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HANSARDThe UK’s Modern Industrial StrategyI am pleased to announce that today, 14 October, I have published a Green Paper setting out our plans to deliver “Invest 2035: The UK’s Modern Industrial Strategy”. Growth is the…14 Oct 2024HANSARDOffice of Trade Sanctions ImplementationToday, the Department for Business and Trade launches the Office of Trade Sanctions Implementation. OTSI is a new unit equipped with enhanced powers to strengthen the…10 Oct 2024HANSARDPlan to Make Work Pay and Employment Rights BillDelivering the Government’s Plan to Make Work Pay—Introduction of the Employment Rights Bill The plan to make work pay sets out a significant and ambitious agenda to ensure…10 Oct 2024HANSARDLate Payments and Long Payment TermsLate payments and long payment terms continue to be a significant issue for small businesses and the self-employed across the UK. In 2022, small businesses were owed on average an…07 Oct 2024HANSARDPort Talbot Transition ProjectI have been a Member of Parliament for 14 years, in which I have seen some interesting political events, but I do not think I have ever heard a contribution with such brass neck.…11 Sept 2024HANSARDPort Talbot Transition ProjectWith your permission, Mr Speaker, I would like to update the House on the improved deal that this Labour Government have secured for the workers of Tata Steel, specifically as it…11 Sept 2024HANSARDPort Talbot Transition ProjectI very much welcome the hon. Member’s words and her recognition of the improvements that we have made with this deal. Fundamentally, we have recognised the need for a better…11 Sept 2024HANSARDPort Talbot Transition ProjectMy right hon. Friend is absolutely right. We are not just seeking to deliver new, improved transition deals for the key sites, but want to improve the overall business and…11 Sept 2024HANSARDPort Talbot Transition ProjectI am grateful to my hon. Friend for his question and to you, Mr Speaker, for your very skilful introduction. He is right to talk about that wider business environment, and…11 Sept 2024HANSARDPort Talbot Transition ProjectI am grateful to the right hon. Member for her questions. We will see the strategy in spring next year and the resources behind it, including the existing Government allocation…11 Sept 2024HANSARDPort Talbot Transition ProjectI thank my hon. Friend very much for her question. Let me say again that I wish that we were in a position to do even more, but I can tell hon. Members that this is the maximum…11 Sept 2024HANSARDPort Talbot Transition ProjectI am grateful to the hon. Member for his question and very much agree with him. As the shadow Secretary of State, I avidly read the statistics that the Department published about…11 Sept 2024HANSARDPort Talbot Transition ProjectI thank my hon. Friend for his question and for recently visiting the site to speak to management and the workforce. He is right about the understandable level of concern in the…11 Sept 2024HANSARDPort Talbot Transition ProjectThe levels of ambition and resource that we have as a new Government are actually greater than the figures that the hon. Lady has just given. To do the work that she describes…11 Sept 2024HANSARDPort Talbot Transition ProjectThe answer is a great many, as my hon. Friend will understand. I have always been conscious not just of the specific impact on the workforce at Port Talbot, but of the fact that…11 Sept 2024HANSARDPort Talbot Transition ProjectThe right hon. Gentleman will know that this has long been a campaigning issue of mine. I have talked repeatedly about the relationship between decarbonisation and the potential…11 Sept 2024HANSARDPort Talbot Transition ProjectI thank my hon. Friend for all his support during our years in opposition, when we tackled many of these issues. He asks about procurement. Of course, anything that we do as a…11 Sept 2024HANSARDPort Talbot Transition ProjectI am afraid that the hon. Member is misinformed as to what this is about. The issue is that these sites lose approximately £1 million a day. They have done so for a long time, and…11 Sept 2024HANSARDPort Talbot Transition ProjectMy hon. Friend is right to make that point. We cannot say enough that this is not a sunset industry; it should have a bright future. We can get this right. On the negotiations, my…11 Sept 2024HANSARDPort Talbot Transition ProjectI welcome the hon. Gentleman’s support for industrial strategy. I have said many times that there should be, as there is in many countries, cross-party agreement—perhaps not on…11 Sept 2024