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<p>The UK Government has a clear plan to grow the creative industries by a further
£50 billion and add another 1 million jobs by 2030. As set out in the Creative Industries
Sector Vision, we are committed to working with industry and the devolved administrations
to ensure our creative industries continue to be the best in the world. As part of
this, we invited Creative Wales to become a member of the Creative Industries Council
to ensure they are represented in discussions about the UK’s creative industries.</p><p>Culture
and the creative industries are devolved policy areas. The UK Government has provided
opportunities to support Welsh creative businesses through the following programmes:</p><ul><li><p>The
UK-wide Film & TV Restart scheme which supported 1,259 individual film and TV
productions and £3.06 billion in production expenditure through the pandemic. Wales
received £287.5 million – the largest share of funding of any nation after England
(c.9%).</p></li><li><p>The £56 million Creative Clusters programme was announced in
the 2018 Sector Deal: and supported R&D across the Cardiff Clwstwr one of 9 first-wave
of clusters across the UK. The Clusters programme has generated approximately £252
million of private co-investment, creating or safeguarding over 4000 jobs.</p></li></ul>
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