The Other Creative industries

The wider creative industries, including the cultural sector with other business areas like architecture and advertising, are now worth over £100bn – 5.5% of total UK GVA. These creative industries’ contribution to the UK Economy is three times bigger than the sole contribution of the cultural sector. However, the Government figures analysis demonstrated that 2017 was the first year that growth in the cultural sector leaves behind the wider creative industries since 2010 which is the first comparable information data of 2010.

The Government gave more importance to emphasize the value of creative industries in the UK’s reputation and economic stability. 

The UK Government has been aware of the value of the creative industries and its influence over both the UK’s reputation and its economic stability. Even though, it has been criticised for failing to identify whether the fundamental role of the arts in this growth or not both in the publication states that in the industrial strategy and in details of the £150m Creative Industries Sector Deal also.This has urged the development of creative clusters and a new creative career program, but the threats to arts from an existing business policy have been criticized for ignoring digital work. Overall, the DCMS-controlled economic sectors increased by 3.4% in 2017 to £ 268 billion, accounting for 14.6% of the UK’s GVA.