Asked by: John Hayes (Conservative - South Holland and The Deepings)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of funding provided by Arts Council England for cultural activities in Lincolnshire.
Answered by John Whittingdale
His Majesty’s Government is deeply committed to supporting access to high-quality arts and culture across the country, including through public funding to organisations in Lincolnshire via Arts Council England.
Through Arts Council England’s 2023–26 National Portfolio, public funding is being provided to 11 organisations in Lincolnshire (an increase from 6 in the previous, 2018–22 portfolio) encompassing theatre, dance, museums, visual arts, and literature and libraries. The total investment in Lincolnshire through the national portfolio is £2.4 million per year – an increase of over £1 million per year from the last portfolio.
Funding offered or administered by the Arts Council in the previous financial year and the current financial year to date totals £14.2 million. This includes £5 million through the third round of the Government’s Cultural Development Fund, administered by Arts Council England, for East Lindsey District Council to support partners in transforming the Embassy Theatre and regenerating Skegness Pier and the surrounding public space. Arts and cultural organisations in Lincolnshire also benefited from over £15 million through the Culture Recovery Fund during the COVID-19 pandemic.
There are three Arts Council England ‘Priority Places’ in Lincolnshire: Boston, East Lindsey, and North East Lincolnshire. There are six DCMS ‘Levelling Up for Culture Places’ in Lincolnshire: Boston, East Lindsey, South Holland, North Kesteven, North Lincolnshire, and North East Lincolnshire. Levelling Up for Culture Places were agreed between DCMS and Arts Council England, and will be the focus for additional Arts Council England engagement and investment to strengthen cultural and creative opportunities in the areas and for the people who live there.
Asked by: Lilian Greenwood (Labour - Nottingham South)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of funding provided by Arts Council England for cultural activities in the North West.
Answered by John Whittingdale
His Majesty’s Government is deeply committed to supporting access to high-quality arts and culture across the country, including through public funding to organisations in the North West of England via Arts Council England.
Through Arts Council England’s 2023–26 National Portfolio, public funding is being provided to 120 organisations (up from 97 in the 2018–22 portfolio) in the North West across theatre, dance, museums, visual arts, literature and libraries.The total investment in the North West through the national portfolio is currently £49.7 million per year – an increase of more than £7.5 million per year compared to the last portfolio.
Between 2020/21 and 2023/24, Arts Council England will have invested over £428 million in arts and cultural organisations in the North West of England. This includes £13,651,486 of public funding through the Government’s Cultural Development Fund, Libraries Improvement Fund and Museum Estate and Development Fund, administered by Arts Council England. Arts and cultural organisations in the North West of England also benefited from over £120 million through the Culture Recovery Fund during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Asked by: Lilian Greenwood (Labour - Nottingham South)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of funding provided by Arts Council England for cultural activities in the South East.
Answered by John Whittingdale
His Majesty’s Government is deeply committed to supporting access to high-quality arts and culture across the country, including through public funding to organisations in the South East of England via Arts Council England.
Through Arts Council England’s 2023–26 National Portfolio, public funding is being provided to 139 organisations (an increase from 105 in the 2018–22 portfolio) in the South East of England across theatre, dance, museums, visual arts, literature and libraries. The total investment in the South East through the national portfolio is £45.6 million per year – an increase of over £5 million per year from the last portfolio.
Between 2020/21 and 2023/24, Arts Council England will have invested over £360 million of public money in arts and cultural organisations in the South East of England. This includes £12,439,377 through the Government’s Cultural Development Fund, Libraries Improvement Fund, and Museum Estate and Development Fund, administered by Arts Council England. Arts and cultural organisations in the South East also benefited from over £106 million through the Culture Recovery Fund during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Asked by: Earl of Clancarty (Crossbench - Excepted Hereditary)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask His Majesty's Government, for each year since 2013, what number of people were working in each of the nine sub-sectors of the creative industries, and what contribution each sub-sector has made to the economy.
Answered by Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay - Shadow Minister (Culture, Media and Sport)
The UK’s creative industries are worth more than the life sciences, automotive manufacturing, aerospace, and oil and gas sectors put together, generating £126 billion annually and employing over 2.4 million people across the country.
As set out in the Government’s Creative Industries Sector Vision, our ambition is to grow this sector by a further £50 billion gross value added and to support one million more jobs by 2030, delivering a creative careers promise which builds a pipeline of talent.
