Sections · PESA departmental group
Culture, Media and Sport
The Department for Culture, Media and Sport and its bodies. In 2025-26 the bodies in this section spent £9.6bn on services. £7.2bn of it (75.1%) can be followed to who received it, and at most 78.5% counting payees who are named but can't be identified yet.
- Reached an identified organisation
- Reached a recipient the publisher did not name
- Reached people, counted by benefit
- Reached staff (pay) or holders of government debt (interest), followed as one published total
- Named payee, not yet identified (may be another public body)
- Not followed
How far it is followed, and why the rest can't be
- Below the publication threshold
Payments under £25,000 (central government and the NHS) or £500 (councils) are not published one by one. Some publishers list every payment anyway; most do not.
- Pay: followed to staff as one total£2.5bnmeasured
Wages are never published person by person, and must not be. The staff costs of the 34 bodies in this section, from HM Treasury's OSCAR database (2025-26, provisional outturn), are counted as followed to their staff.
Where the records come from
Each publisher's 2025-26 payment records, and where their money went. "Identified" means matched to a registered company, charity or other organisation outside government; "named only", a payee named in the record but not yet matched; "passed on", paid to another public body.
| Publisher | Months | Records | Identified | Named only | Withheld | Passed on |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Department for Culture, Media and Sport | 12 | 1,877 | £4.7bn | £331m | £0 | £1.1bn |
The largest payees not yet identified
Payees paid £5m or more. Named in the records as shown, but not yet matched to a registered organisation or a public body. Some may be public bodies; until they are matched they are counted as followed by name only.
| Payee, as published | 2025-26 |
|---|---|
| TATE GALLERY | £54m |
| NATIONAL MUSEUMS & GALLERIES MERSEYSIDE | £33m |
| SOCIAL INVESTMENT BUISNESS | £33m |
| GIA GAMBLING COMMISSION(LOTTERY) | £31m |
| MHCLG | £29m |
| THE ROYAL ARMOURIES | £22m |
| NATIONAL MARITIME MUSEUM | £22m |
| THE SOCIAL INVESTMENT BUSINESS LTD - MMC | £18m |
| TNLCF - THE BIG LOTTERY FUND - | £8m |
| NATIONAL FILM & TELEVISION SCHOOL | £7m |
What PESA says this section spends on
| Function | 2025-26 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Recreation, culture and religion | £8.2bn | 86% |
| Social protection | £1.1bn | 12% |
| Housing and community amenities | £134m | 1% |
| Economic affairs | £55m | 1% |
| Environment protection | £45m | 0% |
| Health | £8m | 0% |