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Immigration Controls: Arts

Asked by Mr James FrithLabourHome OfficeTabled Answered 9 December 2024UIN 16984

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment with Cabinet colleagues of the potential (a) economic and (b) cultural impact of UK border controls on (i) non-UK artists, (ii) sponsors and (iii) creative workers.

Answered by Seema Malhotra

The Government is committed to ensuring workers in the creative industries have immigration routes that work for them. The United Kingdom has an excellent immigration offer for workers within the creative industries and we continually keep our policies under review.

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