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Lords Chamber
Regional Arts Facilities - Wed 27 Mar 2024
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay (Con - Life peer) We have also made permanent the increases to cultural tax reliefs and provided support for energy bills - Speech Link
2: Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay (Con - Life peer) But, as I said in my initial answer, my department advocates for the importance of cultural spending, - Speech Link
3: Baroness Foster of Aghadrumsee (Non-affiliated - Life peer) Will the Minister think about the possibility of looking at all the UK cultural institutions that are - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Christians: Persecution - Mon 25 Mar 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Moylan (Con - Life peer) terms, wholly admirable, but it is also universal and it does not reflect or recognise the particular cultural - Speech Link
2: Lord Bishop of Oxford (Bshp - Bishops) powerful book, Dominion, many of the core values of our society can be traced directly to our Christian heritage - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Local Government Finances - Thu 21 Mar 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Baroness Bull (XB - Life peer) Culture makes neighbourhoods more desirable places to live, with cultural spaces providing a resource - Speech Link
2: Lord Foster of Bath (LD - Life peer) biggest funders of culture, spending around £1 billion in England on services such as libraries, museums, heritage - Speech Link
3: Baroness Scott of Bybrook (Con - Life peer) I totally agree with all the speakers that arts, culture, sport and heritage make our communities unique - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Easter and Christian Culture - Thu 21 Mar 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Edward Leigh (Con - Gainsborough) He co-founded Heritage in Danger in 1974. - Speech Link
2: Andrew Rosindell (Con - Romford) Friend the Member for Don Valley rightly made that the focus of his speech—but the cultural side is also - Speech Link
3: Felicity Buchan (Con - Kensington) The Church welcomes each of them into a sustaining community of faith, and it builds around them the cultural - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Music Education - Tue 19 Mar 2024
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Michael Ellis (Con - Northampton North) described the importance of music education in the following instructive terms:“engagement in the arts and heritage - Speech Link
2: Jason McCartney (Con - Colne Valley) There is so much musical heritage, but the people involved are now worried about exactly the financial - Speech Link
3: Michael Ellis (Con - Northampton North) Our country’s great cultural offering is clearly enjoyed by many people at home and abroad. - Speech Link
4: Damian Hinds (Con - East Hampshire) expect that academies should teach music as part of their statutory requirement to promote pupils’ cultural - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Nagorno-Karabakh: Armenian Refugees - Tue 19 Mar 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Chris Law (SNP - Dundee West) Will Armenian culture and heritage in Nagorno-Karabakh suffer the same fate? - Speech Link
2: Stephen Doughty (LAB - Cardiff South and Penarth) and religious heritage, not only in Nagorno-Karabakh but more broadly. - Speech Link
3: Leo Docherty (Con - Aldershot) heritage of all the peoples of the region is protected and preserved for the benefit of all. - Speech Link


Grand Committee
North East Mayoral Combined Authority (Establishment and Functions) Order 2024 - Mon 18 Mar 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Lord Beith (LD - Life peer) I particularly endorse her point that the creative industry and cultural work have a very important place - Speech Link
2: Baroness Scott of Bybrook (Con - Life peer) Durham, £19.9 million from the future high streets fund has been granted to support the town’s culture, heritage - Speech Link
3: None Going back to the cultural issues, if the north-east is going to grow as a cultural area for the whole - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Public Procurement (British Goods and Services) Bill
2nd reading - Fri 15 Mar 2024
Northern Ireland Office

Mentions:
1: Sarah Champion (Lab - Rotherham) We are incredibly proud of that heritage. - Speech Link
2: Sarah Champion (Lab - Rotherham) Of course some SMEs are rejected for good reasons, but there is clearly a cultural issue in public contracts - Speech Link
3: Sarah Champion (Lab - Rotherham) That is what we have to change.There is clearly a cultural issue, which is demonstrated by the fact that - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
St Patrick’s Day: Irish Diaspora in the UK - Thu 14 Mar 2024
Northern Ireland Office

Mentions:
1: Rebecca Long Bailey (Lab - Salford and Eccles) Niall Gallagher, the chairman of Irish Heritage, has described the contribution of the Irish to cultural - Speech Link
2: Rebecca Long Bailey (Lab - Salford and Eccles) Others saw the growing community and sought to build a network of support and shared cultural heritage - Speech Link
3: Rebecca Long Bailey (Lab - Salford and Eccles) No matter our political affiliations, I think our Irish heritage, or our love of Irish heritage, brings - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
United Kingdom: Union - Thu 14 Mar 2024
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Lord McInnes of Kilwinning (Con - Life peer) They will be disappointed by what they will portray as my weak-kneed approach to the union’s cultural - Speech Link
2: Lord Lilley (Con - Life peer) unite people and create a sense of being one nation or one union: common language, common religious and cultural - Speech Link
3: Baroness Foster of Aghadrumsee (Non-affiliated - Life peer) Some are cultural and constitutional unionists, like myself; others are economic unionists; others, as - Speech Link
4: Lord Cameron of Lochiel (Con - Life peer) part in a number of initiatives; for example, promoting the Gaelic language as a part of the shared heritage - Speech Link