The chancellor says the government is ready to support creative industries, after announcing film studios in England are to receive business rates relief for the next nine years. On a visit to the Warner Bros Studio in Leavesden, Rachel Reeves adds "that's something that this government wants to get behind to back growth and back British workers". Report by Brooksl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00The creative industries in the UK employs 2.4 million people.
00:05It's part of our industrial strategy, the creative industries,
00:09it's something that the UK is really good at.
00:12And being here today at the Warner Brothers studio at Leavesden
00:15and seeing what that business rates relief has enabled them to do
00:19in increasing by 50% the number of stages to produce films here in the UK,
00:25creating good jobs, paying decent wages,
00:28that's something that this government wants to get behind
00:31to back growth and back British workers.