Short guide to the Department for Digital culture Media and Sport

October 2017

Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

A Short Guide to the

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If you would like to know more about the

NationalAudit Ofﬁce’s (NAO’s) work

on the Department for Digital, Culture,

Media & Sport (DCMS), pleasecontact:

Paul Keane

Director, Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

paul.keane@nao.gsi.gov.uk

020 7798 7122

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and support for Parliament more widely,

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About this guide and contacts

This Short Guide summariseswhatthe

Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

does,howmuch it costs, recent and planned

changesand what to look out for across its

mainbusiness areas andservices.

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Key facts About the

Department

Key trends across

the Department

Accountability

to Parliament

Strategic and

major programme

developments

Key themes

from NAO reports

Where the Department

spends its money

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Key facts

£1.26 billion

amount of funding

committedby DCMS for

the National Citizen Service

(NCS) programme between

2016 and 2020

67 and 147

number of medals won by

Great Britain and Northern

Ireland at the 2016 Brazil

Olympics (67) and the

Paralympics (147)

89%

percentage of UK premises

that had superfast broadband

by December 2016, against

target of 95% by end of 2017

£7.1 billion

total spending by DCMS

in2016-17 including BBC

andlottery funding

53.6%

percentage of adults who

engaged with a museum

orgallery in 2016-17 Q2

72%

percentage of UK indoor

premises that were able to

receive 4G service in 2016,

compared with 28% in 2015

£25 million

amount of funding

committedby DCMS to

support the Rugby League

World Cup 2021

37.6 million

number of visits to the UK by

overseas residents in 2016,

up from 36.2 million in 2015

Expenditure People Infrastructure

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The Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

(DCMS) is responsible for delivering the government’s

policy covering arts and culture, communications and

media, sport, tourism, building a shared society and

digital connectivity.

The Department is one of the smallest in government

in terms of both its budget and number of staff. Total

spending in 2016-17 including lottery (£1.8 billion) and

BBC (£3.3 billion) was £7 billion. DCMS largely delivers

policy through 41 arm’s-length bodies (ALBs) across a

range of activities and sectors.

ALBs in the DCMS group are responsible for signiﬁcant

policy delivery and account for more than 91% of the

Department’s budget. Funding is provided directly to

each ALB through grant-in-aid.

In 2016-17 DCMS provided £3.3 billion to the BBC,

in addition to £193 million to other broadcasting

andmedia organisations such as S4C and Ofcom.

The BBCoperates independently of DCMS. As of

April 2017, the NAO is the ﬁnancial auditor of the BBC.

Aseparateshort guide to the BBC can be found

atwww.nao.org.uk.

DCMS has seven priorities, which are:

Growing the economy

Supporting business growth in digital, creative and tourism industries.

Connecting the UK

Expanding coverage of telecoms services including development of 5G.

Encouraging participation

Enabling more people to engage in arts, sporting and cultural activities through free museums and sporting

access expansion.

Sustaining excellence and promoting Britain

Promoting excellence in arts and culture, supporting elite sport and boosting tourism.

Supporting our media

Working with the media sector to ensure a free press and thriving industry through regulation and funding.

Ensuring social responsibility

Regulating gambling, improving online safety, regulating media activity.

Building a shared society

Supporting social engagement through the Ofﬁce for Civil Society and Big Lottery Fund.

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Accountability to Parliament

The Accounting Ofﬁcer (AO) of the Department is responsible

and accountable toParliament for managing the Department,

itsuse of public money and stewardshipofassets.

The AO also appoints the chief executives, or equivalents,

ofitssponsorednon-departmental and other ALBs as AOs

ofthosebodies. The DCMS AO isresponsible for ensuring

thesebodies have appropriate systems in place toensure

grantsgiven by the Department are used for their intended

purpose andareaccounted for properly.

Department ALBs are governed by their own independent

boards and each has separate governance and internal

assurance structures in place. DCMSministersappoint or

makerecommendations to the Prime Minister toappoint

thechairs and trustees of almost all DCMS ALBs.

The AO reports to Parliament primarily through CMS Select

Committee sessions.

Key challenges

DCMS spends most of its money through other bodies. Its key challenges in ensuring

it is accountable for taxpayers’ money are:

•

ensuring all of its sponsored non-departmental bodies and other ALBs manage

public money effectively, efﬁciently and transparently;

•

making clear the accountability relationships that exist between the DCMS

andits ALBs; and

•

accessing clear and proportionate performance data against which to measure

how ALBs are being run.

Although ALB AOs have responsibility for monitoring the performance of their body,

the Departmental AO is ultimately accountable to Parliament for the use of all voted

funds. Delays in reporting issues to DCMS and conﬂicting priorities can therefore

present challenges to parliamentary oversight.

Ministerial directions

AOs should request a formal direction if a minister requires them to proceed with a

decision where they have serious concerns about its propriety, regularity, feasibility

or value for money, that they are not able to resolve. There have been no ministerial

directions at DCMS during the past two years at least.

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Accountability to Parliament continued

Parliament

AO accountable to Parliamentary Select Committees including Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee.

Departmental Board

Chaired by Secretary of State.

Executive Board headed by the AO

Provides corporate leadership to the Department and ensures the effective delivery of Departmental priorities and ministerial objectives.

Arm’s-length bodies, risk and governance sub-board (ALB RGB)

Provides assurance on the Department’s relationship with its arm’s-length bodies including risk management.

