HC Deb 29 November 1977 vol 940 c176W
60. Mr. Hugh Jenkins

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science, in the light of recent decisions in the North-West of England, if she will make a statement on her policy towards whether grants for the arts should be dependent upon political conformity.

Mr. Oakes

My right hon. Friend shares the Arts Council's view that in the field of the arts political discrimination by public grant aiding bodies is to be deplored.