BBC
Culture Media and Sport
Written answers and statements, 30 October 2006
Don Foster (Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media & Sport, Culture, Media & Sport; Bath, Liberal Democrat)
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what estimate she has made of the contribution of the BBC to (a) the UK balance of payments and (b) the creative economy; and if she will make a statement.
Shaun Woodward (Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Media & Tourism), Department for Culture, Media & Sport; St Helens South, Labour)
The Department has no single estimate of the contribution made by the BBC or other individual broadcasters to the economy. In 2004, however, the TV and radio sector accounted for 0.9 per cent. of the UK's total Gross Value Added and 10 per cent. of the £13 billion total exports of the UK's creative industries.