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Commons Chamber
Armed Forces Readiness and Defence Equipment - Thu 21 Mar 2024
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Jeremy Quin (Con - Horsham) industrial strategy moved the MOD away from competition by default and towards viewing our defence sector - Speech Link
2: John Spellar (Lab - Warley) They need orders from defence and from public sector bodies to maintain their workload and employment - Speech Link
3: Alec Shelbrooke (Con - Elmet and Rothwell) Friend the Minister for Defence Procurement has done an excellent job with the integrated procurement - Speech Link
4: George Galloway (WPB - Rochdale) Have they seen the state of our streets, public buildings and public transport? - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) Bill
Committee stage - Wed 20 Mar 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Mann (Non-affiliated - Life peer) might understand this, as well as those more directly impacted in the public sector and elsewhere, it - Speech Link
2: Lord Collins of Highbury (Lab - Life peer) That Act sets key objectives covered by procurement, including supporting public benefit, in Clause 12 - Speech Link
3: Baroness Randerson (LD - Life peer) deter very worthwhile recruits and you will make life more difficult again for our higher education sector - Speech Link
4: Baroness Fox of Buckley (Non-affiliated - Life peer) So, I understand why the university sector is in scope. - Speech Link
5: Baroness Neville-Rolfe (Con - Life peer) , to investment and procurement. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Standards in Public Life (Codes of Conduct)
1st reading - Wed 20 Mar 2024
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Debbie Abrahams (Lab - Oldham East and Saddleworth) While they struggle to make ends meet, public money is treated by some as a personal fiefdom to bestow - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Teesworks Project: Audit - Wed 20 Mar 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Baroness Swinburne (Con - Life peer) The public and private sector bodies engaged in the Teesworks project are responsible for ensuring that - Speech Link
2: Baroness Armstrong of Hill Top (Lab - Life peer) Neither we nor the public in Tees Valley have heard from the Government on what they will do to ensure - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
UK Food Security - Tue 19 Mar 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Sarah Dyke (LD - Somerton and Frome) I will cover that in a minute, but I would like to make some progress.I want to see changes in the public - Speech Link
2: Sarah Dyke (LD - Somerton and Frome) national land strategy, including a horticulture strategy to encourage the growth of the horticulture sector - Speech Link
3: Robbie Moore (Con - Keighley) ; Drink Federation, the British Retail Consortium and UKHospitality; it covers the interests of the sector - Speech Link
4: Robbie Moore (Con - Keighley) Having been involved in the agriculture sector for my whole life before entering this place, I know just - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Trade (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership) Bill [Lords]
Report stage - Tue 19 Mar 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Rosie Winterton (Lab - Doncaster Central) State must lay before each House of Parliament an assessment of the impact of the implementation of the procurement - Speech Link
2: Gareth Thomas (LAB - Harrow West) Otherwise, we risk endangering our gold standard of protection for our vital creative sector. - Speech Link
3: Kemi Badenoch (Con - Saffron Walden) Clause 3 and the parts of the schedule relating to Government procurement engage the Sewel convention - Speech Link
4: Kemi Badenoch (Con - Saffron Walden) I commend those Members who sat on the Public Bill Committee, including my hon. - Speech Link


General Committees
Draft National Minimum Wage (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2024 - Mon 18 Mar 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Justin Madders (Lab - Ellesmere Port and Neston) I will skip over the questions on procurement that I raised last year, Mr Hosie, but I want to raise - Speech Link
2: Justin Madders (Lab - Ellesmere Port and Neston) If he is so convinced that our policies are bad, why won’t he let the public decide? - Speech Link
3: Kevin Hollinrake (Con - Thirsk and Malton) The hospitality sector in Scotland is struggling as well as ours, and others are too. - Speech Link
4: Kevin Hollinrake (Con - Thirsk and Malton) The hospitality sector is a fantastic sector in this country, with many good businesses and many good - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Spring Budget 2024 - Mon 18 Mar 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Baroness Vere of Norbiton (Con - Life peer) That is why the Chancellor has announced a landmark public sector productivity plan that restarts public - Speech Link
2: Baroness Bowles of Berkhamsted (LD - Life peer) Then innovation procurement in the public sector is not really available. - Speech Link
3: Lord Lamont of Lerwick (Con - Life peer) It is appalling that the UK public sector is less efficient than it was in 1997. - Speech Link
4: Lord Kempsell (Con - Life peer) , which was released with the public sector productivity plan. - Speech Link
5: Lord Horam (Con - Life peer) As we know, public sector productivity is a big problem. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Public Procurement (British Goods and Services) Bill
2nd reading - Fri 15 Mar 2024
Northern Ireland Office

Mentions:
1: Sarah Champion (Lab - Rotherham) EU, we will be able to encourage the public sector to ‘Buy British’ to support our farmers and reduce - Speech Link
2: Sarah Champion (Lab - Rotherham) Member for Colchester (Will Quince), to support the ongoing work to improve public sector food procurement - Speech Link
3: Sarah Champion (Lab - Rotherham) Data from the British Chambers of Commerce found that, in 2016, 25% of public sector procurement spending - Speech Link


Written Statements
Modern Slavery Regulations - Thu 14 Mar 2024
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Andrew Stephenson (Con - Pendle) These regulations will place legal duties on public bodies to assess modern slavery risk in procurement - Speech Link