DCMS ALB management teams

Commissions risk assessments, arranges risk moderation meetings and provides information to ALB RGB.

Senior sponsorship leads

Carrying out risk assessments, deciding on level of engagement with ALBs, identifying risks and managing relationship between ALBs and the Department.

Accountability to Parliament from DCMS arm’s-length bodies

Source: Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport, Accounting Ofﬁcer System Statement 2016-17

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Where the Department spends its money

Departmental spending Arts and culture sector spending Sports and leisure spending

Media spending

Lottery grant spending

Source: Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport, Annual Report and Accounts 2016-17, Statement of Parliamentary Supply 1.1 & 1.2

Museums and galleries

£448m

Libraries

£123m

Arts and culture

£494m

Sports

£180m

Heritage

£181m

Royal Parks

£40m

Tourism

£58m

Broadcasting and media

£194m

Administation

£60m

Gambling

£2m

Ofﬁce for Civil Society

£254m

BBC

£3,261m

Lottery

£1,799m

Levy Bodies

£5m

Other

£14m

DCMS total

£7,062m

Income

£78.8m

Income

£1.9m

Income

£2.5m

Income

£1 m

Income

£1 m

Income

£1 m

Income

£1m

Olympics Gross income: £35m

Net income: £1.8m

Spectrum management

Income: £49.6m

Income

£7m

Income

£28.4m

Income

£2.2m

Income

£1.3m

Departmental spending 2016-17 (£m)

The total departmental spending across DCMS

includingBBC was £7.1 billion. This includes BBC

spendof£3.3billionand lottery spend of £1.8 billion.

Notes

1 Gross expenditure for the Department was £7.06 billion in 2016-17

withincome of £158 million and net spending of £6.90 billion.

2 Figures include Departmental Expenditure Limits and Annually Managed

Expenditure, resource and capital, voted and non-voted.

3 The individual accounts for the bodies included will not reconcile to the

ﬁgures shown due to adjustments on consolidation of the accounts.

4 The BBC is a public broadcasting authority. The BBC’s Public Service

Broadcasting Group (BBC PSB) falls within the DCMS accounting

boundary, and this element of the BBC is consolidated into the

DCMSaccounts.

5 Lottery grant bodies are funded from lottery income but consolidated

intothe Department’s accounts.

6 ALBs (heritage, libraries, tourism, arts and culture, museums and

galleries, Gambling Commission, and broadcasting and media)

arepresented net of income generated by the ALBs.

7 The above ﬁgures exclude prior period adjustment.

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Expenditure

As part of the 2015 Spending Review, the government maintained funding for

museums and galleries in cash terms but the Department’s overall budget

wasreduced by 5.1% over the period to 2019-20.

The Departmental resource budget (funding for day-to-day operations) was

expected to remain the same at £1.3 billion per year until 2019-20. Its capital

budget (funding for capital investment, for example buildings and equipment) was

expected to decrease by £0.1 billion by 2019-20

Changes to Departmental responsibilities since the Spending Review have

caused budgets for future years to be revised.

The transfer to DCMS of the Ofﬁce for Civil Society (OCS) from the Cabinet Ofﬁce

has resulted in additional resource budget of £0.3 billion by 2019-20. This has

resulted in total 2019-20 budget rising to approximately £1.6 billion.

DCMS has committed to investing £740 million targeted at supporting the market

to roll out full-ﬁbre connections and future 5G communications over the next

ﬁve years. This has led to a signiﬁcant rise in forecast capital spending over

therelevant period.

Key trends across the Department

Resource DEL

Departmental spending (£m)

200

400

600

800

1,000

1,200

1,400

1,600

1,800

2019-20

2018-19

2017-18

2016-172015-162014-15

2013-14

Notes

1 In this context, frontline spending means Departmental Expenditure Limit, DEL (administration and programme).

2 The above ﬁgures have been restated to include OCS, which joined the Department in 2016-17.

3 Capital spending appears low due to netting off income from the sale of the Olympic Village.

4 Planned spending. Increased capital spending is predominantly related to the Broadband Delivery UK (BDUK) projects.

Source: Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport, Annual Report & Accounts 2016-17, Annex A – Core tables

Departmental actual and forecast frontline spending

1,2

Departmental spending is planned to increase gradually by 2019-20

1,512

264

1,550

275

1,578

449

1,647

1,660

581

1,389

1,386

Capital DEL

529

349

Departmental spending

is planned to increase

by 2019-20

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Key trends across the Department continued

Income

Income from the National Lottery fell substantially (15%) in 2016-17 to £1.64billion

after rising since 2011-12. This has resulted in a fall in the amount of money

available for lottery distributors (DCMS-sponsored bodies which distribute

lotteryfunding through grants).

Distributors often fund multi-year projects giving rise to commitments in

futureyears.

Current excess of commitments above reserves is £1.5 billion (£754 million

in2012-13) representing almost a full year’s revenue. This pressure is not

evenly distributed. The Big Lottery Fund is worst affected, with commitments

worth 2.1years of its share of lottery proceeds. Should income continue to fall,

distributors may have to restrict the funding of new projects.

