HC Deb 01 May 2002 vol 384 c888W
Mr. Laws

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether film tax relief has been extended to pornographic films made in the United Kingdom since 1997; and if he will make a statement. [53435]

Dawn Primarolo

Three of the four film tax reliefs are used for films, the master copy, tape or disc of which has been certified by the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport as a British qualifying film. The changes announced in the Budget would restrict the reliefs to British qualifying films made for theatrical exhibition in the commercial cinema. The fourth relief is used for big budget international productions.