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Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 16 May 2024
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Guy Opperman (Con - Hexham) They receive £1.60 for every £1 claimed, reflecting the increased costs faced by the sector, and supporting - Speech Link
2: Guy Opperman (Con - Hexham) We are working closely with the relevant Ministers at DWP to have sector-based work academies and skills - Speech Link
3: Alan Brown (SNP - Kilmarnock and Loudoun) contracts”.Why does the UK continue to destroy its own industrial base by refusing to implement similar procurement - Speech Link
4: Anthony Browne (Con - South Cambridgeshire) The Civil Aviation Authority, the independent safety regulator for the aviation sector, also engages - Speech Link
5: Anthony Browne (Con - South Cambridgeshire) helicopter service has changed since the launch of the UK’s second generation search and rescue aviation procurement - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Renters (Reform) Bill
2nd reading - Wed 15 May 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Baroness Warwick of Undercliffe (Lab - Life peer) important appointments for this role, it is imperative that the Government follow a clear and transparent procurement - Speech Link
2: Lord Adonis (Lab - Life peer) and the public sector. - Speech Link
3: Lord Marlesford (Con - Life peer) This has profound implications for public finances.Rents are a return on capital. - Speech Link
4: Lord Khan of Burnley (Lab - Life peer) Warwick of Undercliffe on the need for the proper steps to ensure that there is a fair process for the procurement - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Public Procurement - Mon 13 May 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Nia Griffith (Lab - Llanelli) of goods and services by local government and wider public sector bodies, as well as a specific threshold - Speech Link
2: Sarah Champion (Lab - Rotherham) sector spends around £2.4 billion a year on food procurement, yet there is no accurate measure of the - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Contracts for Difference (Sustainable Industry Rewards) Regulations 2024 - Mon 13 May 2024
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Lord Callanan (Con - Life peer) Offshore wind in particular is a critical industrial sector. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) How does this provision fit with the social value provisions in the Procurement Act? - Speech Link
3: Earl Russell (LD - Excepted Hereditary) There are worries about the level of support for future investment in the UK offshore wind sector, and - Speech Link
4: Lord Callanan (Con - Life peer) have developed them with industry input and believe that they will provide much-needed support to a sector - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Commercial Organisations and Public Authorities Duty (Human Rights and Environment) Bill [HL]
2nd reading - Fri 10 May 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Lord Browne of Ladyton (Lab - Life peer) procurement failure that this legislation would have prevented. - Speech Link
2: Lord Prentis of Leeds (Lab - Life peer) The public sector procured almost £400 billion-worth of goods and services in 2022 and 2023, but public - Speech Link
3: Lord Offord of Garvel (Con - Life peer) procurement and supply chains. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Young of Hornsey (XB - Life peer) It’s not going to work with this sector or that section”. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Integration of Primary and Community Care (Committee Report) - Thu 09 May 2024
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Baroness Pitkeathley (Lab - Life peer) encourage integrated policy-making and service provision, as well as a more preventive approach to public - Speech Link
2: Lord Altrincham (Con - Excepted Hereditary) might make that possible, there might be some cause for optimism in this extremely difficult area of public - Speech Link
3: Lord Jamieson (Con - Life peer) We need to embrace this, but it will mean a radical change to the way in which our public services are - Speech Link
4: Baroness Redfern (Con - Life peer) The framework accreditation programme will simplify procurement and speed up the adoption of innovation - Speech Link
5: Lord Markham (Con - Life peer) As I think noble Lords know, we launched a public consultation in December 2023 on inclusive schemes - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 09 May 2024
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Deidre Brock (SNP - Edinburgh North and Leith) Brexit is doing its damage to Edinburgh’s trade and talent in that sector, too, but services is a sector - Speech Link
2: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) In particular, the plan on combating storm overflows is there for the general public to see. - Speech Link
3: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) She is absolutely right: in this sector, as in most, it is women who deserve the greatest praise. - Speech Link
4: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) The public can see that progress is being made, including on getting people out of hotels. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 09 May 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Steve Barclay (Con - North East Cambridgeshire) We are engaging extensively with the sector. - Speech Link
2: Steve Barclay (Con - North East Cambridgeshire) Friend the Member for Colchester (Will Quince), is conducting a review of public sector food procurement - Speech Link
3: Steve Barclay (Con - North East Cambridgeshire) That is why we are continually engaging with the sector. - Speech Link
4: Steve Barclay (Con - North East Cambridgeshire) legislation so that we better leverage our public sector procurement and our labelling legislation so - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Defence - Tue 07 May 2024
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) I know that he is very committed to the defence sector in Northern Ireland, and we want to encourage - Speech Link
2: John Healey (Lab - Wentworth and Dearne) The defence and security of Britain is an increasing public concern in this country. - Speech Link
3: John Healey (Lab - Wentworth and Dearne) Theirs is the ultimate public service. They defend the country. - Speech Link
4: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) The Northern Ireland Affairs Committee is holding an inquiry into procurement in the defence sector, - Speech Link
5: Bob Seely (Con - Isle of Wight) If we can try to manipulate Russian public opinion, it would be to our benefit. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) Bill
Committee stage part one - Tue 07 May 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Noakes (Con - Life peer) advice to public bodies was that:“Public procurement should never be used as a tool to boycott tenders - Speech Link
2: Lord Collins of Highbury (Lab - Life peer) As the noble Lord, Lord Deben, said, we are saying that there is one policy for the private sector and - Speech Link
3: Baroness Neville-Rolfe (Con - Life peer) This applies only to public authorities and to investment and procurement, which I have continued to - Speech Link
4: None sector supply chains. - Speech Link