PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Equity Actors' Union (7 July 2022)
Question Asked
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether she has received representations on the scope of activities being undertaken by Equity.
Asked by:
Esther McVey (Conservative)
Asked by:
Esther McVey (Conservative)
Answer
DCMS has regular contact with Equity, and with other trade unions representing the arts and culture sector. Equity also sat on the Department’s Events and Entertainment Working Group.
In May this year the Minister for Arts met representatives from Equity to discuss aspects of the Universal Credit system and their impact on Equity members. Lord Parkinson also attended a freelancers roundtable in June organised by the Cultural Learning Alliance at which Equity was present.
Answered by:
Nigel Huddleston (Conservative)
15 July 2022
Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0.