The Government has published its ‘modern industrial strategy’ in a Green Paper, which proposes ‘sector deals’ to address sector-specific challenges and opportunities. The creative industries, which includes the heritage sector, was one of five specific sector deals announced in the consultation. The paper notes that other sectors may agree deals if they can ‘organise themselves behind strong leadership to address shared challenges and opportunities and these could involve addressing regulatory barriers; promoting competition and innovation; and working together to increase exports or commercialise research.
The Heritage Alliance has already been approached for discussion with DCMS about how we take this opportunity both to develop a heritage specific sector deal, and embed heritage priorities in other sector deals. Read the rest of our initial response here.
We will be co-ordinating a Heritage Alliance response to the Green Paper and urge members to feed their views into this process as well as submitting their own responses online before 17 April 2017.
We will be in touch shortly with a set of specific questions. If you have any comments in the meantime please email policy@theheritagealliance.org.uk.