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Thursday, 14 October 2010

Arts Cuts For Quangos Announced

A hit list of at least 200 taxpayer-funded bodies will be axed in a "bonfire of the quangos" later today. Cabinet Office Minister Francis Maude will announce the shake-up as “a victory for accountability”. The Arts are by no means immune to this savagery, Four bodies including the Film Industry Training Board is expected to be privatised. It is also possible that mergers will result in a new heritage body taking in the current English Heritage, the National Memorial Fund and the National Lottery Fund. The National Museums and Galleries service, a publicly funded body, which offers the public free admission to some of the country’s best-known cultural venues, is under threat and likely to be scrapped by the Government. To see the full list of Arts cuts, follow link.  Read Full Story
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  1. Framescourer14 October 2010 at 00:50

    "The National Museums and Galleries service, a publicly funded body, which offers the public free admission to some of the country’s best-known cultural venues, is under threat and likely to be scrapped by the Government."

    Does this body offer free admission? Or do individual museums offer free admission, based on public funding assigned to them by this service?

    I've just tried to find out some more about this particular body and cannot find anything about it. Now, I may be looking in the wrong place - I may be plain wrong. But on the face of it this is a typical quango ripe for culling; an anonymous body creating impediment and paperwork.

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  2. ArtLyst14 October 2010 at 01:06

    I am out most of the day at the Frieze Art Fair but will look into this more later.My sources on this one are reliable, the Telegraph,Guardian and Mail.

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