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Ian Watkins's avatar

What's a few noughts between friends?

Particularly if it has no effect on your promotion prospects and the size of your pension....

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Z Giles's avatar

From what I can gather, most public facing ‘budgets’ in the UK are done on a worst case scenario basis, whereby official numbers represent the maximum possible spend if absolutely everything goes t*ts up, rather than any actual real spending. From the perspective of this, this means the numbers you are looking at are likely in the realm of “we would hypothetically be willing to give £3tn worth of tax relief to filming in the UK before we finally throw in the towel”, not that anywhere near this has actually been spent (this is also why the press comes up with such insane numbers for projects like HS2 - it was expensive, but not *that* expensive).

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