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Arts: Closures

Asked by Ms Polly BillingtonLabourDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled Answered 14 October 2024UIN 8306

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether her Department has made an estimate of how many creative industry businesses have closed (a) in Thanet District, (b) in Kent and (c) nationally since 2010.

Answered by Chris Bryant

The Office for National Statistics suggests that between 2014 and 2022, the number of creative industry businesses that closed were:

  • 305 in Thanet
  • 6,605 in Kent
  • 245,850 in England.

Between 2010 and 2018 there were 344,105 creative industry business closures across the UK.

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