There are concerns over the

ability of lottery distributors to

continue future funding at the

same level as in recent years

National Lottery Distribution Fund grant commitments against

funding available

Lottery reserves are less than total grant commitments for future years

500

1,000

1,500

2,000

2,500

3,000

3,500

Source: National Lottery Distribution Fund, Annual Report and Accounts 2012-17. Where ﬁgures were subsequently

restated these have been used in the above graph

Funding commitments (£m)

2012-13 2013-14 2014-15 2015-16 2016-17

Big Lottery Fund

Sports

National Lottery Distribution Fund available

Heritage Lottery Fund

Arts

891

740

319

348

1,171

845

436

409

1,254

964

425

555

1,255

996

298

413

1,366

1,023

293

357

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Key trends across the Department continued

Engagement

One of the Department’s primary aims is to increase the public’s participation

incultural and sporting activities.

Departmental Taking Part surveys show that overall engagement in arts

and culture is high and stable. However, library usage has fallen signiﬁcantly

since2010.

After a ﬁve-year rise until 2013-14, museum and gallery attendance has stabilised

ataround 53% of respondents.

The overall engagement rise for museums and galleries has been evenly spread

across upper and lower socio-economic groups, resulting in no closing of

the participation gap over the period. Attendance remains at 63.1% for upper

socio-economic groups and 38.3% for lower socio-economic groups.

Levels of engagement with the

arts, culture and heritage has

remained stable since 2010-11

Engage

ment with arts, culture and heritage

Sour

ce: Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport, Taking Part survey Q4 2015-16

Respondents (%)

Museum visits have gr

own since 2010, while library visits decline

Has engaged with the arts in the last year

Has visited a public library in the last year

Has visited an archive or records ofﬁce in the last year

Has engaged with a museum or gallery in the last year

Has visited a heritage site in the last year

2012-13 2013-14 2014-15 2015-162011-122010-11

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Strategic and major programme developments

DCMS was ofﬁcially renamed in July 2017 as the Department for Digital, Culture,

Media & Sport (DCMS), to reﬂect the movement of responsibility for the digital

economy to the DCMS portfolio.

Three universities (King’s College London, University of Surrey and University of

Bristol) have been provided £16 million to fund trials of 5G mobile networking in 2018.

This will be the ﬁrst publicly funded testing of the new standard in the UK.

By the end of December 2016, the BDUK government-funded superfast broadband

programme had extended superfast broadband to 4.3 million homes and businesses

across the UK. Ofcom’s Connected Nations 2016 report showed that the average

download speed for all ﬁxed broadband services forthe entire UK is 37 Mbps and that

superfast broadband (speeds greater than 30 Mbps) is now available in 89% of UK

premises (more than 25 million).

The BBC Charter was renewed following negotiations between the Department and

the BBC. The new Charter commenced on 1 January 2017 and introduces signiﬁcant

structural changes, for example a new BBC Board which will be responsible for its

governance, and the appointment of Ofcom as the ﬁrst independent, external regulator

of the BBC as well as the appointment of the NAO as BBC auditor from 2017-18.

In March 2017 responsibility for the management and upkeep of the eight Royal Parks

was transferred from the Royal Parks Agency to a newly established charitable company.

English Heritage’s movement towards independence from government funding, begun

in 2015, is expected to be completed by 2022-23. This will enable English Heritage to

become fully self-sufﬁcient and generate its own income from various sources such

asmemberships, retail and admissions.

Several major redevelopments of DCMS-funded museums have been completed,

including the £270 million construction of Tate Modern 2 and thenewExhibitionRoad

entrance and galleries at the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A). Both redevelopments

were funded by donations from the publicand grant-giving institutions.

The Department published the Dormant Assets Commission report in March2017

setting out the options for an increased range of assets to be brought into the

Dormant Assets Scheme. The report estimates there to be £1 billion to £2 billion

of additional funding potentially available for the beneﬁt of good causes from the

inclusion of additional types of asset in an expanded Dormant Asset Scheme.

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Key themes from NAO reports

Financial audit

Historically DCMS failed to meet deadlines for

the laying of accounts before the parliamentary

summer recess. However, in 2016-17 the DCMS

group accounts were certiﬁed with an unqualiﬁed

(clean) audit opinion before the parliamentary

summer recess for the third consecutive year.

National Citizen Service

In July 2016 the government announced that

DCMS would take on responsibility for the

OCS and National Citizen Service (NCS) from

the Cabinet Ofﬁce. The NAO published a value

for money report, National Citizen Service, on

the NCS in January 2017. This concluded that

the NCS had shown initial success in reaching

young people and achieving positive impact with

93,000 participants in 2016, 32% from BAME

backgrounds. However, it found that value for

money depended on successful expansion to

a larger number of people and demonstrating

long-term beneﬁts to participants. The required

growth rate to reach target participation of

360,000 is 40% year-on-year to 2020.

Donor due diligence

In July 2017 the NAO published a report,

Duediligence processes for potential donations,

reviewing the systems and policies in place for

donations management across museums and

galleries throughout DCMS. This found that

museums and galleries are increasingly reliant

ondonations (21% of income in 2015-16, up from

17% in 2012-13) as grant-in-aid funding falls.

The report found that institutions have a good

understanding of issues involved in managing

donations but the extent to which this had

been developed into formal procedures and

processesvaried.

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Overview

DCMS aims to support wider participation in culture

and the arts through its work in the arts and culture

sector, working with the arts and culture sector to

promote the UK’s museums, galleries and heritage

sites, encourage participation for all and boost funding,

innovation and visitor numbers.

The Department is responsible for directly sponsoring

16 arts and culture ALBs such as the British Museum,

National Gallery and Science Museum group. The

funding supports the day-to-day operations of the

institutions including curation and preservation of cultural

items, visitor services and education services. The

funding enables free access to all the sponsored ALBs,

making the UK’s cultural heritage accessible to all.

