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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 13 Dec 2016
Oral Answers to Questions

"As always, I am very reasoned, Mr Speaker, but really, the shadow Minister, the hon. Member for Birmingham, Erdington (Jack Dromey) was talking absolute rubbish just then, which is not unusual. Does the Minister agree with the democratic principle that the Government of the day will decide on employment rights? …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 29 Nov 2016
Corporate Governance

"The Minister must give credit to some of the Opposition parties today, as one eighth of the Liberal Democrats are here, one third of Plaid Cymru are here and one 50th of the Scottish National party are seeking to take part, so people are taking this seriously. Does he agree …..."
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Written Question
Post Offices
Monday 14th November 2016

Asked by: Peter Bone (Independent - Wellingborough)

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 make it his policy to extend post offices in the existing Post Office network.

Answered by Margot James

There are over 11,600 post office branches in the UK, the largest retail network in the country.

Between 2010 and 2018, Government will have invested nearly £2 billion to modernise and sustain the Post Office. This has led to the most stable network for decades, but importantly our transformation of the network has delivered an extra 200,000 opening hours a week across the country and more than 4,100 branches are open on Sundays.

On 8 November the Government launched a public consultation on the network to understand what customers and small businesses expect from branches, and this will inform the government’s next state aid application for funding the Post Office.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 08 Nov 2016
Oral Answers to Questions

"Does the Minister agree that since the referendum, manufacturing has already had a Brexit dividend as a result of the fall in the value of the pound, which makes our exports much cheaper and imports more expensive, so people who produce stuff in this country have a price advantage already?..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Thu 03 Nov 2016
Steel Industry

"The hon. Gentleman is making an excellent speech. Can he explain why energy costs are so much lower in continental countries than here? Is it something that we as a Government are doing wrong, or is there some other reason?..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Thu 03 Nov 2016
Steel Industry

"My hon. Friend has been a champion of Corby steel since the day he became the Member of Parliament for Corby. The one thing that I want to pick up on in these exchanges is that people talk about “the Government”. We have a new Government, a new team, a …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Thu 03 Nov 2016
Steel Industry

"It is a great pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Penistone and Stocksbridge (Angela Smith), whose speech was very good—for at least the first two thirds. It was a very good speech and she made a strong case for the special steel produced in her constituency. I also liked …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Thu 03 Nov 2016
Steel Industry

"No, unfortunately we have not.

Since the referendum, sterling has fallen by, say, 17%. That makes exports to the EU 17% cheaper and exports into the UK from around the world 17% more expensive. Therefore, a small tariff is irrelevant because we have already had a huge dividend from Brexit. …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Thu 03 Nov 2016
Steel Industry

"The hon. Lady is making a very interesting speech. I would like to know—this goes to the heart of some of the problems with energy costs—the Opposition’s view on what should be done on energy prices...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 15 Sep 2016
Hinkley Point C

"We have an excellent Secretary of State who came to this House and made a full statement. He quite rightly gave the details of the statement to the Opposition and SNP spokesmen, but he also gave them in advance to the BBC. I read all the details on the BBC …..."
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