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HANSARDMedia BillThe diversity of our world-leading television production sector is one of the main reasons that it is so successful. We have companies of different sizes operating all over the…08 May 2024HANSARDMedia BillMy Lords, as several noble Lords have noted, the indigenous languages of these islands are crucial to the lives of those who speak and cherish them. As my noble friend Lord Dunlop…08 May 2024HANSARDMedia BillMy Lords, I am grateful to the noble Baroness, Lady Bull, for starting our deliberations in Committee in such a careful and considered way. We have already had allusions to…08 May 2024HANSARDMedia BillQuestions relating to the census are a matter for colleagues in other departments, but I shall happily take the noble Lord’s point to them. I imagine that he has raised it with…08 May 2024HANSARDMedia BillI thank the noble Baroness for her brevity. I am grateful to the noble Baronesses who have taken part in this debate. I am particularly grateful to the noble Baroness, Lady…08 May 2024HANSARDTelegraph Media Group Ltd: AcquisitionThe noble Lord’s question gets to the heart of an important distinction: there are newspapers that have websites, there are websites that are news providers, and there are online…01 May 2024HANSARDTelegraph Media Group Ltd: AcquisitionMany of the provisions we have made in the digital markets Bill require the Bill to receive Royal Assent, which I hope it will very soon, and they will come into force then. Once…01 May 2024HANSARDTelegraph Media Group Ltd: AcquisitionMy Lords, I should reassure the noble Lord, Lord Bassam of Brighton, that the Government do not always agree with the editorial line of the Telegraph either, but that is the…01 May 2024HANSARDTelegraph Media Group Ltd: AcquisitionI will have to write to my noble friend on that and to give a precise number of owners of the Daily Telegraph since 1855, and of the Spectator , which is linked to this and older…01 May 2024HANSARDGambling AdvertisingMy Lords, I too thank the noble Lord, Lord Foster of Bath, for initiating today’s debate and for the way he opened it. I had the pleasure of working with him, and a number of…25 Apr 2024HANSARDGambling AdvertisingWell, as with the case that the right reverend Prelate raised, I will take that up with officials. I was spelling out some of the actions—some of which are still to come in. As I…25 Apr 2024HANSARDGambling AdvertisingI am grateful to the noble Baroness, and I hope what I have said is none the less helpful in relation to the points she raised in her speech, which I welcome. We recognise that…25 Apr 2024HANSARDLord Byron: 200th AnniversaryI am happy to reassure the noble Earl that, yes, we are. Historic England does a great deal of work, working with police forces across the UK on this important issue. We have to…16 Apr 2024HANSARDLord Byron: 200th AnniversaryI congratulate my noble friend on his poetic exhortation. The Byron Society has received support from the Heritage of London Trust but welcomes support from members of the public.…16 Apr 2024HANSARDLord Byron: 200th AnniversaryI hope that the campaign to move the statue into Hyde Park, where it can be seen and admired by more people, will help to inspire people into art, whether that is sculpture or…16 Apr 2024HANSARDLord Byron: 200th AnniversaryAs Arts Minister, I am certainly not an art critic. I have always lived by the motto “de gustibus non est disputandum” when it comes to the selection of artwork. The matter of the…16 Apr 2024HANSARDLord Byron: 200th AnniversaryMy Lords, His Majesty’s Government appreciate the great interest that the bicentenary of the death of the sixth Lord Byron has generated, both in the United Kingdom and overseas.…16 Apr 2024HANSARDLord Byron: 200th AnniversaryThe noble Earl is right to point out that the Government have moved rather slowly in this instance. Part of the difficulty has been the question of the ownership of the statue. I…16 Apr 2024HANSARDLord Byron: 200th AnniversaryI certainly do. The noble Baroness is right to remind us that, sadly, Lord Byron’s marriage was brief and unhappy, but his pioneering daughter, Ava Lovelace, deserves recognition…16 Apr 2024HANSARDLord Byron: 200th AnniversaryAs part of its plans, the Byron Society is preparing a programme of engagement and education, which is wonderful, so that in its new location the statue will be able to inspire…16 Apr 2024