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Commons Chamber
Business and the Economy - Wed 21 May 2025
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Jerome Mayhew (Con - Broadland and Fakenham) It is the increase in the minimum wage—the Government are very good at increasing prices for everyone - Speech Link
2: Alison Griffiths (Con - Bognor Regis and Littlehampton) Would you say that the Minister should withdraw the Bill, or, at the very least, conduct a proper assessment - Speech Link
3: Dave Doogan (SNP - Angus and Perthshire Glens) At the very least, that is what the Government should do, and other hon. - Speech Link
4: Gareth Davies (Con - Grantham and Bourne) Friend the Member for Arundel and South Downs (Andrew Griffith), highlighted at the beginning of the - Speech Link
5: Torsten Bell (Lab - Swansea West) The most important fact for my Swansea West constituents is that wages at the end of the Conservatives - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
UK-EU Summit - Tue 13 May 2025
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Max Wilkinson (LD - Cheltenham) Member has criticised the Opposition for the motion but, to give them their due, at least they have turned - Speech Link
2: Kieran Mullan (Con - Bexhill and Battle) Member for Lewes (James MacCleary), at the start of the debate, the red tape is coming from the EU, not - Speech Link
3: Catherine Fookes (Lab - Monmouthshire) to at the roundtable said:“The biggest issue currently is that inspections at Calais for our products - Speech Link
4: Ben Coleman (Lab - Chelsea and Fulham) at the front of the queue for skills and training? - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
European Union: UK Membership - Mon 24 Mar 2025
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: James MacCleary (LD - Lewes) Last week I attended the Parliamentary Partnership Assembly in Brussels, at which the Minister for the - Speech Link
2: Wera Hobhouse (LD - Bath) I urge the Government at least to look at that, because it would make some sort of movement towards the - Speech Link
3: Pete Wishart (SNP - Perth and Kinross-shire) that we have heard from—no ambition for the single market or the customs union—but will she at least - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 27 Feb 2025
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Chris Bryant (Lab - Rhondda and Ogmore) at how we can extend the season in the UK and make sure that more international visitors do not just - Speech Link
2: John Glen (Con - Salisbury) leaders like Rosa Corbishley at Salisbury playhouse, who will go out and get more money for the arts - Speech Link
3: Louie French (Con - Old Bexley and Sidcup) At the end of last year, the Under-Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, the hon. - Speech Link
4: Marsha De Cordova (Lab - Battersea) Although the scheme is being extended until March 2026, we do not have a long-term plan or solution. - Speech Link
5: Marsha De Cordova (Lab - Battersea) If that work extends beyond the March 2026 deadline, they will not be able to reclaim any VAT. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Family Businesses - Wed 26 Feb 2025
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Mel Stride (Con - Central Devon) the Secretary of State—looked the NFU in the eye and told them that, at least on inheritance tax, farmers - Speech Link
2: Mel Stride (Con - Central Devon) the welfare budget, such that the Chancellor says at the Dispatch Box on 26 March that she will unwind - Speech Link
3: James Murray (LAB - Ealing North) We therefore decided to extend the relief at a fiscally responsible level for a further year, ahead of - Speech Link
4: Bradley Thomas (Con - Bromsgrove) That strikes at the heart of the Government’s lack of appreciation for what fundamentally drives the - Speech Link
5: Gareth Thomas (LAB - Harrow West) for at the last general election. - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Finance Bill (Third sitting)
Committee stage: 3rd Sitting - Thu 30 Jan 2025
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: James Murray (LAB - Ealing North) The changes made by clause 60 will mean that shares must have been held for at least two years before - Speech Link
2: James Wild (Con - North West Norfolk) The Government have also chosen not to extend the temporary easement for certain wine products. - Speech Link
3: James Murray (LAB - Ealing North) I also note that the approach used in the costings at the Budget, certified by the Office for Budget - Speech Link
4: James Wild (Con - North West Norfolk) it would be far more effective for trading standards to apply the penalty at the point of enforcement - Speech Link
5: James Murray (LAB - Ealing North) the clause will freeze the zero emission rate at £10 until 2029-30, while increasing the rates for higher-emitting - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Finance Bill (First sitting)
Committee stage: 1st sitting - Tue 28 Jan 2025
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: James Murray (LAB - Ealing North) I thank the shadow Minister for the comments at the beginning of his speech, if not for all the questions - Speech Link
2: James Murray (LAB - Ealing North) main rate at 25%; and clause 14 sets the small profit rate at 19% for the same period. - Speech Link
3: Gareth Davies (Con - Grantham and Bourne) the rate of corporation tax at 25% for the whole of the next Parliament. - Speech Link
4: Gareth Davies (Con - Grantham and Bourne) , or at least commit to the publication of updated, clearer guidance for the industry on that subject - Speech Link


Grand Committee
National Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) Bill
Committee stage - Tue 21 Jan 2025
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Lord Livermore (Lab - Life peer) At the Budget, the Government decided to extend the national insurance contributions relief for employers - Speech Link
2: None at least 20% more funding per person than equivalent UK government spending in the rest of the UK. - Speech Link
3: Lord Sharkey (LD - Life peer) These students contribute at least £37 billion to the UK economy. - Speech Link
4: Earl of Kinnoull (XB - Excepted Hereditary) detail I provided, there is at least a case for some sort of carve-out for smaller charities, either - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 21 Jan 2025
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Rachel Reeves (Lab - Leeds West and Pudsey) In the Budget, we were able to extend business rates relief to the retail, hospitality and leisure sector - Speech Link
2: Harriett Baldwin (Con - West Worcestershire) Which statistic worries her most: the fact that we are at a 20-year high for business closures, or the - Speech Link
3: Rachel Reeves (Lab - Leeds West and Pudsey) Gentleman will know that in the Budget we announced £5 billion for the farming budget over two years— - Speech Link
4: James Murray (LAB - Ealing North) system until at least the end of 2026, protecting them against carbon leakage via high-emission imports - Speech Link
5: Meg Hillier (LAB - Hackney South and Shoreditch) He was not tempted at the Select Committee last week to give more detail on the timeframe for that, but - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
National Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) Bill
2nd reading - Mon 06 Jan 2025
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Lord Bishop of Southwark (Bshp - Bishops) spending review in order to extend support through to at least March 2028? - Speech Link
2: Lord Frost (Con - Life peer) trying to reduce it—for example, to what some, at least, regard as the halcyon days of the first Blair - Speech Link
3: Baroness Noakes (Con - Life peer) has shown, the Bank itself was to blame for at least two-thirds of that, due mainly to its negligent - Speech Link
4: Lord Horam (Con - Life peer) The fact is that it does not—or at least not much. - Speech Link