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

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what estimate she has made of the current value of the digital creative industry in York and North Yorkshire; and what estimate she has made of the potential value of that sector in the future.

In 2019, our provisional estimates show computer games businesses contributed £25 million to the Yorkshire and The Humber region in gross value added, while audio-visual businesses output totalled £339 million. These sub-sectors boosted the creative industries contribution, which was £3.4 billion (3%) of the region’s GVA in 2019.

Looking to the future, we are developing a Creative Industries Sector Vision which will set out our ambition for the sector up to 2030. As part of this, the government recently announced £50 million of growth support for creative businesses across the country. Both the Sector Vision and £50 million support package will support the growth of creative businesses, and we are keen to encourage growth in regions across the country.