division_name: Opposition Day &#8212; [3rd Allotted Day] &#8212; Arts and Creative Industries
motion: <p class="" pid="a.942.1/1" pwmotiontext="yes">I beg to move,</p>
  
  <p class="" pid="a.942.1/2" pwmotiontext="yes">That this House notes the importance to the UK of the arts and creative industries, with art and culture enriching the lives of individuals, reinforcing a sense of local community, and being vital to the economy, generating more than &#163;36 billion a year and employing 1.5 million people; calls on the Government actively to support the arts by developing a strategy for the arts and creative industries; believes that this should include putting creativity at the heart of education, ensuring that creative industries have access to finance and funding, protecting intellectual property, supporting the arts and creative industries, including museums and galleries, in all nations and regions of the country, not just London, and attracting inward investment and providing support for exports; recognises that it is not only right in principle that the arts should be for everyone but that the arts thrive when they draw on the pool of talent of young people from every part of the country and all walks of life; and believes that a strong Department for Culture, Media and Sport with a Secretary of State standing up for the arts is crucial.</p>
  
  <p class="" pid="a.948.1/1" pwmotiontext="yes">I beg to move an amendment, to leave out from &#8220;House&#8221; to end and add:</p>
  
  <p class="" pid="a.948.1/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;welcomes the Government&#8217;s support for the arts and creative industries; notes the increase in Lottery funding for the arts which will mean that some &#163;3 billion will be provided for the arts from the National Lottery and in Grant in Aid over the lifetime of the present Parliament; notes that there has been further support for the arts from the Government, including the introduction of lifetime giving, catalyst funding and the maintenance of free admission to the UK&#8217;s national museums; welcomes the first ever national music plan for education, and looks forward to the imminent publication of the national cultural plan for education; further notes the Government&#8217;s support for the creative industries, including tax credits for film, television and animation; looks forward to the introduction of a tax credit for video games; notes the establishment of a Creative Industries Council; and welcomes the continued strong lead given by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport in these areas.&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p pid="a.1013.2/1" pwmotiontext="yes">Ayes 219, Noes 298.</p>