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Westminster Hall
Global Intergenerational Week 2024 - Thu 09 May 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Marion Fellows (SNP - Motherwell and Wishaw) Older and younger people have skills and resources of considerable value to one another, and despite - Speech Link
2: Kirsty Blackman (SNP - Aberdeen North) One of the best things we did in my time was taking the Rainbows, who were very small—from age five to - Speech Link
3: Anneliese Dodds (LAB - Oxford East) It was mentioned earlier that more diverse teams tend to have far better outcomes—particularly in business - Speech Link
4: Stuart Andrew (Con - Pudsey) Stakeholders have told us that intergenerational volunteering can be a flexible form of micro-volunteering - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Skills: Importance for the UK Economy and Quality of Life - Thu 09 May 2024
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Lord Griffiths of Burry Port (Lab - Life peer) business skills, and this is likely to intensify. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Fairhead (XB - Life peer) However, they are nascent; the pilot is currently small. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Barran (Con - Life peer) life sciences.My noble friend Lord Lucas talked about the importance of micro-credentials. - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LD - Life peer) As set out in FCDO guidance on overseas business risk, there are clear risks related to economic and - Speech Link
2: Lord Willetts (Con - Life peer) One of his most effective political slogans was that he wanted to see a small state and a big society - Speech Link
3: Lord Mann (Non-affiliated - Life peer) the micro- aggressions that go with that. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Noakes (Con - Life peer) The Bill would close the option of them ever implementing BDS policies and would therefore be one small - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 02 May 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Kevin Hollinrake (Con - Thirsk and Malton) Around 13,000 medium-sized companies will be reclassified as small companies, and 100,000 small companies - Speech Link
2: Rob Butler (Con - Aylesbury) the Minister has just outlined, but what more can his Department do to help the small and micro-firms - Speech Link
3: Kevin Hollinrake (Con - Thirsk and Malton) Friend is a real champion of small business, and we meet often talk about these matters. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Furnished Holiday Lettings: Taxation - Wed 01 May 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Peter Aldous (Con - Waveney) not a tax loophole; it was introduced in 1984 specifically to cater for the fact that a holiday let business - Speech Link
2: James Davies (Con - Vale of Clwyd) Friend agree that that Welsh Government policy is destroying legitimate business among holiday let operations - Speech Link
3: Peter Aldous (Con - Waveney) The regime supports micro and small businesses that are the cornerstone of many visitor economies. - Speech Link
4: Peter Aldous (Con - Waveney) to the private rented sector, so as to justify the harm that it will cause to tens of thousands of small - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Transport System: Failings - Thu 25 Apr 2024
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Lord Campbell-Savours (Lab - Life peer) It is designed in such a way as to catch the traveller going about his or her business and requiring - Speech Link
2: Lord Whitty (Lab - Life peer) of HS2, but some are micro. - Speech Link
3: Lord Stevens of Kirkwhelpington (XB - Life peer) associated business interests. - Speech Link
4: Lord Liddle (Lab - Life peer) from the micro-control of civil servants who are currently making decisions about services and spending - Speech Link
5: Lord Davies of Gower (Con - Life peer) This is giving leaders the funding and powers they need to get people and business moving. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Affordable Housing: Supply - Thu 25 Apr 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Viscount Chandos (Lab - Life peer) That reminded me of a consulting firm, a micro-McKinsey that I worked with in the past, rather wonderfully - Speech Link
2: Lord Griffiths of Burry Port (Lab - Life peer) the Centre for Economics and Business Research refers to as being the case for people who have gone - Speech Link
3: Lord Taylor of Goss Moor (LD - Life peer) It is people in inappropriately small accommodation who need larger family accommodation. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (Lab - Life peer) Poor John Silkin, the Housing Minister in 1946, arrived in the small market town of Stevenage—population - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Veterinary Medicines (Amendment etc.) Regulations 2024 - Thu 18 Apr 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Baroness McIntosh of Pickering (Con - Life peer) We learn from paragraphs 12.1 of the Explanatory Memorandum that the annual net direct cost to business - Speech Link
2: Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville (LD - Life peer) The effect on small businesses and large chains of veterinary practices is likely to be considerable. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Hayman of Ullock (Lab - Life peer) It concerns small practices and making sure that these extra burdens can be managed by them—as well as - Speech Link


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