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Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 14 Sep 2017
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Maria Eagle (LAB - Garston and Halewood) of State do to ensure that the UK’s touring musicians—they and their crews can, at the moment, just go - Speech Link
2: David Hanson (LAB - Delyn) When can the Minister give certainty about visas, or the potential for visas, for European Union citizens - Speech Link
3: Kerry McCarthy (LAB - Bristol East) get visas to tour in the United States. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Brexit: UK-EU Movement of People (EUC Report) - Mon 17 Jul 2017
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Earl of Clancarty (CB - Excepted Hereditary) Seventy per cent of musicians travel overseas for work. - Speech Link
2: Lord Wallace of Saltaire (LDEM - Life peer) abroad and to be able to travel without the complications of getting visas to work in foreign markets - Speech Link
3: Lord Kennedy of Southwark (LAB - Life peer) I fully support the campaign by the Musicians’ Union to highlight the problems faced by musicians working - Speech Link
4: Baroness Williams of Trafford (CON - Life peer) permits and other elements of the rules currently applied to non-EU nationals.The Government are very - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Parliamentary Scrutiny of Leaving the EU - Wed 12 Oct 2016
Department for Exiting the European Union

Mentions:
1: Keir Starmer (LAB - Holborn and St Pancras) In any event, I fall back on my primary point: even if the prerogative permits the Government to withhold - Speech Link
2: Stephen Gethins (SNP - North East Fife) outstanding work in this field? - Speech Link
3: Lord Clarke of Nottingham (CON - Life peer) That conjured up the vision of work permits and so on, and possibly quotas. - Speech Link
4: Thangam Debbonaire (LAB - Bristol West) And I think of the musicians who can currently tour around the European Union. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Palestine: Children - Thu 21 Jul 2016
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Lord Cope of Berkeley (CON - Life peer) We had to wade through plenty of UK bureaucracy to get the necessary visas. - Speech Link
2: Earl of Sandwich (CB - Excepted Hereditary) This is the most exciting tour, its first in the UK, involving 85 young musicians aged 14 to 26. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Deech (CB - Life peer) They have been stripped of residency permits, are discriminated against and are subject to sectarian - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Outcome of the European Union Referendum - Wed 06 Jul 2016
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Baker of Dorking (CON - Life peer) The only effective way of addressing it is to have a system of work permits applicable to European nationals - Speech Link
2: Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer (LDEM - Life peer) that they can continue to come here to live and work. - Speech Link
3: Lord Clement-Jones (LDEM - Life peer) deeply damaging if we or the EU erected barriers equivalent to those in the US, which mean that many UK musicians - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Visitor Visas: Sub-Saharan Africa - Wed 08 Jun 2016
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Patrick Grady (IND - Glasgow North) The word “visa” for a document that permits a visitor entry to or exit from a foreign country is believed - Speech Link
2: Patrick Grady (IND - Glasgow North) Visiting artists or musicians might help to inspire new kinds of creativity and collaboration or provide - Speech Link
3: James Brokenshire (CON - Old Bexley and Sidcup) If there is some way to work with parliamentarians to underline such requirements and the information - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Queen’s Speech - Thu 19 May 2016
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Baroness Walmsley (LDEM - Life peer) Now the Government even want to charge a £1,000 skills levy on visas for health workers from overseas - Speech Link
2: Lord Bishop of Durham (Bishops - Bishops) policy and look for ways to strengthen work incentives and support progression in work. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Bonham-Carter of Yarnbury (LDEM - Life peer) of people to work and travel across Europe without the need for visas both facilitates and fuels the - Speech Link
4: Baroness Brinton (LDEM - Life peer) I want to speak about social care, but I cannot find a Bill or proposal in the Queen’s Speech that permits - Speech Link
5: Lord Freyberg (CB - Excepted Hereditary) A letter in today’s Daily Telegraph, signed by 97 creative industry leaders—artists, actors and musicians - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
UK Musicians Performing Overseas - Wed 25 Nov 2015
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Nigel Adams (CON - Selby and Ainsty) The process whereby UK musicians apply for a US work visa is long, complex and prohibitively expensive - Speech Link
2: Rupa Huq (IND - Ealing Central and Acton) embassy interviews would have meant 100 work permits and weighed in at a cost of £45,000. - Speech Link
3: Lisa Cameron (SNP - East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow) work visas to perform in the US. - Speech Link
4: Patrick Grady (IND - Glasgow North) Members who signed my early-day motion on the subject of US visas for performing musicians, and I welcome - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Tourism and Hospitality - Thu 12 Jun 2014
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Lord Harrison (LAB - Life peer) A UK short-stay visa costs £83 compared to £50 for a Schengen visa, which permits visitors access to - Speech Link
2: Lord Lee of Trafford (LDEM - Life peer) The Home Office needs to be involved because of visas. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Andrews (LAB - Life peer) put its enormous assets and skills to work in different ways. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 15 Dec 2011
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Kerry McCarthy (LAB - Bristol East) permits and visas to foreign professional musicians performing at concerts in the UK. - Speech Link
2: Kerry McCarthy (LAB - Bristol East) I appreciate that there was some confusion about the type of visas they needed to apply for and about - Speech Link
3: Lord Vaizey of Didcot (CON - Life peer) musicians coming into the UK and for British musicians who wish to travel abroad. - Speech Link
4: Kerry McCarthy (LAB - Bristol East) trying to get visas to tour the United States, and we brought a delegation to see the Under-Secretary - Speech Link
5: Robert Halfon (CON - Harlow) Will he take further steps to work with the charity New Deal of the Mind and support and encourage other - Speech Link