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

Mentions:
1: Mark Harper (Con - Forest of Dean) Friend’s question, may I just welcome very strongly your statement at the beginning of business, Mr Speaker - Speech Link
2: Guy Opperman (Con - Hexham) Gentleman that Leicestershire County Council has also received over £1 million from the rural mobility - Speech Link
3: Guy Opperman (Con - Hexham) I am pleased to say that the Gallows Corner scheme was recently approved at outline business case stage - Speech Link
4: Guy Opperman (Con - Hexham) scope of the works, I urge him to take them up with TfL, because it is for TfL to develop the full business - Speech Link
5: Gavin Newlands (SNP - Paisley and Renfrewshire North) On Tuesday I asked the Minister of State at the Department for Business and Trade, the hon. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Community Sports: Impact on Young People - Thu 16 May 2024
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Lord Wood of Anfield (Lab - Life peer) be sustainable, and how disabled people, young girls, minority children, lower-income families and rural - Speech Link
2: Lord Monks (Lab - Life peer) bring Liverpool wit and, because his office was in Manchester for many years, Manchester wisdom to the business - Speech Link
3: Earl of Effingham (Con - Excepted Hereditary) understand that the noble Lord is chairman of the Manchester United Supporters Trust, whereas my wife’s business - Speech Link
4: Lord Shamash (Lab - Life peer) and the oldest Jewish community, and he arrived in Manchester in 1895 to further develop the family business - Speech Link
5: Baroness Thornton (Lab - Life peer) declare an interest as the founding chair and patron of Social Enterprise UK and an associate of Social Business - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Lord Truscott (Non-affiliated - Life peer) As a result, the private rented sector, unlike any other business, is taxed on turnover rather than profit - Speech Link
2: Earl of Lytton (XB - Excepted Hereditary) business need, where parks, gardens, hotels, food processing and the like also involve providing staff - Speech Link
3: Lord Carrington (XB - Excepted Hereditary) of rural businesses are not farming or forestry. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Boycott (XB - Life peer) As business has said, the sooner the Government commit to a proper plan in the PRS and for all housing - Speech Link
5: Lord Hacking (Lab - Excepted Hereditary) This is a burden on the judiciary and a cause of delay in the courts transacting this business. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Biodiversity Loss - Wed 15 May 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Caroline Lucas (Green - Brighton, Pavilion) for our own Government to step up as well.When the then Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural - Speech Link
2: Alistair Strathern (Lab - Mid Bedfordshire) Farmers worry about what the decline of their fragile ecosystems will mean for the future of their business - Speech Link
3: Alex Sobel (LAB - Leeds North West) We can change that by improving access to nature in both urban and rural areas through, for example, - Speech Link
4: Steven Bonnar (SNP - Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill) to reverse biodiversity declines by 2045, with action needed across the whole range of Government, business - Speech Link
5: Toby Perkins (Lab - Chesterfield) A staggering 82% of respondents to the National Farmers Union survey said that their farm business had - Speech Link


Written Statements
Solar Energy and Food Security: Land Use - Wed 15 May 2024
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Claire Coutinho (Con - East Surrey) agricultural land, we are increasingly seeing geographical clustering of proposed solar developments in some rural - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Wed 15 May 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Kemi Badenoch (Con - Saffron Walden) Grow: Management, growth hubs and the British Business Bank. - Speech Link
2: Rishi Sunak (Con - Richmond (Yorks)) which would have led to thousands of job losses and less food security for our country, and destroyed rural - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
World Species Congress - Tue 14 May 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Sarah Champion (Lab - Rotherham) Member for Suffolk Coastal (Dr Coffey), the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs described - Speech Link
2: Alex Sobel (LAB - Leeds North West) We need the legislation, but we also need the Department for Business and Trade to have sight of the - Speech Link
3: Chris Grayling (Con - Epsom and Ewell) on both Front Benches that it needs to be done after the election, as has been recommended by senior business - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Tobacco and Vapes Bill (Seventh sitting)
Committee stage: 7th sitting - Tue 14 May 2024
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Preet Kaur Gill (LAB - Birmingham, Edgbaston) 9 specifies that it applies“in the course of business”,so it would not necessarily impact the use of - Speech Link
2: Andrea Leadsom (Con - South Northamptonshire) used, only sales from a retailer to a customer will be caught by the vape age of sale offence, and business-to-business - Speech Link
3: Preet Kaur Gill (LAB - Birmingham, Edgbaston) The caveated phrase “sale by retail” means that business-to-business sales need not be impacted by restrictions - Speech Link
4: Preet Kaur Gill (LAB - Birmingham, Edgbaston) We know that the business model of tobacco and, let us face it, of vape companies is addiction. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Royal Bank of Scotland Branch Closures - Tue 14 May 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Deidre Brock (SNP - Edinburgh North and Leith) More often, I have supported the work of Members from rural areas who have fought valiantly against the - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) Does she agree that the abdication of the duty of care to rural banks is unacceptable at a time when - Speech Link
3: Deidre Brock (SNP - Edinburgh North and Leith) when—in the case of RBS—taxpayers bailed them out when they needed it and still own a third of the business - Speech Link
4: Deidre Brock (SNP - Edinburgh North and Leith) post office’s ability to provide even those services, which included limited training on personal and business - Speech Link
5: Bim Afolami (Con - Hitchin and Harpenden) In the case of rural constituencies—he mentioned his very rural constituency—I think that the assessment - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Agriculture - Mon 13 May 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Steve Reed (LAB - Croydon North) Even though we know how devastating flooding can be for rural businesses, this Conservative Government - Speech Link
2: Bill Wiggin (Con - North Herefordshire) We need to have risk-based inspections—really properly risk-based inspections—not the Rural Payments - Speech Link
3: Thérèse Coffey (Con - Suffolk Coastal) Although I see the benefit of what we are doing, it is important that the Department and the Rural Payments - Speech Link
4: Mark Spencer (Con - Sherwood) While I am talking about infrastructure, it is also vital to the rural economy that we support things - Speech Link