AROUND 50,000 new jobs are set to be created over the next three years in the UK's creative industries, according to Darwen and Rossendale MP Janet Anderson.
The jobs boom will not be confined to London, she added. Northern cities will also benefit as the industry, which includes advertising, design, performing arts, TV, film and computer games, expands.
The Film and Broadcasting Minister told the London College of Fashion's Millennium Conference: "The creativity of the British is one of our greatest strengths.
"The creative industries are growing at a rate of five per cent a year, twice the national average, and I am very pleased to see that this growth is not simply focused on the capital.
"The drive and imagination that are behind these new industries is bursting out all over the country.
"These industries are a vibrant, exciting, productive part of the economy, they make a difference.
"They also have significant growth potential. We can realistically expect to see the creation of nearly 50,000 new jobs in the UK within these industries over the next three years.
"A majority of these will be skilled jobs, widening our skills base and equipping us as a nation to take the lead in the development and use of new, creative technologies."
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