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P-05-1013 Provide financial support for self-employed individuals within the Welsh live music industry

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Meeting: 16/07/2021 - Petitions Committee (Item 4)

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The Committee considered the correspondence received and concluded, that with regret, there was little further action it could undertake on the issue and therefore agreed to close the petition and thank the petitioner.


Meeting: 16/03/2021 - Petitions Committee - Fifth Senedd (Item 3)

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The Committee considered correspondence on the petition and agreed to write back to the Welsh Government to share the further experiences provided by the petitioner and request that further consideration is given to providing further specific support for the live music sector, given the likelihood that music events will not be able to resume in the short-term. The Committee also agreed to await the Government’s response to the report on this issue produced by the Culture, Welsh Language and Communications Committee.


Meeting: 12/01/2021 - Petitions Committee - Fifth Senedd (Item 3)

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The Committee considered the correspondence received and agreed to:

·         write back to the Deputy Minister for Culture, Sports and Tourism to express concerns about the current lack of support available to self-employed individuals within the live music sector and ask for urgent consideration to be given to how the support provided through the Freelancer Fund can be increased to better compensate for lack of income due to the pandemic and associated restrictions;

·         seek clarification as to whether a recent announcement by the Chancellor noted any changes in the support available for self-employed individuals within the live music sector;

·         await the Welsh Government’s response to recommendation 5 of the Culture, Welsh Language and Communications Committee’s recent report into the impact of Covid-19 on the arts.


Meeting: 17/11/2020 - Petitions Committee - Fifth Senedd (Item 3)

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Meeting: 29/09/2020 - Petitions Committee - Fifth Senedd (Item 2)

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The Committee considered the petition for the first time and noted the financial support for individuals due to be available from 5 October. The Committee agreed to write back to the Deputy Minister for Culture, Sport and Tourism to seek further information about the eligibility criteria for the funding available to individual freelancers under the Cultural Recovery Fund, and ask how the Government will keep that criteria under review if evidence shows that people employed in this sector ‘fall through the gaps’.