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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 17 Dec 2025
Fair Work Agency: Small and Micro Businesses

"My Lords, is the Minister aware of the words of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who said that, too often,

“regulation … acts as a boot on the neck of businesses, choking off … enterprise and innovation”?

I acknowledge that the Minister has an impressive background in small business, building …..."
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Written Question
Soft Drinks: Taxation
Thursday 11th December 2025

Asked by: Lord Hunt of Wirral (Conservative - Life peer)

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the impact on small drink manufacturers, including administrative burdens, of the proposed changes to the Soft Drinks Industry Levy, including its extension to milk-based and plant-based drinks and the lowering of the sugar threshold to 4.5 g per 100 ml.

Answered by Lord Livermore - Financial Secretary (HM Treasury)

The changes to the Soft Drinks Industry Levy (SDIL) confirmed at the Budget in November 2025 were informed by the ‘Strengthening the Soft Drinks Industry Levy’ consultation, which was open from 28 April to 21 July 2025. Representations from small manufacturers, and the trade bodies representing them, were received and considered as part of this process.

On 25 November 2025, the government published its summary of responses to the consultation, including a full assessment of the impacts of the announced policy changes to the levy. This is available here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/strengthening-the-soft-drinks-industry-levy/outcome/strengthening-the-soft-drinks-industry-levy-summary-of-responses


The smallest producers, producing less than a million litres a year, will remain exempt from the SDIL.

Division Vote (Lords)
10 Dec 2025 - Employment Rights Bill - View Vote Context
Lord Hunt of Wirral (Con) voted Aye - in line with the party majority and against the House
One of 193 Conservative Aye votes vs 0 Conservative No votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 219 Noes - 223
Division Vote (Lords)
10 Dec 2025 - Employment Rights Bill - View Vote Context
Lord Hunt of Wirral (Con) voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 201 Conservative Aye votes vs 0 Conservative No votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 244 Noes - 220
Division Vote (Lords)
24 Nov 2025 - Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill - View Vote Context
Lord Hunt of Wirral (Con) voted Aye - in line with the party majority and against the House
One of 184 Conservative Aye votes vs 0 Conservative No votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 200 Noes - 244
Speech in Grand Committee - Wed 19 Nov 2025
Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure (Security Requirements for Relevant Connectable Products) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2025

"My Lords, I join the noble Lord, Lord Addington, in welcoming the Minister to her first appearance in Grand Committee. What better example could she have of the way in which things can develop in this place where there is agreement on all sides? She may have felt on Monday …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 17 Nov 2025
Employment Rights Bill

"My Lords, I shall speak to Motion C1—but before I do so, I say to the noble Lord, Lord Fox, that I am in complete agreement with the speech that he made on Motion A1. To recall the words that he used before, the Government were put on notice that …..."
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Division Vote (Lords)
17 Nov 2025 - Employment Rights Bill - View Vote Context
Lord Hunt of Wirral (Con) voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 198 Conservative Aye votes vs 0 Conservative No votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 295 Noes - 150
Division Vote (Lords)
17 Nov 2025 - Employment Rights Bill - View Vote Context
Lord Hunt of Wirral (Con) voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 199 Conservative Aye votes vs 0 Conservative No votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 309 Noes - 150
Division Vote (Lords)
17 Nov 2025 - Employment Rights Bill - View Vote Context
Lord Hunt of Wirral (Con) voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 195 Conservative Aye votes vs 0 Conservative No votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 302 Noes - 135