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HMRC publishes statistics on the cost of video games tax relief here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/creative-industries-statistics-august-2023<\/a><\/p> <\/p> A breakdown of claims by production budgets is not available. However, within the National Statistics (Video Games \u2013 Table 4.2) there is a breakdown by the size of the claim.<\/p>"}
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