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Spending Review
To improve the quality of life for all through cultural and sporting activities, and to champion the creative and leisure industries.
Objective I: sustain and develop quality innovation and good design; create an efficient and competitive market, including by removing unnecessary regulation and other obstacles to growth so as to develop the tourism and creative industries; and promote Britain's success in the fields of culture, media and sport at home and abroad.
Objective II: broaden access for all to a rich and varied cultural and sporting life and to our distinctive built environment; and encourage conservation of the best of the past.
Objective III: develop the educational potential of the nation's cultural and sporting resources; raise standards of cultural education and training; and ensure an adequate skills supply for the creative industries and tourism.
Objective IV: ensure that everyone has the opportunity to develop talent and to achieve excellence in the areas of culture, media and sport.
Objective V: maintain public support for the National Lottery and ensure that the money raised for good causes supports DCMS's and other national priorities.
Objective VI: promote the role of the Department's sectors in urban and rural regeneration, in pursuing sustainability and in combating social exclusion.
1. Ensure all public libraries have Internet access by the end of 2002.
2. Introduce at least 12 Creative Partnerships by March 2004, targeted on deprived areas, ensuring that every school child in the Partnership area has access to an innovative programme of cultural and creative opportunities.
3. Raise significantly, year on year, the average time spent on sport and physical activity by those aged 5 to 16.
4. Increase the numbers of children attending museums and galleries by a third by 2004.
5. Increase by 500,000 by 2004 the number of people experiencing the arts.
6. Conduct a value for money study in the bodies sponsored by the department by April 2002, and significantly improve the average performance by April 2004.
The Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport is responsible for delivery of this PSA.
