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Written Question
Visual Arts: Coronavirus
Thursday 21st May 2020

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 assessment he has made of the effect of covid-19 outbreak on the income of self-employed visual artists.

Answered by Caroline Dinenage

In order to support the sustainability of the Arts sector, including arts companies and arts venues, DCMS has worked closely with Arts Council England (ACE) to provide a tailored package of financial support. In March, ACE announced a £160m emergency response package to complement the financial measures already announced by the Government and to ensure immediate resilience of this vital sector.

This includes £20 million of financial support for individuals, including visual artists, so they can better sustain themselves, and their work, in the coming months. The Arts Council have received 10,293 applications from individuals for this fund and will be publishing the details of how they have awarded this funding at the beginning of June, once all the decisions have been made and applicants notified.

The Secretary of State, myself and officials continue to consult the Art sector extensively to ensure we fully understand the financial impact of the Covid-19 outbreak on the sector.

On the basis of that engagement, DCMS and ACE are continuing to work closely to consider the additional measures that are needed to ensure the long-term recovery and growth of the cultural sector, including self-employed artists.


Written Question
Arts: Coronavirus
Wednesday 20th May 2020

Asked by: Earl of Clancarty (Crossbench - Excepted Hereditary)

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

To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the proportion of (1) individuals and (2) organisations working in the creative industries who will be eligible for the emergency funding being made available by Arts Council England in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, including through the funding being provided to National Portfolio Organisations and Creative People and Places lead organisations.

Answered by Baroness Barran - Shadow Minister (Education)

While the Government has not made a specific assessment of the proportion of professionals working in the creative industries that are eligible, it has worked with the Arts Council to ensure that the application process was as simple as possible and to encourage as many applications as possible.

So long as an applicant has experience of delivering publicly funded work, and fits the Arts Council’s definition of ‘creative practitioner’ (writers, translators, producers, editors, educators, directors and designers in the disciplines and artforms they support, as well as choreographers, composers, visual artists, craft makers and curators), they are eligible.

The Arts Council received a total of 13,684 applications from independent cultural organisations and individual practitioners to the first two elements of their Emergency Response funds.

In detail, this breaks down to 3,391 applications from organisations and 10,293 applications from individuals. The Arts Council will be publishing the details of how they have awarded this funding at the beginning of June, once all the decisions have been made and applicants notified.

The third element of their Emergency Response funds, for National Portfolio Organisations and Creative People and Places lead organisations, closes on 19 May.

All of the Arts Council’s 840 National Portfolio Organisations and 30 Creative People and Places lead organisations were eligible to apply to that fund. The Arts Council will be publishing details of how they’ve awarded this funding at the beginning of July.


Written Question
Migrant Workers: EU Nationals
Thursday 5th March 2020

Asked by: Vicky Foxcroft (Labour - Lewisham North)

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what estimate his Department has made of the number of (a) EU and (b) non-EU nationals employed in the creative arts industries.

Answered by Caroline Dinenage

The department produces annual employment statistics for the creative industries, published as part of DCMS’s economic estimates. The numbers of EU and non-EU nationals employed in the creative industries in 2018 are given in the table below. Overall, employees in the creative industries are 85.8% UK, 7.4% EU and 6.8% non-EU nationals.

Creative Industries employment by subsector in 2018, 000s [1]

Sub-sector

UK

EU [2]

Non-EU

1. Advertising and marketing

168

15

12

2. Architecture

96

-

-

3. Crafts

9

-

-

4. Design and designer fashion

143

11

-

5. Film, TV, video, radio and photography

219

19

8

6. IT, software and computer services

604

50

78

7. Publishing

164

24

11

8. Museums, Galleries and Libraries

80

-

-

9. Music, performing and visual arts

268

17

12

Creative Industries

1,750

150

139

Source: DCMS Economic Estimates, Employment 2018 https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/dcms-sectors-economic-estimates-2018-employment

Notes

1. Estimates rounded to the nearest 1,000.

2. Does not include UK nationals

Notation

"-" Figure has been suppressed due to disclosiveness


Written Question
Arts: North East
Monday 27th January 2020

Asked by: Ian Lavery (Labour - Blyth and Ashington)

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

To ask the Minister of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, which arts organisations in the North East of England his Department plans to allocate funding to in 2020.

