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Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 04 Jul 2023
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Heather Wheeler (CON - South Derbyshire) What assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of additional support for energy and trade intensive - Speech Link
2: Amanda Solloway (CON - Derby North) Wholesale energy prices have fallen significantly since the peak of the energy crisis, so the energy - Speech Link
3: Amanda Solloway (CON - Derby North) It is incredibly important to the Government that we combat that and support the energy and trade-intensive - Speech Link
4: Andrew Bowie (CON - West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine) Food security is incredibly important, and we will, of course, prioritise less productive land for the - Speech Link


General Committees
Draft Business and Planning Act 2020 (Pavement Licences) (Coronavirus) (Amendment) Regulations 2023 - Mon 03 Jul 2023
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Dehenna Davison (CON - Bishop Auckland) That could include using furniture to sell or serve food or drink supplied from a premises.The draft - Speech Link
2: Sarah Owen (LAB - Luton North) licensing year after year, if there are fewer businesses and workers on the high street because the wholesale - Speech Link
3: Dehenna Davison (CON - Bishop Auckland) ensuring that the pavement licensing regime is fit for purpose, in terms of both supporting businesses to trade - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
UK Economy: Growth, Inflation and Productivity - Thu 29 Jun 2023
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Lord Eatwell (LAB - Life peer) financial crisis, the global pandemic, and the devastating impact of the war in Ukraine on energy and food - Speech Link
2: Baroness Fox of Buckley (Non-affiliated - Life peer) money to fund the Government’s huge pandemic shutdown and never uttered a word of opposition to the wholesale - Speech Link
3: Baroness Lea of Lymm (CON - Life peer) It is reasonable to suggest that the introduction of various trade frictions would dampen trade, but - Speech Link
4: Lord Desai (CB - Life peer) of trade unions was much higher than it is now. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 22 Jun 2023
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Penny Mordaunt (CON - Portsmouth North) The UK’s trade balance with the EU has improved. - Speech Link
2: Stephen Doughty (LAB - Cardiff South and Penarth) energy market for business customers, so that they are not locked into ridiculously high prices if wholesale - Speech Link
3: Penny Mordaunt (CON - Portsmouth North) Gentleman’s concerns about this and I will make sure that the Secretary of State for Environment, Food - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Environmental Protection (Plastic Plates etc. and Polystyrene Containers etc.) (England) Regulations 2023 - Tue 20 Jun 2023
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Lord Harlech (CON - Excepted Hereditary) ban the supply of single-use plastic cutlery, balloon sticks and expanded and extruded polystyrene food - Speech Link
2: Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent (LAB - Life peer) Paragraph 10.8 of the Explanatory Memorandum notes that His Majesty’s Government notified the World Trade - Speech Link
3: None Given that the current rate of food inflation is running at 16.5% as of today and that we are living - Speech Link
4: Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent (LAB - Life peer) My Lords, I was asking about additional costs on food-related products during a cost of living crisis - Speech Link
5: Lord Harlech (CON - Excepted Hereditary) Another large cost is due to wholesale prices of wooden cutlery and paper, and food and beverage containers - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Procurement Bill [Lords]
Report stage - Tue 13 Jun 2023
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Bob Seely (CON - Isle of Wight) That is not fair trade; it is trade as a weapon for a Communist party dictatorship. - Speech Link
2: None China’s system of oppression is a high-tech network of surveillance, through which China has unleashed wholesale - Speech Link
3: Caroline Lucas (GRN - Brighton, Pavilion) and plant-based diets.The Government’s own food strategy proposes a target of at least 50% of food spend - Speech Link
4: None association or trade union.” - Speech Link
5: Eleanor Laing (CON - Epping Forest) association or trade union.” - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Financial Services and Markets Bill
Report stage: Part 1 - Tue 13 Jun 2023
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: None He is a member of the respectable ADS trade association and deals with both Governments and commercial - Speech Link
2: None I drew this to the attention of ADS, the aviation and defence trade association. - Speech Link
3: None clarity—for example, in the form of reserves it issues to financial institutions, which are used in wholesale - Speech Link
4: None Treasury must consult—(a) the Department for Work and Pensions,(b) the Department for Business and Trade - Speech Link
5: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (GRN - Life peer) She said:“I am cutting back on food because I can’t afford to eat … I am so stressed out right now, I - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Financial Services and Markets Bill
Report stage: Part 1 - Tue 06 Jun 2023
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Baroness Lawlor (CON - Life peer) be enforced, but they may feel it best to avoid an activity that could grow their business, increase trade - Speech Link
2: Baroness Penn (CON - Life peer) conducted a number of reviews into parts of retained EU law, including the Solvency II review, the wholesale - Speech Link
3: None would allow us to future-proof UK financial regulation so it delivers a liveable planet and a workable food - Speech Link
4: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (GRN - Life peer) as members of governing boards of pension funds for years: such things as tobacco and the kinds of food - Speech Link
5: Baroness Sheehan (LDEM - Life peer) and wonder at the efficiency of bees and other pollinators in their role in providing us with good food - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 25 May 2023
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Michael Fabricant (CON - Lichfield) What recent discussions she has had with supermarkets on ensuring that reductions in wholesale food costs - Speech Link
2: Michael Fabricant (CON - Lichfield) is the word—do we have to ensure supermarkets do not take unfair advantage and excess profits from wholesale - Speech Link
3: Thérèse Coffey (CON - Suffolk Coastal) The Government recognise the importance of trade in the food and drink sector. - Speech Link
4: Thérèse Coffey (CON - Suffolk Coastal) trade deal, which covered not just agricultural elements, but a number of services. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 25 May 2023
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: David Mundell (CON - Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale) in West Linton in my constituency, are trapped in energy contracts where they are paying way above wholesale - Speech Link
2: Sammy Wilson (DUP - East Antrim) This is despite the promise that there would of course be frictionless trade between Northern Ireland - Speech Link
3: Chris Elmore (LAB - Ogmore) I have raised the issue of food poverty with the Leader of the House over many months. - Speech Link