Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what recent assessment she has made with Cabinet colleagues of the export opportunities for the creative industries.

The UK’s creative industries are world-leading. They generated £108 billion for our economy in 2021 and employ over two million people across the country. But our creative industries also represent a powerful export opportunity, where they accounted for £8.9 billion exports in goods and £41.4 billion in services in 2020.

The Government’s Export Strategy sets the goal for the UK to reach £1 trillion in total annual UK exports by the mid-2030s and to boost competitiveness and jobs across the UK. The creative industries are identified as a priority sector to deliver this ambition.

Ministers from the Department for Culture, Media and Sport and the Department for Business and Trade, alongside industry representatives, attended the Chancellor’s Creative Industries Treasury Connect Conference in May, where discussions included export opportunities for the sector.

The Government provides targeted support to boost creative exports through programmes including the £21 million Global Screen Fund, and the Music Exports Growth Scheme. The upcoming publication of the Creative Industries Sector Vision will set out the Government’s approach to creative exports in more detail.