Mentions:
1: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) remarks of her question that it relates to particular accommodation suppliers rather than to utility companies - Speech Link
2: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) We had a Westminster Hall debate on 5 September last year about British nationals who are detained overseas - Speech Link
3: Craig Tracey (Con - North Warwickshire) Can we have an urgent debate on getting all parties, including the drug companies, NICE and NHS England - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Sahota (Lab - Life peer) You only have to talk to overseas students and workers in minority communities to see how widespread - Speech Link
2: Lord Offord of Garvel (Con - Life peer) We have had great success in reducing the number of companies not paying the national minimum wage. - Speech Link
3: Lord Offord of Garvel (Con - Life peer) We have a large number of companies which have been subject to that, and we have therefore increased - Speech Link
4: Lord Watts (Lab - Life peer) Is it not time that we made this a criminal act, so that we can hold the directors of those companies - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Scriven (LD - Life peer) If so, will these rules and regulations be extended to UK foreign-supporting companies and bodies, such - Speech Link
2: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) are currently pushing through your Lordships’ House, formally the Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas - Speech Link
3: Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay (Con - Life peer) guiding principles on business and human rights, including in their management of supply chains here and overseas - Speech Link
4: Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay (Con - Life peer) I have set out how His Majesty’s ambassador and all Crown servants overseas follow the policies of His - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Wallace of Saltaire (LD - Life peer) of General Motors, in the context of apartheid South Africa and set out a number of principles that companies - Speech Link
2: Baroness Noakes (Con - Life peer) That was a complete surprise to me because the Bill is titled the Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas - Speech Link
3: Baroness Neville-Rolfe (Con - Life peer) That included divesting from companies in support of a boycott of Israel, and divesting from international - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: David Lammy (Lab - Tottenham) repression, especially towards the 160,000 Hongkongers who have come to the UK via the British national overseas - Speech Link
2: Andrew Mitchell (Con - Sutton Coldfield) As she knows, we created the British national overseas route in 2020, which creates a pathway to permanent - Speech Link
3: Barry Sheerman (LAB - Huddersfield) the Government to do an audit of the extent of Chinese influence in this country, including how many companies - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Liam Fox (Con - North Somerset) of verifiable information.”They also stated:“The Chinese Intelligence Services target the UK and its overseas - Speech Link
2: Gareth Thomas (LAB - Harrow West) The Nuffield Trust’s briefing for today’s debate stated that the ISDS could enable companies to challenge - Speech Link
3: Greg Hands (Con - Chelsea and Fulham) We support British businesses operating overseas. - Speech Link
4: Kemi Badenoch (Con - Saffron Walden) heart of a dynamic group of countries in the Indo-Pacific, providing new opportunities for British companies - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: David Duguid (Con - Banff and Buchan) The seafood sector in particular is still in a transition away from dependency on overseas workers, which - Speech Link
2: Virginia Crosbie (Con - Ynys Môn) excellent tourism and hospitality jobs fair, which was attended by over 150 jobseekers in Llangefni and companies - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Johnson of Lainston (Con - Life peer) language and culture and pitching and negotiations to networking receptions that use our embassies overseas - Speech Link
2: Earl of Effingham (Con - Excepted Hereditary) My Lords, there are 5.5 million firms listed in Companies House, but only 9% of them currently export - Speech Link
3: Lord Johnson of Lainston (Con - Life peer) We have a cultural issue with companies in this great nation of ours actually deciding to export. - Speech Link
4: Lord Campbell-Savours (Lab - Life peer) helped a generation of young entrepreneurs penetrate export markets and build many of today’s successful companies - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Bowles of Berkhamsted (LD - Life peer) Every day, British assets are snapped up cheaply by overseas purchasers. - Speech Link
2: Lord Lee of Trafford (LD - Life peer) Many of my overseas, foreign friends are envious of the ISA. - Speech Link
3: Lord Leigh of Hurley (Con - Life peer) using other people’s VAT details—even companies that are shown as not trading on Companies House. - Speech Link
4: Lord Bishop of Worcester (Bshp - Bishops) This is surely a heartbreaking way to prioritise overseas aid spending. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Sarah Champion (Lab - Rotherham) Research from Tussell found that in 2020 alone the public sector spent £18 billion with overseas suppliers - Speech Link
2: Sarah Champion (Lab - Rotherham) The number of companies going bust in 2023 hit a 30-year high. - Speech Link
3: Sarah Champion (Lab - Rotherham) Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has long raised the issue of procuring authorities buying food from overseas - Speech Link
4: Mark Tami (Lab - Alyn and Deeside) Smaller companies are often put off because the cost of tendering for such contracts is so high that - Speech Link
5: Lloyd Russell-Moyle (LAB - Brighton, Kemptown) Then, we say to companies, “Don’t worry. Get around it; ignore it all. - Speech Link