Current status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 29 September 2021
To ask the Scottish Government when it anticipates its proposed National Towns of Culture scheme will be launched.
We will start work this year on designing an open scheme for National Towns of Culture, which will be launched over the course of this Parliament.
Officials will provide the me with delivery options and recommendations by the end of this year, and we will offer a further update at that point.
This builds on our strong track record of taking place-based approaches to our cultural programmes, such as our innovative Culture Collective scheme, launched earlier this year, which is working to increasing cultural engagement in some of our most deprived communities.