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Lords Chamber
Creative and Cultural Industries: Impact of Visa and Immigration Policies - Tue 25 Jul 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Murray of Blidworth (CON - Life peer) As I alluded to in my Answer, our domestic law allows musicians, entertainers, artists and their technical - Speech Link
2: Lord Murray of Blidworth (CON - Life peer) We hope that other countries will reciprocate. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Bull (CB - Life peer) My Lords, there have been recent welcome discussions between the UK and some European countries about - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Advanced Artificial Intelligence - Mon 24 Jul 2023
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Mentions:
1: Baroness Stowell of Beeston (CON - Life peer) group, which is developing government policy so that news organisations, publishers, writers, artists, musicians - Speech Link
2: Lord Watson of Wyre Forest (LAB - Life peer) Whatever our current disagreements with countries such as China, Russia or Iran, humanity’s interests - Speech Link
3: Lord Udny-Lister (CON - Life peer) in the passage of the EU AI Act? - Speech Link
4: Lord Clement-Jones (LDEM - Life peer) There are many other issues relating to performing rights, copying of actors, musicians, artists and - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Creative Industries (Communications and Digital Committee Report) - Fri 07 Jul 2023
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Lord Vaizey of Didcot (CON - Life peer) Even one small win, such as allowing our musicians and artists to tour freely in Europe, would be welcome - Speech Link
2: Lord Clement-Jones (LDEM - Life peer) A recent Telegraph piece, with the misleading sub-heading:“Controversial EU law bans firms from selling - Speech Link
3: Earl of Clancarty (CB - Excepted Hereditary) survey conducted this year, Dezeen found that 84% of the architecture studios surveyed“would rejoin the EU - Speech Link
4: Lord Foster of Bath (LDEM - Life peer) the ill-suited apprenticeship scheme we have heard about and a Brexit deal that has damaged touring musicians - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Zimbabwe - Thu 06 Jul 2023
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Oates (LDEM - Life peer) I welcome to the Public Gallery Steven Van Zandt and Jerry Dammers, musicians and songwriters who have - Speech Link
2: Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (CON - Life peer) If Zimbabwe wishes to be counted among those countries that are recognised for progression not just bilaterally - Speech Link
3: Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (CON - Life peer) It is important that international and domestic observer missions, including those of SADC, the EU and - Speech Link
4: Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (CON - Life peer) readmission to the Commonwealth are not just for the UK Government to set; it is for all Commonwealth countries - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) Bill
2nd reading - Mon 03 Jul 2023
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Simon Clarke (CON - Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland) could list for hours those countries that perpetrate grotesque wrongs against their people—and I do - Speech Link
2: Steve McCabe (LAB - Birmingham, Selly Oak) BDS seeks to prevent Israeli artists, actors and musicians from performing in Britain. - Speech Link
3: Jeremy Corbyn (IND - Islington North) seen as legitimate products—they are illegal within terms of international law and within terms of EU - Speech Link
4: Felicity Buchan (CON - Kensington) The Bill applies equally to all countries. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Artificial Intelligence - Thu 29 Jun 2023
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Mentions:
1: David Davis (CON - Haltemprice and Howden) What is his view on involving countries such as China? - Speech Link
2: Dawn Butler (LAB - Brent Central) , that is not the case.There was a really stark example when we heard some information in regard to musicians - Speech Link
3: Robin Millar (CON - Aberconwy) By banning models capable of emotional and facial recognition, for example, EU lawmakers may believe - Speech Link
4: John Nicolson (SNP - Ochil and South Perthshire) It is not, I feel, the sole responsibility of artists, musicians and playwrights to be concerning themselves - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 29 Jun 2023
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Patrick Grady (SNP - Glasgow North) Does she think it is a good thing that musicians in Glasgow North now find it much more difficult to - Speech Link
2: Kemi Badenoch (CON - Saffron Walden) understand that there are issues that people have across borders, and my Department works closely with musicians - Speech Link
3: Kemi Badenoch (CON - Saffron Walden) We have secured trade deals with 70 countries, including the EU, since 2019—partners that accounted for - Speech Link
4: Jeff Smith (LAB - Manchester, Withington) But our musicians face unnecessary red tape when trying to tour Europe. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
School Trips to the United Kingdom - Mon 19 Jun 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Murray of Blidworth (CON - Life peer) Since the UK left the EU, EU students and pupils have been treated like students from the rest of the - Speech Link
2: Viscount Stansgate (LAB - Excepted Hereditary) House what progress is being made to negotiate with our European neighbours a scheme whereby young musicians - Speech Link
3: Lord Murray of Blidworth (CON - Life peer) Similarly, our own British musicians will be able to apply for an ETIAS under the European scheme, which - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Arts and Creative Industries: Freelancers and Self-employed Workers - Thu 15 Jun 2023
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Earl of Clancarty (CB - Excepted Hereditary) The threat to BBC musicians is another case in point. - Speech Link
2: Lord Cashman (LAB - Life peer) the most common reason for one-third of the workforce considering leaving the sector.Yet, in 45 other countries - Speech Link
3: Lord Foster of Bath (LDEM - Life peer) Other countries do more. The Irish have piloted a basic income scheme for artists. - Speech Link
4: Lord Bassam of Brighton (LAB - Life peer) They could build a more productive relationship with the EU to make Brexit work, enabling touring musicians - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
G7 Summit - Mon 22 May 2023
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Rishi Sunak (CON - Richmond (Yorks)) through new deals with Albania, France and, starting just at last week’s Council of Europe, with the EU - Speech Link
2: Keir Starmer (LAB - Holborn and St Pancras) The US and the EU have big plans to grow and nurture their sectors, to remove any vulnerabilities from - Speech Link
3: Barbara Keeley (LAB - Worsley and Eccles South) will understand that funding visa fees and travelling to obtain visas is so much more difficult for musicians - Speech Link