Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what estimate his Department has made of the number of (a) EU and (b) non-EU nationals employed in the creative arts industries.
The department produces annual employment statistics for the creative industries, published as part of DCMS’s economic estimates. The numbers of EU and non-EU nationals employed in the creative industries in 2018 are given in the table below. Overall, employees in the creative industries are 85.8% UK, 7.4% EU and 6.8% non-EU nationals.
Creative Industries employment by subsector in 2018, 000s [1]
Sub-sector | UK | EU [2] | Non-EU |
1. Advertising and marketing | 168 | 15 | 12 |
2. Architecture | 96 | - | - |
3. Crafts | 9 | - | - |
4. Design and designer fashion | 143 | 11 | - |
5. Film, TV, video, radio and photography | 219 | 19 | 8 |
6. IT, software and computer services | 604 | 50 | 78 |
7. Publishing | 164 | 24 | 11 |
8. Museums, Galleries and Libraries | 80 | - | - |
9. Music, performing and visual arts | 268 | 17 | 12 |
Creative Industries | 1,750 | 150 | 139 |
Source: DCMS Economic Estimates, Employment 2018 https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/dcms-sectors-economic-estimates-2018-employment
Notes
1. Estimates rounded to the nearest 1,000.
2. Does not include UK nationals
Notation
"-" Figure has been suppressed due to disclosiveness