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Department for Culture, Media and Sport could be scrapped

April 20th, 2012

FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda

By
James Chapman

PUBLISHED:

18:44 EST, 19 April 2012

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UPDATED:

18:55 EST, 19 April 2012

David Cameron is being encouraged to scrap axe the department

David Cameron is being urged to scrap the Government department branded the ‘Ministry of Fun’ and use the cash to fund tax cuts.

Labour’s deputy leader and culture spokesman Harriet Harman claimed the Prime Minister was poised to close down the Department for Culture, Media and Sport once the Olympic Games are over.

Though she opposed such a move, and Downing Street sources insisted it was ‘not in the offing’, economists and some Tory ministers back the idea, pointing out that the Government functioned perfectly well before 1992, when the department was created.

Miss Harman cited ‘well-sourced rumours in Westminster and the arts world’ as she claimed the Government was ready to scrap DCMS, which it has already halved in size, in the autumn.

Arts functions would be hived off to the Arts Council, media policy handed to Vince Cable’s Business Department, which would be renamed the Department for Business, Creation and Innovation, and sport split between local councils and the Department of Health.

Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt is widely tipped for promotion in a Cabinet reshuffle expected later this year, and could become Health Secretary or Conservative Party chairman.

The Institute of Economic Affairs said closing the department could save around £1.6bn a year, giving the Government scope for tax cuts.

The cash could be used to reduce the rate of corporation tax by a further 2 per cent to the same as the basic rate of income tax – 20p, at a cost of around £1.6bn, or to cut fuel duty by 3p.

The think tank also said stopping government funding of museums would save £500 million a year – saying the cost per taxpayer for every person that visited the British Library, for example, was £72m and £15 for the Victoria Albert Museum.

Mark Littlewood, Director General of the institute, said: ‘If the government isn’t seriously considering closing down the Department of Culture, Media and Sport, then it should start doing so now.’