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The UK has a rich cultural heritage that has helped to shape our national identity. Our thriving creative industries define how we are perceived overseas and make a vital contribution to our economy.

Britain is a world leader in music, fashion, video games, architecture, design, the performing arts and much else besides. Our creativity is a source of pride and a driver of inward investment and tourism as well as an expression of who we are as a nation. Culture is part of local identity too, and can be used to regenerate and revitalise communities and cities.

Under the Tories, arts and culture have been among the first targets of cuts; under Labour, they will get the investment they deserve. Our £1 billion Cultural Capital Fund will provide a unique opportunity to upgrade and regenerate existing arts infrastructure and to build new facilities for all of us to be proud of.

Labour will place our creative industries at the heart of our industrial strategy and our negotiations as we prepare to leave the European Union. We recognise they give the UK a cultural clout that can open doors to markets that might otherwise remain closed.

We will put access and inclusion at the heart of all our policy agenda, ensuring the arts are accessible to all and that everyone who wants to pursue a career in the creative industries has the opportunity to do so.

Jeremy Corbyn Tom Watson Leader of the Labour Party Deputy Leader of the Labour Party

4 FOR THE MANY NOT THE FEW A CREATIVE FUTURE FOR ALL 5 • Labour will introduce a £1 billion 1) BUILDING Cultural Capital Fund (the fund) to upgrade our existing cultural BRITAIN’S and creative infrastructure to be ready for the digital age and invest CULTURAL in creative clusters across the country, based on a similar model CAPITAL to enterprise zones. The fund will be available over a five-year period Britain has some of the greatest and will be among the biggest cultural institutions in the world, a arts infrastructure funds ever, source of national pride and a vital transforming the country’s engine for investment, jobs and cultural landscape. tourism. But too many have been hit hard by Tory cuts, and some • We will maintain free museums and parts of the country have never invest in our museums and heritage had the facilities their rich cultural sector to ensure it can thrive and history and tradition deserves. become more resilient. Funding cuts from the Tory government to the Public investment in arts and culture Arts Council and local authorities enriches public life and generates a have created a very tough financial return for the public purse. Research climate for museums. Museums and from Arts Council England has shown heritage sites are very important that every pound of public money parts of local communities and we invested in Art Council England’s cannot afford to lose them. Labour National Portfolio Organisations will work to secure the sector going returns £5 in tax contributions to the forward and make investment treasury. available as part of the fund, Labour’s plans for infrastructure with particular focus on projects investment provide an that could increase museums’ unprecedented opportunity to and galleries’ earned income by regenerate our country’s galleries investing in things like shops, café and museums, theatres and concert and private hire facilities. halls, arts centres and studios – and to build new ones where demand exists.

6 FOR THE MANY NOT THE FEW • We will protect our music existing music venues, creating infrastructure and invest for the new and enlarged rehearsal and future. Music venues play a vital recording space and buy new role in supporting grassroots and instruments and other equipment professional music and ensuring for music hubs. a healthy music industry across • We will make creating and making the country. They also nurture the music pay fairly. We recognise the music industry’s talent pipeline. serious concern about the “value Labour will review the business gap” between producers of creative rates system to make it fairer to content and the digital services that organisations like music venues. profit from its use, and will work In the short term we would extend with all sides to review the way the £1,000 pub relief fund that the creators and artists are rewarded Chancellor announced in the spring for their work in the digital age. budget to help small music venues that are suffering from rates rises. Our fund will invest in upgrading

A CREATIVE FUTURE FOR ALL 7 sector specific advice and guidelines 2) CULTURE FOR on pay and employment standards that will make the sector more THE MANY, NOT accessible to all. THE FEW • We will improve diversity on and off screen, working with the film Labour believes in increasing industry and public service and access to culture and the arts so commercial broadcasters to find that people from all backgrounds rapid solutions to improve diversity. have an equal chance to pursue • Almost half of the people working their interests and benefit from in the creative industries are creative and cultural institutions. self-employed. Labour would also From the creative industries extend the rights of employees to being dominated by people from all workers – including extending advantaged socio-economic Shared Parental Pay and Shared backgrounds to a lack of diversity on Parental Leave to self-employed our screens, there is a long way to go couples who are currently excluded to achieve fair access and inclusion. from this right. We’ll also exempt Labour will put access and inclusion self–employed people from costly at the heart of our arts policy. plans to introduce quarterly tax reporting. • Labour will use the fund to build new museums, galleries and other • The Government Art Collection cultural infrastructure in areas is a precious national asset. The where the cultural offering is low collection of over 14,000 pieces is and where there is local demand. spread all over the world, projecting These could include satellites of soft power in British Government major national museums and buildings and solidifying British art’s galleries or new projects with excellent reputation. However, all particular focus on local culture and too often, access to art is restricted. history. While our art is showcased abroad, Tory cuts to local authority budgets • We recognise that a major barrier mean that many local museums to people from working class and galleries are struggling. We will backgrounds entering professions take steps to widen the reach of the like acting is the culture of low and Government Art Collection so that no pay. We will work with trade more people can enjoy it. unions and employers to agree

8 FOR THE MANY NOT THE FEW A CREATIVE FUTURE FOR ALL 9 boost for schools, based on the PE 3) CREATIVITY AT pupil premium model, to invest in projects that will support cultural THE HEART OF activities for schools over the THE CURRICULUM longer-term. • We will put creativity back at the As has said, heart of the curriculum, reviewing “In every one of us there is a the EBacc performance measure poet, a writer, a singer of songs, and make sure arts are not an artist, but today too few of us sidelined from secondary education. have the opportunities to access • We will launch a creative careers and participate in the arts”. Labour advice campaign in schools to will make sure that our young demonstrate the range of careers people have the chance to harness and opportunities available and their creativity, to grow their the skills required in the creative talents and to get as much as industries, from the tech sector to they can from the arts, whether or theatre production. not they pursue careers in the creative sector. • We will use the fund to invest in arts facilities in our state schools • Labour will introduce an arts pupil to match the level found in many premium to every primary school private schools. in England, a £160m per year

10 FOR THE MANY NOT THE FEW 4) THE CREATIVE INDUSTRIES AND BREXIT

Labour understands the serious concerns that the creative industries have about Brexit, from the potential loss of EU funding streams, to the ability of artists to travel and perform, to the impact on intellectual property rights.

• As Britain leaves the EU Labour will put our world-class creative sector at the heart of our negotiations and future industrial strategy.

• We will get the right deal on issues like intellectual property, customs, access to investment, regulation, workforce and data protection to ensure our creative industries aren’t shackled by Brexit.

• Unlike the Tories, we will make sure the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport is represented on the Brexit cabinet committee – so that our creative industries have a voice in government on the crucial decisions that will affect the Brexit negotiations.

A CREATIVE FUTURE FOR ALL 11 9670_17 Printed and promoted by Iain McNicol, General Secretary, the Labour Party, on behalf of the Labour Party, both at Southside, 105 Victoria Street, London, SW1E 6QT. 12 FOR THE MANY NOT THE FEW