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HANSARD Industry and Exports (Financial Assistance) BillOn cyber, financing and JLR, I might have to correct myself in writing to the hon. Gentleman if I get what I say wrong, but as far as I am aware, I am not sure that JLR has drawn…15 Dec 2025HANSARD Industry and Exports (Financial Assistance) BillI thank colleagues for everything that they have had to say. I am not sure whether it was Reagan or Bush, but one of them went to France and said that the trouble with the French…15 Dec 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsI completely agree with the Chair of the Business and Trade Committee; this is a really good deal in many ways, not least because, as somebody who has benefited from medical…11 Dec 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsMy hon. Friend is quite right to raise the issue of Llanwern; sometimes we focus on some of the other steelworks in the UK, but this is about the whole sector. I met Commissioner…11 Dec 2025HANSARDFairtrade CertificationIt is British.11 Dec 2025HANSARDFairtrade CertificationI think I can see a Liberal Democrat hand gesturing at me.11 Dec 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsMy hon. Friend makes a very good point: advanced manufacturing and the creative industries come together in this area, because it is also about broadcasting. Those are two of the…11 Dec 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsI welcome my hon. Friend’s point, which is extremely well made. I am very happy to have a conversation with him afterwards about the precise nature of the discussions that are…11 Dec 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsI backed the national minimum wage. Because I have been here since the time of Queen Victoria, I remember a time when the Conservative party—backed by the Lib Dems,…11 Dec 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsI pay tribute to my hon. Friend’s work in the Department; he is much missed, particularly by many of the civil servants and those who worked with him. I am happy to sit down with…11 Dec 2025HANSARDEconomic GrowthWe are going to get the best possible deal that we can out of the European Union. That is one of the reasons that I was in Brussels only yesterday alongside Nick Thomas-Symonds,…11 Dec 2025HANSARDEconomic GrowthThe hon. Member seems to have lost the plot, frankly. Let me just point something out to him: what was average growth under the Tories? It was 1.5%. What is it under Labour? It is…11 Dec 2025HANSARDEconomic GrowthFar be it from me to agree with a Lib Dem but, broadly speaking, I do. The truth is, as the Leader of the Opposition has now admitted, Brexit was a self-inflicted shock—and not…11 Dec 2025HANSARDEconomic GrowthI agree with my hon. Friend that gnats— I would not want to cast aspersions on any other kind, obviously—can be a terrible problem in Scotland. The aviation industry in the UK is…11 Dec 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsYes.11 Dec 2025HANSARDSmall and Medium-sized BusinessesFirst of all, we have given £5 billion more to the Scottish Government; I sometimes just wish they would stop whining and moaning, and get on with delivering what they can with…11 Dec 2025HANSARDSmall and Medium-sized BusinessesLook, we want to back British entrepreneurs and investors. That is why we addressed some of the key issues in our small business strategy, which we published earlier this year, in…11 Dec 2025HANSARDSmall and Medium-sized BusinessesWell, I will find some hearing aids for the hon. Lady, because she refused to listen to the answer I was providing. Basically, when the Conservatives left government, they had not…11 Dec 2025HANSARDSmall and Medium-sized BusinessesNo, because I want the hon. Lady to apologise for what the Conservatives did to the British economy and British businesses. Why is it that, following the Brexit that they…11 Dec 2025HANSARDSmall and Medium-sized BusinessesI congratulate my hon. Friend on being a great defender of the businesses in her constituency. We are delivering targeted catalytic public investment in our clean energy…11 Dec 2025