Brexit's Immigration Impact On Creative Industries

Why are the creative industries so concerned with immigration policies?

In July 2017, the Home Secretary commissioned the Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) to assess the impact on the UK labour market of Brexit and how the UK's immigration system might best align itself within a future-oriented industrial strategy. At the end of last month, they released an interim update on their findings about EEA workers in UK industries. The creative industries in particular are concerned with what post-Brexit immigration will look like, insofar as they rely significantly on high-skilled EEA workers to fill the domestic skills shortage in the industry. The ramifications will undoubtedly be significant to the sector if post-Brexit EEA workers become akin to their current non-EEA counterparts, as costs will increase and the ease and availability of skilled workers within the creative industries will dwindle.