To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what recent steps her Department has taken to improve diversity in employment in the creative industries.
Answered on
3 November 2016
Government is committed to improving diversity in employment in the creative industries, and we are working with a range of organisations and arm’s length bodies to achieve this. The Minister for Culture held the first of a series of diversity roundtables in September and we are supporting industry initiatives including the Creative Industries Council’s (CIC) new strategy sets targets for businesses to promote diversity in the sector; the British Film Institute’s (BFI) introduction of diversity standards to improve the representation of diverse groups in film production; and the launch of Project Diamond to monitor diversity of employment in the broadcasting sector.