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PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Tax Allowances: Film (22 June 2017)

Question Asked

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people received film tax relief in (a) 2014-15, (b) 2015-16 and (c) 2016-17.

Asked by:
Peter Dowd (Labour)

Answer

Reliefs to support the film production sector are not granted to individual investors, but to film production companies. Film production companies can claim the relief only for the production of individual films.

HM Revenue and Customs publishes official statistics on the number of films claiming and receiving the Film Tax Relief on an annual basis. The statistics are available at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/creative-industries-statistics-july-2016

The most recent update was published in July 2016 and includes figures up to 2015-16. The number of films which claimed the Film Tax Relief was 255 in 2014-15 and 210 (a provisional number subject to revision) in 2015-16.

Figures for 2016-17 will be published in due course.


Answered by:
Mel Stride (Conservative)
27 June 2017

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