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Computer Games Industry

I thank my hon. Friend for his intervention. I can quote from the evidence taken by the Select Committee on Scottish Affairs, which conducted an inquiry into this subject. It was said in that Committee that on 29 March—just five weeks before the general election—the then shadow Minister said that the Conservatives were"““going to support tax breaks for the video games industry…We are fully behind game tax breaks. This is my unequivocal statement. It's been approved by George Osborne.””" However, in the very first Budget, in June 2010, they scrapped that. I have never heard a reasonable explanation of why that happened. Perhaps this afternoon we will hear one.