Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what estimate her Department has made of the potential additional gross value added generated by increased funding for cultural and creative industries in the North of England.

DCMS has not made a specific estimate of the potential additional gross value added generated by increased funding for cultural and creative industries in the North of England. The department’s official statistics measure existing economic contributions, but do not quantify the additional GVA attributable to increased regional investment.

We publish annual official statistics of regional GVA contributed by DCMS sectors as part of our DCMS Sectors Economic Estimates series. The most recent estimates of regional GVA by the creative industries and Culture Sector are from 2023. Across the North East, North West, and Yorkshire and The Humber regions the GVA for the creative industries was £12.9bn and the GVA for the cultural sector was £2.6bn.