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Lords Chamber
Automated Vehicles Bill [HL]
2nd reading - Tue 28 Nov 2023
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Baroness Bowles of Berkhamsted (LD - Life peer) in the automated and connected vehicle sectors, including small and innovative businesses, especially - Speech Link
2: Lord Naseby (Con - Life peer) I was in business for years. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) Actually, we can thank researchers from MIT—Sudhakar et al, in an article published in the IEEE Micro - Speech Link
4: Lord Lucas (Con - Excepted Hereditary) we let the whole business of standards slip. - Speech Link
5: Lord Davies of Gower (Con - Life peer) for Business and Trade. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Autumn Statement Resolutions - Mon 27 Nov 2023
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Kevan Jones (Lab - North Durham) back two small slices. - Speech Link
2: Wendy Morton (Con - Aldridge-Brownhills) SMEs are the real wealth creators of our economy, and in this, the week leading up to small business - Speech Link
3: Steve McCabe (Lab - Birmingham, Selly Oak) He has agreed to freeze the small business rates multiplier for another year, but the increase in the - Speech Link
4: Nigel Huddleston (Con - Mid Worcestershire) For those smaller businesses that are so integral to their communities, we are freezing the small business - Speech Link
5: Nigel Huddleston (Con - Mid Worcestershire) both business and our citizens. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Autumn Statement Resolutions - Wed 22 Nov 2023
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Priti Patel (Con - Witham) I have previously called for a freeze of the small business rate multiplier, and I am pleased that the - Speech Link
2: Anna Firth (Con - Southend West) Over 98% of businesses in Southend are micro or small businesses; Southend is a city of entrepreneurs - Speech Link
3: Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Con - The Cotswolds) We have cut business rates, by freezing the small business multiplier yet again, saving the average shop - Speech Link
4: Bim Afolami (Con - Hitchin and Harpenden) There are measures to protect small businesses on business rates; on R&D tax credits, we are reducing - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Data Protection (Adequacy) (United States of America) Regulations 2023 - Wed 22 Nov 2023
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Mentions:
1: Lord Clement-Jones (LD - Life peer) that includes major institutions such as banks and insurance and telecommunication companies.This is - Speech Link
2: Viscount Camrose (Con - Excepted Hereditary) and is expected to benefit around 16,000 UK businesses, 92% of which are small or micro businesses, and - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Design Right, Artist’s Resale Right and Copyright (Amendment) Regulations 2023 - Mon 20 Nov 2023
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Mentions:
1: None These changes reflect the UK market better and provide greater business certainty by removing exchange - Speech Link
2: None The amendments will also redefine other exemptions so that they apply to CMOs that qualify as a micro-entity - Speech Link
3: Lord Clement-Jones (LD - Life peer) groups strongly consider that the status quo will deliver the strongest overall outcomes for shoppers, business - Speech Link
4: Viscount Camrose (Con - Excepted Hereditary) I will move on, except to note that this issue has the potential to impact so many business sectors and - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
King’s Speech - Mon 13 Nov 2023
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Baroness Sheehan (LD - Life peer) If the Government are referring to carbon capture and storage and small modular nuclear reactors then - Speech Link
2: Lord Bridges of Headley (Con - Life peer) least mitigate risk and bail out business failures. - Speech Link
3: Lord Faulkner of Worcester (Lab - Life peer) the Treasury will go on strangling revenue growth, with the DfT micro-managing virtually every operational - Speech Link
4: Lord Jones (Lab - Life peer) Shall there be small modular nuclear reactors at Trawsfynydd? - Speech Link
5: Baroness Penn (Con - Life peer) to develop the latest small modular reactor technologies, and last month we announced the shortlist - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Menopause - Thu 26 Oct 2023
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Peter Dowd (Lab - Bootle) I beg to move,That this House has considered the matter of the menopause.I thank the Backbench Business - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) Small and micro-businesses are predominantly male-owned, so the issue for them is understanding how to - Speech Link
3: Wera Hobhouse (LD - Bath) I commend the APPG on bringing this important issue to the House, and I thank the Backbench Business - Speech Link
4: Maria Caulfield (Con - Lewes) Organisations such as Wellbeing of Women offer support to businesses, small and large, on how to improve - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill
Consideration of Lords messageConsideration of Lords Message - Wed 25 Oct 2023
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Kevin Hollinrake (Con - Thirsk and Malton) and small organisations from the offence, I am afraid that the Government will not support the lowering - Speech Link
2: Rushanara Ali (Lab - Bethnal Green and Bow) The noble Lord Garnier’s amendment on “failure to prevent” fraud, which exempts small and micro-enterprises - Speech Link
3: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) Small businesses are both part of and victims of economic crime. - Speech Link
4: Margaret Hodge (Lab - Barking) He has excluded all medium-sized, small and micro-businesses. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Children’s Health: Ultra-processed Foods - Wed 25 Oct 2023
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Baroness Jenkin of Kennington (Con - Life peer) Making non-ultra-processed food and drink affordable, accessible and convenient to all is critical, and - Speech Link
2: Baroness Walmsley (LD - Life peer) The business model is this: you take cheap commodity ingredients, deconstruct them and put them together - Speech Link
3: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) Think about the size of child between a year and a half and three years old—quite small. - Speech Link
4: Earl of Effingham (Con - Excepted Hereditary) That is the type of food that can contribute to long-term illness, by changing the micro-composition - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill
Consideration of Commons amendments - Wed 25 Oct 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) on its Amendments 151E and 151F in lieu. - Speech Link
2: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) scope by exempting only micro-entities and small organisations from the offence. - Speech Link