The Department will continue to be referred to as DCMS in all communications, but it is now the department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport.
The move is intended to reflect the way the Department’s remit has evolved. DCMS states that the traditional core of DCMS remains as important as ever, covering Arts, Culture, the Creative Industries, Sport, Tourism, Heritage, Gambling, boosted by responsibility for civil society, charities, volunteering and innovative financing.
The Department of National Heritage was replaced by DCMS in 1997.