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Given the recent announcement of discontinuing training in acting and stage management at Queen Margaret University in Edinburgh, we, the undersigned, call on the Prime Minister to ensure that there is a parity in conservatoire training allowances for theatre between Scotland and the rest of the UK.

It is an untenable position as theatre and creative industries in general continue to grow with fewer opportunities to train effectively in Scotland, creating an imbalance in the national representation of the arts.

The allowances made for conservatoire training in England ought to be applied to the Scottish training system and prevent the loss of excellent training such as offered at QMU.

It would be a noble act for the UK Government to show parity at this precarious time.

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Fiona Orr, the Petition Creator, joined by:

• George Docherty
• John Naples-Campbell
• Lisa Sangster
• Heather Marshall
• amanda sykes
• Malcolm Rogan
• clare marshall
• Margaret Fraser
• Neil Sowerby
• Carrie Harrison-Iddon
• elaine diffenthal
• Clare Waugh
• Kieran Mcloughlin
• Catherine Major
• Michael Mackenzie
• mark westbrook
• Adrienne Zitt
• Moray Nairn
• Anna MacInnes
• Guy Lewis
• Carolyn Brown
• Joel Houck
• Nicola Kenny
• Constance Blackbourn
• Kirsty Ross
• Anna Cronin
• Rachel Moffat
• Shaun David Bell
• Margaret Brown
• Caitlin Skinner
• annabel rodger
• Sheena Penson
• Lauren Davies
• Emma Taylor
• Peter Roberts
• Gillian Smith
• Emma Findlay
• James Hill
• Jane Russell
• clare Tyers
• Ciaran Bradley
• David Digby
• Stacey Macnab
• Abigail Chambers
• Marianne Sellar
• Lauren Silver
• Mr Partis (petitions.pm.gov.uk/europensions/)
• Anna Tall
• Kath Lowe
• Hannah Easton
• Emily Jones
• Cathie Robertson
• Lee Malcolmson
• Lyndsay Gray
• Donna McGlynn
• Emily Mizen
• JJ Mcgregor
• Laura Coutts
• Nick J Field
• Siobhan Wyman
• Dan Connolly
• Lucy Berkengoff
• Claire Knight
• Marcia Johnstone
• derek mcghie
• Emma Ayre
• Sarah Bloomfield
• Sharon Whyte
• John Gilchrist Muir
• Angela Milton
• lewis macleod
• Karen Kyle McKenzie
• mark Butler
• CAROLINE BLIEMEL
• Bill Wright
• Shiela M Howat
• Deanne Jones
• daniel dixon
• neville Fenwick
• Steve Marshall
• Andrew Paul
• John Duncan
• Helen Shapcott
• Nicola Richardson
• Phil Haldane
• Gail Pallin
• Danielle Campbell
• Sarah Mawdsley
• Helen Snow
• Grahame Coyle
• Amy McCallum
• Gabrielle Pavone
• Paul McCleary
• David Smout
• philippa tomlin
• Joe Gallagher
• Michelle MacIntyre
• Benjamin Fleming
• Diane M Tait
• Pat Lovett
• Justine Wortsman
• Alexander McDougall
• Angela Thompson
• Rosanna Stone
• Vivian M Reid
• Helen Reynolds
• Jenny O'Connell
• John Wilkie
• Jo Franklin
• Shane Thom
• Peter Strain
• Molly (Jane) Innes
• Catryn Fray
• Nigel Hancocks
• David Ripley
• Tim Licata
• HELEN CLARKSON
• Harriet Saffin
• Richard Sandle
• Lorna Adamson
• Rachel Hartland
• emily rowland
• Danni Bastian
• Harriet Roy
• Liz Burton
• Nick Hayman-Joyce
• blair halliday
• Graeme Alexander-Young
• Graeme Reid
• naomi young
• Deborah Carmichael
• Oliver Dimelow
• Paul Nxion
• Lyndsey Holmes
• Andrew Ralph
• Simon Sinfield
• Alan Wallace
• Sarah Neave
• Ann Mathieson
• alison Peebles
• Calum Wyllie
• Neil Millar
• Ben Delfont
• Maz Bryden
• Thomas Robinson
• Nicola Morris
• Neil Mickel
• Miranda McDade
• Suzanne Lamb
• Paul Grist
• Jennifer Deane
• Chris Pickles
• Frank McKenzie
• Andrew Gannon
• Amy Hazlehurst
• William Buckenham
• John Tait
• Nick Brand
• HUGH MICKEL
• zPauline Mickel
• Roderick G Mickel
• Fi Fraser
• Stephen Ewing
• Fiona Borthwick
• Dr Jane Schopf
• Laura Watson
• Patricia Davenport
• Martin Murray
• Mike Offland
• David Brindley
• Gary Staerck
• Elizabeth Lancaster
• Tony Goode
• Lizzie Cheeld
• Eddy O'Hare
• andrew usher
• Katherine Hall
• ELAINE MURRAY
• Caroline Bowen
• Jo Timmins
• Susan Leask
• Kat Nugent
• sara macleod
• Christopher Flux
• Jen Murray
• Tessa Brown
• Laura Park
• Shaheen Hashmat
• Amy Thomson
• Linda Keys
• Jonathan Bradshaw
• Claire Bryan
• Nina Scholar
• Heather Jarron
• elspeth.l.harte
• lesley hood
• JB Peterson
• Dani Rae
• Lynne Clark
• john berry
• Jennifer Kubis
• Heather Campbell-Crayton
• Jayne Easson
• Gilly Bain
• John Ward
• Sandra Alexander
• Liane Adam
• Jon Cuthbertson
• TOMEK BORKOWY & Universal Arts Ltd.
• Joyce Allan
• Jonathan Orton
• Ronald Smith
• avril gardiner
• Susan McClymont
• Katriona Wilson
• Shiela M Howat
• Moira Weir
• Leah Parker
• Tracey Atcheson
• Louise Stephens
• Caroline Mathison
• James Fleming
• Chris Rainger
• Rona Johnston
• Annalisa Gordon
• Arran Howie
• Tracy Catherine Cattell
• Paul Gammie
• Jenny Hogg
• Susan King
• Elaine Kyle
• Sally Franks
• Kelly Fairbairn
• John Durnin
• Christina Strachan
• George Tarbuck
• Richard Addison
• philippa tomlin
• J. Smith