The Department also sponsors the bodies responsible

for distributing Lottery funds. As a proportion of all

Lottery grant funding in 2016-17, 40% went to the

artsand heritage sectors.

How is it delivered?

Museums, galleries and libraries sponsored directly by DCMS through grant-in-aid direct

funding (grants made by DCMS to ALBs to fund core activities).

£1,023 million

Total DCMS grant-in-aid to museums, galleries, arts and culture in 2016-17.

£347 million

Additional income generated by charity ALBs to fund their activities.

Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF)

Funded by National Lottery receipts, HLF provides grants to UK heritage bodies to support

conservation, fund improved access and build skills in the sector. Total lottery income in

2016-17 was £327 million.

Arts Council England (ACE)

Supports excellence, sustainability and improved access to artistic and cultural organisations

in England through direct grants. Funded by the Exchequer and Lottery income. Similar

bodies operate for the devolved nations. Total lottery income in 2016-17 was £228 million.

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London remains the main area for DCMS spending in the arts and culturesector,

reﬂecting the presence of major national museums andothermajor cultural

organisations in the capital.

The distribution of Lottery funding through Arts Council England (ACE) is

currently signiﬁcantly weighted towards London. Funding has been redistributed

for the 2018–2022 funding cycle following reductions of 3%formajor London

institutions such as the Royal Opera House and National Theatre and an overall

increase outside London of £375 million forthe 2018–2022 cycle.

Grants will be made to 187 arts organisations for the ﬁrst time from the Arts

Council in the funding cycle 2018–2022 out of a total of 844 bodies funded

overﬁve years.

The announcement of the new Factory Gallery in Manchester will bring

£78million of government funding to the city and create a new theatre and

artsvenue on the site of the former Granada Studios.

Tate Gallery is completing an expansion of Tate St Ives, due to open to the

publicin late 2017.

DCMS launched the Great Place Scheme in April 2016, in collaboration with

the HLF and ACE. The £20 million pilot scheme will fund projects to embed

arts, culture and heritage in local plans, strengthening communities and the

local economy. This has invested in community-led projects in Bradford,

GreatYarmouth and 14 other places in England so far. The scheme is

currentlybeing expanded to areas in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

Museums and galleries in the London ar

ea receive the most funding, followed by the West Midlands

and North W

est areas

Annualised spending (£m)

ts Council England annual funding by region

Source: Arts Council National Portfolio 2018–2022

Average annual 161.20 48.97 27.68 34.05 21.54 18.87 18.86 16.37 12.52

funding 2015–2018

Average annual 165.17 53.44 42.50 39.38 27.45 22.18 21.50 19.59 17.05

funding 2018–2022

London North

East

Midlands

EastNorth

West

South

East

South

West

Midlands

Yorkshire

100

120

140

160

180

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Recent and planned developments

Museums

Tate Modern completed the £270 million construction of Tate Modern 2, which

opened to the public in June 2016. The new building, constructed on the site of the

former pump rooms of Bankside power station, adds new, purpose-built display

space to the UK’s most popular gallery. This resulted in a record number of visitors

toTate Modern, with 6.4 million people visiting in 2016-17.

The Victoria and Albert Museum opened the newly redeveloped Exhibition Road

galleries and courtyard in June 2017. It also plans to begin construction on a new

museum and research space in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in East London,

expected to open in 2020-21. This will form part of a £141 million project supported

by Sadler’s Wells, the University of the Arts London and University College London

todevelop a new cultural centre in Stratford.

Culture White Paper

In March 2016, DCMS published the ﬁrst Culture White Paper since 1965. The paper

covers four main areas:

•

Everyone should enjoy the opportunities culture offer, no matter where they

startin life.

•

The riches of our culture should beneﬁt communities across our country.

•

The power of culture can increase our international standing.

•

Cultural investment, resilience and reform.

This launched a number of new initiatives, including the Great Place Scheme and

Cultural Citizenship Programme, alongside the continuation of a number of existing

initiatives. The Cultural Citizenship Programme was launched in August 2016, this

aims to introduce three pilots to give 600 young people increased access to culture.

The programme targets disadvantaged communities where fewer people currently

visit museums, galleries or the theatre.

Read the document at Culture White Paper

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Policies for the arts and culture sector

In 2015, English Heritage introduced a new model

whereby the National Heritage Collection became

managed and maintained by a new charity, which

keptthe name English Heritage and aims to be

self-ﬁnancing by 2023.

DCMS remains responsible for the cultural artefacts,

buildings and momuments through Historic England,

anALB of DCMS, who contract English Heritage

through a management agreement.

DCMS will need to ensure it uses Historic England

toretain clear oversight and responsibility for this

keypolicy delivery area.

Progression against the Culture

WhitePaper

The Museums Review, for publication in the latter

half of 2017, will determine how the government can

best assist in creating and maintaining a thriving

and sustainable museum sector in England. This

will help determine new approaches to funding

andmanagement of the ALBs.

Reliance on other sources of income

Since 2010-11 there has been increasing pressure on

the amount of money available to fund DCMS ALBs in

the arts and culture sector.

For example, funding from DCMS for the National

Portrait Gallery has reduced by 12% since 2010-11

to£7 million in 2016-17. As a result, the Gallery has

sought additional sources of income primarily from

donations, sales of merchandise and admissions to

premium exhibitions.

