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Lords Chamber
King’s Speech - Tue 14 Nov 2023
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Mentions:
1: Lord Clement-Jones (LD - Life peer) decision in certain circumstances—for instance, where policing, justice, health, or personal welfare or finance - Speech Link
2: Lord Rees of Ludlow (XB - Life peer) To give one example, if a fine arts degree gives a gifted and committed artist the expertise to follow - Speech Link
3: Baroness Fox of Buckley (Non-affiliated - Life peer) It was set up by the dancer and choreographer Rosie Kay and a former senior Arts Council officer, Denise - Speech Link
4: Lord Hampton (XB - Excepted Hereditary) We have world leaders in architecture, music, film, arts, advertising, design, fashion and photography - Speech Link
5: Baroness Thornton (Lab - Life peer) We need to celebrate local creative arts venues. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
King’s Speech - Mon 13 Nov 2023
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Lord Callanan (Con - Life peer) , we published a cross-government green finance strategy and a nature markets framework in March 2023 - Speech Link
2: Lord Cromwell (XB - Excepted Hereditary) standards for space activity that it hopes will become the norm for space projects seeking investor finance - Speech Link
3: Baroness Drake (Lab - Life peer) would be better for government to create the right conditions for attracting investment in productive finance - Speech Link
4: Lord Hain (Lab - Life peer) Haldane, former chief economist at the Bank of England and now the director of the Royal Society of Arts - Speech Link
5: Baroness Penn (Con - Life peer) worst affected, providing a business rates holiday for more than 750,000 businesses, and protecting our arts - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Building an NHS Fit for the Future - Mon 13 Nov 2023
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Barbara Keeley (Lab - Worsley and Eccles South) There is a direct link between the working conditions of musicians and decisions to cut arts and culture - Speech Link
2: Nick Fletcher (Con - Don Valley) Middle management and back-office staff are always targeted, poor private finance initiative contracts - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
King’s Speech - Thu 09 Nov 2023
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Lord Young of Cookham (Con - Life peer) what happens nearly everywhere else, where rented accommodation is funded by long-term institutional finance - Speech Link
2: Lord Touhig (Lab - Life peer) member of Gwent County Council before entering the House of Commons, where I served as chair of the Finance - Speech Link
3: Lord Aberdare (XB - Excepted Hereditary) English baccalaureate measure in crowding out subjects not included in the five EBacc pillars, notably arts - Speech Link
4: Lord Wallace of Saltaire (LD - Life peer) cuts in the size of the Government’s bulging parliamentary payroll, and tighter rules on political finance - Speech Link
5: Baroness Pinnock (LD - Life peer) That is disgraceful and needs to change.I will say a word on local government finance, which is important - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Family Migration (Justice and Home Affairs Committee Report) - Wed 20 Sep 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Murray of Blidworth (CON - Life peer) who work in the fields of science, engineering, the humanities, medicine, digital technology or the arts - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Local Authorities: Budgets - Tue 19 Sep 2023
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Baroness Penn (CON - Life peer) The 2023-24 local government finance settlement provided councils with a 9% increase in core spending - Speech Link
2: Earl of Clancarty (CB - Excepted Hereditary) My Lords, arts facilities will be among the first to go when local authorities have no money. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Penn (CON - Life peer) Additionally, we have put significant support into the arts and culture sector through not only the culture - Speech Link
4: Lord Watts (LAB - Life peer) My Lords, have the Government not been fiddling with the local government finance system for years? - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Flying Schools - Tue 12 Sep 2023
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Tim Loughton (CON - East Worthing and Shoreham) Specifically, it has brought in its finance fairness charter, under which it asks that, as dedicated - Speech Link
2: Ian Paisley (DUP - North Antrim) They will probably be able to pay off the loans more quickly than students who do an arts degree. - Speech Link
3: Mike Kane (LAB - Wythenshawe and Sale East) With no mechanism for student finance, many aspiring pilots take extreme measures, such as multiple loans - Speech Link
4: Ian Paisley (DUP - North Antrim) We recognise the value of an arts degree, which we relate to salary, and that is very commendable. - Speech Link
5: Jesse Norman (CON - Hereford and South Herefordshire) valuable proposition that it is in the interest of companies in the aviation sector to support and finance - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Life Skills and Citizenship - Thu 07 Sep 2023
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Baroness Garden of Frognal (LDEM - Life peer) every year when “Hamlet” and calculus are deemed more important than engineering, catering, music, the arts—indeed - Speech Link
2: Lord Sandhurst (CON - Excepted Hereditary) secondary schools, since 2014, teachers say that too many children leave without an adequate grasp of finance - Speech Link
3: Baroness Barran (CON - Life peer) That is why we are investing £115 million in music and the arts up to 2025, in addition to core school - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 07 Sep 2023
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Penny Mordaunt (CON - Portsmouth North) She will know that almost £5 million in Arts Council England funding has been awarded to 162 organisations - Speech Link
2: Penny Mordaunt (CON - Portsmouth North) He will know that, historically, in terms of finance and people on the ground, our strongest bilateral - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Financial Education in Schools - Wed 06 Sep 2023
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Andy Carter (CON - Warrington South) that, I mean not just personal finances, but macrofinance—I will talk a little more about that—and the finance - Speech Link
2: Nick Gibb (CON - Bognor Regis and Littlehampton) There was also a positive correlation between financial literacy and learning finance-related terms at - Speech Link