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Lords Chamber
Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill
Report stage - Mon 18 Sep 2023
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: None would like the freedom and flexibility to set up and manage their own childcare business. - Speech Link
2: Lord Young of Cookham (CON - Life peer) Yet if you and your partner own a small, terraced house and three small £100,000 buy-to-let apartments - Speech Link
3: None a deeper working relationship between the public, business and social sectors. - Speech Link
4: None It is a culture that encourages the micro and the macro to learn from each other; the micro and the macro - Speech Link
5: Lord Mawson (CB - Life peer) business and public sector partners, and with the NHS and a number of local authorities, are starting - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Northern Ireland Budget (No. 2) Bill
2nd reading - Thu 14 Sep 2023
Northern Ireland Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Alderdice (LDEM - Life peer) Maybe the Government need to engage more and more directly with those in the business community, because - Speech Link
2: Viscount Brookeborough (CB - Excepted Hereditary) There are thousands of micro-businesses and small SMEs. - Speech Link
3: Lord Bruce of Bennachie (LDEM - Life peer) Although it is a very small department and the amount of money is small, the Authority for Utility Regulation - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill
Consideration of Lords messageConsideration of Lords Message - Wed 13 Sep 2023
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Kit Malthouse (CON - North West Hampshire) I am surprised at Lord Garnier’s lack of any conception of what it is like to run a small business and - Speech Link
2: Kevin Hollinrake (CON - Thirsk and Malton) He said he might be the only small business owner currently in the Chamber, but he is talking to one. - Speech Link


General Committees
Draft Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure (Security Requirements for Relevant Connectable Products) Regulations 2023 - Mon 11 Sep 2023
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Mentions:
1: George Freeman (CON - Mid Norfolk) Government must act to ensure that when UK consumers and business customers are purchasing consumer connectable - Speech Link
2: Chi Onwurah (LAB - Newcastle upon Tyne Central) that the detrimental business impact is minimised. - Speech Link
3: George Freeman (CON - Mid Norfolk) The previous Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, the Minister for Small Business Consumers and Labour - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill
Consideration of Commons amendments - Mon 11 Sep 2023
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (CON - Life peer) Those costs would still be disproportionately shared by small business owners.I know some noble Lords - Speech Link
2: None You will find the definition of a micro-business by looking at page 18 of the Marshalled List and Amendment - Speech Link
3: Baroness Noakes (CON - Life peer) Setting the threshold at the micro-entity level would still leave very many small and medium-sized entities - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Nuclear Energy - Thu 07 Sep 2023
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Baroness Bloomfield of Hinton Waldrist (CON - Life peer) opinion, we need to back all forms of nuclear technology, from fusion to fission, from gigawatt to micro - Speech Link
2: Viscount Hanworth (LAB - Excepted Hereditary) This amounts to a small power station. - Speech Link
3: Lord Bilimoria (CB - Life peer) My old university contemporary and friend at Cambridge, the former Secretary of State for Business, Energy - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill
Consideration of Lords amendments - Mon 04 Sep 2023
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Margaret Hodge (LAB - Barking) Does he not think that any honest, upright business, whether large, small or micro, would aim within - Speech Link
2: None That burden would disproportionately be shared by small business owners. - Speech Link
3: Liam Byrne (LAB - Birmingham, Hodge Hill) I have taken a business from two people and a business plan and grown it into a multi-million pound organisation - Speech Link
4: Richard Fuller (CON - North East Bedfordshire) Ultimately, who will give a guarantee to all the small business owners around the country who are worried - Speech Link
5: Richard Fuller (CON - North East Bedfordshire) wife, father and son or whatever—concentrating on what I want to say of a small business—or just sole - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Climate Change - Mon 24 Jul 2023
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Krebs (CB - Life peer) the Department for Business and Trade will publish a new strategy on supply chains, including the impacts - Speech Link
2: Lord Frost (CON - Life peer) small proportion of our GDP. - Speech Link
3: Earl Russell (LDEM - Excepted Hereditary) My Lords, I rise to speak very aware of the history of this great Chamber, and very aware of my small - Speech Link


General Committees
Draft Equipment and Protective Systems Intended for Use in Potentially Explosive Atmospheres Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2017 (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2023 - Wed 12 Jul 2023
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Ruth Cadbury (LAB - Brentford and Isleworth) Do they know whether very small microbusinesses or small and medium-sized enterprises will be hit by - Speech Link
2: Kevin Hollinrake (CON - Thirsk and Malton) the costs to businesses, the majority of businesses likely to be impacted are SMEs, with micro and small - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Online Safety Bill
Report stage: Part 2 - Thu 06 Jul 2023
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Baroness Fox of Buckley (Non-affiliated - Life peer) I do feel rather guilty that, to move the core philosophy forward, I have dumped the small and micro - Speech Link
2: Baroness Fox of Buckley (Non-affiliated - Life peer) the small boats arriving were considered to be evidence of far-right views. - Speech Link