Speeches by Nandy.

“As a former member of a Select Committee that the right hon. Gentleman chaired, I am acutely aware that he is always right. I have been pleased to work with the Lawn Tennis Association and others to consider what we can do to ensure that more of that funding is used for tennis facilities. I have received representation…”

“I thank the hon. Member for his warm words. However, it takes some brass neck to represent a political party in this Chamber that in recent memory crashed the economy and left working people across the country paying the price. The demand for charities soared as a direct result of the Conservatives’ policies, while the…”

“It was a real pleasure, with the Prime Minister, to meet the Lionesses before they went off and then on to victory in the Euros. We have been working closely with rugby football and other areas of women’s sport to advance this issue. The £400 million investment that I referenced in answer to my hon. Friend the Member f…”

“As the very proud Member of Parliament for Wigan, which is the greatest coalmining community on earth—[Interruption.] I can hear that I have lost the good will of the House. I am happy to pay tribute to the work of the National Coal Mining Museum for England and to the fact that we keep alive our heritage and the histo…”

“I thank my hon. Friend for championing grassroots boxing. Our Government believe that too many sports, whether that is boxing or rugby league, have been overlooked by Government for far too long, and we are determined to bring them back into focus. My hon. Friend the Under-Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Spor…”

“I thank the hon. Member, as always, for raising an issue that has been raised with both me and the Minister for Sport. We are working with UK Sport to try to resolve it. Of course we will be cheering our athletes on in Tokyo—I am really looking forward to that—but we know that those opportunities are not available to a…”

“This Government have wasted no time in taking action to increase the amount of support available to the minority of people for whom gambling becomes a problem. As I said to the hon. Member for Old Bexley and Sidcup (Mr French), gambling brings joy to millions of people and it is an incredibly important part of the UK e…”

“That is really helpful. I absolutely take your point about language. The other thing we have been looking at is around investment in film infrastructure, and particularly around cinemas, which are often the only cultural institution in many parts of the country. I know that my hon. Friend the Member for Leigh, Jo Platt…”

“First, I thank you and the Chair for your kind words about Minister Bryant. He is currently settling into his new role at the Department for Business and Trade. Can I also put on the record my absolute agreement about the need for therapy after so many of those terrible puns? As a Government, we see film as one of the …”

“Thank you.”

“This is an issue that I have taken a personal interest in. It was raised with me by my former counterpart Stuart Andrew MP, who has had a number of issues in his constituency. It is something that I have also discussed with the Chair of the Committee in recent months. We are obviously very concerned about the closures.…”

“We are very concerned. In discussions with the company, it has said that it has a business case and that the business case is clear. However, it has caused significant job losses in parts of the country where those jobs were very important. It has also been a real blow to many families for whom those were holidays that…”

“One of the approaches this Government have taken is that we have changed the approach from the last Government, where decisions were made from Whitehall and imposed on communities. We are very keen to work with local communities to help them to realise their own ambitions for those sites. I have been in touch with a nu…”

“Yes. The financial situation facing the country is still very challenging and we are going to have to make trade-offs and choices. At the moment, we are looking at that through business planning and I have met with several members of the Committee and heard representations from many parliamentarians about their priorit…”

“Before the general election and before I was in post—I did not shadow this brief in opposition—the Prime Minister ruled out implementing Leveson 2 in full. We believe that the situation has changed quite significantly since Lord Leveson produced the second part of his report, and we share the view of the last Governmen…”

“I was. As you all know, it was a difficult spending review. We inherited a difficult financial environment, and our sectors are often vulnerable in that sort of situation. I was really pleased that we were able to come out roughly flat in terms of our spending settlement—around £9 billion over the spending review perio…”

“I have previously said that if we have to act to put this on a statutory footing, we will, but we would of course prefer that the industry gets there itself. The 50% target remains. I have already had a conversation with the new Minister for music, Ian Murray, who is very committed to this, and we will continue to take…”

“It absolutely is. Without undermining the incredible work that Minister Bryant did, that was my request as the Secretary of State. As you would imagine with Minister Bryant, the 10-point plan for music then became a 110-point plan for music, but we are working at pace to make sure we are in a position to announce somet…”

“Yes.”

“I will give you a general sense of how we are approaching this and if you then have any specific follow-ups, please press me. The first thing we have done is take a place-based approach to the way that we work in the Department. We have developed a place-based tool that enables us to zoom in to every part of the countr…”