Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 3 March 2016 to Question 28851, what assessment he has made of the potential benefit to international sales of British content of the commissioning of content with diverse voices.

The Government remains committed to diversity in the film and television industries. Viewers at home and abroad want to see their culture and diversity represented on television. The Government recognises the important contribution it makes to the overall success of international sales and revenue, which came to more than £2 billion in 2014.