New figures published yesterday – January 13th – reveal that the Creative Industries are now worth £76.9 billlion per year to the UK economy – an all-time high. That figure is too big to get my head around so I’m glad that people good at maths have worked out that it equates to:-
£8.8 million per hour
£146,000 every single minute
That’s still just numbers and I prefer to think in concrete images. I’ve spent a few minutes googling official statistics and discovered that £76.9 billion could pay for:
all government spending for one year on cancer, heart and circulation disease, and mental health (the top three categories)
(source: Nuffield Trust )
AND
all government spending for one year on primary schools – that’s every single primary school in the country
(source: House of Commons Library statistics on education: December 2014)
AND
pay for all the cuts George Osborne says…
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