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HANSARDCreative Freelancers: Income Support SchemeThe hon. Lady will know that the £1.57 billion cultural recovery fund will benefit freelancers because it enables the assisting of organisations to reopen and restart…05 Nov 2020HANSARDCreative Freelancers: Income Support SchemeOur world-beating cultural and creative industries are absolutely nothing without the people who work in them. We are working hard to help freelancers in those sectors to access…05 Nov 2020HANSARDPublic Singing: Covid-19I am sure that, like me, Mr Speaker, you are holding your breath until the day that we can both enjoy my right hon. Friend’s impressive falsetto once again, but in the meantime I…05 Nov 2020HANSARDEntertainment Venues: Covid-19 SupportMy hon. Friend is right to bring this issue to our attention. We understand that this remains a challenging period for many organisations in the arts and entertainments sector.…05 Nov 2020HANSARDEntertainment Venues: Covid-19 SupportWe are continually engaging with the entertainment sector about the ongoing challenges to venues up and down the country. Our unprecedented £1.57 billion cultural recovery fund is…05 Nov 2020HANSARDCreative Freelancers: Income Support SchemeAs I have already articulated, there is £119 million of Arts Council England funding for which freelancers can bid, and I am sure that the Welsh Government are doing something…05 Nov 2020HANSARDCreative Freelancers: Income Support SchemeThe hon. Lady is right to highlight the plight of freelancers, without whom, of course, our cultural institutions are simply bricks and mortar. We know that what they want to do…05 Nov 2020HANSARD Vaccine Misinformation OnlineAs I say, we are working with a whole range of other Government Departments. The Department of Health is very much leading on the communication of this, and my Department is…19 Oct 2020HANSARD Vaccine Misinformation OnlineThe hon. Gentleman is absolutely right. We do all have to be singing from the same hymn sheet and giving out the same information. We are taking a very proactive…19 Oct 2020HANSARD Vaccine Misinformation OnlineI would like to start by thanking the hon. Member for Ogmore (Chris Elmore) for tabling this really important topic for debate, and for his wider work as chair of the all-party…19 Oct 2020HANSARDCulture Recovery Fund: Arts FundingI am pleased to inform the House that yesterday we announced 1,385 cultural organisations will share over £257 million from the culture recovery fund to help support arts and…13 Oct 2020HANSARD Online HarmsIt is a pleasure to serve under your stewardship, Sir Edward. I thank the hon. Member for Halifax (Holly Lynch) for tabling this incredibly important topic for debate. This is my…07 Oct 2020HANSARD Cultural Attractions: Contribution to Local EconomyIt is a great pleasure, Sir Charles, to serve under your fantastic stewardship, and to be back in Westminster Hall. I will begin by congratulating my hon. Friend the Member for…06 Oct 2020HANSARDBritish Library Board (Power to Borrow) Bill (First sitting)I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Hitchin and Harpenden on introducing the Bill, and I thank him. As he says, it is small but perfectly formed, and that is why it has…30 Sept 2020HANSARDBritish Library Board (Power to Borrow) Bill (First sitting)It is quite simple: the board has the right to borrow commercially, but it would have to prove that such borrowing was better value for money than borrowing via Government loans,…30 Sept 2020HANSARDInternational FundingCreative Europe funds co-operation across cultural and audio-visual sectors, as the hon. Lady knows. The value of it is roughly £4 million a year. The Government decided that the…24 Sept 2020HANSARDInternational FundingBy taking back control of our money, we are able to focus on spending that reflects the needs and ambitions of UK artists and creative professionals. This includes considering…24 Sept 2020HANSARDCreative Industries: Covid-19The Government’s world-class support package has included the self-employed income support scheme, and about two thirds of those in our sector have been covered by that. Then, of…24 Sept 2020HANSARDCreative Industries: Covid-19I thank the hon. Lady for her question. I know that the arts and culture sector is massively important in Canterbury, which she represents. In fact, it has received over £245,000…24 Sept 2020HANSARDCreative Industries: Covid-19I cannot agree with the hon. Gentleman that this package of support is not working. In his own constituency of Ealing, Southall, there has been £47,000-worth of emergency funding…24 Sept 2020