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Historic England Annual Report & Accounts 2019-2020 Historic England Annual Report & Accounts 2019-2020 Job No: 43857.01 Proof Event: 1 Black Line Level: 0 Park Communications Ltd Alpine Way London E6 6LA Customer: Historic England Project Title: Annual Report 2019_20 Large Format Conversion T: 0207 055 6500 F: 020 7055 6600 Historic England Annual Report & Accounts 2019-2020 Presented to Parliament pursuant to paragraph 13(4) of Schedule 3 to the National Heritage Act 1983. Ordered by the House of Commons to be printed on 17 December 2020. HC 994 Historic England Annual Report and Accounts 2019-2020 © Historic England 2020 The text of this document (this excludes, where present, the Royal Arms and all departmental or agency logos) may be reproduced free of charge in any format or medium provided that it is reproduced accurately and not in a misleading context. The material must be acknowledged as Historic England copyright and the document title specified. Where third party material has been identified, permission from the respective copyright holder must be sought. Any enquiries related to this publication should be sent to us at: Customer Services Historic England The Engine House Fire Fly Avenue Swindon SN2 2EH Telephone: 0370 333 0607 Textphone: 0800 015 0516 Email: [email protected] This publication is available at www.gov.uk/government/ publications and from the Historic England website at www.historicengland.org.uk/about/what-we-do/annual- reports-and-accounts/. ISBN 978-1-5286-2191-5 Printed in the UK by Park Communications Limited, an EMAS certified company, on paper containing 100% recycled fibre content approved by the Forest Stewardship Council® CCS1020349828 Historic England Annual Report and Accounts 2019-2020 Contents Introduction 5 1 Performance Report Overview 9 Performance Analysis 23 2 Accountability Report Corporate Governance Report 65 Remuneration and Staff Report 93 Parliamentary Accountability 121 The Certificate and Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General to the Houses of Parliament 124 3 Financial Statements Statement of Comprehensive Net Expenditure 133 Statement of Financial Position 135 Statement of Cash Flows 138 Consolidated Statement of Changes in Taxpayers’ Equity 140 Historic England Statement of Changes in Taxpayers’ Equity 142 4 Notes to the Financial Statements 144 5 Our Supporters 229 3 Historic England Annual Report and Accounts 2019-2020 4 Historic England Annual Report and Accounts 2019-2020 Chairman’s Introduction This report has inevitably been overshadowed by the tragedy of the Covid-19 pandemic and the consequent lockdown imposed just before our reporting period closed. Historic England has made significant progress during the period under review, but it has necessarily been obliged by the pandemic radically to alter its working procedures and to adjust its short-term priorities. Our core purpose, to improve people’s lives by protecting and championing England’s historic environment, has even more resonance at a time of national crisis. It is clear that our built historic fabric has a central and dynamic role within the ‘ecosystem’ of the cultural heritage sector. It underpins a sense of local and national identity, drives soft power and tourism, generates £ billions for the economy, employs thousands, engages millions and is a strong foundation for the regeneration and levelling up of our towns and cities. I am delighted that Historic England has been able to reorganise its ways of working during the lockdown to respond to the challenges faced by so many across the heritage sector, providing advice and emergency grant relief, whilst also continuing our key role in planning, listing advice and research. Our regional teams have gathered extensive data concerning the impact of the lockdown 5 Historic England Annual Report and Accounts 2019-2020 to support the wider relief measures being taken by Government. Our staff have faced the difficulties of working from home with great resilience, ingenuity and good will. My fellow Commissioners and I thank them for their passion and commitment. The English Heritage Trust, which manages the National Heritage Collection under a licence from Historic England, was making convincing progress towards its financial goal of becoming a self-sufficient charity by March 2023. The impact of the Covid-19 lockdown, requiring the closure of all of its ticketed sites at the very start of the main visiting season, has materially upset this trajectory. We are working with the staff and Trustees of English Heritage to monitor the position and to secure a viable way forward Our High Street Heritage Action Zones programme is the biggest single investment by Government in a Historic England grant scheme to date. £95 million is being