Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 08 Sep 2021
Health and Social Care Levy
"Is it not the case that the talk is about making life better for social care staff, but actually, they are exactly the people who will lose £1,000 a year in the universal credit cut and will now face this extra cost?..."Philippa Whitford - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 08 Sep 2021
Health and Social Care Levy
"Scotland already spends 43% more per head on social care, which allows us to be the only nation that delivers free personal care and has extended it to people under 65. That was why we raised the extra 1p on tax, for which Scots are already paying and from which …..."Philippa Whitford - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 08 Sep 2021
Health and Social Care Levy
"In Scotland, as I said earlier, we already spend 43% per head more on social care. If the hon. Gentleman is moaning about Scotland, he can perhaps imagine the problem here. Scotland has a plan: the Feeley review, the national care service, a human rights approach and extending free personal …..."Philippa Whitford - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 08 Sep 2021
Health and Social Care Levy
"Rubbish...."Philippa Whitford - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 08 Sep 2021
Health and Social Care Levy
"I welcome the hon. Lady’s reference to the aim to create cross-party consensus. We have heard that said repeatedly. I am the health and social care spokesperson for the SNP, and the Labour spokesperson and I did not receive so much as an email. To say that consensus could not …..."Philippa Whitford - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 08 Sep 2021
Health and Social Care Levy
"I am pleased to follow the hon. Member for Dartford (Gareth Johnson), because I do welcome the fact that this debate is happening and that there is an attempt to find a solution to something that absolutely has been kicked down the road. However, I am very disappointed that despite …..."Philippa Whitford - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 08 Jun 2021
0.7% Official Development Assistance Target
"The Prime Minister has declared his aim to secure an agreement of the G7 to vaccinate the world against covid by the end of next year, but it is hard to see how he will have the brass neck to push such a proposal when the UK will be the …..."Philippa Whitford - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 17 Mar 2021
Leaving the EU: Impact on the UK
"Some MPs on the Government Benches seemed to think they were speaking in the first debate. While they still cling to the idea of a post-Brexit fairy tale, other MPs from right across the UK have highlighted the chaos caused by Brexit and the lack of preparation for the end …..."Philippa Whitford - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 07 Dec 2020
UK-EU Future Relationship Negotiations and Transition Period
"Even if there is a deal at this eleventh hour, it will be very thin, inflicting customs costs and delays on sectors that are already struggling to survive covid. The Minister has called on businesses to get ready, but the Government’s own IT systems are not ready; indeed, the fish …..."Philippa Whitford - View Speech
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Written Question
Monday 30th November 2020
Asked by:
Philippa Whitford (Scottish National Party - Central Ayrshire)
Question
to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of establishing a Government-backed equity fund to help the recapitalisation of supply chain companies in the (a) aerospace and (b) wider manufacturing sector.
Answered by Kemi Badenoch
- Leader of HM Official Opposition
The Government is committed to supporting businesses access the finance they need to achieve their full growth potential. For some companies, further debt may not be the right answer, and the private sector should be the first port of call for any business seeking new equity investment.
The aerospace sector and its aviation customers are being supported with over £9 billion support through the Bank of England’s Covid Corporate Financing Facility, grants for research and development, loan guarantees and support for aerospace exports.
The manufacturing sector has been well supported in its ability to access finance through the government loan schemes throughout the current pandemic period. Manufacturing firms have had over 7,000 CBILS loans worth over £2bn and over 74,000 BBLS loans worth over £2.3bn, bringing the total amount received through CBILS and BBLS to £4.4bn to over 80,000 manufacturing firms. These figures indicate that manufacturing firms have received a higher proportion of lending through the schemes relative to their share of the UK SME business population.
The Government will keep policy under review, and rigorously test any proposals for their value for money.