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Lords Chamber
Media Bill
Committee stage part one - Wed 08 May 2024
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Baroness Bull (XB - Life peer) industries, supporting—and being supported by—a thriving creative sector. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Fraser of Craigmaddie (Con - Life peer) industries in all their diversity. - Speech Link
3: Lord Bassam of Brighton (Lab - Life peer) We also support Amendment 33 on diversity. - Speech Link
4: None That includes, for example, ITV’s diversity acceleration plan and its diversity commissioning fund, which - Speech Link
5: Baroness Fraser of Craigmaddie (Con - Life peer) My Lords, I declare my interest as a director of Creative Scotland. - Speech Link

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Deposited Papers

Sep. 09 2010

Source Page: Table showing Department for Communities and Local Government spending on public opinion research and public relations contracts from 2005 to 2010. 4 p.
Document: DEP2010-1695.xls (Excel)

Found: research0.02006-07 Total0.02007-08280270.0Fire safety research51200.0280970.0Smoke alarm maintenance creative

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Commons Chamber
BBC Mid-term Charter Review - Thu 09 May 2024
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Damian Green (Con - Ashford) We know that the creative economy is one of our strongest economic sectors, and we know that the BBC - Speech Link
2: Damian Collins (Con - Folkestone and Hythe) We would weaken our creative sector and our television market in the UK by doing that. - Speech Link
3: Thangam Debbonaire (Lab - Bristol West) It is not just about the natural history unit itself, but the clustering of creative industries that - Speech Link

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Written Question

Film and Television: Government Assistance

Wednesday 15th May 2024

Asked by: Thangam Debbonaire (Labour - Bristol West)

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps she is taking to support lower budget film and TV programmes.

Answered by Julia Lopez - Minister of State (Department for Science, Innovation and Technology)

The UK Government has a clear plan to grow the creative industries by a further £50 billion and support another 1 million jobs by 2030. This was set out in June 2023 in the Creative Industries Sector Vision, which was accompanied by £77 million of new funding to support the sector’s growth.

We are taking steps to support producers of all sizes and the production sector more generally. This includes generous tax reliefs across studio space and visual effects, investing in studio infrastructure, and supporting innovation and promoting independent content through the UK Global Screen Fund.

At Spring Budget 2024, the Chancellor also announced the UK Independent Film Tax Credit. Eligible films with production budgets (excluding marketing and distribution) of up to £15 million will be able to opt-in to claim enhanced Audio-Visual Expenditure Credit at a rate of 53% on their qualifying expenditure.

This is in addition to our long standing interventions supporting the independent television production sector, including the independent productions quota and associated Terms of Trade regime, which have been extremely successful in furthering the diversity of the sector and its output.

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Lords Chamber
Media Bill
Committee stage - Mon 20 May 2024
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: None They have been key to the development of creative industries and creative clusters in regions outside - Speech Link
2: Lord Dunlop (Con - Life peer) We often question whether our news media organisations sufficiently reflect the full diversity of the - Speech Link
3: Baroness Featherstone (LD - Life peer) It could also be a threat to media diversity and cause a loss of trust and accountability. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Bonham-Carter of Yarnbury (LD - Life peer) It played a pivotal role in driving the growth, competitiveness and creative diversity of UK indies. - Speech Link
5: Baroness Featherstone (LD - Life peer) It would risk creative stagnation. - Speech Link

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