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Debate between Chris Bryant and Desmond Swayne
Thursday 3rd April 2025

(1 day, 20 hours ago)

Commons Chamber
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Chris Bryant Portrait Chris Bryant
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Or some of the armour, because there was a time when it was fine for a man to wear a brooch; perhaps that time will come again. I pay tribute to Burnby Hall gardens and museum, and it would be amazing if we were able to get it back into full use. The gardens are amazing—apparently there are 80 different kinds of wild water lily—but it would be good if we could get the whole museum going, and I pay tribute to the volunteers who are trying to make that happen.

Desmond Swayne Portrait Sir Desmond Swayne (New Forest West) (Con)
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9. What recent assessment she has made of the potential impact of the planned increase in employer national insurance contributions on creative industries.

Chris Bryant Portrait The Minister for Creative Industries, Arts and Tourism (Chris Bryant)
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As the right hon. Gentleman knows, a large proportion of the creative industries are constituted as small and medium-sized enterprises, and the vast majority of those are protected from the increase in national insurance contributions. Importantly, as many of them have said to me, they fully understand the need for greater expenditure on our public services, and that has to be matched by finding the money from somewhere.

Desmond Swayne Portrait Sir Desmond Swayne
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I have always been particularly impressed by your brooch, Mr Speaker. Nevertheless, those increases are damaging for any enterprise, but we could make it up to them by restoring Baroness Kidron’s amendment to the Data (Use and Access) Bill. Will the Minister do that?

Chris Bryant Portrait Chris Bryant
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No, we have just taken it out of the Bill for the precise reason that we do not think it would make the blindest bit of difference to the financial support provided to creative industries today. That is why we are not supporting the amendment.

LGBT Action Plan

Debate between Chris Bryant and Desmond Swayne
Tuesday 3rd July 2018

(6 years, 9 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Desmond Swayne Portrait Sir Desmond Swayne (New Forest West) (Con)
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Civil partnerships were introduced to accommodate those couples who were discriminated against by being unable to marry, so the Minister should add to her list of actions the abolition of that institution of discrimination, should she not?