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Lords Chamber
Offshore Petroleum Licensing Bill
2nd reading - Tue 26 Mar 2024
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Lord Lilley (Con - Life peer) Sea are small ones: there will be only a small benefit in emissions reductions; there will be only a - Speech Link
2: Baroness Hayman (XB - Life peer) , so I am not in the business of sacrificing anybody’s jobs. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Young of Old Scone (Lab - Life peer) However, persistent micro-spills do quite a lot of damage to the water quality, from the top to the - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Occupational Pension Schemes (Funding and Investment Strategy and Amendment) Regulations 2024 - Tue 26 Mar 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: None The gearing between large schemes and small schemes is substantial. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Sherlock (Lab - Life peer) future developments and the resilience of the business when they are setting or revising the FIS. - Speech Link
3: None Our impact assessment acknowledged that small or micro schemes are less likely to be following some of - Speech Link
4: None This oversight is exercised formally through the approval of its business plans and strategies and quarterly - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
HMRC Self-Assessment Helpline - Wed 20 Mar 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Drew Hendry (SNP - Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey) As the Federation of Small Businesses has pointed out,“customer service levels are at an all-time low - Speech Link
2: Sarah Dines (Con - Derbyshire Dales) Government investment in rural broadband in my constituency, there remains a lack of connectivity, with small - Speech Link
3: Helen Morgan (LD - North Shropshire) As a former financial controller of a small business in a rural place, I have used those helplines extensively - Speech Link
4: Nigel Huddleston (Con - Mid Worcestershire) If it were a private sector business, we can see how it would make sense strategically to move, where - Speech Link


Written Statements
Simpler Corporate Reporting - Tue 19 Mar 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Kevin Hollinrake (Con - Thirsk and Malton) better for business. - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Baroness Goldie (Con - Life peer) sensible for business and offer support in still challenging times for millions of households. - Speech Link
2: Lord Kempsell (Con - Life peer) enabled my parents to become small business owners in Hertfordshire. - Speech Link
3: Lord Skidelsky (XB - Life peer) micro policy to secure full employment, reversing the Keynesian wisdom of his day. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Moyo (Con - Life peer) leasing, small business support and VAT threshold changes—I would like her to state what specific plans - Speech Link
5: Lord Horam (Con - Life peer) Alongside the macro view of the council of economic advisers, this should be looking at the micro view - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill
Report stage - Wed 13 Mar 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Lord Offord of Garvel (Con - Life peer) Instead, a business will benefit from this exclusion so long as it meets the “micro-entity” thresholds - Speech Link
2: None is a “micro-entity”, which is assessed on the basis of the business’ turnover, balance sheet and number - Speech Link
3: None 26, at end insert— “(3A) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1), a business is a micro-entity in each - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
National Insurance Contributions (Reduction in Rates) (No.2) Bill
2nd reading - Wed 13 Mar 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Priti Patel (Con - Witham) Over 80% of my constituents work in self-employed small and medium-sized firms. - Speech Link
2: John Redwood (Con - Wokingham) innovation, and on small companies and the self-employed.I am delighted that the self-employed have - Speech Link
3: Priti Patel (Con - Witham) a new generation of entrepreneurs and small business leaders to come in and really help to grow the - Speech Link
4: Anna Firth (Con - Southend West) are small or medium-sized—in fact, the vast majority are micro. - Speech Link
5: John Redwood (Con - Wokingham) insurance fund—there are only residual, small amounts left—and now come out of general taxation and - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
International Women’s Day - Fri 08 Mar 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Baroness Vere of Norbiton (Con - Life peer) support from specialised business support organisations. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Rock (Con - Life peer) The campaign looks at how to build a resilient and gender-diverse business, how to recruit and retain - Speech Link
3: Lord Bishop of Southwark (Bshp - Bishops) Their activities in small and micro-enterprises are hampered, according to the International Labour Organization - Speech Link
4: Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb (Green - Life peer) small changes in rainfall or soil quality. - Speech Link


Written Statements
World Trade Organisation Ministerial Conference - Tue 05 Mar 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Kemi Badenoch (Con - Saffron Walden) predictability for business engaging in digital trade;re-committing to find a solution to restore the - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Social Media Access in Prisons - Mon 26 Feb 2024
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Paul Howell (Con - Sedgefield) I bring my life experience and business background, and I react to issues that arise, particularly those - Speech Link
2: Paul Howell (Con - Sedgefield) As Julie Brett, deputy director of innovation and business change at His Majesty’s Prison and Probation - Speech Link
3: Edward Argar (Con - Charnwood) This is particularly important as some phones, known as micro-mobiles, are no bigger than a matchbox. - Speech Link