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Department: Attorney General

Oral Answers to Questions

Kelly Tolhurst Excerpts
Thursday 29th June 2017

(7 years, 5 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Matt Hancock Portrait Matt Hancock
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European funding has been part of the success of the film industry. The Treasury has already made it clear that that European funding will continue up to 2020, but that is only one part of this. The tax credits mentioned by my hon. Friend the Member for Folkestone and Hythe (Damian Collins), the Chairman of the Select Committee in the last Parliament, have played an incredibly important part. However, I would agree with the hon. Lady that, just like Scotland, Yorkshire is benefiting enormously from our booming film industry.

Kelly Tolhurst Portrait Kelly Tolhurst (Rochester and Strood) (Con)
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The growth of Dovetail Games in my constituency is a prime example of the UK’s flourishing creative industries. Could the Minister outline the support he plans to give to help creative hubs continue to develop over the exciting years ahead?

Matt Hancock Portrait Matt Hancock
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Video games are one of the most exciting areas of growth in the creative industries, doing an incredible thing for UK exports right across the country—in the south-east and all the way up to Scotland—and we will continue to back them.