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Department for Culture, Media and Sport: Public Expenditure

Asked by Mr Louie FrenchConservativeDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled Answered 28 July 2025UIN 68462

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether the funding announced for her Department in the Spending Review 2025 is (a) new funding and (b) was funding allocated to the Department by the previous Government.

Answered by Stephanie Peacock

Spending Review 2025 (SR25) formally set all Departmental budgets for the upcoming SR period, no budgets had been formally set before for this period. As such, all SR25 funding was agreed by the current government.

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