Film

(asked on 20th June 2014) - View Source

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what estimate he has made of the level of investment in British-produced films in each year since 2010 with budgets of (a) under and (b) over £500,000.


Answered by
Lord Vaizey of Didcot Portrait
Lord Vaizey of Didcot
This question was answered on 25th June 2014

The level of investment in British-produced films in each year since 2010 is shown in the table. The total UK spend is used as the nearest indicator of total investment.

a) Films with a budget of less than £500,000 (£ million)

2010

2011

2012

2013

Total

Co-productions

1.1

1.3

1.6

0.6

4.7

Domestic

24.6

17.1

17.9

13.6

73.2

Inward investment

0.5

0.2

3.1

0.2

4.0

Total

26.2

18.6

22.7

14.3

81.8

b) Films with a budget of £500,000 or more (£ million)

2010

2011

2012

2013

Total

Co-productions

75.1

54.0

72.9

53.6

255.6

Domestic

176.6

182.4

229.2

138.9

727.1

Inward investment

1010.7

1070.1

620.3

868.1

3569.2

Total

1262.4

1306.5

922.4

1060.6

4552.0

Source: BFI

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