PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Equity Actors' Union: Fees and Charges (8 July 2022)

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether she has had discussions with members of Equity on the payment of repeat fees and the retention of those fees by that union.

Asked by:
Esther McVey (Conservative)

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