A new taskforce, led by Baroness Shriti Vadera and Sir Peter
Bazalgette, to help deliver a plan to grow the creative
industries met for the first time today.
- Taskforce to help deliver new plan to grow the creative
industries
- Group to be led by Baroness Shriti Vadera and Sir Peter
Bazalgette
Leaders of organisations including Creative UK, the British
Fashion Council and the Royal Shakespeare Company, plus
academics, investors and tech entrepreneurs, have joined a new
taskforce to help inform the Government's strategy to unlock
growth in the UK's highly valued creative industries, one of the
eight growth-driving sectors of the Industrial Strategy.
The Creative Industries Taskforce met for the first time today
(Wednesday 18 December) under the leadership of its co-chairs
Baroness Shriti Vadera and Sir Peter Bazalgette.
The taskforce, announced in November,
will work towards the development of an ambitious and targeted
Creative Industries Sector Plan, helping to provide growth as
part of the Government's Plan for Change and deliver on our
decade of national renewal.
The plan will be published in the spring, alongside the
Industrial Strategy, and will set out new policies and government
interventions that will help to deliver a further boost to the
creative industries' potential for spreading growth and
opportunity for all.
The creative industries have been identified as a key
growth-driving sector in the Government's Industrial Strategy,
and will form a central part of the government's mission to grow
the economy.
The taskforce will help to ensure that the Creative Industries
Sector Plan is designed in partnership with business, devolved
governments, regions, experts and other stakeholders.
Creative Industries Minister Sir said:
Our world-leading creative industries, which are worth £125
billion to the economy and employ millions of people, were
identified as a key growth-driving sector in the government's
Industrial Strategy.
The sector will have a critical role to play in helping us
deliver the mission of this government to drive economic growth
into all of our towns and cities.
This taskforce will be central to achieving that goal, by helping
to draw up a bold and ambitious Sector Plan which will enable
further growth and innovation in the creative industries by
unlocking private investment, boosting exports and developing our
highly skilled creative workforce.
Minister for Services, Small Business and Exports said:
By working in partnership with industry, the Creative Industries
Taskforce will play a vital role in helping to identify key
opportunities for growth in the UK's brilliant and innovative
creative sector.
We're listening to businesses and I'm delighted our Industrial
Strategy will back our creative industries by encouraging further
investment into the sector, increasing exports, kickstarting
economic growth and supporting our Plan for Change.
At today's meeting, the taskforce discussed how to work with the
Government to inform the development of the Sector Plan, with a
focus on policy issues identified in the Industrial Strategy Green
Paper, including crowding in investment, access to
opportunity, people and skills, and supporting innovation.
The taskforce will work closely with the wider Creative
Industries Council (CIC), from which several of its members are
drawn.
It was announced last month
that Sir Peter Bazalgette, the incumbent CIC industry co-chair,
will extend his term until summer 2025 before stepping down,
having served in the role since 2021. will then serve as industry
co-chair for 18 months, alongside the Culture and Business
Secretaries.
The members of the Creative Industries Taskforce are:
- Baroness Shriti Vadera (co-chair), chair, Royal Shakespeare
Company, and future CIC co-chair
- Sir Peter Bazalgette (co-chair), current CIC co-chair
- Francesca Hegyi OBE, CEO, Edinburgh International Festival
- Prof Hasan Bakhshi MBE, director, Creative Industries Policy
and Evidence Centre
- Caroline Norbury OBE, CEO, Creative UK
- Stephen Page, executive chair, Faber
- Caroline Rush CBE, CEO, British Fashion Council
- Prof Christopher , CEO, AHRC
- Tom Adeyoola, co-founder, Extend Ventures, and non-executive
board member, Channel 4
- Lynn Barlow, academic and TV producer
-
, Mayor of West Yorkshire
- Philippa Childs, deputy general secretary, Bectu Sector of
Prospect
- Saul Klein OBE, investor and member of the Council of Science
and Tech
- Sir William Sargent, chair and co-founder, Framestore
- Prof Jonathan Haskel CBE, professor of economics, Imperial
Business School
- Syima Aslam MBE, founder and CEO, Bradford Literature
Festival
