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On 7th September 2010, Barry Sheerman asked the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport: "What recent estimate he has made of the number of people employed in the creative industries?"

The Minister,  responded Rt. Hon. Edward Vaizey MP (Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Culture, Communications and Creative Industries), Business, Innovation and Skills; Wantage, Conservative) responded:

"The last DCMS Creative Industries Economics Estimates bulletin, published in February 2010, reported that in the summer quarter of 2008, creative employment totalled just under 2 million jobs. This comprised over 1.1 million jobs in the creative industries and over 800,000 further creative jobs within businesses outside these industries".

A further breakdown of these statistics is published at:

http://www.culture.gov.uk/what_we_do/research_and_statistics/4848.aspx