Harriet Harman – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Culture Media and Sport

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Harriet Harman on 2015-02-11.

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps he is taking to promote UK creative industries in Europe.

Mr Edward Vaizey

The UK creative industries are a global success story, and the Government is working hard to ensure their continuing success at home, within Europe, and across the world. The introduction of new creative sector tax reliefs has provided a massive boost to the sector, and the promotion of UK service exports to Europe and other territories was worth £17.2bn in 2012, an 11.2% increase on the previous year.

Over the next year, Government will provide support to UK creative companies to promote and showcase their products and services at 21 exhibitions and events across Europe, including the UK programme at Milan Expo and GREAT campaign activity in France. In addition, creative businesses received over E200m of funding through the European Commission’s Media and Culture Programmes, and will also benefit from the new Creative Europe Programme launched last year.