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Guidance and regulation

  1. DCMS Business Plan 2012-2015
    • Guidance
    • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
  2. Immunity From Seizure Provisions Within DCA's Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Bill
    • Guidance
    • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
  3. DCMS business plan
    • Guidance
    • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
  4. Taking Part Privacy Notice
    • Detailed guide
    • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
  5. 2009 DCMS annual report
    • Guidance
    • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
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News and communications

Press release

Record breaking year for museums and galleries in England

Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

  1. Export bar placed on unique 18th century work by Joseph Wright of Derby
    • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport, Arts Council England, and The Reviewing Committee on the Export of Works of Art and Objects of Cultural Interest
    • Press release
  2. New £250 million Culture Investment Fund launched
    • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport, Arts Council England, Historic England, and National Lottery Heritage Fund
    • Press release
  3. Spellbinding Monet work worth £28 million at risk of being lost
    • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport, Arts Council England, and The Reviewing Committee on the Export of Works of Art and Objects of Cultural Interest
    • Press release
  4. UK museums loan nearly 450,000 objects across the globe
    • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
    • Press release
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Research and statistics

  1. Total Income of DCMS-funded cultural organisations 2018/19
    • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
    • Official statistics
  2. Museums and galleries monthly visits
    • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
    • Statistical data set
  3. Taking Part November 2018 "Focus On..." reports
    • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
    • National statistics
  4. Sponsored Museums and Galleries Annual Performance Indicators 2018/19
    • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
    • Official statistics
  5. Taking Part 2018/19: annual child release
    • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
    • National statistics
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Policy papers and consultations

  1. Review of Museums in England
    • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
    • Consultation outcome
    • Date closed 31 October 2016
  2. Museum Partnership Report: Understanding the national museums' partnership activities in 2017 to 2018
    • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
    • Policy paper
  3. Museums Action Plan 2018
    • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport, Arts Council England, Closed organisation: Heritage Lottery Fund (administered by the NHMF), and Historic England
    • Policy paper
  4. Museums' Partnership Framework
    • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
    • Policy paper
  5. Culture White Paper Case Studies
    • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
    • Policy paper
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Transparency and freedom of information releases

  1. The British Museum annual report and accounts 2018 to 2019
    • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
    • Corporate report
  2. National Portrait Gallery annual report and accounts 2018 to 2019
    • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
    • Corporate report
  3. National Maritime Museum annual report and accounts 2018 to 2019
    • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
    • Corporate report
  4. National Gallery annual report and accounts 2018 to 2019
    • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
    • Corporate report
  5. National Museums and Galleries on Merseyside Annual Report and Accounts 2018 to 2019
    • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
    • Corporate report
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