As museums become less reliant on government

funding this may lead to changed priorities for the

ALBsand new relationships with the Department.

Declining Lottery funding will also put increasing

pressure on the ability of the Arts Council and

the HLFto support their sectors. As these bodies

providekey funding for major projects and towards

improving access this may signiﬁcantly affect

DCMS’skey policy aims.

tional Portait Gallery changes

in income sources

Income (£m)

Sour

ce: National Portrait Gallery, Annual Report and Accounts 2016-17

2010-11 2016-17

Other

Grant-in-aid

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developments

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DCMS recognises the importance of a healthy

and dynamic media sector and strong press to

a democratic society. DCMS aims to promote

growth in the media, communications and telecoms

industries, while protecting the interests of citizens

and providing the environment for journalism on a

local and national level to ﬂourish. The Department

has taken on signiﬁcant new responsibilities in recent

years, its policyand delivery work now also covers the

digital sectors –telecommunications, data protection,

internetsafety, cyber skills and parts of media and the

creative industries.

How is it delivered?

BBC

The BBC operates independently from the

Department. It receives an annual grant-in-aid from

the government through DCMS that is equivalent to

the amount collected through the licence fee and

transferred to HM Treasury. This totalled £3.3 billion

in 2016-17. A separate short guide to the BBC can

befound at www.nao.org.uk.

S4C

S4C is a Welsh-language public service broadcaster.

Since April 2013, S4C has been jointly funded from

the BBC licence fee, a grant-in-aid from DCMS

(£6.8 million in 2016-17) and its own commercially

generated income.

Ofcom

Ofcom is the independent statutory regulator for

the communications sector. It is responsible for

regulating TV, radio and video-on-demand sectors,

ﬁxed-line telecoms, mobiles and postal services.

Itisalso the ﬁrst independent, external regulator of

the BBC after the 2016 Charter review.

It is funded through fees from industry and also

receives grant-in-aid funding from DCMS, which

totalled £72 million in 2016-17.

Channel 4

Channel 4 is a commercially funded public service

broadcaster that is publicly owned and whose

board is appointed by Ofcom, in agreement with

the Secretary of State for DCMS. This is primarily

overseen under the Communications Act 2003,

whichsets out its public service remit. It does

notreceive any funding from DCMS.

Broadband Delivery UK (BDUK)

A unit within the Department that is managing public

sector investment of more than £1 billion in improving

broadband and mobile infrastructure.

Information Commissioner’s

Ofﬁce (ICO)

ICO works to uphold information rights for the UK

public in the digital age. It also carries out activities

to increase the conﬁdence that the UK public have

inorganisations that process personal data and those

responsible for making public information available. It

received £3.8 million of grant-in-aid funding in 2016-17.

DCMS delivers its objectives through the following:

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DCMS aims to provide funding to support the roll-out of superfast broadband to those areas

ofthe UK where commercial roll-out is not economically viable. This is mostly, but not entirely,

inrural areas.

Superfast broadband has been rolled out to much of the country on commercial terms by

providers such as BT and Virgin Media where it is economically viable for them to doso.

Thegovernment deﬁnes superfast as speeds greater than 24 Mbps, whereas Ofcom

(theUKregulator) deﬁnes it as speeds greater than 30 Mbps.

Broadband Delivery UK (BDUK) is responsible for implementing the government’s policy on

superfast broadband roll-out.

By the end of December 2016 the BDUK government-funded superfast broadband programme

had extended superfast broadband to 4.3 million homes and businesses across the UK. Ofcom’s

Connected Nations 2016 report and postcode-level data downloads showed:

•

the average download speed for all ﬁxed broadband services forthe entire UK is

37Mbps,although speeds available to individual customers vary considerably;

•

superfast broadband – speeds greater than 30 Mbps – is now available in 89%

ofUKpremises (more than 25 million), with take-up of 31%;

•

about 1% of UK premises (about 190,000) are unable to receive speeds of 2 Mbps; and

•

5% of UK premises (about 1.4 million) are unable to receive speeds of at least

10Mbpsthrough a ﬁxed line.

This map shows broadband speed by constituency. As might be expected, urban areas

havemuch higher speeds than more rural areas.

Superfast broadband availability – 2016

Source: Data from Ofcom,

Connected Nations, 2016

27% to 51%

51% to 65%

65% to 75%

75% to 83%

83% to 89%

89% to 94%

More than 94%

Percentage of connections capable

of receiving speeds of 30 Mbps

Boundary data: Crown Copyright, House of Commons Library (OS) 1000040654 and (OSNI) 2085 (2017).

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Recent and planned developments

BBC Charter

A new BBC Charter commenced on 1 January 2017,

which secured the BBC’s ﬁnances and aimed to make

the BBC more transparent and accountable and

ensure that it remains a world-class broadcaster. The

Charter aims to reform the governance and regulation

of the BBC through the creation of a new BBC Board,

responsible for its governance. Ofcom will also take

responsibility for the regulation of the BBC from the

BBC Trust.

5G strategy

A 5G strategy was published by DCMS in March2017,

which outlined the Department’s ambition to become a

global leader in 5G and included plans for a programme

of 5G trials. This includes up to £16 million being made

available for leading UK research institutions to trial

and demonstrate 5G technology.

