[ARCHIVED CONTENT] creative industries

This snapshot taken on 15/07/2006, shows web content selected for preservation by The National Archives. External links, forms and search boxes may not work in archived websites.

Find out more about web archiving at The National Archives

See all dates available for this archived website

Our role is to assist the creative industries by raising their profile and helping them achieve their full economic potential.

We define the creative industries as those industries which have their origin in individual creativity, skill and talent and which have a potential for wealth and job creation through the generation and exploitation of intellectual property. This includes advertising, architecture, the art and antiques market, crafts, design, designer fashion, film and video, interactive leisure software, music, the performing arts, publishing, software and computer games, television and radio.

Although the Department of Trade and Industry has specific responsibility for some of these industries, we sponsor the film and music industries and coordinate policy in Whitehall.

Secretary of State for Culture, Media & Sport, Tessa Jowell addresses a Social Market Foundation Seminar on 'Rights and Rewards: Enhancing the UK's Creative Economy'. [26 June 2006]

A deal that will enable the UK and South African film industries to work together to create top class cinema is signed by Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell and South African Culture Minister Pallo Jordan. [24 May 2006]

New Creative Industries and Tourism Minister Shaun Woodward today pledged to harness his first hand experience working in broadcasting to understand and promote Britain's outstanding creative industries. [08 May 2006]

Tessa Jowell calls on ticket agencies and sports, music and theatre bodies to squeeze ticket touts out of business and stop genuine fans being frozen out of the market. [26 April 2006]

DCMS publishes the application form and guidance notes for the revised Schedule 1 which introduces a new Cultural Test for British Films. [12 April 2006]

The department has published the final report on research into SME Music Businesses: Business Growth and Access to Finance. [5 April 2005]

Estimated total revenue from the sale of UK TV programmes internationally was �632 million in 2005, an increase of 21% on 2004.

UK films took 34% of the UK box office in 2005, compared to 23% in 2004.

UK households spend, on average, �59 each week on recreation and culture � more than on any other commodities and services except Transport (�60 per week).

The UK saw 165 million cinema admissions in 2005, averaging almost three visits by every person in the country.

Cinema admissions have increased by 43% in 10 years.

37% of UK households had a broadband connection by October 2005, a rise from 8% in April 2003.

In June 2002, creative employment totalled 1.9 million jobs.

In 2002, there were around 122,000 companies in the Creative Industry sectors on the Inter-Departmental Business Register (IDBR).

For further information, please see the research section of our website.

in this section

creative industries

news

facts & figures