Each sub-sector of the creative industries makes a distinct contribution to the UK economy. The information requested is shown in the following tables:
Number of people working in each creative industries sub-sector (000s):
| Advertising and marketing | Architecture | Crafts | Design and designer fashion | Film, TV, radio and photography | IT, software and computer services | Publishing | Museums, Galleries and Libraries | Music, performing and visual arts |
2013 | 155 | 94 | 8 | 124 | 232 | 574 | 198 | 85 | 244 |
2014 | 167 | 101 | 8 | 136 | 228 | 607 | 193 | 84 | 284 |
2015 | 182 | 90 | 7 | 132 | 231 | 640 | 200 | 97 | 286 |
2016 | 198 | 98 | 7 | 160 | 246 | 674 | 193 | 92 | 291 |
2017 | 190 | 104 | 10 | 160 | 261 | 712 | 192 | 96 | 283 |
2018 | 195 | 111 | 9 | 163 | 245 | 733 | 199 | 89 | 296 |
2019 | 190 | 112 | 9 | 171 | 239 | 775 | 196 | 95 | 315 |
2020 | 201 | 115 | 8 | 151 | 279 | 872 | 197 | 104 | 294 |
2021 | 226 | 106 | 7 | 160 | 290 | 963 | 199 | 94 | 294 |
2022 | 241 | 110 | 5 | 139 | 280 | 1,035 | 209 | 96 | 283 |
Contribution to economy of each creative industries sub-sector, as measured by gross value added (GVA) (£ billions):
| Advertising and marketing | Architecture | Crafts | Design and designer fashion | Film, TV, radio and photography | IT, software and computer services | Publishing | Museums, Galleries and Libraries | Music, performing and visual arts |
2013 | 13.2 | 2.6 | 0.2 | 2.3 | 18.2 | 29.9 | 11.4 | 1 | 9.7 |
2014 | 13.3 | 3 | 0.4 | 2.3 | 18.1 | 32.6 | 11.4 | 0.8 | 8.6 |
2015 | 17 | 3.4 | 0.4 | 2.6 | 19.4 | 33.5 | 11.1 | 0.9 | 9.6 |
2016 | 15.7 | 3.4 | 0.3 | 3 | 20 | 37.6 | 11.4 | 0.9 | 9.3 |
2017 | 16.8 | 3.7 | 0.3 | 2.7 | 19.7 | 38.2 | 10.6 | 1 | 9.6 |
2018 | 16.4 | 3.5 | 0.3 | 3.3 | 19.2 | 40 | 10.4 | 0.9 | 10.2 |
2019 | 15.8 | 3.4 | 0.4 | 3 | 20.2 | 41.3 | 10.7 | 1 | 10.1 |
2020 | 15.9 | 3.2 | 0.1 | 2.4 | 17.8 | 42.9 | 10.1 | 0.6 | 7.4 |
2021* | 18.2 | 3.5 | 0.4 | 3.1 | 19.9 | 48.8 | 11.3 | 1 | 8.9 |
2022* | 18.8 | 3.7 | 0.4 | 3.2 | 20.8 | 55.4 | 11.6 | 1 | 11.2 |
*Figures for 2021 and 2022 are summed monthly GVA estimates as annual GVA estimates are not yet available. These figures are subject to revision and not directly comparable to the annual GVA estimates for 2013-2020 due to being calculated via a different method.
Source: Economic Estimates: GVA for DCMS Sectors and the Digital Sector, 2020 - GOV.UK (Annual GVA 2013-2020); DCMS and Digital Economic Estimates: Monthly GVA (to Sept 2023) - GOV.UK (Summed monthly GVA 2021-2022)
Asked by: Lilian Greenwood (Labour - Nottingham South)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether she is steps taking to ensure the adequacy of funding for cultural activities in Nottingham.
Answered by John Whittingdale
His Majesty’s Government is committed to ensuring that everyone has access to high-quality arts and cultural opportunities and activities, no matter where they live. We have supported culture in Nottingham in a variety of ways.
Between 2020/21 and 2023/24, Arts Council England will have invested over £30 million in arts and cultural organisations in Nottingham. As part of its 2023–26 National Portfolio, public funding is being provided to 14 organisations in Nottingham encompassing theatre, dance, museums, visual arts, literature and libraries. This funding includes over £1.2 million per year to New Art Exchange, the highly successful visual arts centre.
