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Lords Chamber
Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership (IAC Report) - Tue 19 Mar 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Lord Kerr of Kinlochard (XB - Life peer) I also attach importance to the various recommendations to make British business better aware of the - Speech Link
2: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) I praise the Government for their direction of travel on that treaty. - Speech Link
3: Lord Johnson of Lainston (Con - Life peer) It allows for more effective business mobility, which is important. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town (Lab - Life peer) Whatever happens, I hope that Parliament can be involved in the direction of travel, including on the - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 19 Mar 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Jonathan Gullis (Con - Stoke-on-Trent North) Money from this Government has enabled Stoke-on-Trent to cut bus fares by a third, so that people can travel - Speech Link
2: Bim Afolami (Con - Hitchin and Harpenden) legal action against the former owner of the Safe Hands business. - Speech Link
3: James Davies (Con - Vale of Clwyd) One business has to find an extra £35,000 a year for business rates alone. - Speech Link
4: Gareth Davies (Con - Grantham and Stamford) Our small business rate relief means that one third of all properties in England already pay no business - Speech Link
5: Will Quince (Con - Colchester) The proposed changes to wine duty will add huge costs and complexity to business. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Trade (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership) Bill [Lords]
Report stage - Tue 19 Mar 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Liam Fox (Con - North Somerset) and divide socialist countries”.Thus the WTO itself was heading for a stalemate in its direction of travel - Speech Link
2: Anthony Mangnall (Con - Totnes) As has been mentioned by the Chair of the Business and Trade Committee, the right hon. - Speech Link
3: Stella Creasy (LAB - Walthamstow) When things are at stake for British business, it is only right that we ask those questions. - Speech Link
4: Greg Hands (Con - Chelsea and Fulham) I do not think the Opposition understand how business works. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Nagorno-Karabakh: Armenian Refugees - Tue 19 Mar 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Carol Monaghan (SNP - Glasgow North West) months, I was concerned to read that in November 2023 Foreign Office officials were encouraging British business - Speech Link
2: John Whittingdale (Con - Maldon) controlled by Armenia, although they are open to negotiating free access to ensure that it is possible to travel - Speech Link
3: Chris Law (SNP - Dundee West) One senior UK Government official encouraged business leaders to take advantage of the financial opportunities - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill
Consideration of Lords amendments - Mon 18 Mar 2024
No Department present

Mentions:
1: None The story now seems to be that 150 people will travel to Rwanda, but that there will be a pause and that - Speech Link
2: Alexander Stafford (Con - Rother Valley) The human cost of people being killed as they travel across the channel needs to stop. - Speech Link
3: None This is the business of refoulement, which was brought up by our Supreme Court. - Speech Link
4: Kevin Foster (Con - Torbay) In many cases, that is the core of the people traffickers’ business model. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Animal Welfare (Import of Dogs, Cats and Ferrets) Bill
2nd reading - Fri 15 Mar 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Heather Wheeler (Con - South Derbyshire) The owners of the business frequently and legally transfer pets from the UK and Europe across our border - Speech Link
2: Jane Hunt (Con - Loughborough) Sadly, the trade is big business. - Speech Link
3: Flick Drummond (Con - Meon Valley) We know that for smugglers, this illegal business model is highly lucrative. - Speech Link
4: Steve Reed (LAB - Croydon North) and the fact that the Government control legislation as it moves through this House—they control the business - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Asylum and Migration - Thu 14 Mar 2024
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Diana Johnson (Lab - Kingston upon Hull North) Let me start by thanking the Backbench Business Committee for granting the debate.I think we can all - Speech Link
2: Alistair Carmichael (LD - Orkney and Shetland) Does she think that providing a voucher scheme for people traffickers is going to break their business - Speech Link
3: Priti Patel (Con - Witham) That is now business as usual and absolutely important.The documents mention the responsibilities around - Speech Link
4: Mhairi Black (SNP - Paisley and Renfrewshire South) Is it not also concerning that the Government’s travel advice for Rwanda states that they cannot guarantee - Speech Link
5: Alistair Carmichael (LD - Orkney and Shetland) , and in how it accounts to this House for the way in which it goes about its business. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
St Peter’s Hospital, Maldon - Thu 14 Mar 2024
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: John Whittingdale (Con - Maldon) Primary Care Trust stated that two preferred sites had been identified, that a provisional outline business - Speech Link
2: Helen Whately (Con - Faversham and Mid Kent) People usually understand that they may need to travel to get to a more specialised service, but it is - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
St Patrick’s Day: Irish Diaspora in the UK - Thu 14 Mar 2024
Northern Ireland Office

Mentions:
1: Rebecca Long Bailey (Lab - Salford and Eccles) well as all Members who supported the application for this very important debate and the Backbench Business - Speech Link
2: Steve Baker (Con - Wycombe) That historic and close relationship has been enshrined in the common travel area arrangement, which - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
United Kingdom: Union - Thu 14 Mar 2024
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Lord Dodds of Duncairn (DUP - Life peer) There is a sense in which, when we travel to different parts of the United Kingdom, we feel at home in - Speech Link
2: Baroness Goldie (Con - Life peer) way.I had a very constructive visit to Northern Ireland last year, meeting senior civil servants and business - Speech Link
3: Lord Godson (Con - Life peer) The soft border—a consequence of the common travel area, a core element of the British-Irish relationship—raises - Speech Link