Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Welsh: Adran Diwylliant, Cyfryngau a Chwaraeon
100 Parliament Street – occupied by DCMS on the fourth and fifth floors
Department overview
Formed	1997; 27 years ago (1997)
Preceding Department	Department for National Heritage
Jurisdiction	Government of the United Kingdom
Headquarters	100 Parliament Street, London SW1A 2BQ, England
Employees	3,020 [1]
Annual budget	£1.4 billion (current) & £1.3 billion (capital) for 2011–12[2]
Secretary of State responsible	The Rt Hon. Lucy Frazer KC MP, Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
Department executives	Susannah Storey, Permanent Secretary Sam Lister, Director General Polly Payne and Ruth Hannant (job share), Director General Jacinda Humphry, Finance Director Professor Tom Crick, Chief Scientific Adviser
Website	gov.uk/dcms

The Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) is a ministerial department of the Government of the United Kingdom. It holds the responsibility for culture and sport in England, and some aspects of the media throughout the UK, such as broadcasting. Its main offices are at 100 Parliament Street, occupying part of the building known as Government Offices Great George Street.

It also has responsibility for the tourism, leisure and creative industries (some jointly with the Department for Business and Trade). The department was also responsible for the delivery of the 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games.

From 2017 to 2023, the department had responsibility for the building of a digital economy and the internet and was known as the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport.^[3] The responsibilities for digital policy were transferred to the newly created Department for Science, Innovation and Technology in the February 2023 cabinet reshuffle.