To match an exact phrase, use quotation marks around the search term. eg. "Parliamentary Estate". Use "OR" or "AND" as link words to form more complex queries.

Keep yourself up-to-date with the latest developments by exploring our subscription options to receive notifications direct to your inbox

Written Question
Foreign Investment in UK: Northern Ireland
Wednesday 21st June 2023

Asked by: Theresa Villiers (Conservative - Chipping Barnet)

Question to the Northern Ireland Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what steps he is taking to promote inward investment into Northern Ireland.

Answered by Steve Baker

The Northern Ireland economy has the ingredients required for economic success: exceptional talent, creativity, and innovation.

In partnership with the Department for Business and Trade, we are hosting the Northern Ireland Investment Summit on the 12 and 13 September in Belfast. This will be the perfect opportunity for Northern Ireland to demonstrate its potential to the world as part of the UK Government’s programme to mark the 25th anniversary year of the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 09 Nov 2022
Oral Answers to Questions

"Q8. Excessive housing targets are placing greater and greater pressure on councils to approve development that damages our environment. When the Prime Minister came to Finchley over the summer, he said that he wanted to abolish those targets. Will he use the Report stage of the Levelling Up and Regeneration …..."
Theresa Villiers - View Speech

View all Theresa Villiers (Con - Chipping Barnet) contributions to the debate on: Oral Answers to Questions
Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 26 Jan 2022
Oral Answers to Questions

"The Northern Ireland protocol is clearly causing political instability. Will the Secretary of State agree that it needs replacing, not just a few amendments?..."
Theresa Villiers - View Speech

View all Theresa Villiers (Con - Chipping Barnet) contributions to the debate on: Oral Answers to Questions
Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 27 Oct 2021
Oral Answers to Questions

"For many years, agriculture in Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK has been very dependent on overseas workers, even before the high levels of EU migration of recent years, so will the Minister do everything he can to make sure agriculture in Northern Ireland can still access the …..."
Theresa Villiers - View Speech

View all Theresa Villiers (Con - Chipping Barnet) contributions to the debate on: Oral Answers to Questions
Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 10 Mar 2021
Northern Ireland Protocol

"Article SPS.5, paragraph 3(d) of the trade and co-operation agreement obliges the EU to ensure that its sanitary and phytosanitary procedures

“are proportionate to the risks identified”.

Is it not inconsistent with that provision for the EU to seek to end the grace period and impose full SPS checks, given …..."
Theresa Villiers - View Speech

View all Theresa Villiers (Con - Chipping Barnet) contributions to the debate on: Northern Ireland Protocol
Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 30 Nov 2020
Patrick Finucane: Supreme Court Judgment

"I welcome my right hon. Friend’s statement and support his decision. As he said, the murder of Pat Finucane was an appalling, shocking crime, and the involvement of the state, as documented by the de Silva review, was utterly unacceptable. However, I would urge my right hon. Friend, in his …..."
Theresa Villiers - View Speech

View all Theresa Villiers (Con - Chipping Barnet) contributions to the debate on: Patrick Finucane: Supreme Court Judgment
Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 18 Nov 2020
Northern Ireland Protocol: Implementation Proposals

"Does the Minister agree that the European Union’s threat to refuse to list the UK as a fit country to export food to the European Union, and the de facto ban that that would involve on transporting food between Great Britain and Northern Ireland, contravenes its duty of good faith …..."
Theresa Villiers - View Speech

View all Theresa Villiers (Con - Chipping Barnet) contributions to the debate on: Northern Ireland Protocol: Implementation Proposals
Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 21 Sep 2020
United Kingdom Internal Market Bill

"I will bear your comments on timing in mind, Sir Graham, and try to rattle through. It is a pleasure to follow a very powerful speech from the hon. Member for Belfast South (Claire Hanna). We may disagree on some quite fundamental things, but I very much welcome her input …..."
Theresa Villiers - View Speech

View all Theresa Villiers (Con - Chipping Barnet) contributions to the debate on: United Kingdom Internal Market Bill
Written Question
Customs: Northern Ireland
Wednesday 2nd September 2020

Asked by: Theresa Villiers (Conservative - Chipping Barnet)

Question to the Northern Ireland Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what steps he is taking to minimise the costs to Northern Ireland businesses of complying with the requirements of the Northern Ireland Protocol.

Answered by Robin Walker

We are committed to working closely with businesses as we implement the Protocol - they are at the heart of our approach. This is why we established the Business Engagement Forum and why we recently announced the introduction of the Trader Support Service.

This unique service will provide extensive support, guiding traders through all import processes at no additional cost. Backed by £200m in Government funding, this will ensure that businesses of all sizes can draw on the support it provides.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 18 Mar 2020
Oral Answers to Questions

"May I appeal to the Secretary of State, in his work with the Executive on the Budget and the economy, to have a strong focus on farming? It is at difficult times like this that people realise fully the importance of food security to our nation, and to every family …..."
Theresa Villiers - View Speech

View all Theresa Villiers (Con - Chipping Barnet) contributions to the debate on: Oral Answers to Questions