Oral Answers to Questions

Mary Macleod Excerpts

Thursday 22nd March 2012 Commons Chamber

[Alun Cairns (Vale of Glamorgan) (Con)]

6. What support his Department is providing to the creative industries.

[Mary Macleod (Brentford and Isleworth) (Con)]

8. What support his Department is providing to the creative industries.

[James Morris (Halesowen and Rowley Regis) (Con)]

9. What support his Department is providing to the creative industries.

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[Mr Vaizey]

I never lose an opportunity to praise the advertising industry in the UK, which is one of the most successful, or its regulatory system under the Advertising Standards Authority.

[Mary Macleod]

I welcome yesterday’s announcement from the Chancellor about games tax relief. Does my hon. Friend agree that it will benefit companies such as Sega in my constituency, establish the UK as a world-leading games maker, and stop the brain drain of talented games developers to overseas?

[Mr Vaizey]

I never lose an opportunity, when I drive over the flyover, to look at the huge headquarters of Sega in my hon. Friend’s constituency. Not only will that proposal stop the brain drain; it will create a brain import scheme.