UPFRONT FEES FOR ACTORS AND MODELS

[Joe Rispoli]

Can I ask you all to write to your MP and ask him/her to sign the Early Day Motion 1598, by Mark Prisk MP…
Anybody who does not know who their MP is, should click on this search engine, where all you do is put in your postcode, to find out details of your MP!
http://www.writetothem.com/?keyword=members20of20parliament&creativeid=605235279&gclid=CODn5Mbt94wCFQzdlAodAhCq-g
Click on this link to see the latest number who have signed. Just about 45 are Labour and 45 Tory, the rest being Lib Dems!
http://edmi.parliament.uk/EDMi/EDMDetails.aspx?EDMID=33401&SESSION=885
More signatures are in the pipeline…
UPFRONT FEES FOR ACTORS AND MODELS 04.06.2007
That this House notes that thousands of young aspiring actors and models are being defrauded by unscrupulous agencies who charge unwarranted up-front fees; further notes that, according to The Stage magazine, the vast majority receive no work in return; recalls the promise made by the Government in May 2006 that it would stamp out this practice; is concerned to note that not a single prosecution has since been made; and calls on the Government to fulfil its promise to prosecute rogue agencies and to close the legal loophole which allows this fraudulent activity to continue in the entertainment industry.
Mark Prisk MP

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