Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government whether any of the Cross-Government Prosperity Fund has been used to develop of the film industry and improve museum infrastructure in China.

In 2016-17, the first year of operation of the cross-government Prosperity Fund, the British Government ran skills and capacity building projects in areas of UK expertise in China, including in the creative and cultural industries. These are areas of large market potential and supported China’s continued transition to a sustainable, inclusive and productive economy. They were part of first year transition project, which involved several relatively small, scoping work activities to identify interventions for multi-year programmes in the following years.

Our programming has moved on to larger, multi-year programme interventions and we are now concentrating in China on Rule of Law for Business, Financial Services, Energy and Low Carbon, Infrastructure, Skills, Healthcare and Future Cities. As a result, the UK no longer supports any funding to the creative or cultural industries in China through the Prosperity Fund.