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Department for Culture, Media and Sport: Culture

Volume 718: debated on Monday 15 March 2010

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To ask Her Majesty's Government whether, in relation to the nomenclature of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, they have a definition of “culture”. [HL2364]

“Culture” is diverse and constantly developing and is not something that can easily be put in a simple definition. The cultural work of the department includes architecture and the historic environment, the royal parks and royal palaces, the performing and visual arts, museums, galleries, libraries and archives, creative industries and tourism.