§ Mr. Boris JohnsonTo ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport which councils have been included in the Cultural Services Excellence Network; and what the criteria for inclusion were. [176461]
§ Estelle MorrisThe Cultural Services Excellence Network is an informal grouping hosted by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. The network is open to Cultural Beacon Councils, local authorities that have an "excellent" overall score in the Comprehensive Performance Assessment or perform well in the cultural and leisure services part of the assessment, and authorities that receive an excellent Best Value Inspection score in cultural services. The following councils currently meet the criteria, although not all choose to attend meetings:
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- Barnet London Borough Council
- Birmingham City Council
- Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council
- Bromley London Borough Council
- Camden London Borough Council
- Cheshire County Council
- Chichester District Council
- City of London
- Colchester Borough Council
- Cornwall County Council
- Derbyshire County Council
- Dorset County Council
- East Riding of Yorkshire Council
- Gateshead Metropolitan Borough Council
- Greenwich London Borough Council
- Hambleton District Council
- Hampshire County Council
- Hartlepool Borough Council
- Hertfordshire County Council
- Kensington and Chelsea Royal Borough Council
- King's Lynn and West Norfolk Borough Council
- Kingston upon Thames, Royal Borough of
- Knowsley Metropolitan Borough Council
- Leeds City Council
- Liverpool City Council
- New Forest District Council
- Nottingham City Council
- South Hams District Council
- Stockton on Tees Borough Council
- Suffolk Coastal District Council
- Suffolk County Council
- Sunderland City Council
- Sutton London Borough Council
- Telford and Wrekin Borough Council
- Wandsworth London Borough Council
- West Sussex County Council
- Westminster London Borough Council
- Worcestershire County Council.