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General Committees
Draft Package Travel and linked travel arrangements regulations 2018 - Mon 14 May 2018
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mentions:
1: Gill Furniss (LAB - Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough) Insolvency protection was an important feature of the 1990 directive and the 1992 regulations. - Speech Link
2: Andrew Griffiths (CON - Burton) The new directive is far more robust about what insolvency protection must legally be in place. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
European Union (Withdrawal) Bill
Committee: 7th sitting (Hansard): House of Lords - Wed 14 Mar 2018
Department for Exiting the European Union

Mentions:
1: Baroness Crawley (LAB - Life peer) this morning, Thomas Cook has changed its terms and conditions to state explicitly that it will not provide - Speech Link
2: Baroness Crawley (LAB - Life peer) Benches, that that should have been sorted out even before negotiations began.As I was saying, the Thomas - Speech Link
3: Lord Reid of Cardowan (LAB - Life peer) We are talking about many clubs, which might be on the verge of insolvency in terms of their operations - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Monarch Airlines - Mon 09 Oct 2017
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Chris Grayling (CON - Epsom and Ewell) Do we want the state to own British Airways, easyJet, Jet2 and Thomas Cook? It is nonsense. - Speech Link
2: Huw Merriman (CON - Bexhill and Battle) As he will be aware, the UK insolvency framework does not allow insolvent airlines to continue flying - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Air Travel Organisers’ Licensing Bill
2nd reading (Hansard): House of Lords - Tue 05 Sep 2017
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Lord Callanan (CON - Life peer) The UK has been a leader in this sector, going back some 175 years, when Thomas Cook first had the foresight - Speech Link
2: Lord Rosser (LAB - Life peer) The ATOL scheme is also a crucial means by which UK businesses can meet their obligations to have insolvency - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Air Travel Organisers’ Licensing Bill
2nd reading: House of Commons - Mon 03 Jul 2017
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: John Hayes (CON - South Holland and The Deepings) It was on 5 July 1841 that Thomas Cook arranged the first excursion. - Speech Link
2: Robert Courts (CON - Witney) The new legislation introduces a single-market approach to insolvency, whereby EU-established companies - Speech Link
3: Luke Pollard (LAB - Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport) in an odd position in this debate as I have worked for the Association of British Travel Agents and Thomas - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Vehicle Technology and Aviation Bill
2nd reading: House of Commons - Mon 06 Mar 2017
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Chris Grayling (CON - Epsom and Ewell) It is the primary method by which the travel sector provides insolvency protection within our packaged - Speech Link
2: Drew Hendry (SNP - Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey) Government do to guarantee that they will not cave in to the lobbying demands of companies such as Thomas - Speech Link
3: John Hayes (CON - South Holland and The Deepings) Holidaymakers will see their protection against the insolvency of travel companies extended to cover - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Leaving the EU: UK Tourism - Wed 12 Oct 2016
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Nigel Huddleston (CON - Mid Worcestershire) tourism economy, but it employs more than 215,000 people in businesses, including tour operators such as Thomas - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Bill - Tue 02 Dec 2014
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Baroness Neville-Rolfe (CON - Life peer) The Bill makes a number of changes that strengthen and modernise our insolvency regime.My fourth theme - Speech Link
2: Lord Bilimoria (CB - Life peer) , Britain’s insolvency environment ranks pretty highly. - Speech Link
3: Lord Sugar (CB - Life peer) People who specialise in insolvency have estimated that one in five business failures is simply down - Speech Link
4: Lord Mitchell (LAB - Life peer) She has had a meteoric rise in the UK corporate sector, from McKinsey to Thomas Cook to Woolworths to - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Holiday Pricing - Mon 24 Feb 2014
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Damian Hinds (CON - East Hampshire) The price for a Thomas Cook couple’s retreat in Negril, Jamaica goes up by 31% between June and August - Speech Link
2: Jenny Willott (LDEM - Cardiff Central) and selling package holidays and package tours have in place protection for consumers against their insolvency - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill - Wed 29 Jun 2011
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Lord Clarke of Nottingham (CON - Life peer) Last week, I quoted David Thomas, the author of “Thomas on Sentencing”, who described the whole thing - Speech Link
2: Sadiq Khan (LAB - Tooting) Lords Justices Thomas and Goldring both raised the genuine concern that“the decision whether or not to - Speech Link
3: Pat Glass (LAB - North West Durham) eagerly looking forward to telling the people at the interview how well she could look after herself, cook - Speech Link
4: Andy Slaughter (LAB - Hammersmith) The Revenue has objected that insolvency cases in which it is a major creditor will not come to court - Speech Link