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HANSARDTopical QuestionsThis Government applaud and support the role that museums play in educating and inspiring audiences, including in Cornwall and across every part of the country in every Member’s…16 Oct 2025HANSARDGrassroots Music VenuesAs someone who used to manage a local band called Squeezebox when at university—available at all bad record stores—I understand that grassroots music is the lifeblood of the music…16 Oct 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsI can assure the hon. Gentleman that the DCMS ministerial team and the entire Government are fully committed to ensuring that there is full access to training and skills in the…16 Oct 2025HANSARDGaming Machines and Bingo Venues: Licensing ConsultationI am repeating the following written ministerial statement made today in the other place by my noble Friend, the Minister for Museums, Heritage and Gambling and DCMS Lords…15 Oct 2025HANSARDHeritage Sites: East of EnglandI thank my hon. Friend for that intervention, because it is true: as we have already heard from my hon. Friend the Member for Colchester, our heritage is about our future, but it…13 Oct 2025HANSARDHeritage Sites: East of EnglandI am pleased to respond to this Adjournment debate. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Colchester (Pam Cox) on securing it and wish her a very happy Essex Day. That is…13 Oct 2025HANSARDBuilding Digital UK: Integration into DepartmentToday I am announcing that Building Digital UK will be integrated into the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology from 1 November 2025. BDUK is currently an executive…13 Oct 2025HANSARDPublic Service Broadcasting Quotas System: RegulationsI am pleased to update the House that, following their publication in draft on 6 May 2025 on www.gov.uk, I can now confirm the following statutory instruments have today been laid…13 Oct 2025HANSARD London Fashion Week: Cultural ContributionIt is a pleasure to speak with you in the Chair, Dr Murrison, for my first Westminster Hall debate in my new role. I thank the shadow Minister, the hon. Member for Old Bexley and…16 Sept 2025HANSARDLife Sciences InvestmentI start by welcoming the hon. Member to her new role. I wanted to do that yesterday, but time ran away from us during questions. I am answering this question on behalf of the…11 Sept 2025HANSARDLife Sciences InvestmentThank you for your advice, Mr Speaker. I am on my last sentence. We will continue to explore opportunities to partner with MSD further and build on our long-standing relationship.11 Sept 2025HANSARDLife Sciences InvestmentI am grateful to the shadow Secretary of State for bringing the urgent question to the Chamber, as this is an incredibly important issue. Let me answer some of the questions—I…11 Sept 2025HANSARDLife Sciences InvestmentThere is no doubt that spending on NHS medicines has fallen from 15% to 9%, which is part of the problems in the pharmaceutical industry. My right hon. Friend the Secretary of…11 Sept 2025HANSARDLife Sciences InvestmentI thank the Chair of the Select Committee for that constructive approach, and I look forward to the session on Tuesday to examine this really important issue. She mentioned the…11 Sept 2025HANSARDLife Sciences InvestmentI have just been working with the Department of Health and Social Care to try to bring that forward. I do not know the exact answer to the right hon. Lady’s question. If I knew…11 Sept 2025HANSARDLife Sciences InvestmentI am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for raising those points. It is important to lay out to the public and to the House that MSD will continue to employ 1,600 people and be a key…11 Sept 2025HANSARDLife Sciences InvestmentI pay tribute to my hon. Friend for his work with the university in his constituency in a whole number of areas. All who represent university towns— I do as well—know that there…11 Sept 2025HANSARDLife Sciences InvestmentI say to the right hon. Gentleman, for whom I have the utmost respect, that in the first part of his question he quite rightly promotes the wonderful work that is going on in his…11 Sept 2025HANSARDLife Sciences InvestmentI pay tribute to my hon. Friend for her work, unpaid, at the research institute. It will be good to hear from her about what she sees from inside the sector. She raises, I think,…11 Sept 2025HANSARDLife Sciences InvestmentThe right hon. Gentleman was a Treasury Minister, so he understands some of the issues involved here. I would merely point him to the report MSD released to its shareholders for…11 Sept 2025