In the United Kingdom , non-departmental public body ( NDPB ) is a classification applied by the Cabinet Office , Treasury , the Scottish Government , and the Northern Ireland Executive to public sector organisations that have a role in the process of national government but are not part of a government department. NDPBs carry out their work largely independently from ministers and are accountable to the public through Parliament ; however, ministers are responsible for the independence, effectiveness, and efficiency of non-departmental public bodies in their portfolio.
31-644: Arts Council England is an arm's length non-departmental public body of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport . It is also a registered charity. It was formed in 1994 when the Arts Council of Great Britain was divided into three separate bodies for England , Scotland and Wales . The arts funding system in England underwent considerable reorganisation in 2002 when all of the regional arts boards were subsumed into Arts Council England and became regional offices of
62-674: A non-ministerial government department being at a remove from both ministers and any elected assembly or parliament. Typically an NDPB would be established under statute and be accountable to Parliament rather than to His Majesty's Government . This arrangement allows more financial independence since the government is obliged to provide funding to meet statutory obligations. NDPBs are sometimes referred to as quangos . However, this term originally referred to quasi-NGOs bodies that are, at least ostensibly, non-government organisations , but nonetheless perform governmental functions. The backronym "quasi-autonomous national government organization"
93-561: A "one-off investment in UK culture". Sunak announced that the fund would be valued at £1.57 billion. Damon Buffini was announced as the chair of the Culture Recovery Board, the body tasked with managing the fund. The culture recovery fund is administered by the Culture Recovery Board, which comprises 11 members appointed by the DCMS . They are: The first 135 venues to receive money from
124-443: A country in which the creativity of each of us is valued and given the chance to flourish, and where every one of us has access to a remarkable range of high-quality cultural experiences." The Strategy is structured around three outcomes: Arts Council England has also set out 4 'investment principles': Arts Council England has a national council of 15 members, including the chair. The national council meets ten times
155-400: A fifth category: NHS bodies . These bodies consist of boards which advise ministers on particular policy areas. They are often supported by a small secretariat from the parent department, and any expenditure is paid for by that department. These bodies usually deliver a particular public service and are overseen by a board rather than ministers. Appointments are made by ministers following
186-667: A further 588 organisations. The beneficiaries of this phase of the grants includes the Military Wives Choir , Somerset House , and the Puppet Theatre Barge . The second round of large grants was issued on 2 April 2021. It distributed £262 million to 2,272 venues. The Department for Culture, Media, and Sport (DCMS) also announced it was funding £82 million of loans to cultural landmarks and institutions. Another phase occurred in October 2021, with 142 sites receiving
217-490: A further restructuring in which the Arts Council of England would be merged with the ten regional arts boards to form a single organisation: Arts Council England. In 2020, Arts Council England published 'Let's Create', a new 10-year Strategy for the sectors within its remit. 'Let's Create' includes a new vision statement, designed to inform Arts Council England's work and priorities to 2030: "By 2030, we want England to be
248-527: A limited number of museums as Major Partnership Museums: 16 single museums or consortia were supported 2012–2015, and a further five were added for 2015–2018, bringing the total to 21. Arts Council England also supports other museums via "Strategic Funds." The council also runs the Designation Scheme for collections in libraries or museums of national or international importance, and is the English partner in
279-517: A year and is made up of representatives of the arts community with five of the members also representing the area councils. Each area council has a board of 15 members made up of representatives of their arts community and local government. There are five area councils: The chief executive of the Arts Council England is appointed by the Department of Culture, Media and Sport. Alan Davey
310-646: Is a grants programme issued by the UK Government as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic . The fund aims to financially support cultural organisations in England (such as theatres, museums, and music venues) which had become financially unviable as a result of national and local restrictions. It is administered by Arts Council England . The fund was initially announced by the Chancellor Rishi Sunak in July 2020 as
