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Equally, there is a growing opportunity for mayors to work together on international partnerships, promoting regional cultural trails, supporting export-ready creative businesses and learning from international examples where visitor levies have helped sustain world-class cultural infrastructure. These are precisely the kinds of conversations and exchanges that collaborative frame-works should enable, not constrain. As the noble Lord, Lord Bichard, said in the previous group, and the Minister has recognised, I, too, highlight the importance of sharing data and best practice, such as through cultural infrastructure mapping to identify gaps, protect vulnerable assets and direct investment to where it will have the greatest impact. That, too, is a form of collaboration that benefits from flexibility and openness.