As part of the above funding, Nottingham City Council’s museum service was reconfirmed as a National Portfolio Organisation in the latest round of funding, meaning it will receive £1.4 million over the next three years. A number of the local projects which it directly funds are aimed at encouraging more people from disadvantaged neighbourhoods and diverse backgrounds to engage with the city’s heritage. The independent National Justice Museum is also part of the Arts Council’s National Portfolio and will receive £733,000 of support over the period 2023–26.
Another of the City Council Museums, Wollaton Hall, has this year received £470,000 from the Government’s Museum Estate and Development Fund for assistance with maintenance, whilst Nottingham libraries have received funding through both rounds 1 and 2 of the Government’s Libraries Improvement Fund.
Nottingham Castle Museum’s recent transformation was funded in part by a £13.9 million grant from the National Lottery Heritage Fund. Arts Council England’s National Lottery Project Grants programme also remains open for funding bids from anyone operating arts and cultural organisations in England.
The recent announcement of the third round of the Government’s Levelling Up Fund included support for Bulwell, which will be receiving almost £20 million of public investment for Bulwell town centre – including a new marketplace, and aiming to improve the look and feel of hidden heritage by reinstating original features.
Organisations in Nottingham also benefited from the Culture Recovery Fund to protect them during the COVID-19 pandemic, with 39 organisations sharing over £10.5 million of funding.
Asked by: Earl of Clancarty (Crossbench - Excepted Hereditary)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask His Majesty's Government what is their definition of "cultural education" as referred to in the published terms of reference for the Cultural Education Plan Expert Advisory Panel.
Answered by Baroness Barran - Shadow Minister (Education)
The published terms of reference for the cultural education plan expert advisory panel, sets out that cultural education sits at the heart of an enriching and fulfilling curriculum for pupils. A broad and balanced curriculum includes arts and heritage in the range of subjects taught, and in wider co and extracurricular activities.
The breadth and depth of cultural education is demonstrated by, but not exclusive to, the following: visual arts, music, craft, dance, design, digital arts and gaming, drama and theatre, film and cinema, galleries, heritage, libraries, literature and poetry, live performance, museums, and archaeology, architecture and the built environment, and archives.
This plan will focus on how the department can support access and participation in a wide range of arts subjects and activities, particularly for children and young people from disadvantaged backgrounds and in underrepresented groups. It will also further support young people who wish to pursue careers in our creative, cultural, and heritage industries.
Asked by: Toby Perkins (Labour - Chesterfield)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if she will make an estimate of the (a) number of vacancies and (b) level of skill shortages in (i) broadcast and print media, (ii) theatres, (iii) graphic design, (iv) tourism and (v) sport and leisure.
Answered by Julia Lopez - Shadow Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology
While DCMS does not have any estimates on the number of vacancies, the Department has published Experimental Official Statistics for skills shortages (%) in DCMS sectors and sub-sectors. These are for the year 2019, using data from the Employer Skills Survey, carried out by the Department for Education that covers England, Wales and Northern Ireland. The ESS is a biennial survey, which was delayed by a further year during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, with 2022-23 data expected to be published later this year (also currently scheduled to include Scotland).
Skills shortage vacancies are defined as vacancies unfilled because applicants did not have the necessary skills. Two measures for skills shortages are published:
Percentage of vacancies that are unfilled due to skills shortages
Percentage of businesses with at least one skills shortage vacancy
The “Percentage of businesses with at least one skills shortage vacancy” estimates are impacted by the fact that some businesses will not have had a vacancy. Therefore the “% of businesses with at least one vacancy” figure was also published to help provide context.
Sector/subsector | % of vacancies unfilled due to skills shortages | % of businesses with at least one skills shortage vacancy | % of businesses with at least one vacancy |
Audio Visual (i - Broadcast Media) | 19.2 | 2.1 | 12.0 |
Publishing (excluding translation & interpretation activities) (i - Print Media) | 10.9 | 3.2 | 11.4 |
Arts (ii) | 10.1 | 2.3 | 12.7 |
Design and designer fashion (iii) | 36.8 | 2.9 | 11.4 |
Tourism Industries (iv) | 21.2 | 6.0 | 21.9 |
Sport (v) | 30.1 | 4.4 | 17.2 |
Table 1 - Skills shortages in selected sectors. Estimates are not available directly measuring the areas requested. The sectors presented here have been provided as the closest to the requested sectors, for which DCMS have skills shortages data.
