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  • The UK’s creative industries employ two million people and the sector contributes £60 billion per year – 7.3% – to the UK economy and is growing at twice the rate of the economy as a whole. (Department for Culture, Media and Sport DCMS 2008)
  • In 2007 the sales of video games grew 16% compared with 2006 and sales of interactive software across all formats totalled £1.72 billion, and increase of 26%. (Nesta)
  • Laurence Graff ‘king of diamonds’ took up an apprenticeship in diamonds in Hatton Garden at the age of 13, he regularly features in the top five on the City & Guilds rich list, and in 2008 he is on track to increase his wealth from £1.5 billionto £2 billion.
  • UK households spend, on average, £59 each week on recreation and culture – more than on any other commodities and services except Transport. (DCMS 2008)

 

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Minister encourages people to 'Have a go' at new skills
Friday, August 05, 2011
Our Deputy Minister for Skills, Jeff Cuthbert, saw for himself the wide variety of training opportunities in Wales during a visit to this year’s Eisteddfod in Wrexham. Visitors to the event could have a go at a number of skills...
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