awarded to 68 high streets across the country to catalyse their regeneration. We are working in partnership with the relevant local authorities and also with Arts Council England and the National Lottery Heritage Fund. We believe that this programme (and our ongoing Heritage Action Zone programme) has even greater relevance in delivering the Government’s recovery plans post Covid-19. Our physical and digital public programming work, designed to celebrate and broaden understanding of our historic national legacy, included Where 6 Historic England Annual Report and Accounts 2019-2020 Lights Falls, which involved stunning projections on the facades of Coventry Cathedral and St Paul’s Cathedral, and What Remains, our exhibition at The Imperial War Museum London, focused on heritage destruction in times of war. Our management of the complex restoration of Shrewsbury Flaxmill Maltings, the world’s first iron- framed industrial building, continues to deliver within budget, although we have had to re-programme work due to the lockdown. Work on the main mill building in nearing completion, although much remains to be done to bring the whole project to fruition. We continue to support the charity responsible for the rescue of Wentworth Woodhouse, and our Heritage at Risk grants have contributed to saving many important historic structures for posterity. Our extensive research and scientific activities, which provide important support for the sector, have included completion of the Strategic Stone Study, a 12-year study of traditional building stones and quarry sources in 35 English counties, and specialist research on the heritage of minority faiths. Our statutory and advisory teams handled over 20,000 cases in listing and planning, working often to tight timetables to ensure that nationally important heritage is safeguarded. 7 Historic England Annual Report and Accounts 2019-2020 We are working with sector partners, under the leadership of DCMS, to develop Cultural Heritage Capital as a recognised framework for measuring the social and economic impact of our nation’s cultural and heritage assets. Cultural Heritage Capital needs to command the same authority in socio-economic discourse as the well-recognised framework of Natural Capital. Our efforts to embrace diversity and greater inclusion, both in the celebration of heritage and in employment across the sector, have continued, particularly through apprenticeship initiatives and our Heritage Schools programme. I am delighted to have welcomed four new Commissioners this year: Sandie Dawe, Ben Derbyshire, Professor Helena Hamerow and Sue Wilkinson, who all join for terms of four years. Unfortunately, we said farewell to Professor Mike Fulford and Neil Mendoza, whose Commissioner terms ended in 2019. I am most grateful to Mike and Neil, who chaired the Historic England Advisory Committee and the Business and Finance Committee respectively, for their considerable contributions during their terms and for their continued support. Sir Laurie Magnus Chairman, Historic England 8 Historic England Annual Report and Accounts 2019-2020 SECTION 1 Performance Report This section sets out our organisational objectives and challenges and summarises how we have performed against them during the year. It comprises an overview that explains our core purpose and activities, an analysis of our financial and non- financial performance against targets and highlights a selection of our achievements from the year in review. Overview Our Core Purpose and Activities Historic England – or, as we are called formally, the Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission for England – was established on 1 April 1984 by the National Heritage Act 1983. We are an arm’s length body and executive non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS). We are the public body that helps people care for, enjoy and celebrate England’s spectacular historic environment. 9 Historic England Annual Report and Accounts 2019-2020 Our core purpose is to improve people’s lives by protecting and championing the historic environment. Our vision is for everyone to benefit from our heritage, and for it to be widely valued and celebrated. We want people to connect with their heritage and feel it belongs to them, and we want to pass on our heritage in better condition. We Champion Historic Places By standing up for historic places, everyone, from individuals and communities to Government and major landowners, can look after and care for heritage. We make sure people understand and appreciate the benefits England’s heritage brings and why it should be respected, cherished and enhanced. We open up heritage for everyone using digital resources, media campaigns, our deep technical advisory expertise, our unsurpassed archive,
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