Claudia Burger, Eliza Easton and Hasan Bakhsi highlight three areas where recent research from Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre indicates policy change is needed.
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The Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre (PEC) representation for the 2021 Spending Review (Creative Industries Policy & Evidence Centre)
The UK’s creative industries - from film to fashion, and from video games to the performing arts - are integral to local communities throughout the country. This is in part because of the economic importance of the sector: one in eight UK businesses are part of the creative industries, and together they contributed almost £116 billion in GVA in 2019, growing twice as fast a the rate of the UK economy as a whole in the past decade (DCMS, 2021). Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, the creative industries accounted for 2.1m jobs (DCMS, 2020).
This Comprehensive Spending Review gives the government an opportunity to stimulate growth in a world-leading sector many parts of which have been severely affected as a result of the pandemic. In this submission we highlight three different policy areas where recent PEC evidence suggests policy change is needed.
As with all Spending Review representations the AHRC-funded PEC makes to the government, this briefing should not be read as a “manifesto for the creative industries” covering all areas where support is needed, but rather, specific areas where our evidence strongly points to action that would help grow the sector... Keep reading at Creative Industries Policy & Evidence Centre.