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1696611

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date	18/03/2024
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Orchestras: Tax Allowances
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has had discussions with the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, on the potential merits of including the voice as one of the eligible instruments for Orchestral Tax Relief.
tabling member constituency	Worsley and Eccles South
tabling member printed	Barbara Keeley
uin	19027
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2024 answer text <p>The government is not currently considering expanding the scope of eligible instruments to include the voice, however the government keeps the tax system under review.</p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston question first answered 21/03/2024 13:59:11 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
tabling member	1588 label Biography information for Baroness Keeley

1470823

registered interest
date	15/06/2022
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Members: Correspondence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, when he plans to respond to the enquiry of 28 April 2022 from the hon. Member for High Peak, reference RL24042.
tabling member constituency	High Peak
tabling member printed	Robert Largan
uin	19027
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/06/2022 answer text <p>My rt. hon. Friend the Minister of State for Business, Energy and Clean Growth wrote to the hon. Member on 14 April about rising energy costs (RL37171) and about the Local Electricity Bill (RL24042), which was received by the Department on 12 April and not 28 April. Further copies of these responses have been sent to your office.</p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman grouped question UIN 19024 question first answered 22/06/2022 09:52:16 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
tabling member	4852 label Biography information for Robert Largan

1179453

registered interest
date	21/02/2020
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	China: Uyghurs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations he has made to his Chinese counterpart on the release of Uighur Muslims from training centres after they have been identified as non-threats by authorities.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Kemptown
tabling member printed	Lloyd Russell-Moyle
uin	19027
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/03/2020 answer text <p>We will continue to ensure that our human rights concerns are directly raised with Chinese authorities. We also regularly raise our serious concerns about the human rights situation in Xinjiang at the UN.</p><p>We are aware of credible reports of widespread cultural, religious, and economic discrimination against Uyghurs in Xinjiang. During China's last Universal Periodic Review, we called on China to halt the practice of detaining individuals who have not been lawfully charged, tried, and convicted for a criminal offence in extra-legal detention facilities and immediately release individuals detained under such circumstances. We also raised concerns about arbitrary detention in our 'Item 4' statement at the 42nd session of the UN Human Rights Council in September 2019.</p><p>Most recently, the UK Ambassador to China raised our concerns with Vice Foreign Minister Qin Gang on 24 December 2019. Further, On 29 October 2019 at UN Third Committee, UK read out a joint statement signed by 22 others drawing attention to the human rights violations and abuses in Xinjiang and calling on China to uphold its obligations to respect human rights. On 17 September 2019, at the 42nd session of the UN Human Rights Council, we reiterated calls for UN experts to be granted unfettered access to Xinjiang and raised our concerns on arbitrary detention.</p> answering member constituency Selby and Ainsty answering member printed Nigel Adams question first answered 03/03/2020 16:58:52 answering member 4057 label Biography information for Nigel Adams
tabling member	4615 label Biography information for Lloyd Russell-Moyle

435768

registered interest
date	07/12/2015
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	Apprentices: Dundee
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many apprenticeships the Government has supported in Dundee in each year since 2010; and what the per capita average financial value of that support was.
tabling member constituency	Dundee West
tabling member printed	Chris Law
uin	19027
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2015 answer text <p>Apprenticeship policy is a devolved matter. The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills does not collect apprenticeships information relating to the devolved administrations. It is for the devolved administrations of Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales to determine how they manage their own apprenticeship programmes and they will continue to have complete flexibility over how to support businesses through training and apprenticeships.</p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 20/12/2015 07:23:13 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
tabling member	4403 label Biography information for Chris Law