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HANSARDSteel Industry (Special Measures) BillI will make some progress. Millions of other businesses are also struggling with their energy bills, which is why the Chancellor’s tax choices have been so devastating. Steel may…12 Apr 2025HANSARDSteel Industry (Special Measures) BillMy right hon. Friend is absolutely right. It is sad to say that Scunthorpe is the victim of exactly that policy: putting ideology before British interests.12 Apr 2025HANSARD UK-US Trade and TariffsI thank the Secretary of State for advance sight of his statement. Businesses, workers and their families woke up this morning with greater fear and more uncertainty about their…03 Apr 2025HANSARD Product Regulation and Metrology Bill [Lords]The right hon. Gentleman is exactly right, and we can contrast the number of references to the European Union throughout the Bill with, for example, our biggest single country…01 Apr 2025HANSARD Product Regulation and Metrology Bill [Lords]Let me move on. The biggest flaw of many in this Bill is that, as the hon. Member for Blackley and Middleton South (Graham Stringer) and my right hon. Friend the Member for…01 Apr 2025HANSARD Product Regulation and Metrology Bill [Lords]My right hon. Friend makes a serious and important point. I take the Secretary of State in good faith when he says that he desires for his Government to grow the economy—every…01 Apr 2025HANSARD Product Regulation and Metrology Bill [Lords]I will give way to the hon. Member for Birmingham Northfield (Laurence Turner).01 Apr 2025HANSARD Product Regulation and Metrology Bill [Lords]I am happy to give way if the right hon. Gentleman talks about what he will do to repeal the Employment Rights Bill.01 Apr 2025HANSARD Product Regulation and Metrology Bill [Lords]I will not, but before I get into further— [ Interruption. ] I will say something nice about the right hon. Gentleman in a minute. Before I get into detail, let me welcome the…01 Apr 2025HANSARD Product Regulation and Metrology Bill [Lords]Once again, the Secretary of State has failed to engage on the key issue, which is that British businesses— [Interruption.] It is not funny. British businesses are bleeding out,…01 Apr 2025HANSARD Product Regulation and Metrology Bill [Lords]We will not accept any lessons from the Liberal Democrats about what it takes to Brexit successfully and go back to being an independent nation, but if that is what the hon. Lady…01 Apr 2025HANSARD Product Regulation and Metrology Bill [Lords]My right hon. Friend makes an important point. I hope, as the Secretary of State slightly alluded to in his remarks about the ability of a country to make its own rules and…01 Apr 2025HANSARD Product Regulation and Metrology Bill [Lords]On behalf of my right hon. Friend the Member for South West Wiltshire (Dr Murrison), I thank the Secretary of State for intervening. It is important that we legislate with full…01 Apr 2025HANSARD Product Regulation and Metrology Bill [Lords]Of course, Madam Deputy Speaker. I am nearing a conclusion in any case. However, I do think that the issue of product safety—the rules and regulations that govern our economy, as…01 Apr 2025HANSARD Product Regulation and Metrology Bill [Lords]My right hon. Friend makes the perfect point that this is precisely what the road to serfdom looks like, whether it is serfdom to an individual Minister at a moment in time or…01 Apr 2025HANSARD Product Regulation and Metrology Bill [Lords]My right hon. Friend has great wisdom on these matters.01 Apr 2025HANSARD Product Regulation and Metrology Bill [Lords]With the very best will in the world, I think the hon. Lady can do a great deal better than that. As hon. Members have said, this House can legislate. If there are dangerous…01 Apr 2025HANSARD Product Regulation and Metrology Bill [Lords]I beg to move an amendment, to leave out from “That” to the end of the Question and add: “this House declines to give a Second Reading to the Product Regulation and Metrology Bill…01 Apr 2025HANSARD Product Regulation and Metrology Bill [Lords]No, I will make some progress. The anti-pub, anti-hospitality agenda goes far beyond this Bill. The jobs tax, the threshold change, the attack on seasonal and flexible working,…01 Apr 2025HANSARD Product Regulation and Metrology Bill [Lords]The Labour motive is all too plain to see. This is a Labour party that voted 48 times to reject the will of the British people, led by the Prime Minister, who sought a second…01 Apr 2025