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My Lords, I rise to speak briefly as a great admirer of NESTA, an organisation that works in an exciting and important area of our society to create a viable commercial future for science, technology and the arts. NESTA's core objective is to combine capital investment with non-financial support to help innovative early-stage companies to turn their ideas into commercial success. These target...
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My Lords, I declare an interest as a previous vice-chairman of the BFI under the chairmanship of my noble friend Lord Attenborough, who, as we all regret, cannot be in his place today. As the Minister will know, in the past, children's film was financed from the Eady levy and the funding administered by the Children's Film and Television Foundation with great success. If the principle of...
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My Lords, I join everybody in thanking the noble Earl, Lord Clancarty, for initiating this debate. He told us that this was the House's first debate on the arts for 18 months, since a debate initiated by my noble friend Lord Bragg. This has been such a wonderfully interesting afternoon that I hope that, from now on, we will sit all night talking about the arts rather than other matters. We...
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My Lords, I rise not as a private banker but as somebody who has listened with enormous interest to this debate. I knew very little about the Tote before I started the research for this evening. I found the speeches fascinating. I congratulate the noble Lord, Lord James of Blackheath, on initiating this debate and in particular on the very interesting ideas that he came up with during his...
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My Lords, the noble Baroness, Lady Bottomley, a former Secretary of State at the DCMS, appointed me as the first chair of the Library and Information Commission. Our first project, realised later by the Labour Government, was to put a computer network-known as the people's network-into all public libraries at a cost of £120 million. What is the status of the library network, given the...
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My Lords, I take this opportunity to congratulate the committee on, and thank it for, its sterling work under the chair of the noble Lord, Lord Fowler. In the few short years since its inception, the committee has chosen strong and important issues to investigate and to report on. Its work has been widely reported in the media and it has helped to raise the profile of this House and its...
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My Lords, I recognise the understandable concerns of the right reverend Prelate, but I hope that in the course of my brief speech I will be able to reassure him. I am grateful to noble Lords who have taken part in this short debate. I will attempt to answer all their questions and, if I miss any, I will arrange for letters to go out tomorrow. The noble Lord, Lord Henley, asked whether there...
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rose to move, That the draft code laid before the House on 14 June be approved.
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✍️ Written Questions and Answers
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Any decision to take forward a prosecution against the Weir Group is for the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) to make and Her Majesty's Government have no locus to intervene.
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Schedule 5 to the Government of Wales Act 2006 outlines the Legislative Competence of the National Assembly for Wales. Schedule 5 was populated in field 5 Education and Training and field 9 Health and Health Services as a result of the National Assembly for Wales (Legislative Competence) (Conversion of the Framework Power) Order 2007. There are provisions in the further education Bill and the...
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The Welsh Language Board was established under the Welsh Language Act 1993 to promote and facilitate the use of the Welsh language. The board monitors the implementation of Welsh language schemes by public bodies and has reported a steady rise in the number of bodies with Welsh language schemes. There are currently 423 statutory and 53 voluntary schemes in operation. The 2001 census showed...
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Departments and public bodies varied in the level of Welsh language service which they were providing or planning to provide prior to the 1993 Act. Since they would have been accommodated within existing budgets, it is not possible to make an assessment of any additional costs flowing specifically from the requirements of the Act.
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The figures requested are not held centrally.
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Since 1999, the Government have published, on an annual basis, details of overseas visits by Cabinet Ministers costing over £500, as well as the total cost of all ministerial overseas travel. Information for 2007-08 will be published in the usual way. There is no expenditure by the Deputy Prime Minister's Office other than the cost associated with the official party.
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The Electoral Commission is required, under Section 5 of the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000, to "prepare and publish (in such manner as the Commission may determine)" a report on the administration of the Scottish Parliament elections. It is, therefore, for the commission to determine when to publish this report, in accordance with its assessment of the task involved.
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In terms of Section 29(2)(b) of the Scotland Act 1998 a provision is outside the legislative competence of the Parliament if it relates to reserved matters. An Act of the Scottish Parliament (ASP) will not be law so far as any provision of it is outside the legislative competence of the Parliament.
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