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

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what recent progress she has made on the Creative Industries Sector Plan.

The Government is continuing to deliver the Creative Industries Sector Plan to help meet government and industry's shared objective to make the UK the number one destination for creativity and innovation by 2035. We are driving regional growth and innovation by devolving £150m to local leaders through the Creative Places Growth Fund and launching the £100m Creative Clusters competition. We are supporting key subsectors with recently launched £30m Games and £54m Screen packages, and have provided 15% business rates relief for music venues. We are strengthening our talent pipeline through measures including expanding the National Film and Television School, and through the ‘Every Child Can’, funded through the Dormant Assets Scheme, which will deliver £132.5 million for new enrichment programmes, including in arts and culture. Our new AI Champion recently published a Creative Industries AI Adoption Plan, and the Government joins the Champion in supporting an augmentation-first approach to AI adoption within the sector. One year on, the Plan is working, with the creative industries achieving 3.1% growth last quarter.