Britain's films, music and video games will receive millions of investment pounds, since the government seeks to guarantee the place of the United Kingdom as a creative superpower.
The investment, announced by the Secretary of Culture Lisa Nandy, will see £ 380 million spent on a variety of projects aimed at duplicating private investment in creative industries.
Mrs. Nandy said the investment “would boost regional growth, stimulate private investment and create thousands of higher quality jobs.”
The figure includes £ 25 million for the investigation of avant -garde technologies such as virtual avatars used in Abba Voyage and £ 75 million to support the film industry.
It will also see £ 30 million to support the starting video game companies, an industry that is worth billions of pounds for the United Kingdom, and other £ 30 million for the music industry, including an increase in funds for base places.
Other £ 150 million will be divided among the mayors of Manchester, Liverpool, West Midlands, West Yorkshire, the Northeast and West of England to support creative companies in their regions.
The announcement occurs when the government prepares to publish its industrial strategy next week, announced as a 10 -year and billionaire plan to support certain sectors and ensure growth for the United Kingdom economy.
The creative industries are scheduled to be one of the winners, with a plan for the sector that is expected to be published together with the broader industrial strategy.
Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds said: “The creative industries of the United Kingdom are world leaders and have a great cultural impact worldwide, so we are defending them at home and abroad as a key growth sector in our modern industrial strategy.”
But earlier this month, the government also rejected a planning application for a new important film study near Holyport, in Berkshire, for its impact on the green belt.
The £ 380 million have been well received by the industry, with the union of transmission, entertainment, communications and theater (Bectu) saying that it was a “sample of commitment to the sector”.
But the Bectu chief, Philippa Childs, said that creative workers would also be looking for a “sustained support” of the government as the sector “recovers from a series of external shocks.”
The last years have seen the sector shaken by Covid, the crisis of the cost of living and concerns about the impact of the threat of AI and Donald Trump to impose rates on films made outside the United States.
The conservative secretary of the Shadow Culture, Stuart Andrew, accused the Labors of threatening the “survival” of creative industries.
He said: “From his job on jobs in national insurance to his increase in commercial rates, the Labor are pushing creative companies to the edge, and now we know that Rachel Reeves has a secret plan to increase taxes, which means that things will only worse.
“The work must recognize that its bad economic management is giving a devastating blow to the sector.”
