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18.3
600
581
563
Employment and its growth,
2011-17: events-related sectors
(thousands) and for the UK as a
whole (millions)
492
500
Key
Music, performing arts and visual arts
400
Sport
32.5
286
300
200
2010-17 rise, per cent
283
213
The whole of the UK
2011
100
30,129m
2015 32,037m
2017 32,921m
2011-17 rise: 9.3 per cent
0
2011
Chart 13
Source: DCMS, Tables
20-30: Employment
by Creative Industries
sub-sector, 2018, and
DCMS, DCMS Sectors
Economic Estimates 2017:
Employment, 2018
2015
2017
What about jobs in the narrower, still more events-orientated
sub-sectors that we have already met – performing arts, their support,
the operation of sports facilities, the activities of sports clubs and
other sports activities? Chart 14, overleaf, presents DCMS figures on
employment.
Figures for jobs do vary somewhat. For example, UK Music suggests
that in live music alone there are now nearly 29,000 people employed
– and that doesn’t include the 91,000 jobs it says are held by Britain’s
musicians. Also, self-employment is broadly the rule in performing
arts and their support, but not in sport. Either way, however, Chart
14 evokes important trends, which are in line with those in Chart 13.
Between 2011 and 2017, UK jobs grew, though modestly, around
the operation of sports facilities and the activities of sports clubs.
But around performing arts, jobs rose by nearly half, while in the
smaller sector of support for performing arts, they rose by nearly
two thirds. So Britain’s events-based performing arts have been
creating jobs rapidly, directly, and in secondary industries too.
3. EXPORTS
If, in arts and sport, UK GVA and jobs have grown, the growth of these
two sectors’ exports has been more exemplary still. Chart 15, overleaf,
goes back to the broad sectors of music, performing arts and visual
arts, as well as sport. These, as we have said, do much more than just
events. Still, what strikes is how much exports have risen – especially
for music.
People abroad appreciate British music, and British sport. Once
again, much of the exports picture presented in Chart 15 does not
relate to events. Still, music exports are worth a further look.
For the year 2017, UK Music has estimated that exports of live
music – not playing it, but organising it – were just £80m. However,
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Thousands
of jobs