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Lords Chamber
Creative Industries: Freelance Champion - Thu 22 Jan 2026
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Baroness Twycross (Lab - Life peer) venues—museums, libraries and heritage buildings—across England from closure. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Buscombe (Con - Life peer) people who say, “Come and work for us, but we cannot pay you”. - Speech Link
3: Lord Wigley (PC - Life peer) the appointment is made and is effective, it will relate to all the many and varied people in this sector - Speech Link
4: Baroness McIntosh of Hudnall (Lab - Life peer) sector—performing and visual arts, and museums—is a significant employer of freelance practitioners. - Speech Link
5: Baroness Twycross (Lab - Life peer) The Government and particularly DCMS strongly welcomed our noble friend Lady Hodge’s review of Arts Council - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Retail and Hospitality Sector - Thu 22 Jan 2026
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Bishop of Newcastle (Bshp - Bishops) In Northumberland, co-ordinated tourism strategies promote heritage assets such as Alnwick Castle and - Speech Link
2: Lord Harlech (Con - Excepted Hereditary) We are forcing custodians of our national heritage to choose between their workforce and their heritage - Speech Link
3: Lord John of Southwark (Lab - Life peer) and vastly increased skills and training opportunities, to ensuring that the arts and culture are something - Speech Link
4: Baroness Jones of Whitchurch (Lab - Life peer) I know that his commitment to the arts, in particular his work with the Old Vic and the Central School - Speech Link
5: Lord Leong (Lab - Life peer) , law, education, arts and culture. - Speech Link


Grand Committee
English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill
Committee stage - Tue 20 Jan 2026
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Lord Freyberg (XB - Excepted Hereditary) His amendment rightly strengthens the strategic recognition of the arts, heritage and creative industries - Speech Link
2: Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay (Con - Life peer) people were cut off from the arts, creativity and heritageand saw the natural yearning in us all to - Speech Link
3: Earl of Devon (XB - Excepted Hereditary) the Exeter place partnership, which has been particularly successful in encouraging arts and heritage - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
County Durham: Cultural Opportunities - Tue 20 Jan 2026
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Mary Kelly Foy (Lab - City of Durham) It is a beacon of working-class heritage and culture. - Speech Link
2: Mary Kelly Foy (Lab - City of Durham) We need to remember that heritage and culture—and, yes, it is something for tourists to enjoy as well.Alongside - Speech Link
3: Nicholas Dakin (Lab - Scunthorpe) Friend has spoken with great passion, conviction and authority about the flourishing of the arts and - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 15 Jan 2026
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Katrina Murray (Lab - Cumbernauld and Kirkintilloch) arts and music spaces and the local theatre, which are excited by the prospect of the town of culture - Speech Link
2: Luke Murphy (Lab - Basingstoke) Basingstoke has a rich cultural heritage, from world-class venues such as the Anvil and the Haymarket - Speech Link
3: Ian Murray (Lab - Edinburgh South) Friend for the work he does to champion the arts and music in his constituency. - Speech Link
4: Lisa Nandy (Lab - Wigan) , Media and Arts held a roundtable about it recently. - Speech Link
5: Nick Smith (Lab - Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney) The project included important security works and significant ground and heritage works. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
New Towns - Thu 15 Jan 2026
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Katrina Murray (Lab - Cumbernauld and Kirkintilloch)and later moving into computers and printers.People moved to Cumbernauld for work and opportunity, and - Speech Link
2: Richard Fuller (Con - North Bedfordshire) heritage, in particular around RAF Tempsford, and there is a lot of concern about one of the most important - Speech Link
3: Chris Bloore (Lab - Redditch) The aim was to integrate old and new and bring together town and country. - Speech Link
4: Chris Hinchliff (Lab - North East Hertfordshire) To this day, the arts and crafts-inspired architecture of Letchworth makes it an incredibly special place - Speech Link
5: Gideon Amos (LD - Taunton and Wellington) He was surely right to espouse a vision of how people and nature, town and country, and society and the - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Crime and Policing Bill
Committee stage - Thu 15 Jan 2026
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Hanson of Flint (Lab - Life peer) I accept and understand that the noble and learned Lord, Lord Garnier, the noble and learned Baroness - Speech Link
2: Lord Faulkner of Worcester (Lab - Life peer) This is seriously disrupting the business activities of heritage railways and adding significantly to - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Schools and Universities: Language Learning - Thu 08 Jan 2026
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Baroness Coussins (XB - Life peer) and accuracy, which trump AI tendencies to confuse and hallucinate, confuse numbers and names or fail - Speech Link
2: Baroness Blower (Lab - Life peer) It increases cognitive flexibility and adaptability, and these are clearly very good reasons and worth - Speech Link
3: Baroness Shephard of Northwold (Con - Life peer) It is backed by the British Academy, the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the Association of School - Speech Link
4: Baroness Stuart of Edgbaston (XB - Life peer) Such concepts and ideas have enormous impacts in history, and understanding language and its power, and - Speech Link
5: Baroness Smith of Malvern (Lab - Life peer) and enable them to experience new cultures and learning environments and to learn languages, to recognise - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Israel: Trade - Thu 08 Jan 2026
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Lord Austin of Dudley (Non-affiliated - Life peer) innovation, defence and security, and health and education. - Speech Link
2: Lord Blencathra (Con - Life peer) and co-operation on the military and defence. - Speech Link
3: Lord Stockwood (Lab - Life peer) firms in the advanced manufacturing sectors.Reflecting our shared heritage as tech-savvy and innovative - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
UK Town of Culture - Wed 07 Jan 2026
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Matt Rodda (Lab - Reading Central) an arts and heritage hub. - Speech Link
2: Joe Robertson (Con - Isle of Wight East) Thanks to the previous Government’s £2 billion culture recovery fund, many arts and heritage organisations - Speech Link
3: Ian Murray (Lab - Edinburgh South) for cultural heritage and outreach to schools? - Speech Link