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Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 15 Jun 2023
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Liz Twist (LAB - Blaydon) Local radio services are vital to our local communities, especially for those with visual impairments - Speech Link
2: John Whittingdale (CON - Maldon) My noble Friend the Minister for arts has been talking to Network Rail about its plans to celebrate the - Speech Link
3: John Whittingdale (CON - Maldon) Organisers, including festivals, are eligible to apply for Arts Council England’s national lottery project - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Arts and Creative Industries: Freelancers and Self-employed Workers - Thu 15 Jun 2023
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Earl of Clancarty (CB - Excepted Hereditary) up 15% of the workforce, they represent about 32% of the creative industries, rising to 70% for the visual - Speech Link
2: Lord Cashman (LAB - Life peer) Visual artists, shockingly, report earning an average of £2.60 an hour when they deliver work or projects - Speech Link
3: Lord Foster of Bath (LDEM - Life peer) For example, freelance visual artists earn £12,500 per annum on average, yet they get very little help.Many - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Online Safety Bill
Committee stage: Part 1 - Thu 27 Apr 2023
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Baroness Harding of Winscombe (CON - Life peer) sense in which “content” is used in the Bill but “content” as in common parlance; that is, a piece of visual - Speech Link
2: Lord McNally (LDEM - Life peer) As somebody who has practised some of these dark arts myself, I advise those who are organising letters - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Performing Arts - Thu 30 Mar 2023
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Baroness Featherstone (LDEM - Life peer) — when the spending review arrived, Rishi Sunak made no mention of the arts premium.The performing arts - Speech Link
2: Baroness Evans of Bowes Park (CON - Life peer) noble Baroness for securing it.As noble Lords will be well aware, last year music, performance and the visual - Speech Link
3: Earl of Clancarty (CB - Excepted Hereditary) There are so many concerns now facing the performing arts—indeed, all the arts—that it is difficult to - Speech Link
4: Lord Bishop of St Albans (Bishops - Bishops) Library briefing, but I note that it begins—as has already been quoted—“In 2022 music, performance and visual - Speech Link
5: Lord Berkeley of Knighton (CB - Life peer) Nowadays, we do not think that the visual arts—Francis Bacon, Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko, for example—are - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
World Down Syndrome Day - Thu 23 Mar 2023
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Liam Fox (CON - North Somerset) speech and language issues, significant fine and gross motor delay, cognitive delay, hearing loss, visual - Speech Link
2: Anna Firth (CON - Southend West) without the incredible leadership and drive of the Government’s disability and access ambassador for arts - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Cash Acceptance - Mon 20 Mar 2023
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Martyn Day (SNP - Linlithgow and East Falkirk) It is different horses for different courses.Figures from the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts - Speech Link
2: Martyn Day (SNP - Linlithgow and East Falkirk) The issues included bipolar disorder, anxiety disorder, depression, arthritis, visual impairment, cognitive - Speech Link
3: Tulip Siddiq (LAB - Hampstead and Kilburn) According to a recent report from the Royal Society of Arts, 10 million people depend on cash, and the - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Theatre Tax Relief - Thu 09 Mar 2023
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Baroness Penn (CON - Life peer) My Lords, there are two different tax credit systems, as I understand it: one for film and audio-visual - Speech Link
2: Baroness McIntosh of Hudnall (LAB - Life peer) audience behaviour since the pandemic, which has had a very serious impact on the ability of performing arts - Speech Link
3: Earl of Clancarty (CB - Excepted Hereditary) My Lords, there are concerns similar to those of the theatres in the visual arts sector concerning the - Speech Link
4: Baroness Fox of Buckley (Non-affiliated - Life peer) the Minister condemn the decision by the BBC to cut the BBC Singers, which is such a tragedy for the arts - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Social Security (Additional Payments) (No. 2) Bill
Committee stage: Committee of the whole House - Mon 06 Mar 2023
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Robert Neill (CON - Bromley and Chislehurst) between 2019 and 2021 the number of young people aged 16 to 24 working in music and performing and visual - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill
Committee stage: Part 2 - Thu 23 Feb 2023
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Baroness Brinton (LDEM - Life peer) Visual artists are some of the lowest earning creatives, earning between £5,000 and £10,000 a year. - Speech Link
2: Earl of Clancarty (CB - Excepted Hereditary) the briefing from the Design and Artists Copyright Society, the rights management organisation for visual - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Artificial Intelligence: Intellectual Property Rights - Wed 01 Feb 2023
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mentions:
1: Sarah Olney (LDEM - Richmond Park) AI is rapidly permeating the creative sector, creating visual art, prose, music and film at a pace and - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) We had a massive focus on the creative arts. - Speech Link