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Grand Committee
Data Protection and Digital Information Bill
Committee stage - Wed 24 Apr 2024
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Mentions:
1: Baroness Sherlock (Lab - Life peer) Specifically, could this apply to, for example, phone companies? - Speech Link
2: Viscount Younger of Leckie (Con - Excepted Hereditary) Just to clarify that point, we will not be able to request information on overseas accounts.On the question - Speech Link
3: Viscount Younger of Leckie (Con - Excepted Hereditary) The noble Baroness asked about phone companies. - Speech Link
4: Viscount Camrose (Con - Excepted Hereditary) All major gas and water companies have signed up, as well as several large telecoms firms. - Speech Link
5: Lord Clement-Jones (LD - Life peer) We expect foreign companies that hold sensitive genomics and DNA to follow GDPR. - Speech Link


General Committees
Draft Economic Growth (Regulatory Functions) (Amendment) Order 2024 Draft Growth Duty: Statutory Guidance Refresh - Tue 23 Apr 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Peter Grant (SNP - Glenrothes) Member for Bethnal Green and Bow mentioned, the failure of the water companies to literally clean up - Speech Link
2: Kevin Hollinrake (Con - Thirsk and Malton) To tackle this, the water companies have committed £96 billion for the period of 2025 to 2030. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Future of Rail Manufacturing - Tue 23 Apr 2024
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Grahame Morris (Lab - Easington) Renfrewshire North (Gavin Newlands)—built in the 1980s, find it inconceivable that the rolling stock companies - Speech Link
2: Paul Howell (Con - Sedgefield) I encourage the companies to be as creative as they in finding work to fill the gap. - Speech Link
3: Gavin Newlands (SNP - Paisley and Renfrewshire North) ROSCOs are generating almost risk-free profits for their owners, which are almost exclusively overseas - Speech Link
4: Grahame Morris (Lab - Easington) trains with imported units using taxpayers’ money to support thousands of jobs and apprenticeships overseas - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Data Protection and Digital Information Bill
Committee stage - Mon 22 Apr 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: None No companies faced any surveillance. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) I will add to that the issue of overseas bank accounts. - Speech Link
3: Lord Davies of Brixton (Lab - Life peer) Presumably the DWP already knows the address of the bank account to which an overseas pension is being - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill
Committee stage - Mon 22 Apr 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: None and not British domestic companies. - Speech Link
2: None Our pension companies invest less in our own country’s companies and stock market than any of their international - Speech Link
3: None In particular, on the pleading from the noble Lord, Lord Sandhurst, with regard to overseas owners, I - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Paying Polluters: UN Report - Mon 22 Apr 2024
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Lord Callanan (Con - Life peer) Of course, these treaties are bilateral, and they also help to protect the investments of UK companies - Speech Link
2: Lord Callanan (Con - Life peer) They also seek to protect the interests of UK companies investing in other overseas economies. - Speech Link
3: Lord Davies of Brixton (Lab - Life peer) It has faced at least 21 cases under the ISDS process, mainly for mining companies and mainly questioning - Speech Link
4: Lord Kamall (Con - Life peer) The other side of that is that big companies were perceived to get preferential treatment in being able - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill
Consideration of Lords messageConsideration of Lords Message - Mon 22 Apr 2024
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) He mentioned charter flights being booked, but many commercial companies, including the Rwandan state - Speech Link
2: Diana Johnson (Lab - Kingston upon Hull North) , or who have otherwise been agents or allies of the UK overseas. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
English Horticultural Sector (Horticultural Sector Committee Report) - Fri 19 Apr 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Lord Redesdale (LD - Life peer) There is a real risk to the viability of many companies if the new system fails. - Speech Link
2: Lord Colgrain (Con - Excepted Hereditary) that it is government policy to look for more inward investment from UK pension funds and insurance companies - Speech Link
3: Baroness Hamwee (LD - Life peer) recruitment practices, which my noble friend described as the biggest issue, since agencies recruiting overseas - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Criminal Justice Act 1988 (Offensive Weapons) (Amendment, Surrender and Compensation) Order 2024 - Thu 18 Apr 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Doocey (LD - Life peer) Campaigners rightly want tech companies to introduce safety measures to stop knives being advertised - Speech Link
2: Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede (Lab - Life peer) regulation over online marketplaces hosting illegal knife sales, particularly when these websites are hosted overseas - Speech Link
3: None Ofcom is currently consulting on the codes of practice that will provide clarity to tech companies on - Speech Link


Written Statements
Economic Security - Thu 18 Apr 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Oliver Dowden (Con - Hertsmere) to make sure decision making for business is as timely and transparent as possible.The ability of UK companies - Speech Link