Question reference: S5W-31567
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: 7 September 2020
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Current status: Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 16 September 2020
Question
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the meeting of the National Partnership for Culture on 24 June 2020 at which the group agreed to request information from it regarding “the financial landscape for culture, including budgets, gift aid and efficacy of spending”, whether this request was received and, if so, whether it will publish the information that it provided in response.
Answer
Scottish Government culture officials received the request for information regarding the financial landscape for culture from the National Partnership for Culture on 24 June 2020.
On 30 June 2020, Scottish Government officials provided to the National Partnership weblinks to the following documents: Putting Artists In The Picture: A Sustainable Arts Funding System For Scotland (CTEEA 2019); the Programme for Government 2019-2020; Local government 2019-2020 provisional outturn; Creative Scotland's Annual Report 2018-2019, data published by the Charity Aid Foundation on charitable giving, and Scottish Government webpages giving an overview of support to culture and heritage. This information has therefore already been published.
Related to the original request, Scottish Government officials later provided a draft report commissioned by Creative Scotland on Local Government Support for Arts, Culture and Creative Industries in Scotland. The report - delayed due to COVID19 - is being finalised and will be published later in 2020.