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Lords Chamber
Higher Education - Thu 07 Mar 2024
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Lord Blunkett (Lab - Life peer) The number of overseas students, who now include EU students, has actually dropped, marginally. - Speech Link
2: Lord Mountevans (XB - Excepted Hereditary) As well as providing world-famous actors and musicians, its production arts department provides the West - Speech Link
3: Lord Vaizey of Didcot (Con - Life peer) We might need a broader range of countries to hedge our bets in the future. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Wilcox of Newport (Lab - Life peer) However, we lag behind countries such as the United States in generating and scaling spin-outs. - Speech Link
5: Baroness Barran (Con - Life peer) equivalent to a bachelor’s degree or above, surpassing other G7 nations and exceeding the OECD and EU - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Brexit: Benefits to Economy and Society - Wed 06 Mar 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Lord Offord of Garvel (Con - Life peer) That growth in trade is greatly assisted by our free trade agreements, now signed with 73 countries globally - Speech Link
2: Lord Offord of Garvel (Con - Life peer) We managed to get America’s place in this group of 12 countries which have 15% of global GDP and 40% - Speech Link
3: Earl of Clancarty (XB - Excepted Hereditary) Is the Minister aware that for the musicians touring, despite the good news about tax relief that we - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 22 Feb 2024
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Barbara Keeley (Lab - Worsley and Eccles South) A1 forms ensure that musicians do not have to pay additional tax when touring in the EU, but some musicians - Speech Link
2: Lucy Frazer (Con - South East Cambridgeshire) We have bilateral agreements with many other countries to ensure that touring can take place, but I will - Speech Link
3: Fiona Bruce (Con - Congleton) What steps the Church is taking to support Anglican churches in countries listed in the World Watch List - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
UK Economy - Mon 19 Feb 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Bim Afolami (Con - Hitchin and Harpenden) For example—to describe that international context—10 EU countries were in recession in 2023. - Speech Link
2: Stephen Timms (Lab - East Ham) The international context that he refers to is that Japan and the UK are the only G7 countries in recession - Speech Link
3: Barbara Keeley (Lab - Worsley and Eccles South) for musicians touring in Europe. - Speech Link
4: Nia Griffith (Lab - Llanelli) With the US and the EU incentivising investment, what is the Minister now going to do to get the investment - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Self-employment: A1 Forms - Mon 12 Feb 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Earl of Clancarty (XB - Excepted Hereditary) Many musicians and crew are receiving their forms after a tour has ended, meaning that money is withheld - Speech Link
2: Lord Aberdare (XB - Excepted Hereditary) My Lords, 20% of orchestras’ earned income comes from touring, mostly to countries in the European Economic - Speech Link
3: Baroness Vere of Norbiton (Con - Life peer) The certificates are a slightly different issue because of course that will depend on the overseas countries - Speech Link
4: Lord Grocott (Lab - Life peer) That was before the EU was even thought of. - Speech Link
5: Baroness Vere of Norbiton (Con - Life peer) When it comes to music, we are talking about not just the EU but the entire world. - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill
Committee stage - Wed 07 Feb 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Lord Lucas (Con - Excepted Hereditary) That got swept away by EU regulations. - Speech Link
2: Lord Clement-Jones (LD - Life peer) The majority of SEPs are held by companies from China, the EU and the US, with no major SEP licensors - Speech Link
3: Lord Lucas (Con - Excepted Hereditary) Will we have musicians confessing on stage that the electronics under the stage are adjusting the sound - Speech Link
4: Lord Clement-Jones (LD - Life peer) Alliance believes that it is now imperative for the UK to adopt legislation similar to that of many other countries—France - Speech Link
5: None and Lord Clement-Jones, and politicians from across the Committee and the Chamber are joining with musicians - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Arts - Thu 01 Feb 2024
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Baroness Rebuck (Lab - Life peer) Other countries revere, invest and showcase their creative successes, but not us. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Garden of Frognal (LD - Life peer) since Brexit, teaching, lecturing, exhibiting, entering competitions and, importantly, trade with the EU - Speech Link
3: Earl of Clancarty (XB - Excepted Hereditary) While much can be done to ameliorate the situation, including renegotiating the deal the EU originally - Speech Link
4: Lord Murphy of Torfaen (Lab - Life peer) You can go through all the countries in Europe, and the Scandinavian countries, and find that they serve - Speech Link
5: Baroness Bonham-Carter of Yarnbury (LD - Life peer) We need joined-up education and skills development, the reopening of negotiations with the EU, and joined-up - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Trade (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership) Bill [Lords]
2nd reading - Mon 29 Jan 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Stella Creasy (LAB - Walthamstow) The Bill will do nothing to tackle that, because it is based on the accumulation of EU content that we - Speech Link
2: Kemi Badenoch (Con - Saffron Walden) The difference between this deal and the kind of deal that we had previously with the EU is that we did - Speech Link
3: Kemi Badenoch (Con - Saffron Walden) approach to copyright in line with the CPTPP by amending the basis on which foreign performers, such as musicians - Speech Link
4: Gareth Thomas (LAB - Harrow West) no deal with the US, no deal by Diwali with India, no courage to do a veterinary agreement with the EU - Speech Link
5: Gareth Thomas (LAB - Harrow West) artists and our businesses here, which could hold back the development of the next generation of British musicians - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Wed 24 Jan 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: John Lamont (Con - Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk) That exceeds the entire seven-year budget for the EU structural and investment funds for Scotland for - Speech Link
2: Douglas Chapman (SNP - Dunfermline and West Fife) Relative to similarly sized countries, Scotland’s exports are under real pressure. - Speech Link
3: Ian Murray (Lab - Edinburgh South) I thank the wonderful Ayrshire musicians in the Public Gallery, who treated us to some entertainment - Speech Link
4: John Penrose (Con - Weston-super-Mare) kleptocrats are living off ill-gotten gains that are beyond the reach of domestic courts here or in countries - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Trade (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership) Bill [HL]
Report stage - Tue 16 Jan 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Lord McNicol of West Kilbride (Lab - Life peer) stuck with only the seven protected products inherited from the EU-Japan deal. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville (LD - Life peer) The US FOREST Act covers six, and the EU deforestation regulations cover seven, with other countries - Speech Link
3: None through the EU or from EU countries, meet the same standards as required here. - Speech Link
4: Lord Leong (Lab - Life peer) Can the Minister also confirm that UK musicians are able to tour throughout CPTPP member states without - Speech Link
5: Baroness Lawlor (Con - Life peer) They explain that it will be under the EU, given the Windsor Framework. - Speech Link