Covid-19: Performing Arts Freelance Workers Debate
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Lord Naseby
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Covid-19: Performing Arts Freelance Workers
Lord Naseby Excerpts(3 years, 10 months ago)
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Baroness Barran (Con)
I feel as though I should have birthday cake on the Dispatch Box. Of course our understanding and our approach needs to evolve as our understanding of the pandemic and its impact evolves. We have aimed to tackle this from all directions by supporting our institutions with a major funding package, having a very broad job support and self-employed support scheme, and giving targeted support to individuals—particularly from the Arts Council, which has distributed £47 million in England alone.
Lord Naseby (Con) [V]
Diversity of the performing arts is important. What is the linkage with self-employed freelancers, so that both Government and these individuals can keep abreast of what exactly is happening and raise matters of concern?