Answered by Helen Whately - Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions

The list outlines Arts organisations and practitioners across the North East that have been allocated funding from Arts Council England for 2020. This list is not exhaustive as ACE expects further funding applications from practitioners and organisations based in the North East of England throughout the year.

Organisation Name

Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums

North Music Trust

North Music Trust

Durham & Darlington Music Education Hub

Tees Valley Music Service

Sunderland Music Education Hub

Music Partnership North

North Tyneside Music Education Hub

Gateshead and South Tyneside Music Education Hub

New Writing North

Redcar & Cleveland Borough Council

Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums

November Club

North Music Trust

Ballet Lorent Limited

The Forge

National Youth Choirs of Great Britain

Dance City

Northern Stage (Theatrical Productions) Ltd

TIN Arts

The Maltings Berwick Trust Limited

Helix Arts Ltd

Baltic Flour Mills Visual Arts Trust

Middlesbrough Town Hall

Association for Cultural Enterprises

Stockton International Riverside Festival

Gem Arts

Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums

North East Theatre Trust Ltd

The Customs House

Bloodaxe Books Ltd

Theatre Hullabaloo

Woodhorn Charitable Trust

The Lawnmowers Independent Theatre Company

Generator North East

Amber Film & Photography Collective

Seven Stories, The National Centre for Children's Books

Vane Contemporary Art Limited

a-n The Artists Information Company

Durham County Council

Queen's Hall Arts

Sunderland Culture

Unfolding Theatre

The NewBridge Project

Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums

Workplace Foundation

Inpress Ltd

Stockton Borough Council Tees Valley Museum Group

Arts&Heritage

Beamish Museum

Teesside University

Northern Print

Tyneside Cinema

Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival

Open Clasp Theatre Company

Stockton Arts Centre Ltd

The Bowes Museum

Umar Butt

Jamie Tansley

The Auxiliary Project Space

DJAZZ - Durham City Jazz Festival

Southpaw Dance Company

Lisette Rebecca Auton

Nadia Iftkhar

Kris Johnson

David Lisser

Vivien Wood

Lydia Brickland

Michael John Heatley

Jade Byrne

National Youth Choirs of Great Britain

Festival of Thrift

South Tyneside Council

New Prospects Association Limited

Hartlepool Borough Council

Michael Evans

Curious Arts Ltd

Katie Doherty

Middlesbrough Council

Little Cog

Make & Mend Company

North Tyneside Council

Sunderland MAC Trust

Primate Productions Ltd

Patrick Ngabonziza

Amy Lord

Rachael Walsh

Little Inventors Worldwide Ltd

Sophie Buxton

Benedict Wellstood

MBC Arts Wellbeing

Kate Hunter

Gillie Kleiman

Tracks

Southpaw Dance Company

Rosa Postlethwaite

Amanda Ogden

Rebecca Glendenning-Laycock

Elizabeth Jane Klotz

Changing Relations

Beacon Films CIC

Middlesbrough Mela Association

Harambee Pasadia CIC

Katherina Radeva

Christopher Folwell

Tatwood Puppets

Billingham International Folklore Festival of World Dance

Alistair McDonald

Newcastle Asian Arts and Music

Hannah Thompson

Dora Frankel

Laura Harrington

Action for Children

The Middlesbrough Art Weekender

Let's Circus

Hannah Murphy

The Empty Space

Paul Miller

Durham County Council Arts Programmes Team

Eliot Smith Company

Alphabetti Theatre

Two Destination Language

Wesley Stephenson

Pineapple Black

Sheila Graber

COMMON

Regeneration NE CIC

Martin Hylton

Workie Ticket Theatre CIC

Norfolk Street Arts Community Interest Company

Aidan Moesby

Stellar Projects

Thoughtful Planet 3

William Steele

Cameron John Sharp

Teesside University

Zoe Murtagh

Miranda Tufnell

Ushaw College

Christina Castling

Newcastle City Council Culture

Tony Hopkins Entertainments Ltd

NTC Touring Theatre Company Ltd

Lindsay Duncanson

Northumbria University

Julian Germain

Mortal Fools

Opera Sunderland

Durham University

Jake Jarratt

Elizabeth Jane Klotz

fanSHEN

Lydia Brickland

Scott Turnbull

Tusk Music

Mad Alice Theatre Company

Payal Ramchandani

Chris Hornsby

Sunderland City Council

Tim Shaw

Becci Sharrock

North Music Trust

Charlie Bramley

Creative Spaces North East C.I.C.

