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Parliamentary Debates
Human Rights: Sportswashing 23 speeches (16,210 words) Thursday 21st March 2024 - Lords Chamber Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport Mentions: 1: Baroness Grey-Thompson (XB - Life peer) However, the Commonwealth Games are facing a crisis at the moment of countries being unwilling to host - Link to Speech 2: Lord Hayward (Con - Life peer) Games, during the disabled marathon. - Link to Speech 3: Lord Addington (LD - Excepted Hereditary) I hope that this Government will be supportive of the Commonwealth Games. - Link to Speech

Parliamentary Debates

Human Rights: Sportswashing
23 speeches (16,210 words)
Thursday 21st March 2024 - Lords Chamber
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Baroness Grey-Thompson (XB - Life peer) However, the Commonwealth Games are facing a crisis at the moment of countries being unwilling to host - Link to Speech
2: Lord Hayward (Con - Life peer) Games, during the disabled marathon. - Link to Speech
3: Lord Addington (LD - Excepted Hereditary) I hope that this Government will be supportive of the Commonwealth Games. - Link to Speech

Select Committee Documents
Wednesday 20th March 2024 Oral Evidence - HM Treasury, and Infrastructure and Projects Authority Public Accounts Committee Found: Chair: There were the Commonwealth Games.

Written Answers
Commonwealth Games 2022: Official Visits Asked by: Emily Thornberry (Labour - Islington South and Finsbury) Monday 18th March 2024 Question to the Department for Business and Trade: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many people from (a) the UK and (b) overseas, excluding speakers and hosts, were projected to visit in person the UK House venue run by her Department at the Birmingham Commonwealth Games from 28 July to 8 August 2022 in the final business case approved by her Department for that event. Answered by Greg Hands - Minister of State (Department for Business and Trade) UK House was part of the wider Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games Tourism, Trade & Investment Programme business case led by West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA) & West Midlands Growth Company (WMGC) in partnership with the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, Department for International Trade and Visit Britain. The final business case provides no UK House visitor projections, either virtually or in person.
Commonwealth Games 2022: Official Visits Asked by: Emily Thornberry (Labour - Islington South and Finsbury) Monday 18th March 2024 Question to the Department for Business and Trade: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many individuals were projected to visit virtually the UK House venue run by her Department at the Birmingham Commonwealth Games from 28 July to 8 August 2022 in the final business case approved by her Department for that event. Answered by Greg Hands - Minister of State (Department for Business and Trade) UK House was part of the wider Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games Tourism, Trade & Investment Programme business case led by West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA) & West Midlands Growth Company (WMGC) in partnership with the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, Department for International Trade and Visit Britain. The final business case provides no UK House visitor projections, either virtually or in person.

Written Answers

Commonwealth Games 2022: Official Visits
Asked by: Emily Thornberry (Labour - Islington South and Finsbury)
Monday 18th March 2024

Question to the Department for Business and Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many people from (a) the UK and (b) overseas, excluding speakers and hosts, were projected to visit in person the UK House venue run by her Department at the Birmingham Commonwealth Games from 28 July to 8 August 2022 in the final business case approved by her Department for that event.

Answered by Greg Hands - Minister of State (Department for Business and Trade)

UK House was part of the wider Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games Tourism, Trade & Investment Programme business case led by West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA) & West Midlands Growth Company (WMGC) in partnership with the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, Department for International Trade and Visit Britain.

The final business case provides no UK House visitor projections, either virtually or in person.