Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment he has made on the potential effect of the UK leaving the EU on the ability of authors to undertake provisional book tours in EU countries.
The Department is working closely with stakeholders from across the Creative Industries sector, including Publishing, to better understand the potential impacts and opportunities of the UK’s exit from the European Union. This will include the ability of UK authors to tour in the EU, which is important to our world leading publishing industry.
We are also working closely with the Home Office, HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) and the Department for Exiting the European Union (DExEU) to ensure that they are well informed of these issues.