COMMON

Elysium Theatre Company

The Creative Seed CIC

Curious Monkey Ltd

Abdulrahman Abu - Zayd

DAVE GRAY

Allan Hughes

Debra Carey

Izaak Gledhill

Hexham Book Festival

Moving Art Management

Cap-a-Pie

Alys North

blimey!

Juliana Mensah

Harriet Ghost

Transitions17

Sabina Sallis

Conversations in Painting

Faye MacCalman

Caroline Collinge

Robert Graham

Henry Amos

christopher fallow

Michelle Bayly

Leah Millar

Nell Catchpole

Melanie Rashbrooke

Slugtown

Hartlepool Wintertide Festival

Emma Dunn

Greyscale Theatre Company

D6 Culture Ltd

North East Theatre Trust Ltd

Michael Mulvihill

Teesside University

Cat Robey

Catherine Bertola

South Tyneside Council

Head of Steam - Darlington Railway Museum

Matt Jamie

Bethan Kitchen

Woodhorn Charitable Trust

South Tyneside Council

Faculty of Arts, Design and Creative Industries

Jazz North East Ltd

Simon West

Eliot Smith Company

Chalk

Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums

Durham University

Vindolanda Trust

Mortal Fools

Middlesbrough Council Cultural Services

Gary Wilkinson

Newcastle Gateshead Initiative

Dominic Nelson-Ashley

Martha Wheatley

Skimstone Arts

Luca Rutherford

Surface Area Dance Theatre CIC

Kerrin Tatman

Hannah Thompson

Gateway Studios

Liberdade community development trust

Nexus

Mathieu Geffré

identity on tyne

Shane Wreford-Sinnott

Michaela Wetherell

Steve Byron

Mi Viejo Fruta Ltd

Independent Sunderland

New Writing North

Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums

November Club

North Music Trust

Ballet Lorent Limited

The Forge

National Youth Choirs of Great Britain

Dance City

Northern Stage (Theatrical Productions) Ltd

TIN Arts

The Maltings Berwick Trust Limited

Helix Arts Ltd

Baltic Flour Mills Visual Arts Trust

Middlesbrough Town Hall

Association for Cultural Enterprises

Stockton International Riverside Festival

Gem Arts

Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums

North East Theatre Trust Ltd

The Customs House

Bloodaxe Books Ltd

Theatre Hullabaloo

Woodhorn Charitable Trust

The Lawnmowers Independent Theatre Company

Generator North East

Amber Film & Photography Collective

Seven Stories, The National Centre for Children's Books

Vane Contemporary Art Limited

a-n The Artists Information Company

Durham County Council

Queen's Hall Arts

Sunderland Culture

Unfolding Theatre

The NewBridge Project

Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums

Workplace Foundation

Inpress Ltd

Stockton Borough Council Tees Valley Museum Group

Arts&Heritage

Beamish Museum

Teesside University

Northern Print

Tyneside Cinema

Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival

Open Clasp Theatre Company

Stockton Arts Centre Ltd

The Bowes Museum


Written Question
Music
Friday 12th April 2019

Asked by: Andrew Rosindell (Reform UK - Romford)

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what recent assessment he has made of the contribution of the music industry to the UK economy.

Answered by Margot James

DCMS does not specifically record the contribution of the music industry to the UK economy. The Department does however, produce annual estimates of the contributions of all of its sectors (including the Creative Industries, and within that the ‘music, performing and visual arts’ sub-sector) to the UK economy, measuring GVA, imports and exports of goods and services, employment, and number of enterprises. These statistics are available online at: www.gov.uk/government/collections/dcms-sectors-economic-estimates.

The ‘music, performing and visual arts’ sector contributed over £9.5bn to the UK economy in 2017. This contribution has increased by 69% since 2010 and has grown at more than twice the rate of the wider UK economy.


Written Question
Music: Education
Thursday 13th December 2018

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 support he has given to music conservatoires.

Answered by Margot James

The Arts Council England (ACE) invests substantially in supporting the music education landscape. The Arts Council’s £75m investment in music education hubs reflects the government’s belief that all students should have access to an excellent, well-rounded education which includes the arts and music. ACE has also recently provided funding to Leeds College of Music for a festival of cutting edge music, sound art and visual installations; and the Royal Northern College of Music for the 2018 RNCM Brass Band Festival.

