HC Deb 05 March 1990 vol 168 c478W
82. Mr. Maclennan

To ask the Minister for the Arts what estimate he has made of the overseas earnings of the arts in each of the last five years.

Mr. Luce

Although figures for such earnings are not held centrally, the PSI has attempted to quantify the overseas earnings of the arts, broadly defined, at £4 billion in 1984.