The resource budgets in these areas amount to £120 million, while the capital budgets total around £19.5 million. Broadly, resource budgets have remained flat, while there has been some increase in capital provision, although overall amounts are relatively small. Clearly, these sums are not as great as those covered by some Assembly committees. Nevertheless, these are significant amounts of public funding and are equally as important.

In relation to support for the arts, this includes funding for the Arts Council of Wales, the museum and the national library, and this funding falls overall by around 2 per cent to £65.9 million, while capital funding increases by £5 million to £10.5 million. This includes £5 million from the budget agreement with Plaid Cymru to take forward the feasibility studies for a contemporary art gallery and a football museum in north Wales, which has already been mentioned today. And in this area the committee is not convinced that the well-being goals required by the well-being of future generations Act are being properly reflected in remit letters to the main bodies funded, and has asked for further information.

The committee was also concerned that the capital investment in the national museum should be shared across Wales and has asked for more information on how capital funding in this area is geographically spread. On the new contemporary art gallery and future football museum, we await the Minister's preferred options so that investment can begin early in the new year.

Support for the historic environment includes funding for Cadw, the National Botanic Garden of Wales and the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales, where revenue is flat at £13.1 million, while capital funding increases to £6.2 million. Last year, we were told that the Welsh Government had stopped providing grants to owners of listed buildings and monuments, and used this money for capital improvements to the income-generating parts of Cadw's estate instead. The hope was that, this year, more funding could be provided for owners of listed buildings. However, whether this has happened remains unclear, and the committee would like to see greater clarity on this issue, including the extent to which grants will be available, and the steps that will be taken to communicate this policy.

With regard to media and publishing, support for the media and publishing is funded through the Welsh Books Council, the resource and capital funding for which remain flat at £3.6 million and £300,000 respectively. In the Welsh Government's budget agreement with Plaid Cymru last year, £100,000 was allocated for two years for start-up grants for hyperlocal news. The Welsh Government has now commissioned additional research on where funding for hyperlocal journalism would have the most impact and value, and we would really like to receive information as to where that's going soon because we are getting questions from the sector as to how they can actually apply for that funding.