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HANSARDFilm IndustryI regret that I will have to be slightly repetitive in giving assurances of this Government’s commitment to the creative industries. Some of these issues are decisions for the…10 Oct 2024HANSARDFilm IndustryI understand that there is no pause to the funding for the Belfast deal.10 Oct 2024HANSARDFilm IndustryI thank the noble Baroness for her proposal. I will take it back to the Minister of State in the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. I have not discussed this with him…10 Oct 2024HANSARDFilm IndustryThe noble Lord is right that this is a real focus. As he will be aware, the Labour manifesto committed to reset the UK’s relationship with the EU and improve UK-EU trade and…10 Oct 2024HANSARDFilm IndustryI will take back my noble friend’s points about mental health and the role of freelancers and speak to my noble friend Lady Merron and the Minister of State about these…10 Oct 2024HANSARDFilm IndustryThe right reverend Prelate correctly identifies that, across the piece, we have a skills shortage in this country. If we are talking about legacies from previous Governments, this…10 Oct 2024HANSARDFilm IndustryMy noble friend is right. To give her some reassurance, I think the Treasury and DCMS are entirely clear on the contribution made by all creative industries to this country’s…10 Oct 2024HANSARDFilm IndustryI am not going to respond to the suggestion that my favourite films indicate that we are going to be picking and choosing. The Secretary of State’s Statement made it clear that…10 Oct 2024HANSARDFilm IndustryMy Lords, as I hope your Lordships have understood from the Secretary of State’s Statement—I think there is consensus across the House— our film industry really is one of the UK’s…10 Oct 2024HANSARDFilm IndustryMy Lords, with the leave of the House, I shall now repeat a Statement made in another place by my right honourable friend the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport. The…10 Oct 2024HANSARDPublic Procurement: Data OffshoringI can give a bit more detail on what the Bill will focus on. I cannot give a precise date for when it will be brought forward, but it was in the King’s Speech, so we can…08 Oct 2024HANSARDPublic Procurement: Data OffshoringAs my noble friend will appreciate, the Ministry of Defence took these reports extremely seriously. In response, on 6 September this year, Maria Eagle, the Minister of State for…08 Oct 2024HANSARDPublic Procurement: Data OffshoringI think the security piece and the development piece can and should go in tandem, otherwise neither is sustainable. Three in every four people in England have already downloaded…08 Oct 2024HANSARDPublic Procurement: Data OffshoringI refer back to my initial Answer, which is that each contracting authority should carefully consider, and make risk-based decisions on, whether and where data can be offshored.…08 Oct 2024HANSARDPublic Procurement: Data OffshoringI will speak to my noble friend Lord Coaker and ask him to provide a letter responding to that point.08 Oct 2024HANSARDPublic Procurement: Data OffshoringThe noble Baroness makes a really important point. I will speak to my noble friend Lady Merron, to make sure it is taken forward through DHSC. The Government are quite clear that…08 Oct 2024HANSARDPublic Procurement: Data OffshoringOn the national procurement policy, our entire focus is on delivering change through our national missions. We will therefore be publishing a bold new procurement policy statement…08 Oct 2024HANSARDPublic Procurement: Data OffshoringEach contracting authority carefully considers and makes risk-based decisions on whether, and where, data can be offshored, and what restrictions are appropriate for service…08 Oct 2024HANSARDPublic Procurement: Data OffshoringThe government model services contract is one of three template contracts for use by government departments and wider government when procuring complex outsourced services. Value…08 Oct 2024HANSARDEuropean UnionEuropean security is our foreign and defence priority, and that includes a commitment to Ukraine and NATO as an upholder of international law. The Government’s policy is to seek…07 Oct 2024