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Decibel Penguin Prize

Volume 451: debated on Monday 6 November 2006

16. To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport if she will make a statement on the future of the Decibel Penguin Prize. (99161)

The decibel Penguin Anthology aims to showcase the work of emerging writers from black and minority ethnic communities and it received £8,000 from Arts Council England. Penguin is printing 3,000 copies, which will be distributed to book shops across the country. I understand that Penguin and Arts Council England are considering plans for two further volumes.