Source · Select Committees · Culture, Media and Sport Committee
Recommendation 32
32
Rejected
Introduce statutory requirement for film and HETV industry to report annual training spending.
Recommendation
We recommend that the Government introduces a statutory requirement for the entire film and HETV production industry to report their spending on skills and training as a percentage of their production budgets every financial year. (Recommendation, Paragraph 114) 104
Government Response Summary
The government rejects the recommendation to introduce a statutory requirement for the industry to report skills spending, arguing that such an intervention is not proportionate and would increase regulatory burden.
Government Response
Rejected
HM Government
Rejected
The government agrees with the Committee that having data on industry investment in skills and training is vital in order to understand the landscape, and to develop a coherent skills strategy that reduces the risk of fragmentation and delivers more value for money. Our view is that this should be an industry-led effort, continuing the industry-led work of the Screen Sector Skills Task Force, and we expect ScreenSkills to provide leadership and improve transparency in skills investment in the UK. We do not agree that a statutory intervention across the entire industry is proportionate, noting that such action would increase the regulatory burden on businesses - the majority of which are small businesses.