Busking

Baroness Hamwee Excerpts

Monday 30th June 2014 Lords Chamber

[Baroness Williams of Trafford]

Any behaviour of an aggressive sort would be dealt with appropriately, whether it involved busking or not.

[Baroness Hamwee (LD)]

My Lords, I will not ask my noble friend to comment on the mayor’s talents in this area, but does she think that it is appropriate to criminalise people who are making music? Some of them are young people endeavouring to further their career in music. It is an extraordinarily precarious career, and one where it is difficult to get started.

[Baroness Williams of Trafford]

Buskers are not criminalised. People who behave in a disruptive or harmful way are criminalised, but busking in and of itself is not.