Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, whether his Department provides any guidance specifically for the creative industries.

The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, and the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, works with industry to support growth in the thriving UK creative industries, including through the Creative Industries Council. On 2 July 2014, industry published the Creative Industries Strategy (available at www.thecreativeindustries.co.uk), which the Government has welcomed.

Recent publications of relevance to the sector include: details of £16 million funding from the Employer Ownership of Skills pilot to boost skills in the sector; the UKTI Creative Industries International Strategy, developed with industry, to increase exports and inward investment; the Technology Strategy Board's strategy for innovation in the sector from 2013 to 2016; information for creators and intellectual property rights owners from the Intellectual Property Office; also two statistical publications from the Department for Culture, Media and Sport: Creative Industries Economic Estimates and Creative Industries: Focus on Employment.