Senior civil servants Polly Payne, Susannah Storey and Nicola Hewer gave evidence to a Public Accounts Committee hearing scrutinising management of Covid loans
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DCMS faces questions on Covid loan book ‘conflict of interest’
MPs have raised concerns over Arts Council England continuing to act as a loan agent for Department for Culture Media and Sport, when there is a risk the funding body may have a vested interest in the survival of the organisations making repayments on Culture Recovery Fund loans.
Senior civil servants have faced scrutiny from MPs over whether the management of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport's Covid-era loan book could be at risk of “a conflict of interest” that wi...
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