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Guidance and regulation

  1. DCMS as principal regulator of exempt charities
    • Guidance
    • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
  2. Department for Culture, Media and Sport Resource Accounts 2007 to 2008
    • Guidance
    • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
  3. DCMS business plan
    • Guidance
    • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
  4. DCMS Business Plan 2012-2015
    • Guidance
    • 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

Sledge and flag from Shackleton’s Nimrod expedition at risk of being lost abroad

Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport and The Reviewing Committee on the Export of Works of Art and Objects of Cultural Interest

  1. Arts Minister launches call to save a Medieval guide for hermits
    • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport and The Reviewing Committee on the Export of Works of Art and Objects of Cultural Interest
    • Press release
  2. Three works by British modernist artists gifted to the nation
    • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport and Arts Council England
    • Press release
  3. Arts Minister leads call to save outstanding Gainsborough landscape painting
    • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport and The Reviewing Committee on the Export of Works of Art and Objects of Cultural Interest
    • Press release
  4. Record breaking year for museums and galleries in England
    • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
    • Press release
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Research and statistics

  1. Museums and galleries monthly visits
    • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
    • Statistical data set
  2. Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport – Statistics at DCMS
    • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
    • Statistics
  3. DCMS Sectors Economic Estimates 2018: GVA
    • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
    • Official statistics
  4. Ad hoc statistical analysis: January 2020
    • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
    • Statistical data set
  5. Sponsored Museums and Galleries Annual Performance Indicators 2018/19
    • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
    • Official 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. Wallace Collection annual report and accounts 2018 to 2019
    • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
    • Corporate report
  2. The British Museum annual report and accounts 2018 to 2019
    • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
    • Corporate report
  3. National Portrait Gallery annual report and accounts 2018 to 2019
    • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
    • Corporate report
  4. National Maritime Museum annual report and accounts 2018 to 2019
    • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
    • Corporate report
  5. National Gallery annual report and accounts 2018 to 2019
    • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
    • Corporate report
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