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Commons Chamber
International Women’s Day - Thu 09 Mar 2023
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Jackie Doyle-Price (CON - Thurrock) talking about these women, who have been victims of terrible violence, as if it is some kind of soap opera - Speech Link
2: Jackie Doyle-Price (CON - Thurrock) The way the media reports these things is like a soap opera, not a crime. - 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) I refer to my interest as chair of the all-party parliamentary group on opera and as a member of the - Speech Link
2: None clause 14, I claim philistine status on this; I am not a member of the all-party parliamentary group on opera - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Financial Services and Markets Bill
Committee stage - Wed 01 Mar 2023
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Lord Hunt of Kings Heath (LAB - Life peer) of extraordinary behaviour is that of the Arts Council, in its perverse decision to try to destroy opera - Speech Link
2: Lord Deben (CON - Life peer) I very much agree with the noble Lord opposite who talked about the terrible opera story. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
MPs and Second Jobs - Thu 23 Feb 2023
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Nigel Evans (CON - Ribble Valley) I have seen the Sydney opera house lit up with all the flags encompassed in the pride movement, and it - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Wed 01 Feb 2023
Attorney General

Mentions:
1: Robert Neill (CON - Bromley and Chislehurst) Members to discuss the situation whereby centres of national excellence, such as the English National Opera - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Smaller Musical Genres: Scotland - Tue 31 Jan 2023
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Pete Wishart (SNP - Perth and North Perthshire) Edinburgh festival; Sir James MacMillan, one of Scotland’s prime composers; our national Makar; Scottish Opera - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Holocaust Memorial Day - Thu 26 Jan 2023
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Andrew Western (LAB - Stretford and Urmston) If soap opera has taught us anything, it is that from Weatherfield to Walford, Erinsborough to Emmerdale - Speech Link
2: Felicity Buchan (CON - Kensington) Between 1934 and 1939, these two women were regular visitors to the opera houses of Germany and Austria - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Health and Social Care Information Centre (Transfer of Functions, Abolition and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2023 - Wed 25 Jan 2023
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Lord Hunt of Kings Heath (LAB - Life peer) the noble Lord, Lord Allan, I could not help thinking of “Utopia, Limited”, the Gilbert and Sullivan opera - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Arts Council England: Funding - Wed 18 Jan 2023
Department for International Trade

Mentions:
1: Rehman Chishti (CON - Gillingham and Rainham) He talks about opera, but before we get to staging opera we need to ensure that our young people have - Speech Link
2: Rachel Hopkins (LAB - Luton South) English National Opera brought its opera squad to Lea Manor High School, albeit in in Luton North, and - Speech Link
3: Barbara Keeley (LAB - Worsley and Eccles South) Opera is the major victim of this approach. - Speech Link
4: Stuart Andrew (CON - Pudsey) Organisations such as English Touring Opera and the Birmingham Opera Company will receive increased funding - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Mon 09 Jan 2023
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Rupa Huq (IND - Ealing Central and Acton) Member for Mid Bedfordshire (Ms Dorries), saying that the decision to defund the English National Opera - Speech Link