The Heritage Alliance has responded to DCMS’ consultation on proposed changes to DCMS Statistical Publications
The response suggests ways which the statistics produced by DCMS can better reflect the work of the Heritage Sector.
DCMS recently published the official statistics used to provide an estimate of the contribution of DCMS Sectors to the UK economy, measured by employment and trade.
Heritage is not considered as a separate sector in the statistics. Heritage could be said to be part of various sectors measured in the stats such as Civil Society, Creative Industries, Cultural Sector and Tourism.
Among other things the statistics reveal that, in 2016, 5.4% of jobs in DCMS sectors (excluding Tourism) were filled by EU nationals, compared to 7.0 per cent in the UK economy as a whole.