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HANSARDTopical QuestionsThat is a bit transporty for me. First, the best ice cream in Britain is produced in the Rhondda by Subzero, and I am happy to have a contest with the hon. Member any day of the…22 May 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsI have looked at some of the material for Havelok’s weekend—I think he is getting a weekend. I did not know the story of Grim, the fisherman who saved the young Prince Havelok,…22 May 2025HANSARDUK Film ProductionI am glad somebody is celebrating the film industry. My hon. Friend is absolutely right: we need to make sure that kids from every single constituency in this land can think of…22 May 2025HANSARDUK Artists Touring the EUMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. The west end of London is very important to not just our film industry, but our tourism. Cultural exchange with other countries in Europe is a…22 May 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsI get a lot of invites. [ Interruption. ] Yes, I honestly do get a lot of invites—and some of them I take up. I am a bit Ado Annie: I’m just a girl who cain’t say no I’m in a…22 May 2025HANSARDUK Film ProductionWe support and incentivise film production in the UK through our range of audiovisual tax reliefs, through support for business rates relief, and through funding directly to the…22 May 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsI have said that we will make the levy statutory if we need to do so, but we are making progress. I had wanted us to have made substantial progress by the first quarter of this…22 May 2025HANSARDUK Film ProductionWhat utter nonsense! The hon. Gentleman may only just have arrived in this House in the last year—of course, today is the anniversary of the moment when the former Prime Minister…22 May 2025HANSARDUK-India Cultural Co-operation AgreementThe programme of cultural co-operation, which the Secretary of State signed earlier this month, creates significant opportunities for the UK’s cultural sectors to reach a market…22 May 2025HANSARD Data (Use and Access) Bill [Lords]And fashion.22 May 2025HANSARDUK-India Cultural Co-operation AgreementThere could not be a better constituency MP than my hon. Friend to highlight this subject, and to show this symbolic uniting of Indian and British culture. I think British bhangra…22 May 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsI think my hon. Friend asked what steps I am taking to promote dance. Well, it takes two to tango, and we are working with the Department for Education to try to ensure that…22 May 2025HANSARDUK Artists Touring the EUThe question I am asking myself is: why on earth is the hon. Gentleman perpetuating daft rumours? Honestly, the Department is not going to be abolished; it would be absolute…22 May 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe hon. Lady is right: one of the things that brings a lot of people to the UK as tourists—we want to reach 50 million international visitors by 2030—is seeing places where…22 May 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsI am happy to look at anything, but we are reluctant to start putting levies on things that close down the British business. My hon. Friend makes a good point about trying to make…22 May 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsMy hon. Friend makes a good point. One of the things that worries me about the creative industries in the UK is that often the only people who conceive of them as a possible…22 May 2025HANSARD Data (Use and Access) Bill [Lords]Sugababes, surely!22 May 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsYes, and if the hon. Member sends me a link, I will contribute myself.22 May 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsAnd, “one man in his time plays many parts”. Clearly, my hon. Friend is one of those people. We are determined to sort this out. I know that there are many of us who fear that we…22 May 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsSince the last Question Time, we have closed the deal on a multibillion-pound investment in a new Universal Studios theme park, and the Secretary of State has signed a cultural…22 May 2025