Committee details
Culture, Tourism & Sport Board
Purpose of committee
Culture, Tourism and Sport Board Terms of Reference
Local Government Association (LGA) Boards engage with and develop a thorough understanding of councils' priorities in relation to their particular programme area. They also help shape our business plan and, through extensive engagement with councils, oversee programmes of work that deliver the strategic priorities set out in the LGA Plan.
The Board will provide strategic oversight of all the LGA’s policy and improvement activity in relation to libraries, the visitor economy, sport and physical activity, the arts, museums, public parks, and heritage, in line with wider LGA priorities.
The Culture, Tourism and Sport Board has the following objectives:
· Champion the role that cultural, sporting, tourism and heritage services play in making places where people want to live, visit and work.
· Support portfolio holders and officers to lead transformational change of cultural, tourism and sport services and seize the opportunities presented by wider public sector reform, including devolution and the government’s Industrial Strategy.
· Ensure that the LGA is well positioned to advance our arguments on culture, tourism and sport nationally to government and others and that our advocacy is shaped by robust intelligence from councils. In particular, steering the LGA / DCMS Libraries Taskforce, supporting the implementation of Sport England’s new strategy, and ensuring English destinations have a strong voice in the national governance arrangements for tourism.
· Support other LGA Boards to recognise how culture, tourism and sport helps to achieve their priorities
· Contribute to wider LGA work any risks or opportunities that may arise for the culture, tourism and sport sectors from leaving the European Union and act on them as required.
· Ensure that the flagship Annual Culture, Tourism and Sport Conference continues to give national profile to the innovation that councils are leading and influences national policy and debate through giving a platform to leading people from the sector.
For information on the latest activities of the Board, you can view the Chair’s regular reports to Councillors' Forum.
The membership detailed below has been appointed effective from 1 September 2023 through to the end of the 2023/24 meeting cycle on 31 July 2024.
The Equalities Advocate for the Culture, Tourism and Sport Board is Cllr Julie Jones-Evans.
Membership
- Cllr Tracey Dixon (Deputy Chair) Labour South Tyneside Council
- Cllr Michael Graham Labour Wakefield City Council
- Cllr Jane Ashworth OBE Labour Stoke on Trent City Council
- Cllr Richard Henry Labour Stevenage Borough Council
- Cllr Elly Cutkelvin Labour Leicester City Council
- Cllr Jemima Laing Labour Plymouth City Council
- Cllr Adam Hug Labour Westminster City Council
- Cllr Adele Barnett-Ward (Substitute) Labour Reading Council
- Cllr James-J Walsh (Substitute) Labour Lewisham London Borough
- Cllr Jonathan Simpson MBE (Substitute) Labour Camden London Borough Council
- Cllr Joanne Laban (Deputy Chair) Conservative Enfield Council
- Cllr Peter Golds CBE Conservative Tower Hamlets Council
- Cllr Barry Lewis Conservative Derbyshire County Council
- Cllr Linda Robinson Conservative Wychavon District Council
- Cllr Neil Jory Conservative West Devon Borough Council
- Cllr Gary Ridley Conservative Coventry City Council
- Cllr Phil Seeva (Substitute) Conservative Cornwall Council
- Cllr Henry Higgins (Substitute) Conservative Hillingdon London Borough
- Cllr Steve Allen (Substitute) Conservative Peterborough City Council
- Cllr Liz Green (Chair) Liberal Democrat Kingston upon Thames Royal Borough Council
- Cllr Darryl Smalley Liberal Democrat City of York Council
- Cllr Chris White Liberal Democrat City and District of St Albans
- Cllr Sean MacLeod (Substitute) Liberal Democrat Lewes District Council
- Cllr Amanda Hopgood (Substitute) Liberal Democrat Durham County Council
- Cllr Julie Jones-Evans (Vice-Chair) Independent Isle of Wight Council
- Cllr Ian Shipp Independent West Suffolk Council
- Cllr James Hall (Substitute) Independent Swale Borough Council
- Cllr Rebecca Aldam (Substitute) Independent Stroud District Council
Contact information
Support officer: Emma West. Email: emma.west@local.gov.uk
Postal address:
Member Services
18 Smith Square
London
SW1P 3HZ
Email: emma.west@local.gov.uk