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Lords Chamber
Grass-roots Music Venues - Mon 26 Jan 2026
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Lord Livermore (Lab - Life peer) As part of the industrial strategy, the Government have recognised music and performing and visual arts - Speech Link
2: Lord Livermore (Lab - Life peer) He will know that we have provided £2.5 million of funding this year for Arts Council England’s Supporting - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Creative Industries: Freelance Champion - Thu 22 Jan 2026
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Baroness Wilcox of Newport (Lab - Life peer) How is DCMS addressing problems of social mobility as part of the “arts for everyone, everywhere” vision - Speech Link
2: Baroness Twycross (Lab - Life peer) that the Culture Secretary announced today that £1.5 billion will be invested to save more than 1,000 arts - Speech Link
3: Baroness McIntosh of Hudnall (Lab - Life peer) friend the Minister will agree with me, I am sure, that, within the overall creative industries, the arts - Speech Link
4: Earl of Effingham (Con - Excepted Hereditary) As we have just heard, the Arts Council has advised, quite rightly, that a mixed-economy model, which - Speech Link


Grand Committee
English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill
Committee stage - Tue 20 Jan 2026
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Lord Freyberg (XB - Excepted Hereditary) My Lords, I declare my interest as a visual artist. - Speech Link
2: Earl of Clancarty (XB - Excepted Hereditary) The arts need to be supported—and in every local area, because local areas make up regions. - Speech Link
3: Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay (Con - Life peer) I have seen throughout my life the power of the arts and arts-led regeneration across Tyneside, from - Speech Link
4: Lord Bassam of Brighton (Lab - Life peer) We often talk about the £128 billion value to the UK economy of the arts. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Broadcasting: Recent Developments - Thu 08 Jan 2026
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Earl of Clancarty (XB - Excepted Hereditary) , usually uttered by Ministers whose Government continued to wield the axe for further cuts to the arts - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
UK Town of Culture - Wed 07 Jan 2026
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Jayne Kirkham (LAB - Truro and Falmouth) The Royal Institution of Cornwall was founded in the city to promote the arts and sciences. - Speech Link
2: Liz Jarvis (LD - Eastleigh) Arts and culture projects have been stopped in their tracks. This is incredibly short-sighted. - Speech Link
3: Ian Murray (Lab - Edinburgh South) A big catalyst for change is arts and culture; it is a great advert. My hon. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
AI Safety - Wed 10 Dec 2025
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Mentions:
1: Julie Minns (Lab - Carlisle) In a visual language that relies on expression, tone and gestures, the risk of mistranslation is considerable - Speech Link
2: Iqbal Mohamed (Ind - Dewsbury and Batley) examples of deception, where AI asked a human to approve something by lying, claiming to be a human with visual - Speech Link
3: Chris Evans (LAB - Caerphilly) is a plethora of cutting-edge writing initiatives that would benefit from increased funding of the arts - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Creative Education - Tue 09 Dec 2025
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Simon Opher (Lab - Stroud) Research from the Arts and Minds Campaign reveals that participation in arts subjects at GCSE has fallen - Speech Link
2: Simon Opher (Lab - Stroud) high-quality arts education is open to all. - Speech Link
3: Shockat Adam (Ind - Leicester South) education via an arts pupil premium. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Autumn Budget 2025 - Thu 04 Dec 2025
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Lord Freyberg (XB - Excepted Hereditary) My Lords, the implications of this Budget for our arts and cultural sector are significant. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Planning and Infrastructure Bill
Report stage: Part 2 - Mon 27 Oct 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Earl of Clancarty (XB - Excepted Hereditary) I declare an interest as an officer for the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Visual Arts and Artists.I - Speech Link
2: None With the application process under way, Arts Council England will notify all applicants of the outcome - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Licensing Hours Extensions Bill
2nd reading - Fri 24 Oct 2025
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Lord Bailey of Paddington (Con - Life peer) Furthermore, the hospitality sector is intertwined with the arts, with a trip to the theatre likely to - Speech Link