Submission to Official Inquiries - Edinburgh

The Business Plan of Festivals Edinburgh identifies Advocacy & Evidence Building as one of our strategic priorities - and this work involves the identification of issues critical to the future of our eleven festivals, the building of an evidence base around such issues, the development of a collective position in relation to those issues and the communication of such a position to key decision makers. Communicating our position is especially important in the context of public inquiries and consultations - note that we have a separate documents section related to public inquiries in the UK Parliament or the UK Government HERE, and one for the Scottish Parliament or the Scottish Government HERE. There have been a number of such inquiries in recent years dealing with a range of issues whch we think are crucial to our festivals' future and our submissions are listed below: