Film and Television: Coronavirus
Lords · Question HL8254 · Tabled 9 Jun 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport · Official record
Answered 23 Jun 2025
Question
Asked by Lord Goodman of Wycombe
To ask His Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of the fraud and error of the Film and TV Production Restart Scheme; what processes are in place to identify, quantify and mitigate fraud and error in that scheme; and how much has been recovere
Answer
Answered by Baroness Twycross, 23 Jun 2025
External auditors were appointed to review the level of fraud and error in the Film and TV Production Restart Scheme, which ran between October 2020 and April 2022 under the previous Government. This was an indemnity scheme with robust checks at applicati...