FOI Income from Television (29-2024/25)

Request

Under the Freedom of Information Act, for the tax years 2014/15 to
2022/23 inclusive, please would you please fully disclose the following details, breaking the figures by year:
Q1. How much revenue has been received by your organisation for services rendered to film and television productions? This could include location rental, permits and all other services related to film productions using your personnel or resources.
Q2. Please outline the type of work or service rendered, in each case and disclose the revenue received for each type of service.
Q3. How much has your organisation spent on facilitating such arrangements between 2014/15 to 2022/23, inclusive, broken down by year?

Response

Extent and Result of Searches to Locate Information

To locate the information relevant to your request searches were conducted within North Yorkshire Police. I can confirm that the information you have requested is held by North Yorkshire Police.

Decision

I have today decided to disclose the located information to you.

Q1. From 2018/19 financial year to 2023/24 financial year North Yorkshire Police have received £74,500.00 for participating in film or television producstions.

Q2. The type of work / servicers rendered;

• Donation for participation in series two of Women on the Force.
• Filming of Crash Investigators
• Traffic cops
• Traffic cops - disruption fee
• Total

Q3. North Yorkshire Police are unable to provide any information to this question. Due to the way in which this data is held it is not possible to extract information specifically for the costs associated for the facilitation of these events.

I note that your request asks for data from 2014/15 however, our financial data is only held for the required 6 years. All information provided is from the 2018/19 financial year.

Please note that systems used for recording information are not generic, nor are the procedures used locally in capturing the data.  It should be noted therefore that this force’s response to your questions should not be used for comparison purposes with any other responses you may receive.