Kevin Hollinrake
Conservative - Thirsk and Malton
7,550 (15.2%) majority - 2024 General ElectionFirst elected: 7th May 2015
Shadow Secretary of State for Business and Trade
(since July 2024)42 Former APPG memberships
Adult Social Care, Anti-Corruption and Responsible Tax, Antibiotics, Bees, British Virgin Islands, Choice at the End of Life, Fair Business Banking, Fair Business Banking and Finance, Fourth Industrial Revolution, Golf, Haemophilia and Contaminated Blood, Heritage Rail, Housing in the North, Internet, Communications and Technology, Land Value Capture, Limits to Growth, Listed Properties, Lower Carbon Construction Vehicles, Management, Medomsley Detention Centre, Mortgage Prisoners, New and Advanced Technologies, Northern Powerhouse, Pancreatic Cancer, Personal Banking and Fairer Financial Services, Poverty, Premature and Sick Babies, Print, Private Rented Sector, Shale Gas Regulation and Planning, SME (Small and Medium-sized Enterprises) House Builders, Social Care, Tenanted Pubs, Thalidomide, Third World Solidarity, Tidy Britain, Unconventional Oil and Gas, Uplands and Hill Farming, Weddings, Whistleblowing, Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire, Yorkshire and Northern LincolnshireDivision Voting information
Debates during the 2024 Parliament
Speeches made during Parliamentary debates are recorded in Hansard. For ease of browsing we have grouped debates into individual, departmental and legislative categories.
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Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade)
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Department Debates
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Legislation Debates
Kevin Hollinrake has not made any spoken contributions to legislative debateLatest EDMs signed by Kevin Hollinrake
Social Security
Tabled by: Rishi Sunak (Conservative - Richmond and Northallerton)That an humble Address be presented to His Majesty, praying that the Social Fund Winter Fuel Payment Regulations 2024 (S.I., 2024, No. 869), dated 22 August 2024, a copy of which was laid before this House on 22 August 2024, be annulled.
(Most recent: 10 Sep 2024)
Signatures by party:
Conservative: 75
Independent: 3
Democratic Unionist Party: 2
Scottish National Party: 1
China's new National Security Law for Hong Kong
Tabled by: Andrew Rosindell (Conservative - Romford)That this House notes with surprise and concern the decision by HSBC Bank Plc and Standard Chartered Plc to support China’s proposals for a new National Security Law in Hong Kong; recognises that financial institutions, particularly those enjoying the benefits and protections of being based in the UK, have a …
(Most recent: 15 Sep 2020)
Signatures by party:
Scottish National Party: 4
Democratic Unionist Party: 4
Labour: 4
Conservative: 3
Independent: 2
Liberal Democrat: 2
Green Party: 1
Alba Party: 1
Commons initiatives
These initiatives were driven by Kevin Hollinrake, and are more likely to reflect personal policy preferences.
MPs who are act as Ministers or Shadow Ministers are generally restricted from performing Commons initiatives other than Urgent Questions.
2 Urgent Questions tabled by Kevin Hollinrake
Kevin Hollinrake has not been granted any Adjournment Debates
4 Bills introduced by Kevin Hollinrake
A Bill to make provision about leave and pay for employees whose children have died.
This Bill received Royal Assent on 13th September 2018 and was enacted into law.
A Bill to make provision about the property and affairs of missing persons; and for connected purposes.
This Bill received Royal Assent on 27th April 2017 and was enacted into law.
A Bill to make the offence of supplying or offering to supply a controlled drug aggravated when the person to whom the drug is supplied or offered is under 16; and for connected purposes.
A Bill to abolish business rates; and for connected purposes.
