Early day motion tabled by primary sponsor Austin Mitchell (Labour), on Tuesday, 1 May 2001, in the House of Commons. It is signed by 16 members in total.

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REGIONAL ARTS

That this House notes the work of Yorkshire Arts in stimulating, financing and developing all forms of artistic endeavour and activity in Yorkshire and Humberside, as well as its successful record of co-operation with local authorities, businesses and arts organisations of all kinds, including the Yorkshire Cultural Consortium and the Local Authority Arts Forum, all of which demonstrates benefits of regional autonomy in the arts; is therefore deeply concerned at the lack of consultation and the increase in centralisation involved in the Arts Council's Prospectus for Change issued in March as a 'done deal'; therefore commends the rejection of these proposals by Yorkshire Arts and most of the bodies concerned with the arts in Yorkshire and Humberside; emphasises that the weakening of local representation, consultation and involvement produced by the replacement of representative regional boards by mere advisory boards could damage the strengths of Yorkshire Arts with its high levels of customer satisfaction, its strong and successful regional profile, its effective and representative board and the wider involvement that has achieved; and calls on the Arts Council to withdraw its centralising agenda and replace it by new proposals for more generous funding, so that the arts can play an increasing role in the developing regional agenda.

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Secondary information

Type

Early day motion

Reference

621 

Session

2000-01

Subjects

Arts Yorkshire and the Humber Regional arts boards

Link

View this Early day motion on www.parliament.uk