Video Games

(asked on 5th September 2017) - View Source

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what estimate she has made of the value of the video games industry to the UK economy in each of the last five years.


Answered by
Matt Hancock Portrait
Matt Hancock
This question was answered on 13th September 2017

DCMS’ annual Economic Estimates show the value of the Computer Games sub-sector for 2013 to 2015 only. Latest figures, published in November 2016, show that the sector contributed over £400 million to the UK economy per year in that period. 2016 data will be published at the end of this year.

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