Donelan MP, Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Matt Warman MP, Minister of State for Media, Data, and Digital Infrastructure

Stuart Andrew MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Sport, Tourism, Heritage and Civil Society

Damian Collins MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Tech and the Digital Economy

Rt Hon The Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Arts

DEPARTMENT EXECUTIVES

Sarah Healey CB, Permanent Secretary

Sam Lister, Director General for Strategy and Operations

Susannah Storey, Director General for Digital and Media

Ruth Hannant and Polly Payne (job share), Director General for Culture, Sport, and Civil Society

Jacinda Humphry, Finance Director

Professor Tom Rodden, Chief Scientific Adviser

2012 OLYMPICS

DCMS was the co-ordinating department for the successful bid by London to host the 2012 Olympics and appointed and oversees the agencies delivering the Games' infrastructure and programme, principally the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) and LOCOG.

The June 2007 Cabinet reshuffle led to Tessa Jowell MP taking on the role of Paymaster General and then Minister for the Cabinet Office while remaining Minister for the Olympics. Ministerial responsibility for the Olympics was shared with Ms Jowell in the Cabinet Office, but the staff of the Government Olympic Executive (GOE) remained based in DCMS.
2010–present

Following the 2010 general election, ministerial responsibility for the Olympics returned to the Secretary of State. Although Jeremy Hunt's full title was Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, the department's name remained unchanged. On 4 September 2012, Hunt was appointed Health Secretary in a cabinet reshuffle and replaced by Maria Miller. Maria Miller later resigned due to controversy over her expenses. Her replacement was announced later that day as Sajid Javid.

After the 2015 general election, John Whittingdale was appointed as Secretary of State, tasked with initiating the BBC Charter review process. DCMS received full responsibility for the digital economy policy, formerly jointly held with BIS, and sponsorship of the Information Commissioner's Office from the Ministry of Justice.

Whittingdale was replaced by Karen Bradley after the referendum on the UK's membership of the EU in July 2016. The Office for Civil Society moved from the Cabinet Office to DCMS as part of the same reshuffle.

In January 2018, Matthew Hancock, previous Minister of State for Digital, was appointed Secretary of State as part of a Cabinet reshuffle. In the 9 July 2018 reshuffle, Jeremy Wright became the Secretary of State. Nicky Morgan became Secretary of State in July 2019; she stood down as an MP at the 2019 United Kingdom general election but was ennobled as Baroness Morgan of Cotes and retained her position from within the House of Lords. As part of the 13 February 2020 reshuffle, Oliver Dowden MP was appointed Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport.

POLICY AREAS

The DCMS is responsible for government policy in the following areas:

- The arts
- Broadcasting, including the BBC
- Internet and international ICT policy
- Telecommunications and broadband
- Civil society
- Charities
- Creative industries
      - Advertising
      - Arts market
      - Design
      - Fashion
      - Film
      - Music industry
      - Publishing
- Historic environment
- Architecture and design
- Cultural property and heritage
- Digital economy
- Entertainment licensing
- Gambling and racing
- Press freedom and regulation
- Libraries
- Museums and galleries
- The National Lottery
- Tourism
- Sport
- Olympic legacy

OTHER RESPONSIBILITIES

Other responsibilities of DCMS include listing of historic buildings, scheduling of ancient monuments, export licensing of cultural goods, and management of the Government Art Collection (GAC).

The Secretary of State has responsibility for the maintenance of the land and buildings making up the historic Royal Estate under the Crown Lands Act 1851. These inherited functions, which were once centralised in the Office of Works, are now delivered as follows:

- The Royal Parks are maintained by an executive agency within DCMS, the Royal Parks Agency;

- The unoccupied royal palaces in England are managed by a contract with Historic Royal Palaces;

- Maintenance of the occupied royal palaces in England was funded by an annual grant-in-aid to the Royal Household until 31 March 2012.

The Secretary of State for Culture retains legal responsibility for these palaces, but from 1 April 2012 this funding was amalgamated with the Civil List into a single Sovereign Grant administered by HM Treasury. DCMS continues to make a separate small grant to the Royal Household for the maintenance of Marlborough House

The department also has responsibility for state ceremonial occasions and royal funerals. However, responsibility for the Civil List element of head-of-state expenditure and income from the separate Crown Estate remains with the Chancellor of the Exchequer.

DCMS works jointly with the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) on design issues, including sponsorship of the Design Council, and on relations with the computer games and publishing industries.

DCMS organises the annual Remembrance Day Ceremony at the Cenotaph and has responsibility for providing humanitarian assistance in the event of a disaster. In the government's response to the 7 July 2005 London bombings the department coordinated humanitarian support to the relatives of victims and arranged the memorial events.

DCMS has also supported cyber initiatives such as Cyber Discovery and the UK Cyber Security Forum to support innovation in the cyber industry.

CREATIVE CATALYSTS 2023 - 'JOHNNY24' - APPLICATION NO: 10068222

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