To work alongside the unions of the Performers' Alliance - Equity, the Musicians' Union and the Writers' Guild of Great Britain - to raise issues affecting performers and writers across the arts community and to provide a forum for issues relating to arts and culture policy.
1. Performers' Alliance
30/07/2015 - APPGs
Found: To work alongside the unions of the Performers' Alliance - Equity, the Musicians' Union and the Writers'
2. National Health Service (Performers Lists) (England) (Coronavirus) (Amendment) Regulations 2020
08/04/2020 - Secondary Legislation
Found: Service, EnglandThe National Health Service (Performers Lists) (England) (Coronavirus) (Amendment) Regulations
3. National Health Service (Performers Lists, Coronavirus) (England) Amendment Regulations 2021
13/01/2021 - Secondary Legislation
Found: Service, EnglandThe National Health Service (Performers Lists, Coronavirus) (England) Amendment Regulations
4. Bill 19-EN 2021-22
24/11/2021 - Bill Documents
Found: in relation to the rights of songwriters and performers, in addition to proposals made
by the UK Musicians
5. WIPO Beijing Treaty on audio-visual performances adoption
14/07/2020 - Early Day Motions
Found: extend the economic and moral rights of actors and performers in audio-visual performances including films
1. Grassroots Arts and Culture: Luton
22/09/2020 - Commons Chamber
1: back better. Research by the Cultural Learning Alliance shows that participation in structured arts activities - Speech Link
2: age groups and backgrounds not only among the performers, but in the audience. It was a really inspiring - Speech Link
2. Skills for Theatre (Communications Committee Report)
16/05/2018 - Grand Committee
1: The National Theatre has a target of 25% of performers from black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds - Speech Link
2: talented young people to succeed as artists, performers and writers. It is about equipping all young - Speech Link
3: including the directors, who create the work with the performers, but also the stage managers, who run the shows - Speech Link
3. Leaving the EU: UK Tourism
12/10/2016 - Westminster Hall
1: from the Performers’ Alliance—I declare an interest as a member of the Performers’ Alliance all-party - Speech Link
2: sector and Government.Through the Tourism Alliance we have a long and thorough list of issues affecting - Speech Link
4. Artist Visas
04/09/2019 - Westminster Hall
1: by the festivals. Of course, that is only the performers. Many tens of thousands of international visitors - Speech Link
5. Leaving the EU: Tourism and the Creative Industries
17/04/2018 - Westminster Hall
1: of music, theatre, arts, books, comedy, street performers and now politics, but even it will not be immune - Speech Link
2: representing our musicians, hotels, venues and performers are campaigning hard for protection against the - Speech Link
3: Access to talent must be protected, touring performers must have a single EU-wide work permit, and mutual - Speech Link
asked by: John Nicolson
18/05/2021
... whether his Department has plans to assess whether the Charity Commission appropriately complied with the Public Sector Equality Duty in giving the LGB Alliance charitable status. 2. Alliance Party
asked by: Ruth Jones
25/10/2019
... when he last met the leadership of the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland. 3. Green Alliance
asked by: Madeleine Moon
03/04/2019
... whether he has taken steps to support the Green Alliance’s Community Energy Manifesto; and if he will make a statement. 4. Alliance Party
asked by: Peter Grant
28/01/2019
... on how many occasions she has held meetings with representatives of the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland to discuss the Northern Ireland Backstop in 2019; and when she plans to next hold a meeting with that party on that matter. 5. Relationships Alliance
asked by: Andrew Selous
12/07/2018
... if her Department will take steps to ensure that charities in the Relationships Alliance will be allocated funding from the public purse for existing relationship support contracts until funding allocations have been made under the Reducing Parental Conflict programme.
