EIA request information and timeline on Events Research from Government.
Today the EIA (ESSA, AEV, AEO) sent an open letter to Oliver Dowden MP (Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport) and Mr Kwasi Kwarteng MP (Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy) requesting the urgent publication of detailed information on the Events Research Programme and guidance as to when the events and exhibitions sector will be given clarity about the basis on which it will be allowed to reopen.
'The lack of any information on the Events Research Programme, and what areas it will examine, who is the Business Events representative on the group, what criteria it might place on events and when it will report, makes any planning by the sector impossible ahead of 21st June. Furthermore other sectors, with arguably less COVID secure measures in place (for example shopping centres and non-essential retail), are included within the roadmap without the additional requirement and uncertainty of the programme.
We therefore request the urgent publication of detailed information on the Events Research Programme along with the issuing of specific guidance as to when the events and exhibitions sector, one of the hardest hit by this pandemic, will be given clarity about the basis on which it will be allowed to reopen'