Source: DCMS Sectors Skills Shortages and Skills Gaps: 2019
Asked by: Janet Daby (Labour - Lewisham East)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how much funding her Department has provided through grants to art galleries in each financial year since 2017-18.
Answered by Stuart Andrew - Shadow Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
The table below shows the amount of grant funding DCMS and its delivery body Arts Council England (ACE) are estimated to have awarded to art galleries in each financial year from Financial Year 2017-18 to 21-22. These figures include an estimate of grants provided to arts galleries via Arts Council England, and DCMS direct Grant in Aid provided to the National Gallery, National Portrait Gallery and the Tate. We have not included individual art galleries part of other DCMS sponsored Arm’s Length Bodies as it is not possible to break down costs at this level.
These figures include estimates produced by ACE that include both exchequer and lottery funds. ACE does not have a method of calculating funding spent on art galleries specifically (beyond Museums, and Visual Arts, as high-level classifiers), but can determine funding for projects taking place in galleries, and can identify some galleries funding through name-searching for galleries in funding databases. This provides an estimate for ACE funding support for galleries and activity in galleries, but is not precise.
| TOTAL (£m) |
2017/18 | £69.29* |
2018/19 | £156.23 |
2019/20 | £168.30 |
2020/21 | £203.66 |
2021/22 | £206.42 |
TOTAL | £803.90 |
*There is no comparable funding data available from ACE for 2017/18, this therefore includes only DCMS direct Grant in Aid provided to the National Gallery, National Portrait Gallery and the Tate Galleries.
Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Normanton and Hemsworth)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how much her Department has spent on consultancy fees in (a) 2020, (b) 2021 and (c) 2022; and what the name is of each consultancy contracted.
Answered by Matt Warman
The 21-22 Annual Report & Accounts figures are subject to audit and expected to be published in early November. We are unable to provide data on consultancy spend prior to the conclusion of the audit.
The 20-21 consultancy spend as per DCMS 20-21 published accounts (page 135) was £16.6m. The listing for the £16.6m is set out below and is net of a credit of £1.914m on reversed expenditure.
The 19-20 consultancy spend as per DCMS 19-20 published accounts (page 135) was £3.9m. The listing for the £3.9m is set out below including £0.164m relating to corrections to the data.
Details of all third-party government contracts, including the Supplier, are published on Contracts Finder above £10,000, for the core Department, and above £25,000, for the wider public sector.
20-21 Consultancy Supplier Listings
Supplier | Amount |
346 Consultancy Limited | 10,080.00 |
Anthony William Catt | 1,000.00 |
ANUBHAV JAIN | 5,000.00 |
Astarte Limited | 1,800.00 |
Bain & Company Inc UK | 906,100.00 |
BBC Accounts Receivable | 13,000.00 |
BDO LLP | 523,076.40 |
Beckford Executives | 500.00 |
Behavioural Insights Ltd | 9,570.00 |
Brick Court Chambers | 5,250.00 |
Cabinet Office (Citi Tr) | 126,718.18 |
Climate Associates | 11,444.00 |
Contemporary Visual Arts Network | 300.00 |
Cornerstone Barristers | - 270.00 |
Corporate Blue Consulting Ltd | 5,700.00 |
David Fogel | 1,500.00 |
DB Consulting Group Pty Ltd | 6,600.00 |
Deloitte LLP | 2,512,566.80 |
Dentons UKMEA LLP | 660,208.30 |
Department of Education | 50,400.00 |
