Creative Industries Council

(asked on 9th December 2014) - View Source

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to the Answer of 6 September 2013, Official Report, column 563W, on Creative Industries Council, what the names are of the members of the subgroups of the Creative Industries Council; how often those subgroups have met since the Creative Industries Council was established; how often those subgroups will meet in the next 12 months; which subgroup meetings have been attended by (a) him, (b) Ministers in his Department and (c) other Ministers; and for each subgroup what proportion of its members have their principal workplace outside London.


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Lord Vaizey of Didcot
This question was answered on 15th December 2014

The Creative Industries Council (CIC) has 5 sub-groups, to take forward the five priority work strands in the industry-led growth strategy for the sector. The chairs for each of the sub-groups is as follows:


Strategy sub-group leads


• Access to Finance: Caroline Norbury (Creative England)


• Education & Skills: Dinah Caine (Creative Skillset)


• Infrastructure: Tim Lefroy (Advertising Association)


• Intellectual Property: Geoff Taylor (BPI)


• International: Tim Davie (BBC Worldwide)


As these sub-groups are industry-led, it is their responsibility to determine the frequency and membership of their meetings. I co-chair the Sector Advisory Group (SAG) with Tim Davie (BBC Worldwide), which covers the International work strand of the sector strategy, but Ministers do not attend other sub-group meetings. Some sub-group members are also members of the CIC, and the CIC represents a range of national, regional and local businesses and organisations.

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