Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee
11 November 2026
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Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee House of Commons
Follow its sittings00:02 - 00:27
Speaker 3
Order. Welcome to this meeting of the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee. Today, we are holding a follow-up session on our inquiry on British film and high-end TV, which we published in April 2025. And on our first panel today, we have Pete Johnson, who's the Chief Executive of the British Screen Forum. We have Claire Mundell, who is the Managing Director of Synchronicity Films, and we've got Harriet Finney, who is the Deputy Chief Executive Officer of the British Film Institute.
00:27 - 00:58
Speaker 2
You're all very welcome. Thank you so much for joining us today. And thank you for your patience. We had to postpone this meeting from September, so we've been on tenterhooks waiting to speak to you. Before we begin, can I just remind members to declare any interests at the point that you ask your questions?
I'm going to start, if I can, Harriet, with you. How would you describe the current state of the UK film and high-end TV sector? Where are we, and how does it compare to where we were when the Committee first published our report in April '25?
00:58 - 01:32
Speaker 1
Great. Well, thanks, Dame Caroline, and everybody here today. I also just want to say thank you very much for the work of the Committee, and the recommendations that you published back, as you say, in April 2025. A number of the recommendations that you put forward have been taken forward, and that is fantastic. I mean, thank you very much for your support, particularly around the independent film tax relief, which has come in, around support for the Global Screen Fund, which has seen a doubling in terms of the amount that we are now distributing into the sector from the Global Screen Fund.
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