Culture Media and Sport written question – answered at on 11 December 2001.
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport which (a) museums, (b) theatres, (c) art galleries and (d) sporting events (i) she and (ii) other Ministers in her Department have visited in an official capacity since 8 June; and what was the (1) purpose and (2) date of each visit.
holding answer
The information requested is shown in the following table. Visits to such events allow Ministers to see developments in their sector at first hand and demonstrate our support for such projects and initiatives. These are, of course, in addition to visits made in a private capacity or for party reasons.
Date | Minister | Event | Event type |
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12 June 2001 | Secretary of State | "Boris Gudunov" at the Riverside Studios | Theatre |
13 June 2001 | Minister of State for the Arts | Opening of Hideo Furuta's Sculpture in the Park Exhibition | Art Gallery |
18 June 2001 | Secretary of State and Minister of State for the Arts | Vermeer Exhibition at the National Gallery | Art Gallery |
19 June 2001 | Minister of State for Sport | Pakistan v Australia One Day Cricket International | Sporting Event |
19 June 2001 | Minister of State for the Arts | BP Portrait awards at National Portrait Gallery | Art Gallery |
21 June 2001 | Secretary of State | "My Fair Lady" at the Royal National Theatre | Theatre |
25 June 2001 | Secretary of State | Tour of Brooklands Museum | Museum |
25 June 2001 | Minister of State for the Arts | Tate Britain—tour of the new galleries (work in progress) | Art Gallery |
26 June 2001 | Minister of State for the Arts | Opening of Ingres to Matisse: Masterpieces of French Painting Exhibition at Royal Academy | Art Gallery |
30 June 2001 | Minister of State for the Arts | Lawn Tennis Championships, Wimbledon | Sporting Event |
5 July 2001 | Minister of State for the Arts | Rachel Whiteread Exhibition at Serpentine Gallery | Art Gallery |
5 July 2001 | Minister of State for the Arts | "Lady Macbeth" at English National Opera | Theatre |
7 July 2001 | Minister of State for the Arts | Lawn Tennis Championships, Wimbledon | Sporting Event |
8 July 2001 | Minister of State for Sport | Lawn Tennis Championships, Wimbledon | Sporting Event |
10 July 2001 | Minister of State for the Arts | Reception to celebrate the completion of the Everyman Millennium Commission Library at British Museum | Museum |
11 July 2001 | Minister of State for the Arts | Royal Ballet School Performance at the Linbury Studio Theatre, Royal Opera House | Theatre |
12 July 2001 | Minister of State for the Arts | Launch of the Theatre 2001 conference report at Prince of Wales Theatre | Theatre |
12 July 2001 | Minister of State for the Arts | "Un Giorno di Regno" at Buxton Festival Opening Night | Theatre |
12 July 2001 | Minister of State for the Arts | Tour of Somerset House | Art Gallery |
15 July 2001 | Minister of State for Sport | Formula One Grand Prix | Sporting Event |
17 July 2001 | Secretary of State | Predators Exhibition at Natural History Museum | Museum |
17 July 2001 | Minister of State for the Arts | "Wabi-Sabi" Exhibition of Japanese jewellery, metal and textiles at Contemporary Applied Arts | Art Gallery |
17 July 2001 | Minister of State for Sport | European Cadet Boxing Championships | Sporting Event |
22 July 2001 | Minister of State for Sport | 130 Open Golf Championships | Sporting Event |
31 July 2001 | Minister of State for the Arts | Tour of National Maritime Museum, Greenwich | Museum |
31 July 2001 | Minister of State for the Arts | Launch of "Priestley—Making Time and Space for Theatre" at Criterion Theatre | Theatre |
31 July 2001 | Minister of State for the Arts | BBC Proms 14 at the Royal Albert Hall | Theatre |
1 August 2001 | Minister of State for the Arts | "The Shape of Things" at the Almeida Theatre, Kings Cross | Theatre |
