Arts and culture’s value to North after pandemic – The Yorkshire Post says

THE Yorkshire Post welcomes the Parliamentary inquiry due to begin today into how best to help the North’s cultural sector recover from the pandemic.
By YP Comment
Published 18th Mar 2021, 11:34 BST
A dancer from the Northern Ballet wears a face covering during a training class at the Northern Ballet in Leeds.A dancer from the Northern Ballet wears a face covering during a training class at the Northern Ballet in Leeds.
A dancer from the Northern Ballet wears a face covering during a training class at the Northern Ballet in Leeds.

This sector is worth £2bn a year to the economy here and 25,000 jobs depend on the ability of theatres and other arts venues to reopen as soon as possible.

As such, the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Northern Culture is to be commended for taking the initiative – the arts was one of the North’s greatest success stories before Covid struck.

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And there’s no reason why the APPG’s work cannot be replicated by other Parliamentary groups – in particular those pertaining to the Northern Powerhouse, Yorkshire and wider ‘levelling up’ agenda.

Northern Ballet dancer Lorenzo Trossello wears a face covering during a rehearsal at the Northern Ballet in Leeds.Northern Ballet dancer Lorenzo Trossello wears a face covering during a rehearsal at the Northern Ballet in Leeds.
Northern Ballet dancer Lorenzo Trossello wears a face covering during a rehearsal at the Northern Ballet in Leeds.

If they can advance similar inquiries, it should also make it easier to make the case – again – for a full-time Northern Powerhouse and Levelling Up Minister to co-ordinate policy and answer questions regularly in the Commons.

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