Written Question
Tuesday 23rd March 2021
Asked by:
Bridget Phillipson (Labour - Houghton and Sunderland South)
Question
to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the English Freeports selection decision, whether any additional information was (a) sought, or (b) received from the (i) Teesside or (ii) North East Freeport bid during the assessment process.
Answered by Eddie Hughes
All bidders were contacted to provide contact details for the operators of their proposed customs sites. No other information that was assessed as part of the selection process for the English Freeports competition was received from, or sought for, the Teesside or North East Freeport bids following the competition deadline of 12 noon 5 February 2021.
Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 23 Feb 2021
Coronavirus: Supporting Businesses and Individuals
"I beg to move,
That this House calls on the Government to support businesses and individuals still struggling as a result of the coronavirus crisis in the forthcoming budget by extending business rates relief for at least another six months, extending the temporary 5 per cent reduced rate of VAT …..."Bridget Phillipson - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 23 Feb 2021
Coronavirus: Supporting Businesses and Individuals
"I will give way briefly. I am reluctant to give way much, because of the pressure on time...."Bridget Phillipson - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 23 Feb 2021
Coronavirus: Supporting Businesses and Individuals
"The hon. Gentleman makes an important point. As we start to emerge from the crisis phase of the pandemic, we want to encourage people to take that risk and start up their own business. The self-employed and people starting small businesses were central to driving the recovery post-2008, and we …..."Bridget Phillipson - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 23 Feb 2021
Coronavirus: Supporting Businesses and Individuals
"I will give way one final time. I appreciate that we are pressed for time...."Bridget Phillipson - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 23 Feb 2021
Coronavirus: Supporting Businesses and Individuals
"We would work within the parameters of the scheme that has been set out, with the extension around 2019-20. We understand that, at the start of the pandemic, when it was not possible to draw upon those tax returns, there was an argument, but the position has now changed and …..."Bridget Phillipson - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 23 Feb 2021
Coronavirus: Supporting Businesses and Individuals
"It does rather disadvantage Members who are not here if I take further interventions, I am afraid.
It is not just the self-employed who need greater clarity at this time, but workers and businesses, large and small, right across our country. That is why what Labour is calling for is …..."Bridget Phillipson - View Speech
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Written Question
Monday 18th January 2021
Asked by:
Bridget Phillipson (Labour - Houghton and Sunderland South)
Question
to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, on what evidential basis the limit of 500 words was set for freeport bids regarding the economic rationale for tax site choice.
Answered by Luke Hall
I refer the Hon Member to the answer I gave to Question UIN 131242 answered on 11 January.
Written Question
Monday 18th January 2021
Asked by:
Bridget Phillipson (Labour - Houghton and Sunderland South)
Question
to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the funding being made available for freeports announced in the Spending Review 2020 CP 330: section 6.60, how much of the funding originally allocated to the Towns Fund will be allocated to capital spending on freeports in England.
Answered by Luke Hall
Successful Freeports bidders will have the opportunity to access a share of £175 million of seed capital funding. Allocations are subject to the submission and quality of successful business cases, but will be partly funded through the Towns Fund.
Written Question
Friday 15th January 2021
Asked by:
Bridget Phillipson (Labour - Houghton and Sunderland South)
Question
to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will place in the Library the (a) current round of bid submissions for possible sites for Freeports, (b) criteria used to assess each of the free text fields in the submitted bids and (c) weightings used for each of those criteria in respect of every text field.
Answered by Luke Hall
We are committed to following a robust and transparent process for assessing Freeport bids, as published in the Freeports Bidding Prospectus. Those bids will be assessed using the criteria, weightings, and mark scheme outlined in that Prospectus. We will not publish Freeport bids whilst they are being assessed as part of a live competition; we need to have regard to any commercially sensitive information within them.