3–7 August 2001 | Minister of State for Sport | World Athletics Championships | Sporting Event |
7 August 2001 | Minister of State for the Arts | Visit to Howard Hodgkin Exhibition at the Dulwich Picture Gallery | Art Gallery |
8 August 2001 | Secretary of State | "The Winter's Tale" at Royal National Theatre | Theatre |
9 August 2001 | Secretary of State | "Twelfth Night" at Royal Shakespeare Theatre | Theatre |
15 August 2001 | Secretary of State | Howard Hodgkin Exhibition at Dulwich Picture Gallery | Art Gallery |
16 August 2001 | Secretary of State | BBC Proms—Beethoven Fidelio at Royal Albert Hall | Theatre |
19 August 2001 | Secretary of State | BBC Proms—Dvorak Cello Concerto at the Royal Albert Hall | Theatre |
28 August 2001 | Secretary of State | "Hamlet" at Young Vic | Theatre |
28 August 2001 | Minister of State for the Arts | Theatre's Kids Week—Playhouse Theatre | Theatre |
28 August 2001 | Minister of State for the Arts | "The Tragedy of Hamlet" at the Young Vic | Theatre |
29 August 2001 | Minister of State for Sport | British Amputee Open Golf Championships 2001 | Sporting Event |
1 September 2001 | Minister of State for Sport | Germany v England World Cup Qualifier | Sporting Event |
5 September 2001 | Minister of State for Sport | England v Albania World Cup Qualifier | Sporting Event |
5 September 2001 | Minister of State for the Arts | "Swan Lake" at Sadler's Wells | Theatre |
9 September 2001 | Minister of State for the Arts | Tour of the exhibition at Jewish Museum, Berlin | Museum |
9 September 2001 | Minister of State for the Arts | Concert by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at the Philharmonic Hall, Berlin-Tiergarten | Theatre |
10 September 2001 | Minister of State for the Arts | Tour of Volksbuhne Theatre, Berlin | Theatre |
11 September 2001 | Minister of State for the Arts | "All My Sons" at the Lyttelton Theatre | Theatre |
12 September 2001 | Minister of State for the Arts | Jerwood Applied Arts Prize at Crafts Council Gallery | Art Gallery |
13 September 2001 | Minister of State for the Arts | Opening of Julian Stair Exhibition at Contemporary Applied Arts | Art Gallery |
14 September 2001 | Minister of State for the Arts | BBC Proms 72, at the Royal Albert Hall | Theatre |
15 September 2001 | Secretary of State | Last Night of the BBC Proms at Royal Albert Hall | Theatre |
15 September 2001 | Minister of State for Sport | St. Leger Horserace | Sporting Event |
18 September 2001 | Minister of State for Sport | Stockport County v Sheffield United | Sporting Event |
19 September 2001 | Secretary of State | Rembrandt's Women at Royal Academy of Arts | Art Gallery |
25 September 2001 | Minister of State for the Arts | Opening of new Collections Centre, Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester | Museum |
25 September 2001 | Minister of State for the Arts | Visit to the People's History Museum (part of the National Museum of Labour History) | Museum |
28 September 2001 | Minister of State for the Arts | Visit to the Rose Theatre excavation exhibition site | Theatre |
4 October 2001 | Minister of State for the Arts | Opening of the Japan 2001 "Facts of Life" exhibition at the Hayward Gallery | Art Gallery |
5 October 2001 | Minister of State for the Arts | "Rigoletto" at the Royal Opera House | Theatre |
6 October 2001 | Minister of State for Sport | England v Greece Word Cup Qualifier | Sporting Event |
8 October 2001 | Secretary of State | Opening of Robin Howard Dance Theatre | Theatre |
8 October 2001 | Minister of State for the Arts | Opening of the Paul Robeson Exhibition at the Theatre Museum, Covent Garden | Museum |
9 October 2001 | Minister of State for the Arts | "Leonore" at Sadler's Wells | Theatre |
10 October 2001 | Minister of State for the Arts | Tour of Crafts Council | Art Gallery |
