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The Official Report is a written record of public meetings of the Parliament and committees.  

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Dates of parliamentary sessions
  1. Session 1: 12 May 1999 to 31 March 2003
  2. Session 2: 7 May 2003 to 2 April 2007
  3. Session 3: 9 May 2007 to 22 March 2011
  4. Session 4: 11 May 2011 to 23 March 2016
  5. Session 5: 12 May 2016 to 5 May 2021
  6. Current session: 12 May 2021 to 3 July 2025
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Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee

Review of the EU-UK Trade and Co-operation Agreement

Meeting date: 13 March 2025

Stephen Kerr

The maniac hoover!

Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee

Review of the EU-UK Trade and Co-operation Agreement

Meeting date: 13 March 2025

Stephen Kerr

You mentioned that a music export office and an investment fund should be set up. I want to go back to those ideas, but before I do, I note that you talked about costs spiralling and the fact that the situation had got worse in the past 18 months. Is that tied to what has happened with inflation generally, or are there particular costs that have gone up that have hit touring artists but which might not be felt by others?

Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee

United Kingdom Internal Market Act 2020 (Consultation and Review)

Meeting date: 6 March 2025

Stephen Kerr

Well, not really, because what we had under the European Union were the legal underpinnings of the single market—

Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee

United Kingdom Internal Market Act 2020 (Consultation and Review)

Meeting date: 6 March 2025

Stephen Kerr

Some people say that it was the greatest achievement of the European Union. All that UKIMA sets out to do—the review is going to look at how well it does it—is the same. Is that not the case?

Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee

United Kingdom Internal Market Act 2020 (Consultation and Review)

Meeting date: 6 March 2025

Stephen Kerr

I suppose that it all comes down to your comment about reasonable people getting together and working through things in a process that creates proper intergovernmental relations, upon which I think we might agree.

Professor McHarg, how does your take differ uniquely from those of your colleagues?

Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee

United Kingdom Internal Market Act 2020 (Consultation and Review)

Meeting date: 6 March 2025

Stephen Kerr

On a matter of fact, the internal market act applies to the whole of the United Kingdom, not just Great Britain, as was suggested earlier.

I am interested in the NFUS’s evidence, and I would like to focus on it a bit and on some of the words that Jonnie Hall has used this morning. In your written evidence, you talk about the “threat” that the internal market act poses, which Keith Brown directly quoted. Is it the NFUS’s position that you would like to repeal the act? If so, what would be the likely effects of doing so?

Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee

United Kingdom Internal Market Act 2020 (Consultation and Review)

Meeting date: 6 March 2025

Stephen Kerr

Are you not?

Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee

United Kingdom Internal Market Act 2020 (Consultation and Review)

Meeting date: 6 March 2025

Stephen Kerr

What difference of opinion do you have with your colleagues about UKIMA? What point would you make that is distinctive to your evidence?

Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee

United Kingdom Internal Market Act 2020 (Consultation and Review)

Meeting date: 6 March 2025

Stephen Kerr

Yes, it is a constitutional issue. I understand your point of view.

Professor Hunt, what is your point of difference?

Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee

United Kingdom Internal Market Act 2020 (Consultation and Review)

Meeting date: 6 March 2025

Stephen Kerr

Will you drill down on that a bit? I ask that you to add to your written evidence and be very specific. Is it either that you do not want the act repealed or that you accept that it will not be repealed?