“Those conversations are happening within government now, and they will be happening with member states very shortly,” Alastair Jones, a senior civil servant in the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), told the House of Commons culture select committee.
Different EU countries have different arrangements for working musicians and other artists. Spain, for example, requires extra visas, while France does not.
The UK and EU have blamed each other for rejecting proposals for inclusion in the main Brexit deal. On Tuesday, Mr Jones said there had been “a lack of appetite on the EU side to really engage and make a workable solution”.
Committee chairman Julian Knight MP said the outcome was that the creative industries, which is a “world-leading part of the UK economy”, had effectively “had to endure a no-deal Brexit”.