Source · Select Committees · Culture, Media and Sport Committee
Recommendation 68
68
Deferred
Create a National Screen Heritage Strategy with BFI covering funding, skills and infrastructure.
Recommendation
Within the next 12 months, the Government should work with the BFI and wider screen heritage sector to create a National Screen Heritage Strategy, including in the areas of funding, skills and infrastructure. The strategy should be reviewed and renewed periodically, to maintain focus on the needs and resilience of screen archives, rather than being allowed to expire and once again leave screen archives at risk. (Recommendation, Paragraph 241) 110
Government response summary AI-generated
The government deferred the recommendation, stating it will consider it with the BFI but cannot commit to undertaking the project without a resource assessment, also suggesting the BFI is better placed to lead.
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Government Response
Deferred
HM Government · verbatim extract
Deferred
The BFI would be best placed to work with the screen heritage sector on the creation of any new National Screen Heritage Strategy. The government will consider this recommendation with the BFI, but is not able to commit to undertaking the project at this stage without an assessment of the resource that would be required. 1 Inward investment in HETV was £2.8bn, a 36% increase since 2023, and inward investment in film was £1.85bn, a 78% increase since 2023. British Film Institute (2025) Official BFI statistics 2 https://www.screenskills.com/media/pfcoubcw/ampere_sizing-workforce_final-report_2025.pdf 3 Lights, camera, cash: UK TV and film is booming but is everyone in on the action? | The National 4 https://www.screenskills.com/media/pfcoubcw/ampere_sizing-workforce_final-report_2025.pdf 5 https://www.screenskills.com/media/pfcoubcw/ampere_sizing-workforce_final-report_2025.pdf 6 https://filmtvcharity.org.uk/stories-events/news/2024-looking-glass-report/ 7 Olsberg SPI The Global Incentives Index—Olsberg SPI 8 https://entertainmentstrategyguy.com/2023/04/05/the-data-is-in-theatrical-films-massively-outperform-straight-to-streaming-films/#:~:text=Theatrical%20films%20tend%20to%20have,released%20only%20in%20one%20window 9 https://filmdistributorsassociation.com/wp-content/uploads/FDA-Yearbook-2025-WEBSITE-11-APRIL.pdf 10 https://www.bfi.org.uk/industry-data-insights/weekend-box-office-figures 11 UKGSF independent evaluation (2024) found every £1 of UKGSF funding generates £22 of net benefit. 12 As well as Banijay, Buckinghamshire Council, Channel 4, ITV, John Gore Studios, Mark Baker, and Sony Pictures Television 13 Pact (2024), Celebrating 20 Years of the Terms of Trade Report 14 https://www.o-spi.com/projects/blog-global-incentives-index 15 UK Global Screen Fund (UKGSF) independent evaluation (2024) 16 https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/nov/16/barbie-contributed-over-80m-to-the-uk-economy-says-warner-bros 17 According to Netflix analysis https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/netflix-bridgerton-season-3-uk-economy-b2562489.html 18 https://www.screenskills.com/media/pfcoubcw/ampere_sizing-workforce_final-report_2025.pdf 19 https://www.bfi.org.uk/industry-data-insights/reports/sustainable-future-skills-report-screen-sectors-skills-task-force 20 https://www.bfi.org.uk/news/bfi-invests-ps15-million-address-practices-negatively-impacting-industrys-workforce 21 https://www.bfi.org.uk/news/new-study-economic-value-cinemas
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