Digirep Nigeria Ltd | 12,384.25 |
DLA Piper (Liverpool) | 330,557.49 |
DLA Piper UK LLP (Leeds Office Only) | 201,473.12 |
DLA Piper UK LLP (London Office Only) | 32,153.03 |
DLA Piper UK LLP (Sheffield Office Only) | 146,966.20 |
Dona Haj Ltd | 8,000.00 |
Economic Insight Limited | 42,000.00 |
Enterprise Academy International Limited | 19,999.00 |
Ernst & Young (EY) | 2,499,356.70 |
ETSI (European Telecommunications Standa | 123,880.66 |
Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP | 111,293.03 |
Faculty Science Limited | 294,500.00 |
Faizal Asher Ismail | 2,500.00 |
FarrPoint Ltd | 10,212.50 |
Foreign Commonwealth & Development Off | 5,443.09 |
Frontier Economics Ltd | 221,719.00 |
Fujitsu Services Ltd | 133,440.00 |
Georgina Ella Harding Limited | 2,500.00 |
Government Actuary Department | 41,451.17 |
GOVERNMENT COMMUNICATIONS HQ (GCHQ) | 23,851.78 |
Government Legal Department | 17,673.00 |
Hazel Bees Consulting Ltd | 3,840.00 |
Historic England | - 2,058.34 |
Home Office | 166,725.19 |
Infrastructure & Projects Authority | 13,880.00 |
Intelligent Risks Limited | 6,000.00 |
International Association | 5,628.93 |
Kantar UK Ltd | 23,902.20 |
Knight Frank LLP | 45,000.00 |
KPMG LLP | 159,285.00 |
Lakesmith Consulting Ltd | 16,200.00 |
Linklaters LLP | 136,000.00 |
lnclusion in Arts UK Ltd | 150.00 |
Local Partnerships LLP | 505,031.88 |
Mace Ltd | 47,030.00 |
Modern Art Oxford | 300.00 |
Mr Christopher Knight - 11KBW | 4,301.67 |
Mr George Peretz | 738.00 |
Mr K Latham | 4,999.00 |
NESTA | 26,000.00 |
Oliver Wyman Ltd | 181,500.00 |
ON PURPOSE CAREERS LTD | 30,768.62 |
PA CONSULTING GROUP | 35,700.00 |
Pentara Consulting Services Ltd | 30,000.00 |
Pinsent Masons LLP | 613,539.58 |
Plum Consulting | 43,250.00 |
PRICEWATERHOUSE COOPERS LLP | 3,327,797.80 |
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP | 2,619,488.00 |
Quo Imus Ltd T/a QI Consulting | 40,800.00 |
Ryan Turner | - 733.50 |
Sarah McFadden | 2,305.20 |
Savills | 4,677.00 |
Scottish Contemporary Art Network - SCAN | 300.00 |
Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service | 10,000.00 |
Slaughter and May | 628,149.24 |
SOCIAL JUSTICE COLLECTIVE LTD | 5,999.99 |
Softcat Plc | 15,245.52 |
Spark Ninety Limited | 45,330.00 |
Stance Global Ltd | 35,412.00 |
Tech Grow Limited | 2,500.00 |
The Indus Entrepreneurs Bangalore | 324.08 |
The Royal Academy of Engineering | 3,100.00 |
THEM Design Ltd | 4,800.00 |
TLT LLP | 153,119.12 |
University of Cambridge | 4,800.00 |
Up Spring Ltd | 1,000.00 |
VAGW (Visual Arts Group Wales) | 300.00 |
Veran Performance Ltd | 339,540.00 |
Visual Arts South West | 150.00 |
Webb Search Limited | 17,360.00 |
West Midlands Combined Authority | 36,000.00 |
Wysing Arts Charity | 300.00 |
Yorkshire & Humber Visual Arts | 300.00 |
Young Samuel Chambers (YSC) Ltd | 14,560.00 |
YunoJuno Ltd | 8,736.00 |
| - 1,941,548.06 |
Grand Total | 16,609,721.82 |
19-20 Consultancy Supplier Listings
Supplier | Sum of Amount (Posted) |
2T Security Ltd | 72,300.00 |
3 Reasons Ltd | 12,000.00 |
Alistair Lindsay | 16,350.00 |
Annell Howard / Monckton Chambers | - 20.00 |
Anthony William Catt | 8,800.00 |
Birmingham Organising Committee for the | 21,600.00 |
Blackstone Chambers | 1,610.00 |
Bloom Procurement Services Ltd | 75,455.00 |
Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP | 14,252.80 |
Classical Numismatic Group LLC | 50.00 |
Climate Associates | 10,760.00 |
Curvestone Ltd | 2,796.00 |
David Fogel | 2,392.25 |
David Miller | 150.00 |
DB Consulting Group Pty Ltd | 11,000.00 |
Deloitte LLP | 667,438.40 |
