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Westminster Hall
Smaller Musical Genres: Scotland - Tue 31 Jan 2023
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Julia Lopez (CON - Hornchurch and Upminster) but the local radio changes proposed by the organisation.Music is an absolutely essential part of our arts - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Schools: Artificial Intelligence Software - Thu 19 Jan 2023
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Lord Hampton (CB - Excepted Hereditary) AI for everything from essays and poetry to university applications and, rather more surprisingly, visual - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Arts Council England: Funding - Wed 18 Jan 2023
Department for International Trade

Mentions:
1: Robert Neill (CON - Bromley and Chislehurst) arts as opposed to the visual arts. - Speech Link
2: Peter Bottomley (CON - Worthing West) Whether one’s experience is in the performing arts or the visual arts, everybody knows that it takes - Speech Link
3: Harriet Harman (LAB - Camberwell and Peckham) However, we are a forgiving group of people, because we love the arts, and therefore if the Arts Council - Speech Link
4: Scott Benton (CON - Blackpool South) Friend may be aware that two leading arts commentators have published a pamphlet calling for the Arts - Speech Link
5: Peter Bottomley (CON - Worthing West) Given that Arts Council England is for the encouragement of music and the arts, Pooley and Keynes would - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Arts Council England: Regional Distribution of Funding - Thu 15 Dec 2022
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Earl of Clancarty (CB - Excepted Hereditary) the focus on these cuts has been, quite rightly, on classical music and opera, but theatre and the visual - Speech Link
2: Baroness Fleet (CON - Life peer) Undoubtedly, its theatres, music, dance and visual arts are world-leading; no one in this Chamber could - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Arts and Creative Industries Strategy - Thu 08 Dec 2022
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Viscount Chandos (LAB - Life peer) Not everybody needs opera, but everyone should have the chance to experience opera, theatre, dance, visual - Speech Link
2: Baroness Andrews (LAB - Life peer) I do not expect this from the Arts Council leadership. - Speech Link
3: Lord Cormack (CON - Life peer) importance of creative subjects—music in particular—and how if you deprive young people of access to their visual - Speech Link
4: Baroness McIntosh of Hudnall (LAB - Life peer) via the Arts Council. - Speech Link
5: Lord Bassam of Brighton (LAB - Life peer) via the Arts Council. - Speech Link
6: Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay (CON - Life peer) arts”that the Arts Minister could not take part in that debate, because I sit in this House. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Performing Arts: English National Opera - Mon 05 Dec 2022
Department for International Trade

Mentions:
1: Robert Neill (CON - Bromley and Chislehurst) people’s eyes to what music can do; what that extraordinary juxtaposition of theatre, music and the visual - Speech Link
2: Robert Neill (CON - Bromley and Chislehurst) form or, generally, to the way that vocal arts are dealt with in the United Kingdom? - Speech Link
3: Nickie Aiken (CON - Cities of London and Westminster) I have had conversations with the Arts Council and with the ENO. Does my hon. - Speech Link
4: Stuart Andrew (CON - Pudsey) It is worth reflecting on our commitment to the arts and culture sector. - Speech Link
5: Robert Neill (CON - Bromley and Chislehurst) Will he address the specific issues of the Arts Council’s decision? - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
School (Reform of Pupil Selection) Bill [HL] - Fri 02 Dec 2022
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Lord Austin of Dudley (Non-affiliated - Life peer) What about the BRIT School, which does a very good job on performing and creative arts? - Speech Link
2: Baroness Barran (CON - Life peer) we have schools that select 10%—and only 10%—of their intake by aptitude in prescribed subjects: the visual - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Supporting UK Artists and Culture - Tue 22 Nov 2022
Department for International Trade

Mentions:
1: Robert Neill (CON - Bromley and Chislehurst) of what the Arts Council asserts it is trying to do. - Speech Link
2: Harriet Harman (LAB - Camberwell and Peckham) The Arts Council spin was that the ENO was to be relocated as part of levelling up. - Speech Link
3: Nickie Aiken (CON - Cities of London and Westminster) During covid, the arts and culture sector was on its knees; there were worries. - Speech Link
4: Florence Eshalomi (LAB - Vauxhall) That is the power of publicly funded arts organisations.The Arts Council England announcement last week - Speech Link
5: Cherilyn Mackrory (CON - Truro and Falmouth) We now have a global reputation in visual arts and theatre; a university dedicated to the creative industries - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Music Education - Wed 09 Nov 2022
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Baroness Fleet (CON - Life peer) He is a great champion of music and the arts, and I look forward to continuing to work with him. - Speech Link
2: Earl of Clancarty (CB - Excepted Hereditary) I will talk about the plan but, as we have the Arts Minister in front of us, will also touch on arts - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Mon 17 Oct 2022
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Christine Jardine (LDEM - Edinburgh West) In constituencies such as mine valuable projects such as North Edinburgh Arts will include affordable - Speech Link
2: Mark Eastwood (CON - Dewsbury) their amazing work and does she agree that Britain in Bloom competitions are vital in transforming the visual - Speech Link