Culture - how broadly should it be defined?
And here it is, from Hansard:
Mr. Hollobone: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what assessment he has made of the future prospects for the bingo industry; and if he will make a statement.
Crikey.
Meanwhile, I have unearthed another bee obsessive in Parliament:
Mr. Amess: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform what the UK's balance of trade in bees and bee products was in each year since 1997 in standard prices; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Hollobone: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what assessment he has made of the future prospects for the bingo industry; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Sutcliffe: I hope to make a statement to the House on this and related matters shortly.
Crikey.
Meanwhile, I have unearthed another bee obsessive in Parliament:
Mr. Amess: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform what the UK's balance of trade in bees and bee products was in each year since 1997 in standard prices; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Thomas: The following table gives HMRC overseas trade statistics for the value of trade in honey and wax. Data for trade in live bees cannot be separated from trade in other animals.
Perhaps they have run out of stingers to inflict on DEFRA and are now droning on at what was the DTI. Lombard Street to a rotten orange it will be Health next - how many people were stung in Lymeswold East last year etc etc.
Labels: bees, facetiousness, furry creatures and similar, The arts
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Fabulous choice, Mr C - the bees perhaps taking the prize.
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