Oral Answers to Questions

Sally Jameson Excerpts

Thursday 11th December 2025 Commons Chamber

[Olly Glover (Didcot and Wantage) (LD)]

1. What steps he is taking to support small and medium-sized businesses.

[Sally Jameson (Doncaster Central) (Lab/Co-op)]

8. What steps his Department is taking to support SMEs.

[Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi (Slough) (Lab)]

14. What steps his Department is taking to support SMEs.

--- Later in debate ---

[Chris Bryant]

When I visited those at the de-alcoholisation unit at another brewery, the Budweiser factory just outside Newport, last week, they said that one of the really important things was being able to diversify, because of changing drinking habits in the UK. However, they also want the British Government to focus on making sure that businesses have access to capital and that people pay their bills on time. When we introduce legislation, as we intend to do later this year, which will tackle the problem of late payments, that will make a dramatic difference. It will be the most important piece of legislation in the UK in this field for 25 years.

[Sally Jameson]

Clean Power Hydrogen, a small business in my constituency, is a UK leader in the manufacturing of membrane-free electrolysers for green hydrogen production. It employs about 60 people in Doncaster, and it has the ability to expand that to hundreds by 2035. Will the Minister set out what he and his Department are doing to support companies such as Clean Power Hydrogen in Doncaster and across the country?

[Chris Bryant]

I congratulate my hon. Friend on being a great defender of the businesses in her constituency. We are delivering targeted catalytic public investment in our clean energy industries. Some people see climate change as an economic challenge for us, but we see it as an economic opportunity in this country, because it is about future jobs. That is why we are so different from the political parties on the other side of the Chamber.