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Written Question

Friday 25th November 2022

Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether he plans to remove the UK from the Energy Charter Treaty.

Answered by Graham Stuart

The Government is closely monitoring developments in the Energy Charter Treaty as part of its engagement with the Treaty’s modernisation process.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 11 Jan 2022
Reducing Costs for Businesses

"I am grateful to my hon. Friend for giving way and really pleased to come in when he is talking about business rates because for both the hospitality sector and the retail sector—two sectors that are crucial in my constituency and so many others—business rates are one of the biggest …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 11 Jan 2022
Reducing Costs for Businesses

"Will the Minister give way?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 11 Jan 2022
Reducing Costs for Businesses

"Will the Minister give way on that point?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 11 Jan 2022
Reducing Costs for Businesses

"I have a better memory than the Minister, because I remember when George Osborne stood at that Dispatch Box in 2015 and said almost exactly the same thing, so we have been waiting six or seven years for business rates reform under the Government. We will wait another two years …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 11 Jan 2022
Reducing Costs for Businesses

"As someone who spent 20 years in business, including running two businesses, prior to coming into this place, there is a great deal I would like to say today, but the restrictions we have on time mean that I am going to restrict my remarks really to the hospitality sector. …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Fri 03 Dec 2021
Copyright (Rights and Remuneration of Musicians, etc.) Bill

"I appreciate the positive narrative that the Minister is giving to the Bill, but I am very concerned about what he said about Spotify and by the sense that Spotify offering exposure to musicians ought to be enough so that they can go and make their money elsewhere. Surely there …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 24 Nov 2021
Commercial Rent (Coronavirus) Bill

"Will the Minister expand a little on how he expects the viability test to be met? It is obviously extremely important. During the pandemic, many businesses that applied for bounce-back loans and the like were told they could not have the loans because they were potentially unviable owing to the …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 24 Nov 2021
Commercial Rent (Coronavirus) Bill

"I welcome the Bill—it is important that action is taken, even if it is retrospective—but often the very fact that the rent had to be found will have had impacts on other parts of a business’s funds. As the Minister works through the Bill, will he look carefully at the …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 24 Nov 2021
Commercial Rent (Coronavirus) Bill

"I am grateful to my hon. Friend for talking about the fact that although we support the Bill in its narrow terms, it could have offered much more, and particularly grateful for her making the point about business rates. I remember being in the shadow business Department team back in …..."
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