On 22 July 2020, Jonathan Gullis MP, made the case for Video Games Tax Relief and a Video Games Investment Fund in his contribution to the Summer Adjournment debate in the House of Commons.
His comments can be read below:
Summer Adjournment
House of Commons
22 July 2020
Jonathan Gullis: Silicon Stoke is the next thing on the agenda. VX Fiber and the city council have teamed up, with £9.2 million of Government investment, to install gigabit broadband into the home directly. Staffordshire University is the leading video games development university in the country, and we have some of the best 4G download speeds, so I want a 5G testbed in Stoke-on-Trent. I want the levelling-up agenda to take place by making us the heart of the video games industry—with the likes of Carse & Waterman Productions and Reels in Motion, we can see the full potential. Let us introduce a video games investment fund, encourage more small studios to access and benefit from the video games tax relief, provide rent-free accommodation and promote Silicon Stoke.