In his budget speech, Chancellor Gordon Brown confirmed that Treasury spending allocations to the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) for 2008 to 2011 will be published in the autumn, not in July as previously announced. The DCMS will then allocate funding to Arts Council England which is planning a number of scenarios so that it can minimise the time it takes to notify regularly funded organisations of funding arrangements.

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