| Description | Series of articles about National Lottery funds to be used as extra funding for the arts, includes discussion of government spending committments in the arts, concerns that the Lottery fund would be used to substitute government funding distributed by the Arts Council, concerns at government suggestions the funds be used to support day-to-day running of theatres instead of capital projects, reaction to funds given to redevelope Sadler's Wells, the grant to the Tate Gallery, and to the National Theatre for refurbishment and extensions to the front of house area, coverage of the policy and process of distributing funding and concerns over regional imbalance, cuts to the Arts Council following reduction of the Department of National Heritage budget and changes to the policy on distribution of lottery proceeds to include individual reciptients and the removal of capital only expenditure on the arts. |