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The Ministry of Culture has a tool at its disposal to implement the Latvian cultural policy, that is, 14 state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in which the Ministry of Culture holds 100% of capital shares and which operate in the field of professional theatre and music arts. The amount of the state budget subsidy granted to SOEs of the Ministry of Culture increases every year and it totalled to 40 million euros in 2023, which is 63% of their total revenue. When updating the issue of the management of SOEs of the Ministry of Culture, the State Audit Office of Latvia conducted a follow-up to explore how the Ministry of Culture succeeded with the implementation of the recommendations made in the audit concluded in 2018.
It must be concluded that no significant changes and improvements have been achieved in the actions of the Ministry of Culture as regards management of the SOEs. The Ministry of Culture should improve the supervision over the execution of the tasks delegated by the state administration and the use of resources by SOEs by linking it to the cultural policy tasks and government priorities, as well as the acquisition and compilation of data on the market situation in the field of theatre and music arts.
