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Written Statements
Smarter Regulation Programme - Tue 17 Oct 2023
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Kevin Hollinrake (Con - Thirsk and Malton) launched consultations on reforming employment law; wine sector reforms; and the product safety and furniture - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill
Report stage: Part 2 - Wed 13 Sep 2023
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Lord Holmes of Richmond (CON - Life peer) problem with simply requiring businesses that may well have gained a licence to tidy up and pack away furniture - Speech Link
2: None Amendment 256 covers the clearing away of furniture when areas are not in use, which is particularly - Speech Link
3: Earl Howe (CON - Excepted Hereditary) applications, local authorities should consider the need for barriers to be put in place to separate furniture - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Wed 19 Jul 2023
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Chloe Smith (CON - Norwich North) We want to reach a resolution as quickly as possible to give the industry certainty. - Speech Link
2: Rishi Sunak (CON - Richmond (Yorks)) This is something that has been raised with me by those in the industry. - Speech Link
3: Rishi Sunak (CON - Richmond (Yorks)) It is one of the largest-ever investments in the UK auto industry in this country’s history, with billions - Speech Link
4: Pete Wishart (SNP - Perth and North Perthshire) Is it not time that we perhaps rearranged the furniture in this House, had them all on one big Bench - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Mon 17 Jul 2023
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Tim Farron (LDEM - Westmorland and Lonsdale) Hospitality and tourism is an industry worth £3.5 billion a year to Cumbria, and it is our biggest employer - Speech Link
2: Margaret Ferrier (IND - Rutherglen and Hamilton West) degree apprenticeship and the opportunities that will provide young people in the UK’s growing space industry - Speech Link
3: Gillian Keegan (CON - Chichester) There are many different routes into the space industry, which is important and something that we are - Speech Link
4: Gillian Keegan (CON - Chichester) and paying £6,000 to attract those from industry who want to spend their second career in FE teaching - Speech Link
5: Mary Kelly Foy (LAB - City of Durham) unmanageable workloads are made harder by support staff redundancies in schools where there is an absence of furniture - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill
Report stage: Part 2 - Thu 13 Jul 2023
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Lord Northbrook (CON - Excepted Hereditary) Local residents may be affected by these projects—streetscape, street furniture, new advertisements and - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
His Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service - Tue 04 Jul 2023
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Robert Neill (CON - Bromley and Chislehurst) shabby cells…often plagued by damp and cockroaches, leaking pipes and toilets, and broken or missing furniture - Speech Link
2: Damian Hinds (CON - East Hampshire) to match prisoners to jobs and employment advisory boards to build links between prisons and local industry - 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) to have her response on some of them.There continue to be widespread job vacancies in hospitality—an industry - Speech Link
3: Sarah Owen (LAB - Luton North) pockets to enjoy what is on offer, the Government are just throwing scraps to a fragile, diminishing industry - Speech Link
4: Dehenna Davison (CON - Bishop Auckland) We introduced the measures in response to a really difficult time for the hospitality industry. - Speech Link
5: Dehenna Davison (CON - Bishop Auckland) away from the fact that we agree on the extension of the measures and on supporting our hospitality industry - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Alex Burghart (CON - Brentwood and Ongar) appropriate choices where a risk is manageable—for example, if a supplier is providing pencils or plastic furniture - Speech Link
2: None The guidance recommended, first, the use of PBAs across the industry and, secondly, cash retention. - Speech Link
3: Danny Kruger (CON - Devizes) those in hostile states.Conservative Members tend to regard “protecting” and “subsidising” domestic industry - Speech Link
4: Marie Rimmer (LAB - St Helens South and Whiston) It is industrial-scale, state-sponsored organ harvesting, now a nationwide industry worth more than £800 - Speech Link
5: Alex Burghart (CON - Brentwood and Ongar) All sides of the marketplace, including commissioners and providers in the healthcare industry, are expecting - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill (Second sitting)
Committee stage: 2nd sitting - Tue 13 Jun 2023
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Vicky Ford (CON - Chelmsford) Q Could you give us examples of where the industry has set standards in the digital space that have - Speech Link
2: Vicky Ford (CON - Chelmsford) is, you are quite right: I have worked on a number of committees where the good guys and gals from industry - Speech Link
3: Seema Malhotra (LAB - Feltham and Heston) Will you outline what you see as the main consumer issues in the retail industry that you would want—hope - Speech Link
4: Seema Malhotra (LAB - Feltham and Heston) from really taking off in some places.Those who sell high-value items—kitchens, some white goods and furniture - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Online Safety Bill
Committee stage: Part 1 - Tue 23 May 2023
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Lord Bethell (CON - Excepted Hereditary) As the junior Minister, you are under huge pressure from civil society, from the pharma industry and - Speech Link
2: None The measures in this group are not meant to stifle innovation or to hold back the industry—quite the - Speech Link
3: Baroness Benjamin (LDEM - Life peer) Believe it or not, the pornography industry is worth much more than Hollywood; it makes thousands and - Speech Link
4: Lord Bishop of Oxford (Bishops - Bishops) One of the most vital pieces of furniture in any house where there were children in those days was the - Speech Link