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Select Committee
Incorporated Society of Musicians, Freelancers Make Theatre Work, and Production Guild of Great Britain
 Incorporated Society of Musicians, Freelancers Make Theatre Work, and Production Guild of Great Britain

Oral Evidence Feb. 16 2021

Committee: None

Found: Incorporated Society of Musicians, Freelancers Make Theatre Work, and Production Guild of Great Britain

Select Committee
Tim Brennan (Petition Creator at e-petitions), Stuart Murdoch (Singer, Musician and Songwriter at Belle and Sebastian), Anna Patalong (Operatic Soprano at Freelance ), Emma Pollock (Performer and Co-founder at Chemikal Underground Records), Rakhvinder Singh (Violinist and Co-founder at Manchester Collective), Ian Smith (Founder at UKEartswork), and Yousef (DJ and Producer at Circus Recordings)
 e-petitions, Belle and Sebastian, Freelance , Chemikal Underground Records, Manchester Collective, UKEartswork, and Circus Recordings

Oral Evidence Feb. 05 2021

Committee: None

Found: e-petitions, Belle and Sebastian, Freelance , Chemikal Underground Records, Manchester Collective, UKEartswork

Select Committee
Scottish Government
 FTS0057 - Future UK-EU relations: trade in services

Written Evidence Feb. 11 2021

Inquiry: Future UK-EU relations: trade in services
Inquiry Status: Open
Committee: EU Services Sub-Committee

Found: / work permit free travel or mutual recognition of professional qualifications.

Select Committee
Lord Grimstone of Boscobel (Minister of State at Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy), Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, and Intellectual Property Office
 Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, and Intellectual Property Office

Oral Evidence Feb. 09 2021

Inquiry: Future UK-EU relations: trade in services
Inquiry Status: Open
Committee: EU Services Sub-Committee

Found: Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, Department for Business, Energy and Industrial

Tweet
Lord Berkeley (Labour - Life peer) - @tonyberkeley1
19 Jan 2021, noon

Petition: Seek Europe-wide Visa-free work permit for Touring professionals and Artists https://t.co/qVtCdKMOGO

Link to Original Tweet

Lords Chamber
EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement - Fri 08 Jan 2021
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Bonham-Carter of Yarnbury (LDEM - Life peer) visas, yet there are no reciprocal arrangements for touring artists to move freely. - Speech Link
2: Lord Ricketts (CB - Life peer) of the need for a work permit for each country they visit, complex and expensive customs arrangements - Speech Link
3: Baroness Kennedy of Cradley (Non-affiliated - Life peer) to work short term without a work permit? - Speech Link

Closed Petition closed 22nd June 2021

Seek Europe-wide Visa-free work permit for Touring professionals and Artists - Final Signatures: 286,797

We would like the UK Govt to negotiate a free cultural work permit that gives us visa free travel throughout the 27 EU states for music touring professionals, bands, musicians, artists, TV and sports celebrities that tour the EU to perform shows and events & Carnet exception for touring equipment.

Scheduled Debate: This petition is scheduled to be debated on 8th February 2021

The Government responsed to this petition on 14th January 2021 (View Full Response)
During our negotiations, we proposed measures to allow creative professionals to travel and perform in both the UK and EU, without needing work-permits. Unfortunately, the EU rejected these proposals.
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Found: The UK has a huge music / event touring industry which has suffered immensely due to Covid.

Lords Chamber
European Union (Future Relationship) Bill
3rd reading - Wed 30 Dec 2020
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Clement-Jones (LDEM - Life peer) anything that helps our touring artists, particularly musicians, actors and sports professionals, with - Speech Link
2: Baroness Royall of Blaisdon (LAB - Life peer) Those who are performing artists will no longer have permit-free access across the EU, and newly qualified - Speech Link
3: Earl of Clancarty (CB - Excepted Hereditary) short-term work for artists? - Speech Link

Commons Chamber
European Union (Future Relationship) Bill
2nd reading - Wed 30 Dec 2020
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Kevin Brennan (LAB - Cardiff West) is no proper recognition of professional qualifications and they will remove work permit-free access - Speech Link
2: Ellie Reeves (LAB - Lewisham West and Penge) Government to do everything possible to secure a cultural work permit that provides visa-free travel - Speech Link
3: Tracy Brabin (LAB - Batley and Spen) existing arrangements for artists from non-visa countries, such as the United States and Canada—a temporary - Speech Link
4: Heather Wheeler (CON - South Derbyshire) It allows visa-free travel for holiday makers, and in the more niche areas of exporting, such as organic - Speech Link

Parliamentary Research
End of Brexit transition: trade - CBP-9083
Dec. 18 2020

Found: Free trade agreements generally seek to reduce barriers to trade between the parties.