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Correspondence files: Department of Culture, Media & Sport, June 2001- April 2010

 File — Box: Blunkett Box 1
Reference code: 467/1/1/4

Scope and Contents

Correspondence with constituents, local councillors and others where Blunkett has taken up the subject with the Department of Culture, Media & Sport. Includes responses from Chris Smith, Tessa Jowell, James Purnell, Andy Burnham and Ben Bradshaw as Secretaries of State for Culture, Media and Sport. Subjects covered include: distribution of lottery funding (correspondence with the Council of Advancement of Arts Recreation and Education, CAARE), 2001; digital radio broadcast licences for religious bodies, 2001; Renaissance in the Regions report relating to the People's History Museum, 2002; licensing of a Sheffield 'strip club', 2003; financial difficulties of Bath Recital Artists' Trust, 2003; price of National Lottery tickets, 2004; need for entertainment licence for Christmas carolling in Sheffield pubs, 2005; implications of digital switchover on communal TV aerials, 2006; collective viewing and public performance licences in residential care homes, 2006; funding and structure of Sport England, 2007-2008; free swimming programme in Sheffield, 2009; funding for community radio stations, 2009; and taxation of betting exchanges, 2010.

Dates

  • Creation: June 2001- April 2010

Creator

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Extent

2 Folder(s) (24 items)

Language of Materials

From the Fonds: English

Repository Details

Part of the Special Collections and Archives Repository

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