In particular, ACE supports the orchestral sector’s engagement with conservatoires by working with Conservatoires UK to encourage collaboration between conservatories and the ACE National Youth Music Organisations, National Portfolio Organisations and Music Education Hubs.


Written Question
Arts: Devolution
Monday 18th December 2017

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 the gross value-added was for the nine sub-sectors of the creative industries for each year since 2010 in each of the devolved administrations.

Answered by Matt Hancock

​The Gross Value Added (GVA) for each of the sub-sectors in the Creative Industries for the devolved administrations is available from 2010 to 2015 at https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/grossvalueaddedgva/adhocs/006815constrainedregionalgrossvalueaddedgvaestimatesfordepartmentforculturemediaandsportdcmscreativeindustriessubsectors, and in the tables below. Data for 2016 are due to be published in February 2018.

Gross value added (GVA) expressed in current prices, for Creative Industries sub-sectors in Wales

Unit: £m

Years: 2010 - 2015

Coverage: UK

Sub-sector

2010

2011

2012

2013

2014

2015

Advertising and marketing

30.1

72.2

48.5

46.3

39.5

32.4

Architecture

39.0

59.1

47.4

53.2

71.2

54.9

Crafts

2.5

5.5

3.9

2.6

3.1

4.6

Design and designer fashion

103.7

96.6

91.8

127.9

99.3

97.3

Film, TV, video, radio and photography

-30.2

46.4

46.7

88.7

35.4

108.9

IT, software and computer services

316.7

345.5

391.8

257.0

362.9

351.4

Publishing

103.0

59.8

69.0

79.2

100.7

35.7

Museums, galleries and libraries

14.9

14.6

15.5

17.3

24.5

25.0

Music, performing and visual arts

128.8

114.5

159.2

91.0

99.3

115.4

Creative Industries

708.4

814.2

873.8

763.3

835.9

825.4

Notes

1. Data are in current prices (i.e. have not been adjusted for inflation).​

​Gross value added (GVA) expressed in current prices, for Creative Industries sub-sectors in Scotland

Unit: £m

Years: 2010 - 2015

Coverage: UK​

Sub-sector

2010

2011

2012

2013

2014

2015

Advertising and marketing

167.7

209.7

227.1

270.3

183.1

224.0

Architecture

180.7

206.0

169.6

188.8

211.7

216.7

Crafts

11.3

14.5

11.5

8.3

20.4

15.2

Design and designer fashion

55.8

73.1

118.6

89.5

99.6

107.6

Film, TV, video, radio and photography

207.3

305.4

233.4

248.8

262.1

273.6

IT, software and computer services

1.237.3

1,217.7

1,283.1

1,436.6

1,683.1

1,899.3

Publishing

461.0

330.6

372.3

286.7

335.8

324.8

Museums, galleries and libraries

132.0

158.1

176.4

256.5

200.0

79.5

Music, performing and visual arts

281.6

361.3

251.9

274.1

176.6

256.1

Creative Industries

2,734.7

2,876.5

2,843.8

3,059.6

3,172.2

3,396.9

​Notes

1. Data are in current prices (i.e. have not been adjusted for inflation).

​Gross value added (GVA) expressed in current prices, for Creative Industries sub-sectors in Northern Ireland

Unit: £m

Years: 2010 - 2015

Coverage: UK​​

Sub-sector

2010

2011

2012

2013

2014

2015

Advertising and marketing

36.3

51.3

62.0

65.9

52.0

90.2

Architecture

67.0

95.6

67.3

74.2

73.5

62.4

Crafts

1.1

3.4

2.0

2.4

5.4

3.8

Design and designer fashion

38.0

27.1

38.0

38.3

22.3

22.7

Film, TV, video, radio and photography

53.4

32.0

40.5

74.8

93.2

85.5

IT, software and computer services

521.0

469.8

507.6

478.0

554.3

549.5

Publishing

157.6

121.8

106.0

85.3

93.8

77.8

Museums, galleries and libraries

12.9

20.2

24.1

17.4

13.8

14.9

Music, performing and visual arts

68.1

64.0

93.6

119.9

75.9

63.3

Creative Industries

955.4

885.3

941.0

956.2

984.1

970.0

​Notes

1. Data are in current prices (i.e. have not been adjusted for inflation).


Written Question
Arts: Employment
Monday 18th December 2017

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, how many people were employed who were of the nationality of each non-UK member state in each of the nine sub-sectors of the creative industries in each year since 2010.

