A Short Guide to the Department for Culture, Media & Sport July 2015 Overview Arts Media Sport & culture & leisure | About this guide This Short Guide summarises what the | Contact details Department for 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. If you would like to know more about the National Audit Office’s (NAO’s) work on the Department for Culture, Media & Sport, please contact: Paul Keane Area Director [email protected] 020 7798 7122 If you are interested in the NAO’s work and support The National Audit Office scrutinises public spending for Parliament and is independent of government. The Comptroller and Auditor for Parliament more widely, please contact: General (C&AG), Sir Amyas Morse KCB, is an Officer of the House of Commons and leads the NAO, which employs some 810 employees. 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Our recommendations and reports on For full iPad interactivity, please view this PDF good practice help government improve public services, and our work Interactive in iBooks or GoodReader led to audited savings of £1.15 billion in 2014. © National Audit Office Design & Production by NAO Communications – DP Ref: 10711-001 Overview Arts Media Sport & culture & leisure Key facts 65 and 120 Capital projects number of Olympic and Signifi cant building and Paralympic medals renovation projects About the Department team GB won at London 2012. are planned or under way at Tate and for Culture, This exceeded targets set by British Museum, among others Media & Sport UK Sport Staff in core departments 24% the Department’s resource 2023 Department year that English Heritage budget has been cut by spending plans to be self-fi nancing since 2011-12 Spending reductions Staff and pay 22% 600,000 the Department’s activities more adults that were contribute to the wider economy involved in weekly sport in 2014 Staff attitudes than in 2011 and engagement Major programmes and developments Key themes from 90% £2.4 billion NAO reports Superfast (rural) broadband amount that has been generated On target to achieve roll-out to by the sale of the 4G radio spectrum the UK by 2016 in 2013 Appendix Overview Arts Media Sport & culture & leisure Key facts The Department for Culture, The Department’s budget The BBC operates Media & Sport (DCMS) is one for 2014-15 was £1.4 billion independently of the of the smallest in Whitehall (excluding BBC) DCMS and the NAO is About the Department for Culture, and has responsibility for arts not its financial auditor. Media & Sport and culture, communications However, we do undertake and media, sport, tourism, a programme of value-for- Staff in and women and equalities money work on the BBC core departments The Department sponsors ALBs in the DCMS Following the success of Department 43 arm’s-length bodies group are responsible for the London 2012 Olympic spending (ALBs) across a diverse significant policy delivery and Paralympic Games, range of activities activity and account for DCMS continues to work Spending and sectors more than hard to achieve a reductions 95% of the lasting Department’s budget sporting legacy for the UK Staff and pay Source: National Audit Office, based on 2013-14 Department for Culture, Media & Sport Annual Report and Accounts Staff attitudes and engagement Major programmes and developments Key themes from NAO reports Appendix Overview Arts Media Sport & culture & leisure After the Olympics, staff on payroll decreased Key facts Staff in the core Department since 2010 by 81 (18%) from 2011-12 to 2012-13. Non-payroll The Department achieved staff reductions 2010-11 About the Department 443 2010-11: unknown through voluntary exit schemes and not for Culture, renewing fixed-term contracts. Media & Sport 2011-12 As the Government Equalities Office was part of the 457 30 Staff in DCMS group from September 2012 to July 2015, core departments those staff are included in the figures from 2012-13, 2012-13 376 69 so the drop in staff numbers after 2012-13 is greater Department than the chart implies. spending 2013-14 381 51 The core Department includes: Spending • Government Equalities Office Payroll employees Non-payroll employees (FTE), reductions including agency and contractors • BDUK (Broadband Delivery UK) Source: Department for Culture, Media & Sport Annual Report and Accounts 2013-14 and 2012-13 Staff and pay • Government Art Collection • Corporate Services Staff attitudes • Policy staff and those working within more and engagement specific ALB work areas ALB Team is a central coordinating point, Major programmes • and developments for cross-ALB requests Number of core Department staff in each work area as at 1 October 2014 Key themes from NAO reports Appendix 63.74 56.3648.93 