10 October 2001 | Minister of State for the Arts | Opening of Exhibition of early Indian photography at Brunei Gallery, London School of Oriental and African Studies | Art Gallery |
12 October 2001 | Secretary of State | "Leonore" at Sadler's Wells Theatre | Theatre |
13 October 2001 | Secretary of State | "Julius Caesar" at Royal Shakespeare Theatre | Theatre |
13 October 2001 | Secretary of State | Pisanello: Painter to the Renaissance Court Exhibition at National Gallery | Art Gallery |
16 October 2001 | Minister of State for the Arts | Opening of the "Radical Fashion" Exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum | Museum |
17 October 2001 | Minister of State for the Arts | Design Conference at Imperial War Museum | Museum |
17 October 2001 | Minister of State for the Arts | Opening of "Art on The Line" Exhibition at Courtauld Institute Gallery | Art Gallery |
22 October 2001 | Minister of State for the Arts | Visit to "The Dig" project at the Museum of London. | Museum |
23 October 2001 | Minister of State for the Arts | Pisanello: Painter to the Renaissance Court Exhibition at the National Gallery | Art Gallery |
24 October 2001 | Minister of State for the Arts | Visit to the Conservation Centre at National Museums and Galleries on Merseyside | Museum |
25 October 2001 | Minister of State for the Arts | Visit to the Science Museum | Museum |
25 October 2001 | Secretary of State | Exposed: The Victorian Nude Exhibition at Tate Britain | Art Gallery |
25 October 2001 | Minister of State for the Arts | Preview of Linbury Galleries at Tate Britain and the inaugural exhibition 'Exposed: The Victorian Nude' | Art Gallery |
30 October 2001 | Minister of State for the Arts | Paris/Barcelone: de Gaudi a Miro Exhibition at Grand Palais, Paris | Art Gallery |
31 October 2001 | Secretary of State | Opening of London Transport Museum Learning Centre | Museum |
1 November 2001 | Minister of State for the Arts | Visit to ENO London Colliseum | Theatre |
4 November 2001 | Minister of State for Sport | BT Swimming National Short Course Championships 2001 | Sporting Event |
5 November 2001 | Secretary of State | Music for Youth Schools Prom at Royal Albert Hall | Theatre |
7 November 2001 | Minister of State for the Arts | Schools Prom, Royal Albert Hall | Theatre |
8 November 2001 | Minister of State for the Arts | Concert at the Royal College of Music | Theatre |
9 November 2001 | Minister of State for the Arts | Linbury Biennial Prizes for Stage Design at National Theatre | Theatre |
10 November 2001 | Minister of State for Sport | England v Sweden | Sporting Event |
13 November 2001 | Minister of State for the Arts | Visit to Wakefield Museum | Museum |
13 November 2001 | Minister of State for the Arts | Visit to Magna Centre | Museum |
13 November 2001 | Minister of State for the Arts | "Boy Gets Girl" at the Royal Court Theatre | Theatre |
15 November 2001 | Minister for Tourism, Film and Broadcasting | National Film Theatre | Theatre |
16 November 2001 | Minister of State for the Arts | Tour of Millennium Point | Museum |
19 November 2001 | Minister of State for the Arts | Opening of British Galleries 1500–1900 at Victoria and Albert Museum | Museum |
20 November 2001 | Secretary of State | Opening of British Galleries 1500–1900 at Victoria and Albert Museum | Museum |
22 November 2001 | Secretary of State | "Switzerland Lights Up Tate Modern" at Tate Modern | Art Gallery |
25 November 2001 | Secretary of State | Shakespeare Schools Drama Festival Showcase at Duke of York's Theatre | Theatre |
26 November 2001 | Minister of State for the Arts | Tour of the British Museum | Museum |
30 November 2001 | Minister of State for the Arts | Visit to the National Gallery. | Art Gallery |
5 December 2001 | Minister of State for Sport | West Ham United v Aston Villa | Sporting Event |
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