Although we’ve had to make cuts in grant-in-aid, we’ve increased the amount of money going into the arts through the National Lottery. Take those two sums of money together, and you’ll see that roughly the same amount of money has gone into the arts as went into the arts at the peak of the last Labour government. - Ed Vaizey, Conservative culture minister, in an interview on BBC Radio 4’s Front Row.

http://theconversation.com/fact-check-has-arts-funding-been-decimated-or-protected-40037