Digital Economy Act

The Department introduced the new Digital

EconomyAct and it received Royal Assent in

April2017. It plans to widen access to broadband

for everyone and cut costs. For example, the new

broadband Universal Service Obligation for the UK

will give all citizens, households and businesses the

legal right to requesta fast broadband connection

of at least 10 Mbps, regardless of location, up to a

reasonable cost threshold.

UK Tech Hubs

The Department announced plans in March 2017

to establish a network of UK Tech Hubs in ﬁve

developing countries, working alongside the existing

hub in Israel to boost the UK’s impact in emerging

digital economies. The UK–Israel hub has already

delivered more than 80 partnerships, with a deal

valueof more than £62 million.

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How will infrastructure progress?

4G services now reach 72% of UK indoor premises, compared with 28% in 2015,

following DCMS-supported expansion of services.

DCMS will be investing £740 million by 2020 to fund ﬁbre broadband and 5G mobile

connectivity. Phase 2 of the broadband programme is underway and aims to provide

superfast broadband coverage to 95% of UK premises by the end of 2017. It will also

explore options of how best to provide superfast broadband coverage to the hardest

to reach parts of the UK.

What will be the outcome of 21st Century Fox’s takeover of Sky?

In December 2016, 21st Century Fox announced a £12 billion takeover bid for full

control of Sky.

Concerns were raised as to whether Fox and Sky would remain genuinely committed

to broadcasting standards following the transaction. Ofcom assessed the proposal

and found Sky to be “ﬁt and proper” to hold a broadcasting licence in the event

ofatakeover.

The Culture Secretary has referred the bid to the Competition and Markets Authority

(CMA) to assess whether there would be sufﬁcient plurality in the number of persons

with control of media enterprises in the UK following such a merger.

What is being done about cyber security?

The Cyber Security Breaches Survey published in April 2017 showed that nearly

seven in 10 large businesses identiﬁed a cyber security breach or attack, with the

average cost to large businesses of all breaches over the period being £20,000

andinsome cases reaching millions.

The government aims to address this and will continue with the National Cyber

Security Strategy 2016–2021, which sets out plans to make Britain secure and

resilient in cyberspace.

This includes the £20 million Cyber Schools Programme, which will be piloted

inautumn 2017 and aims to deliver high-quality extra-curricular lessons to

14-to18-year-olds.

How prepared are DCMS bodies for the General Data

ProtectionRegulations (GDPR)?

ICO’s annual track survey in 2016 shows that there are growing concerns about

privacy and the protection of personal data, and this is an area of growing

importanceto the public.

The GDPR will apply in the UK from 25 May 2018, with oversight from the ICO. It aims

to reinforce data protection rights of individuals, facilitate the free ﬂow of personal

data in the digital single market and reduce administrative burden. DCMS will be

responsible for enforcement of the regulations through the ICO.

Failure to comply with the GDPR can result in a maximum penalty of £20 million

or4%of annual turnover.

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Policies

DCMS is responsible for maintaining and improving Britain’s elite sporting performance, getting more people

participating in sporting activities, and creating and building a lasting legacy from the London 2012 Olympic and

Paralympic Games. In 2016-17, DCMS provided £182 million of funding across six key ALBs. The sport and leisure

sector covers a number of bodies who provide funding to athletes and sporting organisations, promote sport and

healthy living, maintain public parkland and regulate the gambling industry. DCMS also supports the tourism sector

through Visit Britain and Visit England.

Royal Parks Agency

Royal Parks Agency is responsible for managing

and preserving more than 5,000 acres of historic

parkland across London. It received £13 million

ofgrant-in-aid funding in 2016-17.

UK Anti-Doping

UK Anti-Doping is dedicated to protecting a

culture of clean sport and raising awareness

ofrelated issues. It received £6 million of

grant-in-aid fundingin 2016-17.

UK Sport

UK Sport is a lottery distributor and supports

Britain’s best Olympic and Paralympic sports and

athletes, and coordinates the bids for staging major

international sporting events in the UK. It received

£54 million of grant-in-aid funding in 2016-17.

The Sports Ground

SafetyAuthority

The Sports Ground Safety Authority carries out a

range of safety functions in relation to football and

other sports within the UK and internationally. It

received £1 million of grant-in-aid funding in 2016-17.

Sport England

Sport England is a lottery distributor working to

increase the number of people who play sport

regularly and aims to make lives better through

sport. It received £106 million of grant-in-aid

funding in2016-17.

The Gambling Commission

The Gambling Commission is responsible for

licensing and regulating gambling and lotteries,

protecting its players and maximising funds to

good causes. It received £3 million of grant-in-aid

funding in 2016-17 as well as levy income from

theindustry.

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How much does it cost?

Each of the sport and leisure bodies receive government grant-in-aid funding

(grants made by DCMS to sports and leisure ALBs to fund core activities).

Total grant-in-aid spend in the sector amounted to £182million in 2016-17.

Thisshows a downwardstrend from 2010-11 to 2016-17.

In addition to grant-in-aid funding, the Lottery-distributing ALBs (UK Sport and

Sport England) also received National Lottery funding of £277 million in 2016-17

tosupplement their government funding.

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t-in-aid funding

Grant-in-aid spending (£m)

otal grant-in-aid spending for sports and leisure has decreased since 2010-11

The ﬁgures do not include the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA), which dissolved in December 2014.

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Participation in sport

The map opposite highlights the results of responses from Sport England’s Active People

survey, which shows the number of adults (16+) participating in sports ‘At least once a week’

inEngland.

