The Department said it wanted to satisfy itself that organisations in need were supported and that it achieved its objective of supporting a significant proportion of the cultural sector through a very difficult time. It also told us it wanted to test the fund’s regional impact, how far the Department had reached organisations it did not normally have a relationship with, the long-term impact of the fund, and the impact of its support on what it described as “the wider ecosystem and cultural ecology”.58 It advised that it could not yet share with us the details of the questions that the evaluation would cover, but would write to us once they had been settled.59