Select Committee · Culture, Media and Sport Committee

British film and high-end television

Status: Closed Opened: 19 Jul 2023 Closed: 30 May 2024

[The new Culture, Media and Sport Committee has agreed to carry on its predecessor Committee's work: https://committees.parliament.uk/work/8551/british-film-and-highend-television-2 /] The Culture, Media and Sport Committee is to examine the current challenges faced by the British film and high-end television industry. The new inquiry will investigate what needs to be done to maintain and enhance the UK …

Oral evidence sessions

6 sessions
Date Witnesses
21 May 2024 Dominique Unsworth MBE · Resource Productions, Dr Jon Wardle · National Film and Television School, Georgia Brown · Screen Sectors Skills Task Force, Laura Mansfield · ScreenSkills, Marcus Ryder · The Film and TV Charity, Myriam Raja, Philippa Childs · Prospect Union, Sara Whybrew · British Film Institute View ↗
8 May 2024 Benjamin King · Netflix, Chris Bird · Amazon, Gidon Freeman · NBCUniversal International Ltd., Mitchell Simmons · Paramount View ↗
23 Apr 2024 Alex Hamilton · Studiocanal UK, Catharine Des Forges · Independent Cinema Office, Clare Binns · Picturehouse Cinemas, Mark Cosgrove · Watershed, Tim Richards · Vue View ↗
19 Mar 2024 Adrian Wootton OBE · British Film Commission, Andrew M Smith OBE DL · Pinewood Group Limited, Jane Tranter · Bad Wolf, Neil Hatton · UK Screen Alliance View ↗
21 Feb 2024 Eva Yates · BBC Film, James Hawes, Ollie Madden · Film4, Rebecca O’Brien · Sixteen Films View ↗
23 Jan 2024 Andy Leyshon · Film Distributors’ Association, Gurinder Chadha OBE, John McVay OBE · Pact, Phil Clapp · UK Cinema Association View ↗

Correspondence

6 letters
DateDirectionTitle
24 May 2024 To cttee Letter from Laura Mansfield, Chief Executive, ScreenSkills, relating to oral ev…
24 May 2024 To cttee Letter from the Chair to Rt Hon Lucy Frazer MP, Secretary of State for Culture,…
24 May 2024 To cttee Letter from Benjamin King, Senior Director of Public Policy, UK and Ireland, Ne…
16 Apr 2024 To cttee Letter from Ollie Madden, Director, Film4, relating to oral evidence follow-up,…
23 Feb 2024 To cttee Letter from the Chair to Rt Hon Jeremy Hunt MP, Chancellor of the Exchequer, re…
14 Nov 2023 To cttee Letter from Dame Caroline Dinenage MP, Chair, to Rt Hon Jeremy Hunt MP, Chancel…