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1606683

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date	23/03/2023
answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	217
answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Music Venues: Ownership
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will take steps to assist people managing small music venues to acquire the freehold ownership of those venues in order to create protected leaseholds.
tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
uin	172327
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2023 answer text <p>The Government is committed to supporting our grassroots music venues, which are the lifeblood and research and development centres of our world-leading music sector.</p><p>The Music Venues Trust created Music Venue Properties and launched the ‘Own Our Venues’ campaign in June 2022. The campaign is currently raising funds to take control of the freeholds of music venue premises and bring them under a protected status of benevolent ownership. The Government is supportive of this industry-led initiative and welcomes the sector seeking solutions to ensure the longevity of the UK’s beloved music venues. Minister Lopez is meeting Music Venues Trust shortly to discuss issues facing the live music sector, and how to support growth of the music sector and wider Creative Industries.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hornchurch and Upminster answering member printed Julia Lopez question first answered 27/03/2023 17:03:46 answering member 4647 label Biography information for Julia Lopez
tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson

1606728

registered interest
date	23/03/2023
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Members: Correspondence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when she plans to respond to correspondence of 20 March 2023 from the hon. Member for Sefton Central on the repair of school buildings in Sefton Central constituency.
tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
uin	172387
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/03/2023 answer text <p>A response to the hon. Member for Sefton Central’s correspondence will be sent shortly.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 28/03/2023 16:58:57 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson

1606779

registered interest
date	23/03/2023
answering body	Department for Business and Trade
answering dept id	214
answering dept short name	Business and Trade
answering dept sort name	Business and Trade
hansard heading	Small Businesses: Government Assistance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps she plans to take to support small and medium sized businesses with the effects of trends in the level of (a) inflation and (b) energy costs.
tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
uin	172388
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/03/2023 answer text <p>Government recognises the impact of increased costs on small businesses and is freezing the business rates multiplier for another year, worth £9.3 billion over the next 5 years. Small to medium sized businesses will have also benefitted from a range of government measures, including reversal of the National Insurance rise, cut to fuel duty for 24 months, support via the Energy Bill Relief Scheme and an increase in the Employment Allowance to £5,000.</p> answering member constituency Thirsk and Malton answering member printed Kevin Hollinrake question first answered 28/03/2023 14:39:36 answering member 4474 label Biography information for Kevin Hollinrake
tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson

1606780

registered interest
date	23/03/2023
answering body	Department for Business and Trade
answering dept id	214
answering dept short name	Business and Trade
answering dept sort name	Business and Trade
hansard heading	Skilled Workers: Vacancies
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps her Department plans to take to address (a) skill and (b) labour shortages following the Budget 2023.
tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
uin	172389
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/04/2023 answer text <p>At Spring Budget, the Government announced a wide-ranging package to break down barriers to work, unshackle business investment and tackle labour shortages head on. It included a new ‘Returnerships’ apprenticeship targeted at the over 50s, refining existing skills programmes to enable older workers to find a recognisable path back into work. The Chancellor also announced expansions to Sector-Based Work Academies and Skills Bootcamps, both existing and highly-successful skills programmes.</p><p>The Government is also backing six Private Members Bills to help new parents, unpaid carers, hospitality workers, giving all employees easier access to flexible working, and giving workers’ a right to request a more predictable working pattern.</p> answering member constituency Thirsk and Malton answering member printed Kevin Hollinrake question first answered 04/04/2023 10:59:30 answering member 4474 label Biography information for Kevin Hollinrake
tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson

1606784

registered interest
date	23/03/2023
answering body	Department for Business and Trade
answering dept id	214
answering dept short name	Business and Trade
answering dept sort name	Business and Trade
hansard heading	Business: Investment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what plans she has to encourage business investment.
tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
uin	172391
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/04/2023 answer text <p>The Government works to secure business investment in sectors across the economy which brings jobs and prosperity to communities across the UK, for example through the £1.4bn Global Britain Investment Fund (GBIF). In 2021 FDI topped £2 Trillion for the first time.</p><p> </p><p>Our High Potential Opportunities programme selects key opportunities to promote to foreign investors, driving investment into the UK’s regions and nations. My Department set up the Office for Investment in early 2021 to support a small number of the highest profile investments coming into the UK; and in October, the UK will host a second Global Investment Summit.</p> answering member constituency Thirsk and Malton answering member printed Kevin Hollinrake question first answered 03/04/2023 09:53:52 answering member 4474 label Biography information for Kevin Hollinrake
tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson