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Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 09 Mar 2023
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Mentions:
1: Barbara Keeley (LAB - Worsley and Eccles South) The BBC’s new strategy for classical music plans to “deliver savings” by axing the world-famous BBC Singers - Speech Link
2: Julia Lopez (CON - Hornchurch and Upminster) from across the live music and recorded music sectors. - Speech Link
3: Julia Lopez (CON - Hornchurch and Upminster) We also have the Arts Council England fund for supporting grassroots live music. - Speech Link
4: John Nicolson (SNP - Ochil and South Perthshire) Grassroots music venues run at pre-tax profits of barely 0.2%. - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Pete Wishart (SNP - Perth and North Perthshire) Music is absolutely everywhere, and it has a multiplicity of genres. Music is a great chronicler. - Speech Link
2: Pete Wishart (SNP - Perth and North Perthshire) Edinburgh is becoming increasingly renowned as a European, if not world, centre for classical music. - Speech Link
3: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) based in my Glasgow Central constituency, is a huge part of that flourishing scene, in which there is classical - Speech Link
4: Pete Wishart (SNP - Perth and North Perthshire) popular radio services is broader than that of comparable providers”.The BBC’s decision to cut jazz, classical - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Robert Neill (CON - Bromley and Chislehurst) Opera is a major part of the British music scene. - Speech Link
2: Rehman Chishti (CON - Gillingham and Rainham) Hubs”.In Medway we have outstanding music provision in schools. - Speech Link
3: Barbara Keeley (LAB - Worsley and Eccles South) I declare that I am chair of the all-party parliamentary group on classical music. - Speech Link
4: Stuart Andrew (CON - Pudsey) I hope we will hear something by the end of March.ACE’s investment in opera, orchestras and other classical - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Baroness Fox of Buckley (Non-affiliated - Life peer) In recent years, museums, galleries and classical music have all indulged in angst-ridden introspection - Speech Link
2: Earl of Clancarty (CB - Excepted Hereditary) professional artists and their co-workers.Much of the focus on these cuts has been, quite rightly, on classical - Speech Link
3: Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay (CON - Life peer) for the next investment programme, Arts Council England’s investment in opera, orchestras and other classical - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill
3rd reading - Tue 13 Dec 2022
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Baroness Fox of Buckley (Non-affiliated - Life peer) University of Oxford was creating a hostile environment to academics who might oppose moves to decolonise classical - 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) Plenty of classical music lovers and many devotees of theatre do not like it. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Wheatcroft (CB - Life peer) So, I beg the Minister to contemplate what might be done to help the classical music industry.That takes - Speech Link
3: Lord Griffiths of Burry Port (LAB - Life peer) to enter the rarefied world of classical music. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Northern Ireland (Executive Formation etc) Bill
2nd reading - Mon 05 Dec 2022
Northern Ireland Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Godson (CON - Life peer) given little information so far about how those talks have progressed but, for all the improved mood music - Speech Link
2: Lord Murphy of Torfaen (LAB - Life peer) I miss him for the chats we used to have on classical music and all sorts of other things. - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Caroline Dinenage (CON - Gosport) At a time when worldwide recorded music trade revenues are set to double by 2030, British music exports - Speech Link
2: Kevin Brennan (LAB - Cardiff West) Finally, UK Music is issuing its diversity report this evening. - Speech Link
3: Barbara Keeley (LAB - Worsley and Eccles South) I declare that I am the chair of the all-party parliamentary group on classical music. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Levelling Up Rural Britain - Wed 09 Nov 2022
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Miriam Cates (CON - Penistone and Stocksbridge) From the rugged splendour of the Midhope Moors, to the picturesque village of Cawthorne, the classical - Speech Link
2: Alex Norris (LAB - Nottingham North) Member for North Devon said about elected Mayors at the beginning, I am hoping that that will be music - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Lord Aberdare (CB - Excepted Hereditary) My Lords, I start by declaring my interest as chair of Berlioz 150, a charity developing classical music - Speech Link
2: Lord Lingfield (CON - Life peer) but also other modern and classical pieces which include strings. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Mobarik (CON - Life peer) It was a wonderful way to become familiar with one of the great classical composers. - Speech Link