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1695080

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date	11/03/2024
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Video Games: Tax Allowances
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much Video Games Tax Relief was paid out to companies with production values above £15 million in each year between 2020 and 2023.
tabling member constituency	North Swindon
tabling member printed	Justin Tomlinson
uin	17884
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2024 answer text <p>HMRC publishes statistics on the cost of video games tax relief here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/creative-industries-statistics-august-2023" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/creative-industries-statistics-august-2023</a></p><p> </p><p>A breakdown of claims by production budgets is not available. However, within the National Statistics (Video Games – Table 4.2) there is a breakdown by the size of the claim.</p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston grouped question UIN 17885 question first answered 19/03/2024 16:38:20 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
tabling member	4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson

1695081

registered interest
date	11/03/2024
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Video Games: Tax Allowances
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much Video Games Tax Relief was paid out to companies with production values below £15 million in each year between 2020 and 2023.
tabling member constituency	North Swindon
tabling member printed	Justin Tomlinson
uin	17885
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2024 answer text <p>HMRC publishes statistics on the cost of video games tax relief here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/creative-industries-statistics-august-2023" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/creative-industries-statistics-august-2023</a></p><p> </p><p>A breakdown of claims by production budgets is not available. However, within the National Statistics (Video Games – Table 4.2) there is a breakdown by the size of the claim.</p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston grouped question UIN 17884 question first answered 19/03/2024 16:38:20 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
tabling member	4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson

1689164

registered interest
date	16/02/2024
answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	217
answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Video Games: Training
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what grant funding is available to help support training in small and medium-sized enterprises in the video games development sector.
tabling member constituency	North Swindon
tabling member printed	Justin Tomlinson
uin	14059
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2024 answer text <p>This Government is committed to supporting the growth and success of the UK’s video game sector, as part of our ambition to grow the creative industries by a further £50 billion and to support one million more jobs by 2030.</p><p>DCMS provides support for UK video games development through the UK Games Fund (UKGF) which is investing £13.4 million over 2022-2025 to support new intellectual property (IP) and talent development in small and medium-sized UK games studios. This includes the Tranzfuser programme and Dundee Development project which mentor teams of talented and entrepreneurial graduates across the UK to develop their professional and business skills as well as their own IP. The UKGF also provides grants of up to £150k for the development of new games.</p><p>DCMS has also invested £28.4 million in the Create Growth Programme (CGP) to support high-growth creative businesses and SME in twelve English regions outside London to scale up and become investment ready. Nine regions including Greater Manchester, Hull and East Yorkshire, Nottingham and West of England and Cornwall have identified the video games sector as a priority and have developed a suite of measures to support their growth. Interventions include access to relevant workshops and masterclasses, as well as one-to-one mentoring with industry experts.</p><p>More widely, we are taking steps to build a pipeline of talent into our creative industries, which includes supporting those in, and returning to, the video games sector through interventions such as Apprenticeships, the Lifelong Learning Entitlement and the Good Work Review. There will be up to 35 regional skills bootcamps in the creative sector across 16 regions in England this year, subject to successful training provider procurement. A number of upcoming national skills bootcamps in the creative sector will be aimed at the video games sector. SME employers pay only 10% of the total cost of training existing staff during these 16 week bootcamps.</p> answering member constituency Hornchurch and Upminster answering member printed Julia Lopez question first answered 23/02/2024 16:08:05 answering member 4647 label Biography information for Julia Lopez
tabling member	4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson

1684471

registered interest
date	23/01/2024
answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	217
answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	UK Games Fund
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment she has made of potential impact of the UK Games Fund on (a) employment, (b) investment, (c) studio formation and (d) IP development.
tabling member constituency	North Swindon
tabling member printed	Justin Tomlinson
uin	11105
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2024 answer text <p>DCMS is currently evaluating the impact of the updated UK Games Fund, which is providing £13.4million over 2022-2025 to accelerate the growth of the UK games sector. In 2023, an independent evaluator, Alma Economics, was procured to produce a process, impact and economic evaluation of the fund between 2022-2025. This evaluation is due to be completed in Spring 2025 and will assess the impact of the fund across a range of metrics, including employment, investment, business formation and growth, and IP development.</p><p>It will also review the longer-term impact of earlier funding administered from 2015 onwards. A previous evaluation of the UKGF in 2019 found that the UK Games Fund had an estimated return on investment of £5 for every £1 spent.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hornchurch and Upminster answering member printed Julia Lopez question first answered 29/01/2024 17:09:54 answering member 4647 label Biography information for Julia Lopez
tabling member	4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson

