Figure 2.9 Expenditure on out-of-London productions
Figure 2.9 illustrates the distribution of spend on qualifying first-run commissioned content in 2010 by PSB channels. Just over 60% of qualifying expenditure (61.8%) was devoted to productions made within the M25 area. This figure rose a little (by 1.3 percentage points) from the 60.5% in 2009, but was down from 63.3% in 2006. A further 15% of first-run spending was captured by producers based in the North of England (on a par with 2009) and 12.6% in Southern England (up from 10.5% in 2009).
In Northern Ireland, first-run productions accounted for 0.4% of expenditure, falling from 0.6% of total expenditure in 2009. In Scotland, the figure rose from 3.6% to 4.6%. In Wales, the figure rose from 3.6% of total spending on first-runs to 4.6%.
