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Dateline: 16th February, 2007
Gloomy Funding Prognosis Consider three possibilities for funding in the forthcoming Comprehensive Spending Review which will cover 2008 to 2011, the Arts Council has been told by officials at the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS). These three possibilities are a 5% year-on-year cut for three years, stand-still funding or an increase in line with inflation. ACE chief executive Peter Hewitt has said that the organisation will continue to argue the arts' case forcibly and said that it would be "senselessness" to undo all the good done by the government's increases in funding over the years. He added that the "the paramount need (is) to inflation-proof previous investment." According to sources within ACE, should the worst happen and there is a year-on-year cut, all the organisations would not be treated the same way: some would receive increases and others would have to be cut altogether. Matt Payton, Equity’s parliamentary affairs officer, commented, "It’s telling the most positive of these is an RPI increase - that tells you something about where it’s likely to lie." Please note that all three Archive indices are very long and will therefore take some time to download.
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