1682044

registered interest
date	15/01/2024
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Video Games: Degrees
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many students took undergraduate degrees in Games and Animation in the academic year 2022-23.
tabling member constituency	North Swindon
tabling member printed	Justin Tomlinson
uin	9507
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2024 answer text <p>The Higher Education Statistics Agency, which is now part of JISC, is responsible for collecting and publishing data about UK higher education. The latest statistics refer to the 2021/22 academic year.</p><p>The number of full person equivalents [1] studying at undergraduate level in the subject area ‘Games and Animation’ [2] in 2021/22 was 13,430, including 4,820 first year enrolments. To note, figures have been rounded to the nearest five. An additional 4,075 full person equivalents, including 1,420 first year enrolments, were recorded in the ‘animation’ category’ [3], which falls under ‘Cinematics and photography’ subjects, and includes other forms of animation, not gaming animation specifically.</p><p> </p><p>More information is available via the following link: <a href="https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/students/table-52" target="_blank">https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/students/table-52</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Updates on the timing of statistics for the 2022/23 academic year are available here: <a href="https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/upcoming" target="_blank">https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/upcoming</a>.</p><p> </p><p>[1] Counts are on the basis of full-person-equivalents (FPE). Where a student is studying more than one subject, they are apportioned between the subjects that make up their course.</p><p>[2] Enrolments in Computer games and animation (code 11-01-06 of the Common Aggregation Hierarchy (CAH) tier 3). More information on CAH codes can be found at the following link: <a href="https://www.hesa.ac.uk/support/documentation/hecos/cah" target="_blank">https://www.hesa.ac.uk/support/documentation/hecos/cah</a>.</p><p>[3] Enrolments in Animation (code 100057 of the Higher Education Classification of Subjects (HECoS)). More information on HECoS codes can be found at the following link: <a href="https://www.hesa.ac.uk/support/documentation/hecos" target="_blank">https://www.hesa.ac.uk/support/documentation/hecos</a>.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Harlow answering member printed Robert Halfon question first answered 22/01/2024 16:19:16 answering member 3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon
tabling member	4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson

1682045

registered interest
date	15/01/2024
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme on investment in early-stage British-owned businesses.
tabling member constituency	North Swindon
tabling member printed	Justin Tomlinson
uin	9508
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2024 answer text <p>At Autumn Statement 2023, the Government published the report of an independent evaluation of the Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme (SEIS), conducted in 2022. The evaluation explored the impact of the SEIS in meeting its policy objectives and found evidence that it was appropriately designed to mobilise additional investment in start-ups and early-stage companies from private investors, providing those businesses with valuable funding for business development and innovation that would otherwise be difficult to find from other sources. The full report can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/evaluation-of-venture-capital-schemes" target="_blank">Evaluation of Venture Capital Schemes - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston question first answered 23/01/2024 11:36:51 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
tabling member	4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson

1682046

registered interest
date	15/01/2024
answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	217
answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Video Games: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many games studios have been supported by the UK Games Fund since its inception.
tabling member constituency	North Swindon
tabling member printed	Justin Tomlinson
uin	9509
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2024 answer text <p>The UK Games Fund supports the development of new intellectual property (IP) and graduate talent.</p><p>The UK Games Fund has provided 308 grants supporting the development of new games IP from UK studios. This includes grants for 27 studios that participated in Tranzfuser, and four studios that participated in the residential programme DunDev. It does not include grants from the new £5 million Content Fund which was launched in September 2023.</p> answering member constituency Hornchurch and Upminster answering member printed Julia Lopez question first answered 23/01/2024 08:42:09 answering member 4647 label Biography information for Julia Lopez
tabling member	4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson

1682047

registered interest
date	15/01/2024
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Video Games: Tax Allowances
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many games studios have benefited from Video Games Tax Relief since its introduction.
tabling member constituency	North Swindon
tabling member printed	Justin Tomlinson
uin	9510
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2024 answer text <p>HMRC publishes information on the number of companies that claim Video Games Tax Relief on an annual basis. The latest figures include data up to the 2021-2022 tax year.</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/creative-industries-statistics-august-2023" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/creative-industries-statistics-august-2023</a>.</p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston question first answered 23/01/2024 11:40:22 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
tabling member	4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson

1682048

registered interest
date	15/01/2024
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Video Games: Tax Allowances
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the impact of Video Games Tax Relief on inward investment into the UK video games industry.
tabling member constituency	North Swindon
tabling member printed	Justin Tomlinson
uin	9511
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2024 answer text HMRC commissioned an independent evaluation of Video Games Tax Relief (VGTR) which included an assessment of the impact on inward investment. The findings can be found here:<p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/video-game-tax-relief-evaluation" target="_blank"><em>https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/video-game-tax-relief-evaluation</em></a><em>.</em></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston question first answered 23/01/2024 11:34:41 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
tabling member	4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson

1682049

registered interest
date	15/01/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: Video Games
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the importance of the Shortage Occupation List to the UK video games industry.
tabling member constituency	North Swindon
tabling member printed	Justin Tomlinson
uin	9512
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2024 answer text <p>The Government agrees with the view of the independent and expert Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) that the Shortage Occupation List (SOL) is only of &quot;negligible benefit&quot; to the UK video games industry – namely reduced visa fees. The industry can use the Skilled Worker route, regardless of whether its jobs are on the SOL.</p><p>The main benefit of the SOL is in providing a discount to the general salary threshold for the Skilled Worker route, currently set at £26,200 per year. The going rate for ‘Programmers and software development professionals (Standard Occupational Code: 2136)’ is above the current general threshold of £26,200 at £34,000 per year. Occupations with going rates above the general threshold would not benefit from this discount, as Skilled Workers would need to be paid the higher of the general threshold or the going rate for that occupation.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 22/01/2024 15:42:33 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson