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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.

Mary Stone
5 min read

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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