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Written Question
Listed Places of Worship Grant Scheme: South East
Tuesday 21st January 2025

Asked by: Damian Hinds (Conservative - East Hampshire)

Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will make an assessment of the impact of the Listed Places of Worship Grant Scheme on religious minority groups in (a) Hampshire (b) South East England.

Answered by Chris Bryant - Minister of State (Department for Business and Trade)

Since August 2022, the Listed Places of Grant Scheme has awarded more than £3 million to 416 Non-Christian listed places of worship. This includes Buddhist, Jewish, Islamic, Hindu and other denominations. In the same timeframe the Listed Places of Worship Grant Scheme has awarded £108,618 to 15 listed places of worship for non-Christian religious minority groups across South East England, and £5,576 to a single listed place of worship for a religious minority group in Hampshire.

Written Question
Listed Places of Worship Grant Scheme
Tuesday 21st January 2025

Asked by: Damian Hinds (Conservative - East Hampshire)

Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment she has made of the contribution of the Listed Places of Worship Grant Scheme to the heritage crafts sector.

Answered by Chris Bryant - Minister of State (Department for Business and Trade)

Churches can have an important part to play in heritage skills and crafts. For example, in summer 2024, Historic England's Heritage Building Skills Summer School took place at St John the Evangelist Church, Lancaster, a Churches Conservation Trust site. The Government funds both Historic England and Churches Conservation Trust, and the summer school is part of the Heritage Building Skills Programme, a five-year training and apprenticeships programme running from 2021-2026.

Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 26 Oct 2022
Online Harms

"I beg to move,

That this House has considered online harms.

It is a great pleasure to see you in the Chair, Mr Dowd. This is the first time I have had the opportunity to serve in Westminster Hall under your chairmanship—[Interruption.] In a debate about technology, …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 26 Oct 2022
Online Harms

"I absolutely agree about the centrality of the algorithms and about understanding how they work. We may come on to that later in the debate. That brings me on to my next point. Of course, we should not think of Molly’s tragedy as a single event; there have been other …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 26 Oct 2022
Online Harms

"I agree. Some of those matters should be addressed in the Bill and some outside it, but my hon. Friend, whom I commend for all his work, particularly on pensions fraud and investment fraud, is absolutely right that as the balance in the types of crimes has shifted, the ways …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 26 Oct 2022
Online Harms

"I shall accelerate in that case. The third area I want to mention, from my previous role as Security Minister, is disinformation. I welcome what is called the bridge that has been built between the Online Safety Bill and the National Security Bill to deal specifically with state-sponsored disinformation, which …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 26 Oct 2022
Online Harms

"I thank the hon. Lady; I think her point stands on its own.

The second additional factor I want to put forward, which may sound odd, is that in this context there is not a hard line between what is legal and what is not. I mentioned emoji abuse. I …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 26 Oct 2022
Online Harms

"The world of law enforcement...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 20 Oct 2022
Oral Answers to Questions

"The Secretary of State will have seen the research last week from Ofcom on children’s online ages, which showed that because children routinely sign up for social media before the supposed minimum age of 13, using a false date of birth, they then continue to get older in how they …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 12 Jul 2022
Online Safety Bill

"May I join others in welcoming my hon. Friend the Member for Folkestone and Hythe (Damian Collins) to his place on the Front Bench? He brings a considerable amount of expertise. I also, although it is a shame he is not here to hear me say nice things about him, …..."
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