Film

(asked on 24th 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 total value to the economy of the sale of UK film productions to foreign distributors in each year since 2005.


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Lord Vaizey of Didcot Portrait
Lord Vaizey of Didcot
This question was answered on 30th June 2014

The sale of UK film productions to foreign distributors is captured by the ONS International Trade in Services Survey within “royalties” in aggregate film industry estimates. The BFI Statistical Yearbook presents data broken down as royalties shown in the table below. However, royalties also include items beyond the sale of international film distribution rights, and cover all income obtained from the use of UK talent such as rights to use franchises, copyrights, licenses, patents and trademarks.

Film industry exports £m

Year

2005

2006

2007

2008

2009

2010

2011

2012

Royalties

660

582

646

792

935

1,565

1,199

792

Film production services

307

330

403

549

541

541

540

550

Total

967

912

1,049

1,341

1,476

2,106

1,739

1342

Source: ONS ITIS Survey

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