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Andy B
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|  Posted 23-10-2009 at 14:04
Five heritage leaders (and no BNP) formed a panel questioned by an audience and chaired by the BBC’s Martha Kearney. What did they say?
Heritage Question Time was hosted by English Heritage and took place on Wednesday 21 October at The Royal Institute of British Architecture. The event was an opportunity to hear what a set of prominent heritage leaders had to say about the future of England’s heritage, with questions on a range of topics from funding and planning to volunteering and the role of community groups.
On the panel were Heritage Minister Margaret Hodge, Baroness Andrews, Chair of English Heritage, Dame Jenny Abramsky, Chair of the Heritage Lottery Fund, Anthea Case, Chair of Heritage Link, Tom Dyckhoff, journalist and broadcaster, and Simon Jenkins, Chairman of the National Trust.
The CBA’s Head of Conservation Dr Gill Chitty questioned the panel on how we can ‘strengthen the case to ensure that heritage funding streams do not suffer disproportionately in the next review of public spending, at both national and local level’.
The Culture Minister, Margaret Hodge MP, responded that:
…I don’t want them to suffer at all. This is my aim and ambition because it is completely potty really that we spend, in terms of total public expenditure a minute amount as a department the DCMS, it’s a tiny, tiny budget when you put it against the schools budget or the health budget and I think it has a disproportionately wonderful impact, right across the whole of culture, heritage and all the work we do. What I would urge you guys to do is to help me construct the argument to say leave us alone…I think whether you look at economic value, whether you look at social value, whether you look at educational value, whether you just look at the way it enhances our lives, it pays massively for the very, very small investment Government makes.
The event was filmed and you can now watch a video of it here.
http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/hc/server/show/nav.00800e
You can also download a transcript of the event.
http://www.britarch.ac.uk/sites/www.britarch.ac.uk/files/node-files/hqt_transcript.pdf
[ This message was edited by: Andy B on 2009-10-23 14:04 ]
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