Mentions:
1: Baroness Blackstone (LAB - Life peer) Brexit had a disastrous effect on this in many areas—for example, on the work of musicians and performers - Speech Link
2: Earl of Clancarty (CB - Excepted Hereditary) and the need for a visa waiver or cultural touring agreement with the EU; on work permits; on the cost - Speech Link
3: Lord Collins of Highbury (LAB - Life peer) trips and for musicians and artists seeking short-term visas to tour within the EU. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Wera Hobhouse (LDEM - Bath) An Encore Musicians survey shows that 76% of musicians agree that it is likely that Brexit travel restrictions - Speech Link
2: Fleur Anderson (LAB - Putney) the creative industries, including musicians. - Speech Link
3: Sarah Green (LDEM - Chesham and Amersham) musicians, and the care sector. - Speech Link
4: Layla Moran (LDEM - Oxford West and Abingdon) We need to secure deals on sector-specific work visas, which would benefit the NHS in particular, and - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Earl of Clancarty (CB - Excepted Hereditary) The major problems around visas, work permits, carnets, CITES and merchandise remain. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Bonham-Carter of Yarnbury (LDEM - Life peer) the noble Lord, Lord Berkeley—with cost issues and complicated paperwork over visas, carnets and cabotage - Speech Link
3: Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay (CON - Life peer) BBC Singers, and to do so in discussion with the Musicians’ Union. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Viscount Stansgate (LAB - Excepted Hereditary) Musicians and performers have found that the costs and visa red tape make touring in the EU not just - Speech Link
2: Lord Berkeley of Knighton (CB - Life peer) Following Covid, many musicians and people in the performing arts suffered terribly financially. - Speech Link
3: Lord Kennedy of Southwark (LAB - Life peer) visas for European citizens to come and work here. - Speech Link
4: Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (CON - Life peer) do not need visas or work permits for some short-term touring. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord German (LDEM - Life peer) Of course, it is cabotage, work permits, carnets and whatever else that are the difficulties. - Speech Link
2: Lord Strasburger (LDEM - Life peer) , work permits, cabotage, CITES and carnets that were on the table during the bungled negotiations on - Speech Link
3: Lord Hannay of Chiswick (CB - Life peer) takes them to more than one member state and involves complex issues such as visa waivers, work permits - Speech Link
4: Lord Clement-Jones (LDEM - Life peer) all described that, including the requirement for work permits or visa exemptions in many EU countries - Speech Link
5: Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay (CON - Life peer) they did not address work permits. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Julia Lopez (CON - Hornchurch and Upminster) In the vast majority of those, people no longer require permits or visas to carry out this kind of work - Speech Link
2: Chris Philp (CON - Croydon South) that work will begin shortly. - Speech Link
3: Nigel Huddleston (CON - Mid Worcestershire) them work collaboratively. - Speech Link
4: Julia Lopez (CON - Hornchurch and Upminster) barriers for touring musicians, and we will continue to carry out that work. - Speech Link
5: Suella Braverman (CON - Fareham) That is a great amount of work, and something we should all be getting behind. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay (CON - Life peer) and performers do not need visas or work permits for some short-term touring. - Speech Link
2: Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay (CON - Life peer) That is why the UK has a generous offer and is welcoming to musicians from around the world. - Speech Link
3: Lord Strasburger (LDEM - Life peer) Touring in Europe is now almost impossible for British musicians and other performers because of a mountain - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Alton of Liverpool (CB - Life peer) However, as their temporary visas come to expire, countries such as the UK continue to delay implementing - Speech Link
2: Earl of Sandwich (CB - Excepted Hereditary) I should say at this point that my wife is chair of PalMusic UK, a charity that helps Palestinian musicians - Speech Link
3: Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park (CON - Life peer) We have issued more than 39,000 visas under the refugee family reunion rules, around half of which were - Speech Link
4: Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park (CON - Life peer) The work that we did in the run-up to COP 26 and the work that we will do this year as the COP president - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Donaghy (LAB - Life peer) around cabotage, carnets, visas and work permit charges are causing major difficulties.The European - Speech Link
2: Lord Desai (Non-affiliated - Life peer) The poor musicians and people who do plays, who need to go and reach audiences on the continent, are - Speech Link
3: Lord True (CON - Life peer) not need work permits to perform in the EU. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: David Warburton (IND - Somerton and Frome) In order for it to continue, the uncertainties around cabotage, carnets, visas and work permits need - Speech Link
2: Alex Davies-Jones (LAB - Pontypridd) out of 27 member states—without obtaining certain visas and work permits far in advance. - Speech Link
3: Julia Lopez (CON - Hornchurch and Upminster) I will initially focus on visas and permits, but I will address some of the other issues in turn, to - Speech Link