Tuesday 12th January 2021
19 Bills co-sponsored by Kevin Hollinrake
Consumer Telephone Service Standards Bill 2022-23
Sponsor - Robert Halfon (Con)
Non-Disclosure Agreements (No. 2) Bill 2021-22
Sponsor - Maria Miller (Con)
Whistleblowing Bill 2021-22
Sponsor - Mary Robinson (Con)
Disposable Barbecues Bill 2021-22
Sponsor - Robert Largan (Con)
Education (Guidance about Costs of School Uniforms) Act 2021
Sponsor - Mike Amesbury (Lab)
Banking Services (Post Offices) Bill 2019-21
Sponsor - Duncan Baker (Con)
National Health Service Reserve Staff Bill 2019-21
Sponsor - Alan Mak (Con)
Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies (Environmentally Sustainable Investment) Bill 2019-21
Sponsor - Anna McMorrin (Lab)
Ground Rents (Leasehold Properties) Bill 2017-19
Sponsor - Eddie Hughes (Con)
Freehold Properties (Management Charges) Bill 2017-19
Sponsor - Preet Kaur Gill (LAB)
Banking (Consumer and Small Business Protection) Bill 2017-19
Sponsor - Charlie Elphicke (Ind)
Climate Change (Net Zero UK Carbon Account) Bill 2017-19
Sponsor - Alex Chalk (Con)
Parental Rights (Rapists) and Family Courts Bill 2017-19
Sponsor - Louise Haigh (Lab)
Planning (Appeals) Bill 2017-19
Sponsor - John Howell (Con)
Minimum Service Obligation (High Street Cashpoints) Bill 2017-19
Sponsor - Huw Merriman (Con)
National Health Service (Prohibition of Fax Machines and Pagers) Bill 2017-19
Sponsor - Alan Mak (Con)
Construction (Retention Deposit Schemes) Bill 2017-19
Sponsor - Peter Aldous (Con)
Banking and Post Office Services (Rural Areas and Small Communities) Bill 2017-19
Sponsor - Luke Graham (Con)
Child Maintenance (Assessment of Parents' Income) Bill 2017-19
Sponsor - Heidi Allen (LD)
Latest 10 Written Questions
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Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade)
The Product Regulation and Metrology Bill was introduced into the House of Lords on 4 September 2024.
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade)
UK product safety law requires that all products must be safe before being placed on the market and enforcement authorities have powers to take appropriate action where unsafe or non-compliant products are identified. The Office for Product Safety and Standards (OPSS) works with stakeholders to ensure the safety of products on the UK Market regardless of their origins.
This Product Regulation and Metrology Bill will ensure the UK is better placed to address product safety issues we face today and in the future. It will allow for agile and robust regulatory measures for products, including lithium-ion and button batteries, placed on the UK market.
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade)
UK product safety law requires that all products must be safe before being placed on the market and enforcement authorities have powers to take appropriate action where unsafe or non-compliant products are identified. The Office for Product Safety and Standards (OPSS) works with stakeholders to ensure the safety of products on the UK Market regardless of their origins.
This Product Regulation and Metrology Bill will ensure the UK is better placed to address product safety issues we face today and in the future. It will allow for agile and robust regulatory measures for products, including lithium-ion and button batteries, placed on the UK market.
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade)
Legislation is expected to be laid before Parliament in 2024 to amend the Reporting on Payment Practices and Performance Regulations 2017 to require new retention reporting requirements.
Amendments were made to the Payment Practices and Performance Regulations which introduced two new reporting metrics which will cover the value of payments, and the level of invoices not paid because of disputes. Businesses will be required to collect data and report on these new metrics from January 2025 as planned.
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade)
As the Chancellor set out in her statement on July 29, the government’s spending audit has identified a forecast Resource DEL overspend of £21.9 billion against the plans set out for departments at Spring Budget 2024. This already factors in the Treasury’s assessment of a £7.1bn fallaway over the course of the year, as set out in Table 1 of Fixing the foundations: public spending audit 2024-25.
The government has announced £5.5 billion of savings in 2024-25, bringing the in-year pressures down to £16.4 billion.
The Department for Business and Trade was created in February 2023 and is therefore the current financial year represents the departments second full financial year of operation. For the financial year 2023-24 the financial outturn, including details of any underspends, is still being finalised. The final numbers will be published in the Annual Report and Accounts in the Autumn 2024.
The extent of any underspends in this financial year will be confirmed only when the financial year has concluded.
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade)
HMRC publishes data regularly about the number of claims and the cost of non-structural tax reliefs, such as agricultural property relief and business property relief. The information can be found at www.gov.uk/government/statistics/main-tax-expenditures-and-structural-reliefs.
Exchequer Secretary (HM Treasury)
HMRC publishes data regularly about the number of claims and the cost of non-structural tax reliefs, such as agricultural property relief and business property relief. The information can be found at www.gov.uk/government/statistics/main-tax-expenditures-and-structural-reliefs.
Exchequer Secretary (HM Treasury)
As of 26 July 2024, we have issued 10 letters confirming to postmasters that their convictions have been quashed by the Post Office (Horizon System) Offences Act 2024.
The Ministry of Justice, Northern Irish Executive and Scottish Government are taking all reasonable steps and are working at pace to identify those within scope of the legislation. To do this, the Government is examining data spanning multiple decades and from multiple sources, including but not limited to the Post Office, the Police National Record, and court files. It is necessary that this process is undertaken carefully.
The previous Government said publicly that most letters confirming to individuals that their convictions have been quashed would be sent by the end of July. However, since then inconsistencies have been identified between the different datasets and the Government has therefore decided to conduct extra checks to ensure that all decisions on scope are correct.
Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)