We are calling on Pact members to write to your MPs to show your support for current amendments to the Data (Use and Access) Bill, which will ensure creative rightsholders are protected, by giving you meaningful transparency over what works AI firms have used.
We are undertaking a comprehensive review of UK programme financing across all genres in what will become an evidence base for potential solutions to some of the industry’s biggest challenges.
Production companies can now claim IFTC and VFX tax credits, and HMRC has postponed the introduction of its new supplementary page to the CT600 Company Tax Return.
Chief Executive Alex Mahon confirmed the date during a session of the Culture, Media and Sport Committee and also stated that the broadcaster will publish its plans for in-house production in the next quarter.
First-run hours are vital to independent producers and we are concerned that the loss of these hours will have a negative impact on the sector when many companies are already feeling the effects of the ongoing commissioning slowdown and other economic pressures.
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has announced the conclusions of two investigations into the production sector, and is intending to publish further guidance for employers on how to avoid anti-competitive behaviour in labour markets.
We have submitted a comprehensive response to Ofcom's recent consultation on its proposed revised guidance for PSBs on Commissioning Codes of Practice, and would like to thank those members who helped in our response and those who also submitted their own.
Our Head of Nations & Regions, Chris Curley has - as ever - been travelling around the UK meeting with Pact members, local politicians and industry bodies. In his latest report he shares updates from those meetings as well as the wider work Pact is doing on behalf of independent producers across the UK.
Following the release of the 2025 National Living Wage increase for workers aged 21 and over from 1st April, we have amended the Rate Card for Supporting Artists engaged under the terms of the Pact Equity Supporting Artist Agreement.
From Sunday 6th April 2025, productions must abide by the new, increased minimum rates for Artists and Stunts engaged on film productions made under the Pact Equity Cinema Films Agreement.
ScreenSkills High-end TV (HETV) Skills Council has agreed that the two caps applied to HETV Skills Fund contributions by individual productions will increase by the consumer price index (CPI) of 2.6% this year.
Pact, Directors UK, BBC Studios and ITV Studios have published Engagement Guidelines for Ways of Working Between Producers and Directors, a new set of agreed guidelines laying out how production companies work with directors across all genres of production.
The intention of this new service is to give members practical advice as issues arise, as well as coaching and guidance to help proactively address workplace challenges.
Key regional ‘screen sector clusters’ over a seven-year period have delivered highly significant levels of economic growth and created thousands of skilled jobs in film and TV - in another sign of the continued success of Britain’s booming film and television sectors.
A coalition of leading UK audiovisual businesses and organisations - including Pact - has called on the Government to provide assurances that the UK’s creative IP – and the businesses that own that IP - will continue to be supported by the copyright framework, as fast-growing AI technology gathers pace globally.
