a Digital, Culture, Media and Sport select committee being told that this summer’s festivals could be cancelled as soon as this month without government support and assurances regarding insurance, funding, the vaccine and mass-testing.
It is feared that if festivals suffer another summer of cancellations many of them will collapse and won’t be able to afford to ever return.Now, the DCMS committee of MPs has written to the Chancellor asking him to extend government-backed coronavirus insurance schemes – which are currently being offered to the film and television industries – to festivals and live music events in order to secure their future.
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