Denise Fahmy said she was harassed and victimised in a vitriolic campaign waged against her at the taxpayer-funded Arts Council England (ACE). She had supported the LGB Alliance group.
In a letter seen by The Mail on Sunday, Health Secretary Steve Barclay insisted that organisations including NHS England report on whether inclusion schemes were value for money.
Opera in the UK is in crisis. In the latest round of government funding allocated by The Arts Council England (ACE), many of the country’s largest opera institutions have had their budgets slashed. Receiving sufficient funding is crucial to the running of arts institutions in the UK, and ACE has faced immediate backlash since a pattern was identified in the most recent allocations towards the end of last year.