Arts: India
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department is taking to support creative exports through the UK–India Cultural Cooperation Agreement.
Answered by Chris Bryant
The Programme of Cultural Cooperation, which the Secretary of State signed with her Indian counterpart, Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, Minister of Culture last month, creates opportunities for the UK’s cultural sectors to reach a market of over 1.4 billion people. The agreement enables institutional level partnerships and reduces bureaucratic barriers, and will boost cultural exchange. In the context of India’s ambitious push to develop world-class institutions and facilities, this will create new opportunities for cultural exports.
Together with the DCMS Creative Industries Sector Plan and our new Free Trade Agreement, the Cooperation Agreement will cement the UK’s position as a global creative powerhouse. It will grow the potential for UK Creative Industries to export and create jobs across the UK.
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