Answered by Matt Hancock

DCMS have not published data for the number of people employed in the Creative Industries by each of the non-UK member states individually. However, the total number of people employed from the EU, excluding the UK, are available for 2012 to 2016 by Creative Industries sub-sectors, and are published at https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/632833/DCMS_Sectors_Economic_Estimates_Employment_Creative_Industries_Subsectors.xlsx, and in the table below.

Employment in Creative Industries sub-sectors

​ from​

EU countries​ (excluding UK)

Unit: Thousands

Years: 2012-2016

Coverage: UK

Sub-sector

2012

2013

2014

2015

2016

Advertising and marketing

12

7

7

8

11

Architecture

-

-

9

7

9

Crafts

-

-

-

-

-

Design and designer fashion

7

10

12

9

11

Film, TV, video, radio and photography

13

10

11

15

16

IT, software and computer services

27

30

34

37

52

Publishing

14

13

18

19

19

Museums, galleries and libraries

-

-

-

-

-

Music, performing and visual arts

9

7

11

14

12

Creative Industries

89

86

105

115

131

Notes

1. Estimates rounded to the nearest 1,000.

2. - denotes data have been supressed to avoid disclosure.


Written Question
Arts: Employment
Monday 18th December 2017

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, how many people were employed in each of the nine sub-sectors of the creative industries in each year since 2010.

Answered by Matt Hancock

The number of people employed in each of the sub-sectors in the Creative Industries from 2011 to 2016 are published at https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/632833/DCMS_Sectors_Economic_Estimates_Employment_Creative_Industries_Subsectors.xlsx, and are available in the table below. Data are not published by DCMS for 2010.

Employment in Creative Industries sub-sectors

Unit: Thousands

Years: 2011 - 2016

Coverage: UK

Sub-sector

2011

2012

2013

2014

2015

2016

Advertising and marketing

148

144

155

167

182

198

Architecture

94

89

94

101

90

98

Crafts

9

7

8

8

7

7

Design and designer fashion

102

117

124

136

132

160

Film, TV, video, radio and photography

211

240

232

228

231

246

IT, software and computer services

483

558

574

607

640

674

Publishing

211

223

198

193

200

193

Museums, galleries and libraries

91

86

85

84

97

92

Music, performing and visual arts

213

227

244

284

286

291

Creative Industries

1,562

1,691

1,713

1,808

1,866

1,958

1. Estimates rounded to the nearest 1,000..


Written Question
Arts: National Income
Monday 18th December 2017

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 the GVA of each of the 9 sub-sectors of the creative industries was in each year since 2010.

Answered by Matt Hancock

The Gross Value Added (GVA) for each of the sub-sectors in the Creative Industries from 2010 to 2016 are published at https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/662966/GVA_subsector_tables.xlsx, and are available in the table below.

Gross value added (GVA) expressed in current prices, for Creative Industries sub-sectors

Unit: £m

Years: 2010 - 2016

Coverage: UK

Sub-sector

2010

2011

2012

2013

2014

2015

2016 (p)

Advertising and marketing

6,216

6,753

7,799

9,256

10,758

11,758

12,312

Architecture

2,297

2,857

3,040

3,007

3,527

4,025

4,203

Crafts

292

308

284

216

396

368

421

Design and designer fashion

1,968

2,293

2,534

2,705

2,634

3,185

3,537

Film, TV, video, radio and photography

12,793

13,261

13,685

13,763

14,606

14,406

15,361

IT, software and computer services

22,714

24,839

25,596

27,327

29,395

31,154

34,704

Publishing

10,364

9,979

10,318

10,379

10,442

10,791

11,622

Museums, galleries and libraries

1,323

1,225

1,238

1,256

1,227

1,342

1,430

Music, performing and visual arts

5,457

5,733

6,228

6,959

6,969

8,280

8,237

Creative Industries

63,425

67,248

70,723

74,868

79,953

85,308

91,828

Notes

1. Data are in current prices (i.e. have not been adjusted for inflation).

2. 2016 GVA is based on the output measure of GVA and are provisional until balancing of the Supply Use tables in 2018.

3. (p) = provisional