Question follow-through · 8579
Film: Staff
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will make an estimate of the number of people employed in the UK's visual effects sector.
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- Answering body
- Department for Culture, Media and Sport
- Tabled
- 10 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 14 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 18 Oct 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will make an estimate of the number of people employed in the UK's visual effects sector.
14 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
18 Oct 2024
Answer published
The UK is a global hub of talent and is home to many of the world’s biggest VFX studios. The UK’s visual effects (VFX) sector is highly competitive, competing successfully with production centres in the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, India, South Ea...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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