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Written Question
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Ben Everitt
Tuesday 30th November 2021

Asked by: Jack Dromey (Labour - Birmingham, Erdington)

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what meetings (a) Ministers, (b) special advisers and (c) civil servants in his Department had with the hon. Member for Milton Keynes North between 1 May 2020 and 31 January 2021.

Answered by George Freeman

Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Ministers and Special Advisers have had no one-on-one meetings with my Hon. Friend the Member for Milton Keynes North between 1 May 2020 and 31 January 2021. Ministers have participated in MP-Roundtables, All-MP calls and MP tea surgeries during this period, some of which the Hon. Member for Milton Keynes North attended or received an invitation for. Details of meetings held by civil servants are not held centrally and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 16 Nov 2021
Oral Answers to Questions

"3. What steps he is taking to promote the onshoring of manufacturing jobs and production to the UK. ..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 16 Nov 2021
Oral Answers to Questions

"For this country’s manufacturing base to prosper and succeed, it requires a firm commitment from Government to support the making and buying of goods manufactured in Britain. The Minister will be familiar with the shameful decision by Melrose to shut a factory in Chester Road, Erdington with 70 years of …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Fri 22 Oct 2021
Employment and Trade Union Rights (Dismissal and Re-engagement) Bill

"I pay tribute to my hon. Friend the Member for Brent North (Barry Gardiner) for his outstanding advocacy of a necessary measure to ban from our country practices that have no place in modern Britain.

No one today has argued other than that there are circumstances in which profit-making companies …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Fri 22 Oct 2021
Employment and Trade Union Rights (Dismissal and Re-engagement) Bill

"The danger to workers will be significantly lessened if my hon. Friend’s Bill passes into law.

Following on from the hon. Gentleman’s intervention, I have two points. First, some Members have asked whether a private Member’s Bill is an appropriate vehicle. I will give a good example in just one …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 19 Oct 2021
Net Zero Strategy and Heat and Buildings Strategy

"That we move to warm homes fuelled by heat pumps is welcome, but warm words are not enough. What guarantee can the Minister provide that the Government will use taxpayers’ money to invest in heat pumps made in Britain, creating jobs here in Britain and supporting British business?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 23 Sep 2021
Gas Prices and Energy Suppliers

"An Erdington care worker with two children was close to tears when she said to me:

“I worked so hard throughout the covid crisis. Now I am facing my universal credit being cut, a tax increase and soaring energy bills. Jack, why are they going ahead with the cut to …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 21 Sep 2021
Oral Answers to Questions

"If the closure of the GKN plant in Erdington goes ahead, it will be a blow to the automotive industry’s transition to an electric future and a betrayal of the British national interest, with 519 workers sacked in an area of high deprivation and with production exported to Poland and …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 28 Apr 2021
GKN Automotive Plant: Birmingham

"I beg to move,

That this House has considered the proposed closure of GKN Automotive plant in Birmingham.

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Dame Angela. I declare an interest as, for 47 years, a member of, first, the Transport and General Workers Union and then Unite, …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 28 Apr 2021
GKN Automotive Plant: Birmingham

"I thank all those who have spoken in what has been a powerful debate. We have heard about experiences from Luton to Birkenhead in traditional areas of engineering and motor manufacturing. My hon. Friend the Member for Easington (Grahame Morris) made a powerful contribution and pointed out that the four …..."
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