The latest ﬁndings, for the year to September 2016, were published in December 2016. These

are the last set of results from the survey before being replaced by the Active Lives survey, a

new way of measuring sport and activity taking into account activities such as dance and cycling

for travel. The Active Lives survey ran concurrently with the Active People survey for 2015-16.

More detailed information is available in the full publication, which is available at:

http://activepeople.sportengland.org/

Sport England’s data from the new Active Lives survey for 2015-16

shows that:

•

there is a clear pattern in activity levels by age. Those aged 16–24 are most likely

tobeactive (75% or 4.7 million) and those aged 75+ are least likely to be active

(32% or 1.4 million);

•

11.3 million (26%) of adults do fewer than 30 minutes a week of exercise, compared

with27million (61%) who are active for more than 150 minutes a week; and

•

the preferred form of activity taken at least twice in 28 days is walking (73%),

followedbyrunning (15%) and cycling for leisure and sport (15%).

Percentage of people aged 16+ participating in sport at least

once a week duringOctober 2015 – September 2016

Source:

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Regions

32.7% to 34.7%

34.7% to 35.7%

35.7% to 36.5%

36.5% to 38.3%

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In February 2017, Sport England conﬁrmed that it

would continue to fund the popular ‘This Girl Can’

campaign. It launched the second phase of the

programme, which encourages women and girls

to get active, in May 2017.

The Department monitors and reports annually

on the legacy beneﬁts from the London 2012

Olympics and Paralympic Games. This includes:

•

more than 9.5 million visitors to Queen

Elizabeth Olympic Park since 2012; and

•

nearly 6,000 people live in the former

Athletes’ Village, which has been

convertedinto housing.

UK paralympians brought home a record-breaking

147 medals from Rio 2016, the biggest number

since National Lottery Funding began. UK olympic

athletes brought home 67 medals, the best result

in more than a century.

In May 2016, Sport England published its new

strategy, Towards an Active Nation. It committed

to spending at least 25% of its budget over four

years on tackling inactivity and increasing its

focus and investment to support participation of

under-represented groups, particularly people on

low incomes.

In July 2015, DCMS launched the Five-Point Plan

for Tourism and the Discover England Fund to

increase tourism in the UK and encourage travel

beyond London. During 2016-17, DCMS increased

the funding it provided to VisitBritain to £60 million

per year from £46 million, with £19 million of

this fund used by VisitBritain to promote the UK

abroad. So far, 21 projects have been funded,

withbids for the second round of funding

starting in 2017.

Since the campaign’s launch the number of visits

to the UK by overseas residents has risen to

37.6million in 2016, up from 36.2 million in 2015.

The government published plans for replacing the

current Horserace Betting Levy on 21 March 2016,

which were implemented in April 2017. The Levy

extends to cover offshore betting operators and

ﬁx the rate at 10%, The responsibility for collecting

the Levy will also be transferred from the

Horserace Betting Levy Board to the Gambling

Commission in April 2019.

The Department gave permission for the Royal

Parks Agency to change its status from an

executive agency to a charitable company. Itwas

awarded charitable status from the Charity

Commission and launched in March 2017.

The new charitable company aims to be

more self-sustaining, reducing dependence

on government funding while improving

visitorsatisfaction.

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Future sporting events

England secured the rights to host the Rugby League

World Cup in 2021. The Department is investing up to

£15 million into hosting the event and up to £10 million

towards the event’s legacy by investing in infrastructure

to increase participation.

The UK will host the 2019 UCI Road World Cycling

Championships and DCMS will invest £15 million

towards developing cycling facilities across the UK

aspart of the event’s legacy.

How will national governing bodies

respond to changes?

Sport England and UK Sport jointly published anew

Code for Sports Governance, which took effect

from April 2017. This applies to all sports bodies and

organisations who receive public funding and sets out

standards for transparency, ethics and leadership.

This aims to change the landscape of governance

given recent sporting scandals, with sporting bodies

in receipt of public funds required to comply by

31October 2017.

A new anti-doping ‘clean games policy’ was introduced

by UK Anti-Doping in April 2017. This means that all

athletes and athlete support personnel who are part

of any Olympic, Paralympic or Commonwealth Games

team will received anti-doping education.

The response of the national governing bodies will

be critical to the success of these initiatives and the

actions taken to implement them.

How Royal Parks generates its income

Royal Parks Agency now has the independence

to manage long-term capital projects and is able

to present a more compelling case for support to

corporate sponsors and charitable trusts and for gifts

from individuals.

Royal Parks will seek reduced reliance on the amount

of funding provided by government through new

sources of income, expansion of existing revenue

streams and increased visitor numbers.

For example, a pilot by Sport England has generated

£353,000 to install cutting-edge technology under one

of its existing football pitches in Regent’s Park, London

to transform it into a grass hybrid playing area. It will be

the ﬁrst time a pitch of this type has been installed in

outdoor public sports facilities in the UK.

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About the National Citizen Service

The Ofﬁce for Civil Society (OCS) and the National Citizen Service (NCS) were

transferred from the Cabinet Ofﬁce to DCMS with effect from July 2016 in a

machineryof government change. As a result, DCMS is now responsible for

buildingan inclusive economy, supporting civil society organisations, social

actionandyouth policy.

The Cabinet Ofﬁce established the NCS programme in 2011 as part of its

‘BigSociety’agenda. NCS aims to bring together young people from different

backgrounds and helps them develop greater conﬁdence, self-awareness and

responsibility. It encourages personal and social development by working on

skillssuch asleadership, teamwork and communication.