341-762: Is an open access programme for arts, libraries and museums projects. The fund supports thousands of individual practitioners, community and cultural organisations, distributing funds from the National Lottery. Grants awarded vary can be from £1,000 to £100,000. Project Grants is always open for new submissions. Funding to support individuals who are cultural and creative practitioners and want to take time to focus on their creative development. Grants are awarded in rounds. Several hundred National Portfolio Organisations (NPO) and Investment Principles Support Organisations (IPSO) are allocated funding in multi-year tranches to support their on-going programmes. In 2020 it administered
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#1732843971497372-505: Is used in this usage which is normally pejorative. In March 2009 there were nearly 800 public bodies that were sponsored by the UK Government. This total included 198 executive NDPBs, 410 advisory bodies, 33 tribunals, 21 public corporations, the Bank of England , 2 public broadcasting authorities and 23 NHS bodies. However, the classification is conservative and does not include bodies that are
403-521: The Arts Council of Wales , each with their own new Royal Charter; the Arts Council of Northern Ireland already existed as a distinct body. At the same time, the National Lottery was established and the Arts Council of England became one of the distribution bodies. This increased responsibility saw the Arts Council of England grow back in size to the point where it was larger than before the 1987 restructuring. In 2001 Chairman Gerry Robinson announced
434-624: The Conservatives' complacency in power in the 1990s, presented much material interpreted as evidence of questionable government practices. This concern led to the formation of a Committee on Standards in Public Life (the Nolan Committee) which first reported in 1995 and recommended the creation of a "public appointments commissioner" to make sure that appropriate standards were met in the appointment of members of NDPBs. The Government accepted
465-660: The Culture Recovery Fund to arts venues and organisations in England affected by the COVID-19 pandemic From 1994 it oversaw a national capital fund with grants for new buildings, public art and the renovation of existing arts buildings. The story of the Capital programme is told by Prue Skene who chaired the Lottery Panel, in Capital Gains: how the national lottery transformed England's arts . Arts Council England supports
496-519: The Museums, Libraries and Archives Council was subsumed into the Arts Council in England and they assumed the responsibilities of the council. The Arts Council of Great Britain was created in 1946 by Royal Charter on the initiative of John Maynard Keynes . It received a revised charter in 1967. On 1 April 1994, it was divided to form the Arts Council of England, the Scottish Arts Council , and
527-443: The Arts Council had broken its own procedures. In 2005 it was announced that the Arts Council England's budget was capped resulting in an effective £30m reduction in its budget. In March 2006, the Arts Council announced a review of its National Office that would "enhance efficiency and delivery while continuing to provide respected and focused arts leadership and drive", while proposing to lose 42 posts, mainly arts specialists, so that
558-622: The Code of Practice of the Commissioner for Public Appointments . They employ their own staff and allocate their own budgets. These bodies have jurisdiction over an area of the law . They are coordinated by His Majesty's Courts and Tribunals Service , an executive agency of the Ministry of Justice , and supervised by the Administrative Justice and Tribunals Council , itself an NDPB sponsored by
589-592: The Hamas troops were killed by Israeli snipers, before the remaining forces surrendered. The English Touring Opera attributed its firing of white musicians in 2021 to "firm guidance" from the Arts Council. Non-departmental public body The term includes the four types of NDPB (executive, advisory, tribunal, and independent monitoring boards) but excludes public corporations and public broadcasters ( BBC , Channel 4 , and S4C ). The UK Government classifies bodies into four main types. The Scottish Government also has
620-551: The Ministry of Justice. These bodies were formerly known as "boards of visitors" and are responsible for the state of prisons, their administration, and the treatment of prisoners. The Home Office is responsible for their costs and has to note all expenses. NDPB differ from executive agencies as they are not created to carry out ministerial orders or policy, instead they are more or less self-determining and enjoy greater independence. They are also not directly part of government like
