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Commons Chamber
Protecting Steel in the UK - Tue 23 Jan 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Jonathan Reynolds (LAB - Stalybridge and Hyde) We have procurement rules in place that are seeing significant steel content from the UK in infrastructure - Speech Link
2: Nusrat Ghani (Con - Wealden) were worth more than £600 million, which is one reason why, last April, we published an updated steel procurement - Speech Link
3: Marion Fellows (SNP - Motherwell and Wishaw) political cycles”,and there is an enduring inability to effectively co-ordinate the“multiple…public bodies, departments - Speech Link
4: Liz Saville Roberts (PC - Dwyfor Meirionnydd) industry, including steel production.If we had better control over the Crown Estate, we could tie these procurement - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Investigatory Powers (Amendment) Bill [HL]
Report stage - Tue 23 Jan 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord West of Spithead (Lab - Life peer) teams across departments, and not expand and reinforce parliamentary oversight of those teams as well - Speech Link
2: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) The new definition is based on the definition of public authority in the Procurement Act 2023. - Speech Link
3: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) This will include government departments and their arm’s-length bodies, and executive agencies administering - Speech Link
4: Lord Fox (LD - Life peer) How do the Government use this Bill to deal with such situations? - Speech Link
5: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) For these reasons, the Government cannot support this amendment.The Government have, however, recognised - Speech Link


Written Statements
Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Act 2023: June to December 2023 Report - Mon 22 Jan 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Kevin Hollinrake (Con - Thirsk and Malton) of State to report to Parliament at six-monthly intervals until June 2026.Through this process, the Government - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 18 Jan 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Oliver Dowden (Con - Hertsmere) That is about going through the cyber-security of all Departments to bring it up to scratch. - Speech Link
2: Alex Burghart (Con - Brentwood and Ongar) The Procurement Act 2023 will deliver simpler and more effective public sector procurement, and it will - Speech Link
3: Johnny Mercer (Con - Plymouth, Moor View) I take on board the point about an MPs hotline, which exists in other Departments, and I can confirm - Speech Link
4: Alex Burghart (Con - Brentwood and Ongar) Better competition and better procurement are at the heart of the Procurement Act 2023, which the hon - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
High Speed 2 Compensation - Thu 18 Jan 2024
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Andrew Bridgen (Ind - North West Leicestershire) the burgeoning costs of the project and the evidence given by whistleblowers who have left the land procurement - Speech Link
2: Kieran Mullan (Con - Crewe and Nantwich) A decision has been taken, which the Government argue a wider region will benefit from, but the Government - Speech Link
3: Michael Fabricant (Con - Lichfield) It says on the Government’s own website that“The Crichel Down Rules require government departments… to - Speech Link
4: Huw Merriman (Con - Bexhill and Battle) Friend the Member for Lichfield set out, require Government Departments, under certain circumstances, - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Intergovernmental Relations Within the United Kingdom - Thu 18 Jan 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Earl of Kinnoull (XB - Excepted Hereditary) creation of a great new office of state in the Cabinet and the reorganisation of the devolved nation departments - Speech Link
2: Baroness Drake (Lab - Life peer) is further confirmed by the asymmetrical levels of engagement by departments in intergovernmental meetings - Speech Link
3: Lord Khan of Burnley (Lab - Life peer) , the Genetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Bill, the Trade (Australia and New Zealand) Bill, the Procurement - Speech Link
4: Baroness Penn (Con - Life peer) transparency reporting, which equips DLUHC to hold other departments to account. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Post Office (Horizon System) Compensation Bill
2nd reading - Tue 16 Jan 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Lord Palmer of Childs Hill (LD - Life peer) The audit committee dealt with all the activities of the various departments. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb (Green - Life peer) Fujitsu remains a favoured government contractor. - Speech Link
3: Lord Forsyth of Drumlean (Con - Life peer) that it has to give that builder another opportunity, so there is something desperately wrong with the procurement - Speech Link
4: Lord Offord of Garvel (Con - Life peer) , in many departments. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Trade (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership) Bill [HL]
Report stage - Tue 16 Jan 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: None We do not consider that this is the intention of the exemption in the government procurement chapter - Speech Link
2: Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park (Con - Life peer) I encourage him to continue to push the other departments responsible, but I thank him very much for - Speech Link
3: None The procurement chapter of CPTPP includes a provision also found in the WTO Agreement on Government Procurement - Speech Link
4: None I can assure noble Lords that the government procurement chapter of CPTPP—which is most relevant and - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 11 Jan 2024
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Lucy Powell (LAB - Manchester Central) That is the record of this Government. - Speech Link
2: Rachael Maskell (LAB - York Central) When we ask written questions and when our offices require information from Government Departments, our - Speech Link
3: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) I will also make sure that my teams who work with the parliamentary clerks in those Departments have - Speech Link
4: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) certainly ensure that both the Post Office Minister and the Cabinet Office Minister with oversight of procurement - Speech Link
5: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) In such cases, I always hope that the public affairs departments of businesses—in this case Barclays—are - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Parliamentary Democracy and Standards in Public Life - Thu 11 Jan 2024
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Baroness Featherstone (LD - Life peer) Instead, the Government created a shoddy PPE procurement process, which allowed profiteers to benefit - Speech Link
2: Baroness Warwick of Undercliffe (Lab - Life peer) leadership, the breaching of lockdown rules, dubious lobbying practices, the Owen Paterson issue, public procurement - Speech Link
3: Lord Howarth of Newport (Lab - Life peer) There has been the affair of PPE procurement, the VIP channel and the bounce-back loans—an issue that - Speech Link
4: Baroness Stuart of Edgbaston (XB - Life peer) The resolution of these things really has to be within departments and I am very confident that it is.An - Speech Link
5: Lord Pickles (Con - Life peer) The majority of these cases are considered by government departments themselves, under the business appointments - Speech Link