Busking

Debate between Baroness Williams of Trafford and Lord West of Spithead

Thursday 12th February 2015 Lords Chamber

[Baroness Williams of Trafford]

My Lords, we have no plans to issue guidance in relation to how the two existing Acts are applied to buskers. I am sure that the guidance would be looked at if a problem were found. The task force wants to develop a voluntary code of practice, and that will be very helpful both to buskers and to local authorities, not just in London but around the country.

[Lord West of Spithead (Lab)]

My Lords, I am not clear: is the busking task force a group that monitors buskers, or is it a group of British buskers ready to deploy globally at a moment’s notice to cheer us up?

[Baroness Williams of Trafford]

My noble friend Lord Clement-Jones is a member of that task force and I am sure that he could be deployed at a minute’s notice.