HC Deb 18 April 1978 vol 948 c80W
49. Mr. Hugh Jenkins

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what progress she is making in her plans to make the Arts Council more democratic and representative of workers in the arts and entertainment.

Mrs. Shirley Williams

In making appointments to the Council I continue to be guided by the need to make the Council an authoritative and effective instrument for Government support for the arts, and that it should reflect the interests both of artists and of the public, who are the paymasters and ultimate consumers.