US Tariff on UK Films

Baroness Griffin of Princethorpe Excerpts

Thursday 8th May 2025 Lords Chamber

[Baroness Blake of Leeds (Lab)]

I am sorry to disappoint the noble Viscount, but we have to wait until the announcement is made and then we can look at the detail and discuss it further.

[Baroness Griffin of Princethorpe (Lab)]

My Lords, my noble friend the Minister will be aware that the first film office was established in Liverpool in the mid-1990s with European funding. The recent BBC drama “This City Is Ours” provided a £9 million boost to the local Merseyside city region economy, the most recent of very many over 30 years. Screen Alliance North has launched an industry-wide group to improve sustainability in productions right across the north. Film and production apprenticeships have created pathways—I am coming to my question—to high-GDP sustainable jobs in a growth industry to hundreds of local people from traditionally deprived communities. Can my noble friend reassure me that the Government will take proactive steps to retain and indeed grow this vital economic, social and cultural driver for working people across the north? It is a vital component in the development of our region—

[Noble Lords]

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