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HANSARD Hospitality SectorI beg to move, That this House regrets the combination of catastrophic choices made by the Government causing the closure, downsizing and lack of hiring by pubs, restaurants,…03 Sept 2025HANSARD Hospitality SectorMy right hon. Friend is exactly right. Opportunity is a word we are going to hear again and again, because of the huge contribution that the hospitality sector makes to the…03 Sept 2025HANSARD Hospitality SectorI absolutely agree that we have to do everything we can to help. This is about tax and employment, because one of the characteristics that hospitality, tourism and retail share is…03 Sept 2025HANSARD Hospitality SectorMy right hon. Friend makes an important point. It is about the numbers, and it is important that we should be instrumented. This is a sector that is extremely well instrumented,…03 Sept 2025HANSARD Hospitality SectorI do agree. My hon. Friend puts it extremely well. It has been an enormously difficult summer. The weather should have been a tailwind, but the tailwind was not significant enough…03 Sept 2025HANSARDUK Internal MarketYou’re stuck with me.22 Jul 2025HANSARDUK Internal MarketAs ever, drawing on his extensive experience in this place, my right hon. Friend makes exactly the right point. We do not have time to revisit all the imperfections of the Brexit…22 Jul 2025HANSARDUK Internal MarketThank you, Dr Huq. It is a pleasure to speak under your chairmanship. I congratulate the right hon. Member for East Antrim (Sammy Wilson) on securing this last debate before the…22 Jul 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsMay I start by paying tribute to Norman Tebbit? He was a former Secretary of State for Trade and Industry and a great reformer who did a great deal to unleash growth in this…17 Jul 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsThat answer was complacent and unsympathetic. It is the most vulnerable—those looking for their first shot, their first chance—who pay the price of unemployment. Let us start…17 Jul 2025HANSARD Hospitality SectorIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Butler. As we have heard, the hospitality sector forms a cornerstone of not only our economy, but our society and community.…01 Jul 2025HANSARD UK Modern Industrial StrategyI thank the Secretary of State for advance sight of his statement. It is always a good day when we can talk about our wonderful and innovative British businesses, but, sad to say,…23 Jun 2025HANSARDProduct Regulation and Metrology Bill [Lords]Let me place on record my thanks to my hon. Friend the Member for West Worcestershire (Dame Harriett Baldwin), my right hon. Friend the Member for Basildon and Billericay (Mr…04 Jun 2025HANSARDBusiness and the EconomyOne is tempted to say that we should try to remove this wretched Government as quickly as possible. That, of course, is part of the answer. We need a Government who listen to the…21 May 2025HANSARDBusiness and the EconomySo many businesses feel like that, even when HMRC is doing its legitimate job of trying to balance the books and raise money for the public purse. That is because of how it goes…21 May 2025HANSARDBusiness and the EconomyOf course, I agree with my hon. Friend, but it does not actually matter what I or others think, because the reality is that the data does not lie. As of now, we have 100,000 fewer…21 May 2025HANSARDBusiness and the EconomyMost of us would put higher energy costs into the liability rather than the asset column of our economy. We are debating business, unemployment and the economy, and I hope the…21 May 2025HANSARDBusiness and the EconomyOur business community is ravaged; my hon. Friend is exactly right. We are plummeting to depths last reached only when the entire global economy was shut down due to an unknown…21 May 2025HANSARDBusiness and the EconomyI thank my right hon. Friend and predecessor in the role of City Minister. This is an important point: where we can, we will support the Government in continuing the work, which…21 May 2025HANSARDBusiness and the EconomyShe is right, and that is one of the chilling headwinds that anyone who wants to grow the economy, and anyone who serves in the wonderful Department for Business and Trade or our…21 May 2025