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A £5.4bn industry that must be allowed to thrive

Election focus: Although every party in the election appears to agree that "culture" is important, it is perhaps the most difficult of areas to quantify in detail, to describe in particular, and to reduce to the easy soundbites of politics.

There have been no fewer than seven ministers overseeing culture since devolution, including two deputies.