Eighth Report - COVID 19: Culture Recovery Fund

The government accepts the recommendation, agreeing to set out how it will ensure resources are in place for managing loans and draw on cross-government learning, with a target implementation date of December 2021 and a commitment to provide further updates then.

The government agrees to write to the Committee by mid-September 2021, outlining its intentions to support under-represented groups, but disputes the Committee's assertion that it lacks understanding of funding impact.

The government accepts the recommendation and states that its externally commissioned evaluation of the Culture Recovery Fund, due by March 2022, will assess performance against objectives using various metrics including cultural output, financial health, trading status, employment, and a cost-benefit analysis for value for money.

The government accepts the recommendation and commits that the DCMS Permanent Secretary will write to the Committee by December 2021, outlining key challenges, advocacy opportunities, and how future cultural and economic impacts, including for export, will be realised from the Culture Recovery Fund.

The government accepts the recommendation to outline how it will manage loan book commitments, confirming officials are working to establish the appropriate mechanism and ensure sufficient resources by December 2021.

The government accepted the recommendation and committed to writing to the Committee by mid-September 2021 to set out its intentions for supporting under-represented groups like freelancers and festivals, though it disagreed with the premise that it lacked understanding or failed to support these sectors.

The government agrees with the Committee, with a target implementation date of mid-September 2021 for DCMS to write to the Committee on the matter, though it disagrees with the notion that it lacks understanding of funding coverage or impact.

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.

The government agrees with the recommendation to set out evaluation metrics for the Culture Recovery Fund, detailing that an external evaluation will assess impact, process, and value for money, concluding by March 2022.

The government accepted the recommendation and will prepare a policy paper for publication in Spring 2022, in parallel with the Culture Recovery Fund's evaluation, to set out lessons learned and how they will be applied to achieve value for money.

The government commits to preparing a policy paper, to be published alongside the Culture Recovery Fund evaluation, detailing the lessons learned from the fund's process.

The government agrees with the committee's implied recommendation and commits the DCMS Permanent Secretary to write to the Committee by December 2021 to outline key challenges and future cultural and economic impacts from its investment.

The government agrees with the committee's implied recommendation and commits the DCMS Permanent Secretary to write to the Committee by December 2021 to outline key challenges and future cultural and economic impacts from its investment.

The government accepts the recommendation and commits to having the DCMS Permanent Secretary write to the Committee by December 2021, outlining how the department will achieve future cultural and economic impacts, including for export.