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A Short Guide to the Department for Culture, Media & Sport A Short Guide to the Department for Culture, Media & Sport January 2016 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. Adrian Jenner The C&AG certifies the accounts of all government departments Director of Parliamentary Relations and many other public sector bodies. He has statutory authority to [email protected] examine and report to Parliament on whether departments and the bodies they fund have used their resources efficiently, effectively, and 020 7798 7461 with economy. Our studies evaluate the value for money of public spending, nationally and locally. 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 from 2011-12 to 2014-15 Spending reductions Staff and pay 16% 400,000 the Department’s activities more adults that were contribute to the wider economy involved in weekly sport in Staff attitudes (March) 2015 than in 2011 and engagement Major programmes and developments Key themes from 90% £2.4 billion NAO reports Superfast (rural) broadband amount that was generated On target to achieve roll-out to by the sale of the 4G radio spectrum the UK by 2016 in 2013 Appendix 3 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 £2 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 consolidates 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 94% of the hard to achieve a lasting reductions Department’s budget sporting legacy for the UK Staff and pay Source: National Audit Office, based on 2014-15 Department for Culture, Media & Sport Annual Report and Accounts Staff attitudes and engagement Major programmes and developments Key themes from NAO reports Appendix 4 Overview Arts Media Sport & culture & leisure After the Olympics, staff on payroll decreased Key facts Staff in the core Department as at 31 March 2012-13 by 81 (18%) from 2011-12 to 2012-13. The Department achieved staff reductions Non-payroll 2010-11 About the Department through voluntary exit schemes and not renewing 456 2010-11: unknown for Culture, fixed-term contracts. Media & Sport 2011-12 As the Government Equalities Office was part of 457 30 Staff in the DCMS group from September 2012, those staff core departments are included in the figures from 2012-13, so the 2012-13 drop in staff numbers after 2012-13 is greater than 376 69 Department the chart implies. However, the increase in FTE to spending include additional BDUK staff in 2014-15 raises staff 2013-14 381 51 numbers to above 2010-11 levels. Spending The core Department includes: 2014-15 reductions 461 68 • Government Equalities Office Staff and pay • BDUK (Broadband Delivery UK) Payroll employees Non-payroll employees (FTE), including agency and contractors • Government Art Collection • Corporate Services Source: Department for Culture, Media & Sport Annual Report and Accounts 2014-15, 2013-14 and 2012-13 Staff attitudes and engagement • Policy staff and those working within more specific ALB work areas Major programmes • ALB Team is a central coordinating point, and developments for cross-ALB requests Key themes from Number of core Department staff in each work area as at 30 November 2015 NAO reports Appendix 69 62 59 50 43 36 27 27 21 20 18 12 11 Media BDUK CultureGovernment Other Ministerial Sports and Senior Corporate Finance Press Office Government Board and Equalities support Leisure management Services and Comms Art support Office Collection 5 Overview Arts Media Sport & culture & leisure Excluding BBC, based on Supplementary Estimate 2014-15. Key facts £504m £308m £215m £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 £186m £117m £47m £15m 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 £1,900m Lottery 6 Overview Arts Media Sport & culture & leisure Where the BBC Public Service Broadcasting group spends its money (based on spend in 2014-15) 2/2 Direct spend on content £2,728 million Total spend £4,301 million Other £11 million (Excludes negative adjustment of £79million reclassifi ed lease costs) Other infrastructure and support Licence fee £355 million collection costs £101 million Costs to fund Property and technology other income £327 million £152 million Pension fund defi cit payment £188 million Broadband roll-out, S4C and local television Distribution £229 million £210 million 7 Overview Arts Media Sport & culture & leisure The trend analysis for frontline spending1 in DCMS Key facts Department for Culture, Media & Sport frontline spending since 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, 3,500 Media & Sport then resource spending more than doubling in 2012-13, the financial year in which the Olympics fell. 3,000 Staff in 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. 1,500 Spending reductions As part of the 2015 Spending Round, funding for 1,000 museums and galleries has been maintained in cash Staff and pay terms but administration costs are to be reduced. 500 1 In this context, frontline spending means DEL (administration plus programme). 0 Staff attitudes and engagement -500 2010-11 2011-12 2012-13 2013-14 2014-15 2015-16 Major programmes (actual) (actual) (actual) (actual) (actual) (plan) and developments Resource Capital Key themes from Source: Figures drawn from the Department for Culture, Media & Sport Annual Report and NAO reports Accounts for the year ended 31 March 2015 Appendix 8 Overview Arts Media Sport & culture & leisure Staff Staff breakdown 2015 (from ALB accounts) Key facts Total staff across DCMS, BBC and ALBs is more than 30,000. 6,703 449 DCMS core staff make up less than 2% of this number. Museums Arts About the Department Staff costs in the core Department totalled £23 million, 1.3% of 2,286 433 for Culture, Heritage total staff costs across DCMS and ALBs. DCMS core Department Media & Sport 1,470 The percentage of women on the DCMS core executive board Libraries 245 Staff in has increased from 30% to 89% since September 2011. 1,135 Tourism core departments Gambling The DCMS workforce broadly reflects the population of England and Lottery 192 and Wales by gender and ethnicity. Equalities Department 787 spending Communications Remuneration 97 Royal parks The ratio of pay for the highest paid DCMS director is 4.49 times 715 Spending that of the median staff pay within DCMS. Sports 23 reductions Olympics 484 Creative industries Staff and pay Workforce in DCMS 2014-15 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 47% 53% Appendix Sources: Department for Culture, Media & Sport Annual Report and Accounts 2014-15; Department for Culture, Media & Sport mid-year report to Parliament, September 2014 9 Overview Arts Media Sport & culture & leisure The government has conducted its Civil Service Attitudes of staff in 2015 compared with 2014 – DCMS Key facts People Survey annually for the past 5 years.
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