The Culture, Media and Sport Committee launches a new inquiry into support for the creative economy, including ‘design’ with submissions to be received no later than Friday 2 November 2012.
The Committee is inviting written submissions and requesting views on issues that include:
· Barriers to growth in the creative industries—such as difficulties in accessing private finance—and the ways in which Government policy should address them. Whether lack of co-ordination between government departments inhibits this sector;
· The extent to which taxation supports the growth of the creative economy, including whether it would be desirable to extend the tax reliefs targeted at certain sectors in the 2012 Budget;
· Ways to establish a strong skills base to support the creative economy, including the role of further and higher education in this;
· The work of the Creative Industries Council and other public bodies responsible for supporting the sector.
The Committee wishes to focus on particular sectors as examples of the creative industries, especially the film, music, television, design and games sectors.
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