Minister's Welsh Arts Funding Plans Backfire After Challenge by the Review He Ordered
Western Mail › November 30, 2006
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Culture Minister Alun Pugh suffered an embarrassing rebuff yesterday when a review he ordered declared he should drop his controversial arts policy. Plans by Mr Pugh to directly fund Wales' six biggest arts companies spectacularly backfired when an independent review said the organisations, including Welsh National Opera, should continue to be funded 'at arms length' by the Arts Council of Wales.
It said Mr Pugh could instead chair a top-level strategy board which should be launched to set policy for publicly-funded arts.See the full content of this document
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Minister's Welsh Arts Funding Plans Backfire After Challenge by the Review He Ordered
The much-anticipated findings of the Wales Arts Review were broadly welcomed by the arts community.
Mr Pugh caused uproar when he tried to strip ACW of its responsibility to fund the 'big six' arts organisations.The main findings of the Stephens Report - named after the review panel's chairman Elan Closs Stephens ...See the full content of this document
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