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.
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