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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 17 Nov 2020
National Security and Investment Bill

"My right hon. Friend is making an excellent point in an excellent speech. He is highlighting the need to understand national security not only as individual events and individual companies, big or small, but as a series of cumulative processes. Those gradual processes, over time, are as important to understand...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 17 Nov 2020
National Security and Investment Bill

"Will my hon. Friend give way?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 17 Nov 2020
National Security and Investment Bill

"Naturally, Madam Deputy Speaker, I hope to speak for no more than six minutes. It is a pleasure—genuinely a pleasure—to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Arundel and South Downs (Andrew Griffith). In the spirit of constructive debate, I am going to disagree with some of his points, but …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 17 Nov 2020
National Security and Investment Bill

"My hon. Friend is making such a brilliant speech that I do not want to interrupt him, but I will do so briefly. Does he agree that all these concerns could be wrapped up in a public interest amendment—including, for example, a human rights element—which would give Ministers some leeway …..."
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Written Question
Mhi Vestas
Monday 30th March 2020

Asked by: Bob Seely (Conservative - Isle of Wight)

Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will meet the hon. Member for the Isle of Wight and representatives of Solent LEP to discuss the future of MHI Vestas' site on the Isle of Wight.

Answered by Kwasi Kwarteng

I should be very happy to meet with the hon. Member for the Isle of Wight and representatives of Solent LEP, by teleconference, to discuss the future of the MHI Vestas’ site. My office will be in touch to arrange a suitable date.

Written Question
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Overseas Aid
Thursday 10th January 2019

Asked by: Bob Seely (Conservative - Isle of Wight)

Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how much funding his Department has allocated to programmes overseas that is not part of Official Development Assistance in each of the last three years; and how much such funding his Department plans to allocate in each of the next two years.

Answered by Chris Skidmore

The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy’s expenditure in the last three years on overseas programmes that are not part of Official Development Assistance is set out in the table below.

2016-17 Actual

2017-18 Actual

2018-19 Year-to-Date

2018-19 Forecast

£591m

£575m

£355m

£515m

Funding for 2019/20 and periods covered by the Spending Review 19 have not yet been agreed.

Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 12 Sep 2018
Shale Gas Exploration: Planning Permission

"On the Island we have great problems as well, because we are one of the most geologically unstable parts of northern Europe. Does my hon. Friend agree that it is very poor precedent for the Government effectively to force through something that is locally unpopular in many areas, because they …..."
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Speech in General Committees - Wed 11 Jul 2018
Draft Contracts for Difference (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2018

"The hon. Gentleman is kind to mention the Isle of Wight, but I hope he is not implying that we are remote...."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Thu 15 Mar 2018
GKN: Proposed Takeover by Melrose

"Does the hon. Gentleman agree that in many cases Melrose aims to own businesses for only between three and five years, and during that time seeks to maximise shareholder value, selling on the parts of those businesses that it sees as underperforming, sometimes without regard to the long-term benefit of …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 10 Oct 2017
European Union (Approvals) Bill

"I am not sure that I like Donald Trump any more than anyone else does, but does the hon. Gentleman understand the difference between a regime and an Administration? He calls the Trump regime a regime, but in fact the Trump Administration is an Administration. It is a democratically elected …..."
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