651-640: The Parliamentary select committee responsible for its oversight for supporting a lottery-funded programme to subsidise UK film production that resulted in a series of films that failed to find distribution. There was also a series of costly capital projects such as the Royal Opera House and the Lowry Centre that required additional funding. In the case of the Royal Opera House the select committee found
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#1732843971497682-697: The UK Museum Accreditation Scheme . In 2023, a gender critical woman, Denise Fahmy, won a harassment claim against the Council at an employment tribunal , which ruled that hostile comments about her beliefs at an internal meeting (which followed the Arts Council funded organisation London Community Foundation granting and then suspending a grant to LGB Alliance ), and other activity afterward, constituted "an intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating or offensive environment" for employees with such protected beliefs. The Council attracted criticism from
713-587: The UK's Conservative-Liberal coalition published a review of NDPBs recommending closure or merger of nearly two hundred bodies, and the transfer of others to the private sector. This process was colloquially termed the "bonfire of the quangos". NDPBs are classified under code S.13112 of the European System of Accounts (ESA.95). However, Statistics UK does not break out the detail for these bodies and they are consolidated into General Government (S.1311). Culture Recovery Fund The Culture Recovery Fund
744-468: The UK. According to the Cabinet Office their total expenditure for the financial year 2005–06 was £167 billion. As of March 2020, there were 237 non-departmental public bodies. Critics argued that the system was open to abuse as most NDPBs had their members directly appointed by government ministers without an election or consultation with the people. The press , critical of what was perceived as
775-436: The fund were announced on 22 August 2020. This first phase included only grassroots music venues such as Birmingham's Sunflower Lounge, Brighton's Green Door Store and Manchester's Gorilla. A large group of beneficiaries of the grants was announced on 12 October 2020. This phase totalled £257 million divided between 1,385 venues. A further announcement was made on 17 October 2020 of an additional £76 million between
806-453: The national organisation. Arts Council England is a government-funded body dedicated to promoting the performing, visual and literary arts in England . Since 1994, Arts Council England has been responsible for distributing lottery funding. This investment has helped to transform the building stock of arts organisations and to create many additional high-quality arts activities. On 1 October 2011
837-794: The organisation will no longer have dedicated national leads for areas including contemporary music, interdisciplinary art, moving image, architecture, broadcasting, opera, social inclusion, and disability. Arts Council England's music policy was controversial within the jazz world. Chris Hodgkins, in his 1998 paper Jazz in the UK , pointed out that more than 90% of its music budget went on opera while jazz, with an equivalent audience size, received less than 1%. The funding landscape has improved since with funding for NWJazzworks and Manchester Jazz Festival 2012. Among other areas funding has diversified into youth music such as National Youth Choirs of Great Britain , National Youth Jazz Collective and South Asian Music Youth Orchestra (SAMYO) etc. On 11 May 2006 it
868-661: The recommendation, and the Office of the Commissioner for Public Appointments was established in November 1995. While in opposition, the Labour Party promised to reduce the number and power of NDPBs. The use of NDPBs continued under the Labour government in office from 1997 to 2010, though the political controversy associated with NDPBs in the mid-1990s for the most part died away. In 2010
899-533: The responsibility of devolved government , various lower tier boards (including a considerable number within the NHS), and also other boards operating in the public sector (e.g. school governors and police authorities). These appointed bodies performed a large variety of tasks, for example health trusts , or the Welsh Development Agency , and by 1992 were responsible for some 25% of all government expenditure in
930-400: Was chief executive from 2008 to 2014. He was succeeded by Darren Henley . Each area council has an executive director and each art form has a specialist advisor. The Arts Council England divides its funding into the following headings: Arts Council England is a distributor of a core funding programme, complemented by National Lottery funding. National Lottery Project Grants
961-725: Was raised in the House of Lords by Lord Colwyn , as documented in the Lords Hansard Columns (1058 to 1060). In May 2015 the Board of Deputies of British Jews released a statement objecting to Arts Council England's funding of The Siege . The Palestinian play depicts a 2002 incident where armed Hamas fighters sought refuge in Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem. A 39-day siege ensued, and eight of