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HANSARD 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 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsOnce again, no answers come there forth. Over 1 million jobs in this country depend on trade with the United States, including thousands of jobs in our steel industry. The…13 Mar 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsHow have we got to this point? After 35 weeks as Trade Secretary, 18 weeks since the US election, and an entire month since steel and aluminium tariffs were first announced, the…13 Mar 2025HANSARD Employment Rights BillBefore I summarise the Opposition’s view on the Bill, I pay tribute to those on the Conservative Benches who contributed during its passage. My hon. Friend the Member for Mid…12 Mar 2025HANSARD Employment Rights BillWe welcome him to his place. At least the Deputy Prime Minister is honest in her unwavering support for the trade union agenda. She is proud to walk in the footsteps of Neil…12 Mar 2025HANSARD Employment Rights BillI’ll do that again: higher unemployment, higher prices and lower growth. No wonder the right hon. Lady is in favour of making it harder to be sacked. This is a sad day for…12 Mar 2025HANSARDEngagementsBut it’s okay in the justice system?12 Mar 2025HANSARDDepartment for Business and TradeThere was no money left.05 Mar 2025HANSARDFamily BusinessesWhen he was seeking the votes of small business owners last summer, the Prime Minister said: “Small businesses are the lifeblood of our communities.” He said that business is “the…26 Feb 2025HANSARDFamily BusinessesI will not, as time is limited. Yesterday, the Conservatives successfully amended the national insurance Bill in the other place to mitigate the worst of Labour’s job tax. In…26 Feb 2025HANSARDFamily BusinessesI deeply regret that if the hon. Lady reads the Bill, she will find that it precisely confers those powers on the Secretary of State, but she can join with those on our Benches in…26 Feb 2025HANSARDClosure of High Street Services: Rural AreasIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Furniss. I congratulate the hon. Member for Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross (Jamie Stone) on securing this important…05 Feb 2025HANSARDEmployment CostsIn the week of Labour’s latest reset, how does the Minister reconcile imposing an additional £5 billion of costs on business—on the Government’s own figures—with growing the…30 Jan 2025HANSARDIndustrial StrategyWord salad!30 Jan 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsNext week, members of the Public and Commercial Services Union in the Department for Business and Trade are once again out on strike. Does the Minister consider the union’s…30 Jan 2025HANSARDCompetition and Markets Authority ChairmanThank you for granting this important urgent question, Mr Speaker. What a desperate state we are in when the Business Secretary has to phone up the regulators to beg them for…22 Jan 2025HANSARDCompetition and Markets Authority Chairman(Urgent Question): To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade if he will make a statement on the position of the chairman of the Competition and Markets Authority.22 Jan 2025HANSARD Environmental ProtectionThe hon. Gentleman knows of what he speaks, and of course I accept that there is wonderful variation across our whole country. That is precisely why I chose two neighbouring…21 Jan 2025