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11 Current APPG Officers
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Claire Hanna
Chair & Registered Contact
Social Democratic & Labour Party - Belfast South
Joined: 2nd June 2021
Banning Trophy Hunting , Education Technology , Film and Production Industry , Intellectual Property , Internet, Communications and Technology , Music , Spain , Theatre , Ticket Abuse , Timber Industries
Australia and New Zealand , BBC , Commonwealth , Electoral Campaigning Transparency , Environment , Fisheries , Food and Drink , Forestry and Tree Planting , Geographically Protected Foods , Gypsies, Travellers and Roma , Hospitality and Tourism , Japan , Marine Energy , Norfolk Island , Women and Work , Youth Action against Climate Change
Digital Skills , Football Supporters , Media Freedom , Media Literacy , Showing Racism the Red Card , Visual Arts
Africa , Apprenticeships , Boxing , Business Travel , Caribbean , Creative Diversity , Cuba , Domestic Violence and Abuse , Housing in the North , Liverpool City Region , Museums , Northern Powerhouse , Palestine , Race Equality in Education , Thalidomide , Western Sahara , Zimbabwe
Animal Welfare , Creative Diversity , East of England , Independent Education , Publishing , Theatre , Writers
Adult Social Care , Art, Craft and Design in Education , Bullying , Music , Music Education , Performing Arts Education and Training , South West , Timber Industries
Belize , Central America , Climate Change , Dog Advisory Welfare , Electric Aviation , Jordan , Music , National Food Strategy , Nature , Net Zero , Ocean Conservation , Russia , School Food , Small Island Developing States , Snooker , Somaliland , Sustainable Resource , Theatre , Tibet , Ticket Abuse , Vegetarianism and Veganism
Artificial Intelligence , China , Data Poverty , Digital Regulation and Responsibility , Future of Work , Intellectual Property , Internet, Communications and Technology , Music , Ovarian Cancer , Performing Arts Education and Training , Pharmacy , Publishing , Ticket Abuse , Video Games and Esports , Writers
Contact Details
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Claire Hanna MP, 1 Rushfield Avenue, Belfast, BT7 3FP. Tel: 028 9099 6066.
Public Enquiry Point:
Holly Higgins, Performers' Alliance, c/o the Musicians' Union, 60-62 Clapham Road, London SW9 OJJ. Tel: 07746 537 918
Email: performersallianceappg@outlook.com
Secretariat:
Performers' Alliance acts as the group's secretariat.
Benefits in Kind
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Performers' Alliance
Performers' Alliance is funded by Equity, Musicians' Union, and Writers' Guild of Great Britain to act as the group's secretariat. From : 13/01/2021 To : 12/01/2022
£13,501
13 Jan 2020
Performers' Alliance
Performers' Alliance is funded by Equity, Musicians' Union, and Writers' Guild of Great Britain to act as the group's secretariat. From : 13/01/2020 To : 12/01/2021
£13,501
5 Jul 2018
Performers' Alliance
Secretariat From : 05/07/2018 To : 04/07/2019
£12,001
6 Dec 2017
Performers' Alliance
Christmas party held on 6 December 2017
£3,001
5 Jul 2017
Performers' Alliance
Secretariat From : 05/07/2017 To : 04/07/2018
£12,001
13 Dec 2016
The Peformers Alliance
Christmas party
£6,001
1 Jan 2016
The Performer's Alliance
Secretariat From : 01/01/2016 To : 31/12/2016
£12,001
1 Jan 2015
Performers' Alliance
Secretariat From : 01/01/2015 To : 31/12/2015
£12,001
No direct financial benefits are on record for the Performers' Alliance APPG
Former APPG Officers
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Alison McGovern
Chair & Registered Contact
Labour - Wirral South
Joined: 16th March 2016Departed: 21st April 2021
Football , Friends of Syria , Museums , Showing Racism the Red Card , War Crimes , Women's Football
Pete Wishart
Officer
Scottish National Party - Perth and North Perthshire
Joined: 30th July 2015Departed: 21st April 2021
Earl of Clancarty
Officer
Crossbench - Excepted Hereditary
Joined: 28th September 2017Departed: 21st April 2021
Art, Craft and Design in Education , Craft , Music Education , Performing Arts Education and Training , Visual Arts , Writers
Tracy Brabin
Co-Chair
Labour (Co-op) - Former Member for Batley and Spen
Joined: 28th September 2017Departed: 5th November 2019
Lord Vaizey of Didcot
Vice-Chair
Conservative - Life peer
Joined: 24th November 2016Departed: 5th November 2019
Earl of Clancarty
Vice Chair
Joined: 30th July 2015Departed: 2nd May 2017
Mike Gapes
Vice Chair
The Independent Group for Change - Former Member for Ilford South
Joined: 30th July 2015Departed: 12th October 2016
Cat Smith
Vice Chair
Labour - Lancaster and Fleetwood
Joined: 30th July 2015Departed: 12th October 2016
Autism , Boys' Brigade , First Do No Harm , Greenland , Political Literacy , Running , Social Work , Transport Across the North , Uplands and Hill Farming , Valproate and other Anti-Epileptic Drugs in Pregnancy