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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 08 Mar 2022
Penrose Review: UK Competition and Consumer Policy

"It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Efford. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Weston-super-Mare (John Penrose) on his report and on securing this important debate. I particularly want to address his comments on the digital markets unit, which he says has been set up …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 07 Mar 2022
Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) Bill

"On this point about information sharing, which is so important, we have an established financial system to do that. Does the right hon. Lady share my concern that many people who are affected by these sanctions may use cryptocurrency both to hide money and to move money, and that many …..."
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Written Question
Competition: Digital Technology
Thursday 27th January 2022

Asked by: Damian Collins (Conservative - Folkestone and Hythe)

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, when he plans to publish the Government’s response to the consultation on a new pro-competition regime for digital markets.

Answered by Paul Scully

The consultation closed in October. We are carefully considering the responses we received and will publish our response in due course.


Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 26 Jan 2022
Economic Crime: Planned Government Bill

"Does my hon. Friend agree with the recommendation of the Joint Committee on the Draft Online Safety Bill that online platforms such as Facebook should not be allowed to profit from the advertising of known frauds and scams? As part of the online safety regime, they should be required to …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 19 Jan 2022
Small Modular Reactors and Energy Security

"On that point, the Dungeness A power station in my constituency is in advanced decommissioning. The site is owned by the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority. I reinforce the point made by my hon. Friend the Member for Ynys Môn (Virginia Crosbie) that it would be helpful for the Department for Business, …..."
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Written Question
Digital Technology and Internet: Advertising
Monday 19th October 2020

Asked by: Damian Collins (Conservative - Folkestone and Hythe)

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, when his Department plans to publish a response to the Competition and Markets Authority's final report of their market study into online platforms and digital advertising, published on 1 July 2020.

Answered by Paul Scully

The Government is currently considering the recommendations of the Competition and Market Authority’s market study and will respond in due course.


Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 03 Jun 2020
Corporate Insolvency and Governance Bill

"I start by congratulating my hon. Friend the Member for Heywood and Middleton (Chris Clarkson) on an excellent maiden speech. It made me feel slightly nostalgic, because I made my maiden speech—I was trying to work it out— 10 years and one week ago. In addition to that, I made …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 03 Jun 2020
Corporate Insolvency and Governance Bill

"My hon. Friend makes an incredibly important point, which has pre-empted what I was going to come on to say, although I would not make the point in quite that way. There is no doubt that football clubs would count as businesses in difficulty for a lot of lenders. The …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 03 Jun 2020
Corporate Insolvency and Governance Bill

"I am following my hon. Friend’s remarks closely. Given his opening remarks, might it not be better, if we believe in backing British business, for us to have some skin in the game? We might not get our money back every time, but overall we probably would...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 28 Nov 2017
Budget Resolutions

"What further assistance are the Government planning to give to research and development for small modular reactors as part of the nuclear sector, potentially a very important and useful source of energy? What consideration has the Secretary of State given to the suitability of existing nuclear sites, such as Dungeness …..."
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