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Lords Chamber
Business Rates - Thu 29 Jan 2026
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: None They were in government, and they let the number of pubs in our communities fall by a fifth. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Kramer (LD - Life peer) We need to take a proper step back and review the whole way in which business rates are structured, which - Speech Link
3: Lord Livermore (Lab - Life peer) , and that, since the election, business investment has increased faster in this country than in any - Speech Link
4: Lord Livermore (Lab - Life peer) Any potential changes to business rates as a result of that review will be considered at the Budget in - Speech Link
5: Lord Forbes of Newcastle (Lab - Life peer) the payment of business rates in particular? - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Youth Unemployment - Wed 28 Jan 2026
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Helen Whately (Con - Faversham and Mid Kent) Even in a world of artificial intelligence, there is another way. - Speech Link
2: Damian Hinds (Con - East Hampshire) in the world of work through a zero-hours contract. - Speech Link
3: Joy Morrissey (Con - Beaconsfield) rise in young people taking their first job with a business, because the risk is reduced for that business - Speech Link
4: Shivani Raja (Con - Leicester East) worked in the private sector and will not understand the risks of starting a business or working in the - Speech Link
5: Andrew Western (Lab - Stretford and Urmston) I managed a small business; I worked in a global business; and I did several other jobs in the private - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Defence Industry: Environmental, Social and Governance Requirements - Wed 28 Jan 2026
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Jack Rankin (Con - Windsor) He is not quite my flavour of politics, but he spoke a truth: we live in a much more dangerous world - Speech Link
2: Luke Charters (Lab - York Outer) This is not a choice between values and security; it is about recognising that, in the world we live - Speech Link
3: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) are 67 wars in the world. - Speech Link
4: Katie Lam (Con - Weald of Kent) In fact, it is the most dangerous world in my lifetime or that of my hon. - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme (Amendment) Order 2026 - Wed 28 Jan 2026
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Baroness McIntosh of Pickering (Con - Life peer) We knew each other in the other place over a number of years and I was a great admirer of his during - Speech Link
2: None We are not talking about a slight increase; we are talking about a tax that has more than doubled in - Speech Link
3: Lord Moynihan (Con - Excepted Hereditary) been a Minister in 1990—or perhaps I look far too old. - Speech Link
4: Lord Whitehead (Lab - Life peer) Part of the answer is that, if we are to have a good CBAM in place—after all, it is coming in a year - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 27 Jan 2026
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Dan Tomlinson (Lab - Chipping Barnet) make a statement to the House on a package of support in relation to business rates, with a particular - Speech Link
2: Richard Foord (LD - Honiton and Sidmouth) She is essentially facing a 20% rise in her business rate costs. - Speech Link
3: Lucy Rigby (Lab - Northampton North) There are a number of ways in which the British Business Bank will support companies like the one she - Speech Link
4: Rachel Reeves (Lab - Leeds West and Pudsey) When I became Chancellor of the Exchequer, we faced a situation in which all of the covid support was - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Business Rates - Tue 27 Jan 2026
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Dan Tomlinson (Lab - Chipping Barnet) As a London MP, I do not get the joy of staying in a hotel in my hon. - Speech Link
2: Clive Betts (Lab - Sheffield South East) a 60% increase in business rates. - Speech Link
3: Dan Tomlinson (Lab - Chipping Barnet) They still have Liz Truss in their party, and it shows, because instead of having a sensible business - Speech Link
4: Chris Curtis (Lab - Milton Keynes North) Just down the road is William Cowley, a business that has been in my constituency since 1870. - Speech Link
5: Rachael Maskell (LAB - York Central) I sent through a paper with a spreadsheet of every business in the business improvement district showing - Speech Link


General Committees
Draft Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme (Amendment) Order 2026 - Tue 27 Jan 2026
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Claire Coutinho (Con - East Surrey) We are not talking about a slight increase; we are talking about a tax that has more than doubled in - Speech Link
2: Gareth Snell (LAB - Stoke-on-Trent Central) I want to make a couple of quick remarks, partly in relation to the ceramics industry—I am a one-trick - Speech Link
3: Chris McDonald (Lab - Stockton North) Sadly, under the previous Government, there was a 30% reduction in UK cement production, a nearly 50% - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Medical Training (Prioritisation) Bill
2nd reading - Tue 27 Jan 2026
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Wes Streeting (Lab - Ilford North) That is why, outside of the pandemic, staff retention is at its highest in a decade and vacancies are - Speech Link
2: Wes Streeting (Lab - Ilford North) I do not want to be in a position where a law is enacted and we are unable to implement it in a timely - Speech Link
3: Simon Opher (Lab - Stroud) system in the UK is one of the best in the world. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Animal Rescue Centres - Mon 26 Jan 2026
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Ruth Jones (Lab - Newport West and Islwyn) assessment.Animals also often arrive in pseudo-rescue centres after being imported from abroad in a - Speech Link
2: Sarah Dyke (LD - Glastonbury and Somerton) Britain’s place as a world leader on standards. - Speech Link
3: Richard Holden (Con - Basildon and Billericay) As we have heard, in Scotland, a licensing regime provided a clear bulwark against malpractice and has - Speech Link
4: Angela Eagle (Lab - Wallasey) appropriately in such a diverse sector. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Retail and Hospitality Sector - Thu 22 Jan 2026
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Monckton of Dallington Forest (Con - Life peer) Perhaps because no one in the Cabinet has any experience of running a business, they simply have no empathy - Speech Link
2: Lord Northbrook (Con - Excepted Hereditary) rebalancing of the business rates system, easement of employment costs or a reduction in VAT. - Speech Link
3: Lord Fox (LD - Life peer) a root-and-branch change in the way that valuations are done, business rates will continue to penalise - Speech Link
4: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) Analysis from UKHospitality shows that the average pub faces a 15% rise in business rates next year. - Speech Link