Key information
Request reference number: MGLA111225-0134
Date of response:
Summary of request
- Could you please disclose how much money is being spent on the Mayor of London's Culture Team?
- Could you please break this down into how much of the total is spent on staff salaries sorted by team?
- Plus a breakdown of the team's budget, including any money spent on social media, grants, and venue hiring.
Our response
The GLA budget managed by the Mayor’s Culture, Creative Industries and 24-Hour London Unit is broken down below. This team is responsible for supporting culture and creative industry policy priorities set out in the Mayor’s statutory Culture Strategy (Greater London Authority Act 1999) – including his responsibility to co-fund the London Museum alongside the City of London. It also includes setting up the Mayor’s new Strategic Licensing Pilot, as required by new legislation in development by the national government.
We categorise budgets by programmes, as outlined in the table below. In addition, the GLA publishes all transactions above £250 here: GLA Expenditure over £250 - London Datastore. The Culture, Creative Industries and 24 Hour London Unit is in the Good Growth directorate, so you will need to select this as a filter to provide accurate information on money spent by this team.
This budget represents less than 1.5% of the overall 2025-26 GLA budget.
Workforce information including Senior staff salaries and salary scales is published at:
Senior staff | London City Hall
Salaries, expenses, benefits and workforce information | London City Hall
The exact breakdown of salaries for junior positions (i.e. those not published on our senior salaries page) is exempt from disclosure under s.40 (Personal information) of the Freedom of Information Act. This information constitutes as personal data which is defined by Article 4(1) of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) to mean any information relating to an identified or identifiable living individual. It is considered that disclosure of this information would contravene the first data protection principle under Article 5(1) of GDPR which states that Personal data must be processed lawfully, fairly and in a transparent manner in relation to the data subject.