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Commons Chamber
Three and Vodafone: Potential Merger - Thu 14 Dec 2023
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Chris Loder (Con - West Dorset) Some 97% of the businesses in West Dorset are small or micro-sized. - Speech Link
2: Chris Evans (LAB - Islwyn) the new Chair of the Business and Trade Committee. - Speech Link
3: Liam Byrne (Lab - Birmingham, Hodge Hill) We do not have a small yard and a high fence; right now, it seems that our security regime is a big garden - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Broadband: Rural Communities - Wed 13 Dec 2023
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Chris Loder (Con - West Dorset) a hard place, and are not sure what to do.Some 97% of the businesses in West Dorset are small or micro-sized - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) then that business will be up and running. - Speech Link
3: Tim Farron (LD - Westmorland and Lonsdale) Westmorland are beautiful and isolated places with schools as small as a dozen or so children in some - Speech Link
4: John Whittingdale (Con - Maldon) A small number of premises are definitely lacking both decent broadband and mobile coverage, and obviously - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Employment Rights (Amendment, Revocation and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2023 - Wed 13 Dec 2023
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Lord Johnson of Lainston (Con - Life peer) regulations provide important protections to workers, they can also place disproportionate burdens on business - Speech Link
2: Lord Leong (Lab - Life peer) and streamlines the regulations that apply when a business transfers to a new owner. - Speech Link
3: Lord Johnson of Lainston (Con - Life peer) Even in the world of the noble Lord, that would seem bizarre, unnecessary and indeed unkind to small - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Tackling Islamophobia - Thu 07 Dec 2023
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Naz Shah (Lab - Bradford West) They see the everyday micro-aggressions throughout society. - Speech Link
2: Sarah Owen (Lab - Luton North) I thank the Backbench Business Committee for proposing today’s important debate, and all my fellow members - Speech Link
3: Afzal Khan (Lab - Manchester, Gorton) There is a small, but increasingly vocal, minority in this country who hate the idea of a rich, pluralistic - Speech Link
4: Felicity Buchan (Con - Kensington) I am grateful to the Backbench Business Committee, the hon. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 07 Dec 2023
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Lucy Powell (LAB - Manchester Central) The treaty says that the number is capped, and the small print says that it is just 100 people. - Speech Link
2: Wera Hobhouse (LD - Bath) Can we have a debate in Government time about the importance of our small music venues? - Speech Link
3: Anna Firth (Con - Southend West) Last week, for Small Business Saturday, I crowned the winner of my new independent shop of the year competition - Speech Link
4: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) I thank all hon. and right hon. Members who took part in Small Business Saturday last weekend. - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Trade (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership) Bill [HL]
Committee stage - Thu 07 Dec 2023
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LD - Life peer) In fact, as one business said to me, “It is all well and good that the UKCA as well as the conformity - Speech Link
2: Lord Lansley (Con - Life peer) Earlier this year, the Department for Business and Trade said that it would accept CE markings on a range - Speech Link
3: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LD - Life peer) They are small businesses—some are micro-businesses—and therefore the complexities involved will require - Speech Link
4: Lord Johnson of Lainston (Con - Life peer) the world, funded by Defra and supported by the Department for Business and Trade and the Foreign, Commonwealth - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Rural Councils: Funding - Wed 29 Nov 2023
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Chris Loder (Con - West Dorset) The simple nature of our local economy in West Dorset means that 97% of businesses are small or micro - Speech Link
2: Anne Marie Morris (Con - Newton Abbot) towards council tax and business rates, is fundamentally flawed. - Speech Link
3: Tim Farron (LD - Westmorland and Lonsdale) They can therefore not pay any council tax, and because they are a small business they pay no business - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Automated Vehicles Bill [HL]
2nd reading - Tue 28 Nov 2023
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Baroness Bowles of Berkhamsted (LD - Life peer) in the automated and connected vehicle sectors, including small and innovative businesses, especially - Speech Link
2: Lord Naseby (Con - Life peer) I was in business for years. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) Actually, we can thank researchers from MIT—Sudhakar et al, in an article published in the IEEE Micro - Speech Link
4: Lord Lucas (Con - Excepted Hereditary) we let the whole business of standards slip. - Speech Link
5: Lord Davies of Gower (Con - Life peer) for Business and Trade. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Autumn Statement Resolutions - Mon 27 Nov 2023
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Kevan Jones (Lab - North Durham) back two small slices. - Speech Link
2: Wendy Morton (Con - Aldridge-Brownhills) SMEs are the real wealth creators of our economy, and in this, the week leading up to small business - Speech Link
3: Steve McCabe (Lab - Birmingham, Selly Oak) He has agreed to freeze the small business rates multiplier for another year, but the increase in the - Speech Link
4: Nigel Huddleston (Con - Mid Worcestershire) For those smaller businesses that are so integral to their communities, we are freezing the small business - Speech Link
5: Nigel Huddleston (Con - Mid Worcestershire) both business and our citizens. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Autumn Statement Resolutions - Wed 22 Nov 2023
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Priti Patel (Con - Witham) I have previously called for a freeze of the small business rate multiplier, and I am pleased that the - Speech Link
2: Anna Firth (Con - Southend West) Over 98% of businesses in Southend are micro or small businesses; Southend is a city of entrepreneurs - Speech Link
3: Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Con - The Cotswolds) We have cut business rates, by freezing the small business multiplier yet again, saving the average shop - Speech Link
4: Bim Afolami (Con - Hitchin and Harpenden) There are measures to protect small businesses on business rates; on R&D tax credits, we are reducing - Speech Link