47.2341.33929.24 26.4517.93 17.1516.36 11.5311.36 4.9 BDUK Media Culture Government OtherMinisterial Sports and Senior Press Office Corporate Finance Board and Government ALB Equalities support Leisure management and Comms Services support Art Team Office Collection Overview Arts Media Sport & culture & leisure Excluding BBC, based on Supplementary Estimate 2014-15. Key facts £504m £308m £217m £208m Museums and galleries Broadcasting and DCMS core Heritage 1/2 About the Department media capital support for Culture, Media & Sport Staff in DCMS core departments Department spending £127m £117m £117m £47m £38m Broadcasting Olympics and legacy Libraries Tourism Royal parks Spending and media reductions Staff and pay Staff attitudes and engagement Major programmes and developments £21m £16m £3m £453m £150m Equality and Human Government Gambling Arts and culture Sport Key themes from Rights Commission Equalities Offi ce Commission NAO reports Appendix £1,355m Lottery Overview Arts Media Sport & culture & leisure Where the BBC spends its money (based on spend in 2013-14) 2/2 Direct spend on content £2,406 million Total spend £3,859 million Other £17 million (Excludes negative adjustment of £81 million reclassifi ed lease costs) Other infrastructure Pension fund and support defi cit payment £325 million £49 million Licence fee collection costs £102 million Property and technology £271 million Distribution £217 million Broadband roll-out, S4C and local television Costs to fund £242 million other income £230 million Overview Arts Media Sport & culture & leisure The trend analysis for frontline spending in DCMS since Key facts Department for Culture, Media & Sport frontline spending 2010 is dominated by spending relating to the London 2012 Olympics. £ million 4,000 About the Department We can see capital spending increase in 2011-12 to for Culture, support the building of Olympic facilities and infrastructure, Media & Sport 3,500 then resource spending more than doubling in 2012-13, the financial year in which the Olympics fell. Staff in 3,000 core departments DCMS spending is not protected in the same way as 2,500 schools, health or international development. As part Department of the 2010 spending review DCMS’s frontline resource 2,000 spending budget was cut by 24% in real terms over the course of 2011-12 to 2014-15. Spending 1,500 reductions As part of the 2013 Spending Round, DCMS committed 1,000 to a 7% real-terms cut to frontline resource funding up to Staff and pay the end of 2015-16, although arts and museums cuts are 500 limited to 5%. Staff attitudes 0 and engagement 24% cuts -500 Spending Round 2010 2010-11 2011-12 2012-13 2013-14 2014-15 2015-16 Major programmes (actual) (actual) (actual) (actual) (plan) (plan) and developments 7% cuts Resource Spending Round 2013 Key themes from Capital NAO reports Source: Figures drawn from the Department for Culture, Media & Sport Annual Report and Accounts for the year ended 31 March 2014. Appendix Overview Arts Media Sport & culture & leisure Staff Staff breakdown 2014 Key facts Total staff across DCMS, BBC and ALBs is more than 30,000. 6,794 393 DCMS core staff make up less than 2% of this number. Museums Arts About the Department Staff costs in the core Department totalled £21 million, 1.3% of 2,199 381 for Culture, Heritage total staff costs across DCMS and ALBs. DCMS core Department Media & Sport 1,545 The percentage of women on the DCMS core executive board Libraries 251 Staff in has increased from 30% to 70% since September 2011. 1,172 Tourism core departments Gambling The DCMS workforce broadly reflects the population of England and Lottery 195 and Wales by gender and ethnicity. Equalities Department 785 spending Communications Remuneration 104 Royal parks The ratio of pay for the highest paid DCMS director is 4.14 times 662 Spending that of the median staff pay within DCMS. Sports 37 reductions Olympics 466 Creative industries Staff and pay Workforce in DCMS 2014 Gender Ethnicity Disability Staff attitudes Black and White Declared disabled Not declared and engagement ethnic minority 91% 4% disabled 9% 96% Major programmes and developments Ethnicity Disability Key themes from NAO reports 48% 52% Appendix Sources: Department for Culture, Media & Sport Annual Report and Accounts 2013-14; Department for Culture, Media & Sport mid-year report to Parliament, September 2014 Overview Arts Media Sport & culture & leisure The government has conducted its Civil Service Attitudes of staff in 2014 compared with 2013 – DCMS Key facts People Survey annually for the past 5 years. Key My work Organisational My manager My team The most recent survey was carried out during Results in 2014 objectives and purpose October 2014.