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HANSARDAmazonWe are working across the piece to protect jobs in all parts of the economy and to clamp down on any abuses that we are aware of.12 Oct 2020HANSARDCharitable Incorporated Organisations (Insolvency and Dissolution) (Amendment) (No.2) Regulations 2020My Lords, debating these regulations this afternoon has been a pleasure, and I appreciate the constructive tone brought to the debate very much. I will try to answer the points…09 Oct 2020HANSARDCharitable Incorporated Organisations (Insolvency and Dissolution) (Amendment) (No.2) Regulations 2020My Lords, I am pleased to introduce a statutory instrument laid before the House on 13 August. The Joint Committee on Statutory Instruments reported the regulations for unexpected…09 Oct 2020HANSARDCharitable Incorporated Organisations (Insolvency and Dissolution) (Amendment) (No.2) Regulations 2020That the Regulations laid before the House on 13 August be approved. Relevant documents: 23rd Report from the Joint Committee on Statutory Instruments (s pecial attention drawn to…09 Oct 2020HANSARDProfessional and Amateur Sport: Government SupportThe Government have been very clear on the value of sport, both amateur and professional, and encouraging people to take part. We have welcomed many of the online initiatives over…01 Oct 2020HANSARDProfessional and Amateur Sport: Government SupportThe noble Baroness is right that these clubs have been a crucial element in the fabric of our communities for many years, much longer than some of the elite clubs. Obviously those…01 Oct 2020HANSARDProfessional and Amateur Sport: Government SupportI think maybe the noble Lord asked more than one question, but I will try to answer as best I can. On his last point about acting swiftly and decisively, I reassure him that the…01 Oct 2020HANSARDProfessional and Amateur Sport: Government SupportThe noble Viscount asks a very detailed question. If I may, I will respond in writing.01 Oct 2020HANSARDProfessional and Amateur Sport: Government SupportAs the noble Lord knows, we have given assurance to the national football league that will allow the clubs to reopen and start playing from today. We are at the planning stage in…01 Oct 2020HANSARDProfessional and Amateur Sport: Government SupportThe Government are very keen to support all sports, for the reasons that we have already summarised, in terms of both their specific sporting contribution and their wider…01 Oct 2020HANSARDProfessional and Amateur Sport: Government SupportIt is hard to assess the absolute impact of the fact that some leisure centres have not yet reopened, because obviously there is a substitution with other provision being offered,…01 Oct 2020HANSARDProfessional and Amateur Sport: Government SupportMy noble friend is absolutely right. Great progress has been made at both elite and grass-roots levels in women’s sport. My honourable friend the Minister for Sport was absolutely…01 Oct 2020HANSARDProfessional and Amateur Sport: Government SupportI share the right reverend Prelate’s appreciation of the fact that sports clubs do so much more for their communities than just provide sport, and I welcome very much the pilot…01 Oct 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Regional TheatresI welcome my noble friend to his place in the Chamber. He makes two helpful suggestions. He is quite right that the theatre productions tax relief generated £71 million in the…28 Sept 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Regional TheatresI am happy to echo the noble Baroness’s recognition of the important work that many local theatres and other cultural organisations have done during the pandemic. There has been…28 Sept 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Regional TheatresMy Lords, I am sorry to hear about the fate of the Dudley Hippodrome. However, strategically, this fund has been very much aligned to the fact that we must protect key physical…28 Sept 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Regional TheatresI thank the noble Earl for helping me to answer the question. He is quite right that there are two key criteria in the culture recovery fund: institutions of national importance,…28 Sept 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Regional TheatresI am not clear where the Chancellor said he did not see these as viable jobs. We have used every effort to make sure that the unprecedented level of support for these sectors is…28 Sept 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Regional TheatresMy Lords, this Government recognise how severely regional theatres and the wider arts sector have been hit by the Covid-19 crisis. Our unprecedented £1.57 billion cultural…28 Sept 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Regional TheatresI am pleased to reassure the noble Lord that that is exactly the way that my right honourable friend the Secretary of State and the Minister for Culture are approaching this. They…28 Sept 2020