Digital Radio UK (DRUK) | 1,200.00 |
DLA Piper UK LLP (Leeds Office Only) | - 570.32 |
Dona Haj Ltd | 12,682.50 |
Enterprise Academy International Limited | 5,000.00 |
ETSI (European Telecommunications Standa | 127,406.10 |
Faculty Science Limited | 281,400.00 |
Farrer & Co LLP | 3,882.00 |
FarrPoint Ltd | 5,700.00 |
Film London | 19,900.00 |
Foreign Commonwealth & Development Off | 73,783.14 |
Frontier Economics Ltd | 99,325.00 |
Global Partners Digital Ltd | 4,000.00 |
GOVERNMENT COMMUNICATIONS HQ (GCHQ) | 100,000.00 |
Government Legal Department | 3,347.50 |
Gowling WLG (UK) LLP | 10,628.18 |
Hazel Bees Consulting Ltd | 26,880.00 |
Historic England | 4,935.47 |
HM Courts & Tribunals Service | 113,850.00 |
HMRC (VAT payments) | 9,200.00 |
Hogan Lovells International LLP | 99,725.00 |
Home Office (Citi Trf) | 50,000.00 |
ICF CONSULTING SERVICES | 11,268.00 |
Infrastructure & Projects Authority | 24,000.00 |
Ion Industries Ltd | 900.00 |
Ipsos (Market Research) Ltd | 94,898.53 |
Joanna van der Lande | 273.10 |
KPMG LLP | 198,000.00 |
Lakesmith Consulting Ltd | 65,233.35 |
Martin Beisly Fine Art Ltd | 791.44 |
Mass Inspire Limited | 5,180.49 |
Matassa Toffolo Ltd | - 926.50 |
MHR International UK Ltd | 2,595.04 |
Ministry of Defence | 1,153.12 |
Miss Laura Smith | 50.00 |
MKF Holdings Ltd t/a China Policy | 62,750.00 |
Moorhouse Consulting Ltd | 25,000.00 |
Morton & Eden Ltd | 50.00 |
Mott MacDonald Ltd | - 0.50 |
Mr George Peretz | 720.00 |
My CSP LTD | 12,464.40 |
Ovum t/a Informa Telecoms & Media Ltd | 21,060.00 |
PA CONSULTING GROUP | 135,600.00 |
Pinsent Masons LLP | 680,143.56 |
PRICEWATERHOUSE COOPERS LLP | 119,232.00 |
QinetiQ Limited | - 16,632.00 |
Quo Imus Ltd T/a QI Consulting | 19,200.00 |
Rochelais Limited T/a True & North | 1,080.00 |
Ryan Turner | 5,262.50 |
SALESFORCE COM EMEA LTD | 2,311.51 |
Sally Osman | 10,000.00 |
Savills | 187,698.00 |
Social Innovation Camp Ltd | 3,840.00 |
Sotheby's | 150.00 |
Stance | 5,184.00 |
Stance Global Ltd | 27,648.00 |
Sundry Supplier - Non Staff Expenses | 832.73 |
The Indus Entrepreneurs Bangalore | 2,370.63 |
Thomas Upchurch | 4,999.00 |
University of Cambridge | 4,500.00 |
Up Spring Ltd | 5,000.00 |
Venia Consulting Limited | - 1,281.60 |
Who Targets Me Ltd | 1,500.00 |
Xansium Consulting Ltd | 5,998.80 |
| 164,624.96 |
Grand Total | 3,863,931.58 |
Asked by: Lord Brennan of Canton (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what recent assessment she has made of the (a) economic and (b) cultural impact of songwriters and composers in the UK.
Answered by Julia Lopez - Shadow Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology
The music industry is vital to the economy and culture of the UK. In 2019, the music, performing and visual arts sector contributed an estimated £10.5bn in GVA to the UK economy. PRS for Music, the organisation that pays royalties to over 160,000 songwriters, composers, and music publishers, saw overall revenues in 2021 reach £777.1m, a 22.4% increase on 2020.
The cultural impact of music is also invaluable. According to UK Music’s 2021 ‘This is Music’ Report, the UK public listens to an estimated 60 billion hours of music a year. Songwriters and composers form the bedrock on which the overall success of the music sector is built. Despite the challenges of Covid-19, songwriters and composers continued to have significant impact; UK Music’s 2021 ‘This is Music’ Report states that over 5 million songs and compositions were registered with PRS for Music, nearly one third more than in 2019. The Government wants to ensure this success continues.