Written Question·Department for Culture, Media and Sport·UIN 68462

Department for Culture, Media and Sport: Public Expenditure

Tabled: 16 July 2025
Answered: 28 July 2025

Question

Mr Louie French

ConservativeOld Bexley and Sidcup

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.

Answer

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.