Question reference: S5W-33042
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: 5 November 2020
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Current status: Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 16 November 2020
Question
To ask the Scottish Government how the £97 million in UK Government consequentials announced on 5 July 2020 has been allocated as packages of support for the arts, culture and heritage sectors, and how much is still to be distributed.
Answer
Since the announcement of the £97m in UK Government consequentials, the following support packages and funds have been allocated:
- £15m Culture Organisation and Venues Recovery Fund
- £5m + £3m Creative Freelancer Hardship Fund
- £3.5m Independent Cinemas Recovery and Resilience Fund
- £2.5m Performing Arts Venue Relief Fund – in addition to the £10m already announced on 3 July.
- £2.2m Grassroots Music Venues Stabilisation Fund
- £3.5m additional funds to Creative Scotland’s Open Fund
- £3m Youth Arts funding package
- £1.5m for the Culture Collective programme
- £10m to Event Scotland, including the £6m Events Industry Support Fund and the £2.75m Events Recovery Fund.
- £21.3m to support our lead public body, Historic Environment Scotland to enable its properties to reopen and protect jobs.
- £5.9m to secure committed grants to heritage organisations.
- £4m to support historic environment sector recovery, including the £2.6 million Historic Environment Recovery Fund (HERF)
- £4m Museums Recovery and Resilience fund for independent museums
- £3.8m to protect jobs and reopen properties at the National Trust for Scotland
- £2.5m to Capital Theatres, V&A Dundee, and Science centres
- £270,000 to help secure the future of New Lanark World Heritage Site.
Along with the £10m for the Performing Arts Venue Relief Fund announced before the UK Government consequentials, this totals £101m out of the £107m for emergency Covid-19 culture and heritage support. We are still in discussion with sectors about the remaining £6m. We will look, for example, at supplementing the funds already announced, once demand is fully understood.