In 2013 the OCS, then part of the Cabinet Ofﬁce with responsibility for NCS,

setup the NCS Trust as a community interest company funded by the OCS, to

takeover managing NCS. It is responsible for increasing the number of young

peopleparticipating, ensuring a high-quality NCS, reducing costs and ensuring

thelong-term sustainability of NCS.

What the Big Lottery Fund does

The Big Lottery Fund was set up in 2004 as the largest distributor of funding from the

National Lottery to good causes and aims to bring real improvements to communities,

and to the lives of people most in need. Sponsorship of and policy responsibility for

Big Lottery Fund transferred fully to DCMS with effect from July 2016.

In 2016-17 the Big Lottery Fund provided 13,814 grants worth £713 million across the

UK to 6.2 million people. Big Lottery Fund receives 40% of National Lottery proceeds.

Since NCS launched, the OCS and, latterly, the Trust have focused on growing

participation and demonstrating that NCS has an impact on young people.

Upto2015-16, the OCS has spent £443 million and committed a further

£1.26billionto 2020.

Who is involved andwhat is the cost?

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Since it was created in 2004, the Big Lottery Fund has committed more than

£8.5billion to projects supporting health, education, environment and charitable

purposes, from early-years intervention to commemorative travel funding for

WorldWar II veterans. This included:

England: £5.8 billion Scotland: £0.9 billion

Wales: £0.4 billion Northern Ireland: £0.4 billion

UK: £0.9 billion

Grants awarded to bodies by the Big Lottery Fund have more than doubled

(increasedby £430 million) since 2010-11 to £713 million in 2016-17.

Of this amount, England has received the biggest absolute increase of

£311millionsince 2010-11.

However, in percentage terms, Northern Ireland received the largest increase,

at295% or £20 million since 2010-11.

Awards made in 2016-17 by Big Lottery Fund

Source:

Big Lottery Fund, Annual Report and Accounts 2016-17

England remains the dominant area for grants made by the Big Lottery Fund

Scotland

£75.8m

Northern

Ireland

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Wales

£44.3m

England

£509.6m

Total

£712.7m

UK-wide

£56.0m

Change in Big Lottery funding since 2010-11

Big Lottery Funding allocation (£m)

Grants made by the Big Lottery Fund have more than doubled since 2010-11

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National Citizen Service

In April 2017, the NCS bill received Royal Assent. Together

the act and the Royal Charter are designed to make sure

NCS is delivered efﬁciently, effectively and transparently.

The act allows government to provide grant-in-aid funding to

the NCS Trust, makes the National Audit Ofﬁce the auditor

of the NCS Trust and requires the Trust to produce an

annual report and accounts along with an annual business

plan to ensure accountability and transparency.

Ipsos published an independent impact evaluation of the

2015 NCS programme that showed that eight in 10 young

people ﬁnished their NCS placement feeling more positive

towards people from different backgrounds and at least

two-thirds of participants said they were more likely to help

out in their local area.

Funding initiatives

The government and the Big Lottery fund launched a new

independent youth social action fund known as the ‘#iwill

Fund’, with a total of £40 million of funding over the period

to 2020. The campaign aims to ensure that 60% of 10- to

20-year-olds across the UK are taking part in meaningful

social action by 2020.

DCMS and the Big Lottery Fund also launched a Youth

Investment Fund to support schemes in targeted

disadvantaged communities across England. The fund

gives £40 million until 2020 and allows both bodies to work

collaboratively in England’s youth sector to help give young

people the best possible start in life.

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What are the things to look out for?

How will the NCS respond to recent report ﬁndings?

Our value-for-money study on NCS in January 2017 found that if participation growth

at the current rate of 23% continues, there would be 213,000 participants in NCS

by 2020-21. This would miss the 360,000 target set by OCS in February 2016 by

morethan 40%.

Our study also found that cost per participant has been higher than anticipated

andneeds to reduce by 29% to remain within the Spending Review 2015 limit.

The Department is working with the NCS Trust to prepare a response to the

Committee of Public Accounts’ report about the NCS. The NCS has a key role in

DCMS’ objective of building a shared society and therefore it is vital that it operates

efﬁcientlyand effectively.

The actions taken by the NCS to address these concerns will be critical to

the futurecontribution towards delivering DCMS’ objectives. This is currently

scheduledfor publication in the House of Commons in October 2017.

How will the Big Lottery Fund’s new grant-making strategy

beimplemented?

During 2015-16, the Big Lottery Fund (BLF) sought to improve its processes and

approved a new grant-making enabling strategy under its Strategic Framework

2015-21. The new approach aims to make the grant-making process quick and

simple, and to put people in the lead at every stage of the funding cycle. As the

grant-making process evolves, BLF will have to ensure that its controls over

awardingand assessing the use of grants are proportionate and effective.

BLF developed a Funding Management Software (FMS), which came into use in

2013-14. The software cost £26 million, of which £13.2 million has been impaired

(didnot have future value to the business) cumulatively to date. BLF had a target

toidentify a replacement and set out a plan to replace the FMS by July 2017.

BLF’swebsite will also be modiﬁed to create a portal for their grant-making.

BLFwillhave to ensure that the new system fully meets its requirements and

providesvalue for money.

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Staff attitudes

andengagement

Appendix Three–