UK and EU Trade: Arts and Creative Industries

Viscount Stansgate Excerpts
Thursday 11th September 2025

(1 day, 13 hours ago)

Lords Chamber
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Baroness Twycross Portrait Baroness Twycross (Lab)
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I appreciate that this is a question for me from His Majesty’s Opposition, but these are things that presumably came up as part of the impact assessment when we withdrew from the EU.

Viscount Stansgate Portrait Viscount Stansgate (Lab)
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My Lords, music is international. Having spent many summers touring with youth orchestras, for whom the problems are just as great as those for the professional musicians that have been referred to in the noble Earl’s Question, can my noble friend please add to the list of things that the Government are hoping to negotiate easier arrangements for youth orchestras to tour in Europe? It enriches their lives in every possible way, musically and in terms of travel.

Baroness Twycross Portrait Baroness Twycross (Lab)
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Absolutely—we are looking to increase youth mobility through any scheme that creates new opportunities for young Britons to travel, whether as part of wider academic experience or exchange of culture, including youth orchestras.