HC Deb 15 July 1975 vol 895 cc443-4W
30. Mr. Banks

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science, what progress he has made with the TUC on finance for the arts.

Mr. Hugh Jenkins

I am glad to be able to say that the general council has set up a working party to review its policy on the arts.

34. Sir W. Elliott

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what steps he has recently taken to encourage industrial patronage of the arts, in addition to his approach to the TUC.

Mr. Hugh Jenkins

As I indicated in the reply I gave to a Question by my hon. Friend the Member for Warley, East (Mr. Faulds) on 30th June—[Vol. 894, c. 333]—I have been in close touch over recent months with the CBI and with a number of industrialists who are supporting the arts, and good progress is being made.