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Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay (Con)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 6 February 2025

Debate

Creative Industries: Creating Jobs and Productivity Growth

Contribution

My Lords, this has indeed been an uplifting and enjoyable debate. We are all very grateful to the noble Baroness, Lady Thornton, for bringing it before us, not least for the opportunity to hear three such excellent maiden speeches from our new colleagues. I had the pleasure of getting to know the noble Lord, Lord Brennan of Canton, when he was in another place and sat on the DCMS Select Committee there. In fact, I appeared in front of him and his colleagues when I was a minister. He asked me then about the Salisbury–Addison convention, if I remember, which I am sure will serve him well now he sees it from the other House of Parliament. As we heard, he is also one-quarter of the parliamentary band MP4. Another of his colleagues, my colleague Sir Greg Knight, stood down at the last election, so I was pleased to hear that he is already thinking about a lordly equivalent. I hope that he finds a drummer, but even if he does not, he will have heard plenty of people who are keen to bang the drum for the creative industries in our debate today.

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