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Commons Chamber
Budget Resolutions - Wed 06 Mar 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Peter Bottomley (Con - Worthing West) I ask Treasury Ministers to consider whether in the Finance Bill they could lift that figure to £40,000 - Speech Link
2: Priti Patel (Con - Witham) I heard Opposition Members speaking about local government finance; I welcome the announcement of £5 - Speech Link
3: Jeremy Corbyn (Ind - Islington North) When the Government say they are very pleased that Britain is an attractive place for arts and culture - Speech Link
4: Kevin Foster (Con - Torbay) instant growth for the hospitality sector in the bay.It is welcome to hear the tax relief on performing arts - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Financial Statement and Budget Report - Wed 06 Mar 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Jeremy Hunt (Con - South West Surrey) transitions to the growth guarantee scheme, helping 11,000 small and medium-sized enterprises access the finance - Speech Link
2: Jeremy Hunt (Con - South West Surrey) Friend the Member for Banff and Buchan (David Duguid), we will also legislate in the Finance Bill to - Speech Link


Written Statements
Levelling-up Measures: Update - Fri 01 Mar 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Michael Gove (Con - Surrey Heath) Middlesbrough College to increase access to training in high-demand sectors, new public health centres, a new arts - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Media Bill
2nd reading - Wed 28 Feb 2024
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Lord Bassam of Brighton (Lab - Life peer) time promoting their strengths internationally and celebrating their role in helping make the UK the arts - Speech Link
2: Baroness Kidron (XB - Life peer) silence is evidence that a narrowing of the list will likely result in a downgrading of religious, arts - Speech Link
3: Viscount Colville of Culross (XB - Excepted Hereditary) It said that PSB provision of and investment in arts, religion, formal education and children’s content - Speech Link
4: Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay (Con - Life peer) that Channel 4 provides to my department and UK Government Investments, the Government’s corporate finance - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Poverty Reduction - Thu 22 Feb 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Lord Bishop of Durham (Bshp - Bishops) unpaid work include running food banks, caring for those in need and running local sports and creative arts - Speech Link
2: Lord Desai (XB - Life peer) I am making all this up, but I do not think it is impossible to finance that sort of thing. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Local Authorities: Financial Difficulties - Wed 14 Feb 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Baroness Scott of Bybrook (Con - Life peer) Taking into account the recently announced local government finance settlement, that makes available - Speech Link
2: Lord Young of Cookham (Con - Life peer) Will not whoever wins the next election have to undertake a major review of local government finance? - Speech Link
3: Baroness Scott of Bybrook (Con - Life peer) In December 2022, the Government ruled out reform of the local government finance system in this Parliament - Speech Link
4: Lord Bishop of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich (Bshp - Bishops) recently been caught up in discussions with Suffolk County Council about funding cuts it was making to its arts - Speech Link
5: Lord Laming (XB - Life peer) Local government finance really is in desperate need of a fundamental review. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Wed 07 Feb 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Kemi Badenoch (Con - Saffron Walden) Trade we work with the British Business Bank to ensure that those businesses continue to have access to finance - Speech Link
2: Philip Hollobone (Con - Kettering) £2 million bid to repurpose the redundant Gala Bingo hall in Kettering high street into a community arts - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Local Government Finance - Wed 07 Feb 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Lee Rowley (Con - North East Derbyshire) I beg to move,That the Local Government Finance Report (England) 2024–25 (HC 318), which was laid before - Speech Link
2: Clive Betts (Lab - Sheffield South East) When local government finance gets into difficulties, Ministers always resort to saying, “Councils have - Speech Link
3: David Simmonds (Con - Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner) However, as has been well reflected in the debate, local government finance is a huge part of overall - Speech Link
4: Peter Aldous (Con - Waveney) those challenges and an inadequate provisional settlement, Suffolk County Council cut its funding for arts - Speech Link
5: Simon Hoare (Con - North Dorset) I believe this local government finance settlement delivers on all three. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Ministerial Severance: Reform - Tue 06 Feb 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Esther McVey (Con - Tatton) Will she take this opportunity to apologise for the private finance initiative schemes that her party - Speech Link
2: Kirsty Blackman (SNP - Aberdeen North) We saw that once again yesterday during the Finance Bill, where they unilaterally changed the Ways and - Speech Link
3: Michael Ellis (Con - Northampton North) terms of ministerial positions, I served as Deputy Leader of the House of Commons, Minister for the Arts - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Lord Kinnock (Lab - Life peer) arts enterprises and 63,000 voluntary arts organisations. - Speech Link
2: Lord Bishop of St Albans (Bshp - Bishops) not just to finance and the economy but to society. - Speech Link
3: Lord Browne of Madingley (XB - Life peer) This must be recognised, with commensurate levels of public finance, but more philanthropy must be encouraged - Speech Link