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The Department for Culture, Media and Sport (sometimes abbreviated DCMS) is a department of the British government. It is led by the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, a cabinet position. Other ministers are the Minister for the Arts , Minister for Sport and Tourism and the Minister for Media and Heritage . The current Secretary of State is Tessa Jowell and her ministers are Estelle Morris (Arts), Richard Caborn (Sport and Tourism) and Lord Andrew McIntosh of Haringey (Media and Heritage).

It is responsible for government policy in the following areas:

alcohol & entertainment
architecture & design
arts
broadcasting
creative industries
cultural property
education & social policy
gambling & racing
historic environment
libraries & communities
museums & galleries
national lottery
public appointments
sportA sport consists of a normal physical activity or skill carried out under a publicly agreed set of rules, and with a recreational purpose: for competition, for self-enjoyment, to attain excellence, for the development of skill, or some combination of thes
tourismTourism can be defined as the act of travel for the purpose of recreation, and the provision of services for this act. A tourist is someone who travels at least fifty miles from home, as defined by the World Tourism Organization (a United Nations body).

DCMS also has responsibility for the Royal Parks Agency . In addition to this it funds various Non Departmental Public Bodies (NDPBs):

Arts Council of EnglandThe Arts Council of England was formed in 1994 when the Arts Council of Great Britain was split into three separate bodies focusing on England, Scotland and Wales. It is a government-funded body dedicated to promoting the fine arts in England. External li
British Film InstituteThe British Film Institute BFI is a charitable organisation established by Royal Charter to "encourage the development of the arts of film, television and the moving image throughout the United Kingdom, to promote their use as a record of contemporary lif
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British Tourist Authority ( VisitBritain )
Broadcasting Standards Commission
Crafts Council
English Sports Council
English Tourist Board
Football Licensing Authority
The Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission for England ( English Heritage)
Historic Royal Palaces
Millennium Commission
New Millennium Experience Company
British Museum
Geffrye Museum
Horniman Museum
Imperial War Museum
Museum of London
Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester
National Gallery
National Maritime Museum
National Museums and Galleries on Merseyside
National Museum of Science and Industry
National Portrait Gallery
Natural History Museum
Sir John Soane's Museum
Tate Gallery
Victoria and Albert Museum
Wallace Collection
Museums and Galleries Commission
National Film and Television School
National Heritage Memorial Fund
National Lotteries Charities Board
New Opportunities Fund
National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts
Registrar of Public Lending Right
Royal Armouries
Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts
Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England
UK Sports Council

Before 1997 it was known as the Department for National Heritage, and was created out of various other departments in 1992.

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