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Commons Chamber
Welsh Affairs - Thu 02 Mar 2023
Wales Office

Mentions:
1: Carolyn Harris (LAB - Swansea East) Johns and the cast and crew of the Grand Theatre, where the pantomime played twice a day and at the - Speech Link
2: Stephen Crabb (CON - Preseli Pembrokeshire) in the UK and in Wales, and centre this new industry around Port Talbot and Milford Haven. - Speech Link
3: Tonia Antoniazzi (LAB - Gower) , perhaps with tickets to go to the Scarlets or the Blues—they could go to the Ospreys, but I suppose - Speech Link
4: Owen Thompson (SNP - Midlothian) In many ways, it is a classic rags to riches story. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Nationality and Borders Bill
2nd reading - Wed 05 Jan 2022
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Rosser (LAB - Life peer) and legal routes, nothing to target ruthless criminal gangs and smugglers, and a number of empty and - Speech Link
2: Lord Blunkett (LAB - Life peer) takes me back to WH Auden who, in his 1939 poem “Refugee Blues”, talks about the endeavour to be able - Speech Link
3: Lord Woolley of Woodford (CB - Life peer) hope and showed decency and leadership. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (GRN - Life peer) the largest party on this side of the House was sitting on the Government Benches—we see that it is a classic - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Copyright (Rights and Remuneration of Musicians, etc.) Bill - Fri 03 Dec 2021
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mentions:
1: Seema Malhotra (LAB - Feltham and Heston) jazz, blues, gospel, rock and rap from Asia, Africa, Latin America, the USA and around the world, and - Speech Link
2: Simon Jupp (CON - East Devon) America gave the world rock and roll; we gave them as good as we got. - Speech Link
3: Marco Longhi (CON - Dudley North) The Black Country is rock and roll and has been incredible at creating amazing home-grown talent, and - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Black History Month - Tue 20 Oct 2020
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Beth Winter (LAB - Cynon Valley) and campaigner for human and civil rights and equality. - Speech Link
2: Julie Marson (CON - Hertford and Stortford) peace, of intolerance and inclusion, and of enrichment and decline, and almost everything else we can - Speech Link
3: Taiwo Owatemi (LAB - Coventry North West) We are the city that created 2 Tone, an era-defining fusion of Jamaican ska, punk rock and new wave music - Speech Link
4: Bob Seely (CON - Isle of Wight) Joan Armatrading was the first ever UK artist to be nominated for a Grammy in the blues category. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Music Education in England - Wed 17 Jul 2019
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Lord Vaizey of Didcot (CON - Life peer) appointed as Arts Minister in May 2010, I commissioned Darren Henley, who was then the chief executive of Classic - Speech Link
2: Chris Ruane (LAB - Vale of Clwyd) At the end of the day he would burst forward with a rendition of “We Will Rock You.” - Speech Link
3: Thelma Walker (LAB - Colne Valley) Fast forward and I am a teacher and a parent. - Speech Link
4: David Warburton (IND - Somerton and Frome) difficult to quantify the cognitive benefits of understanding the structure of a Bach chorale or the blues - Speech Link
5: Nick Gibb (CON - Bognor Regis and Littlehampton) music in primary schools, which was produced by the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music, Classic - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Schools: Music Education - Thu 18 Oct 2018
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Lord Black of Brentwood (CON - Life peer) From Tallis and Byrd via Elgar and Vaughan Williams to the Beatles, the Rolling Stones and Adele, the - Speech Link
2: Lord Lingfield (CON - Life peer) What she of course wanted, she explained, was that we should play rap, blues and other music that was - Speech Link
3: Lord Agnew of Oulton (CON - Life peer) , Classic FM and Decca. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Finance (No. 2) Bill - Tue 01 Apr 2014
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Kevan Jones (LAB - North Durham) Prime Minister in relation to things such as Northern Rock, that crisis would have been a lot worse. - Speech Link
2: Julie Hilling (LAB - Bolton West) the Bill that became the Banking (Special Provisions) Act 2008, which would have let Northern Rock fail - Speech Link
3: Jacob Rees-Mogg (CON - North East Somerset) It is highly questionable that Northern Rock needed to fail if the Bank of England had been willing to - Speech Link
4: William Bain (LAB - Glasgow North East) Some have even called for the return of the special one to come and lead the blues—no, not José Mourinho - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Live Music Bill [HL] - Fri 04 Mar 2011
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Lord Clement-Jones (LDEM - Life peer) honourable friend Mike Weatherley’s Rock the House campaign, which will set up live music competitions - Speech Link
2: Lord Grade of Yarmouth (Non-affiliated - Life peer) No one wants a Glastonbury-style rock festival to explode on the local allotments but in the event the - Speech Link
3: Baroness Bakewell (LAB - Life peer) In 2009, a Northamptonshire school had to scrap a production of “We Will Rock You” following a warning - Speech Link
4: Lord Stevenson of Balmacara (LAB - Life peer) you have the absolutely classic Whitehall problem—a three-way crunch, with all that that implies for - Speech Link
5: Lord Clement-Jones (LDEM - Life peer) that great movie “The Commitments”—one of the best movies of all time, which showed how a small Irish blues - Speech Link