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HANSARDPost Office Horizon: RedressI thank my hon. Friend for her question and recognise her contribution on this issue over many years. She is right to say that the appeals process I am announcing today will be…09 Sept 2024HANSARDPost Office Horizon: RedressI am grateful to the hon. Member for that question. Specifically on the figures for the Horizon convictions redress scheme, he is right to say that there are only six claims where…09 Sept 2024HANSARDPost Office Horizon: RedressI am grateful to my right hon. Friend, who will, I hope, see his work as Chair of the Select Committee reflected in this announcement—specifically, that we are setting the target…09 Sept 2024HANSARDPost Office Horizon: RedressWith your permission, Madam Deputy Speaker, I would like to update the House on the Government’s response to the Horizon scandal. How appropriate it is to see you, a former…09 Sept 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsI thank the right hon. Member for his role, which I have referred to in the past and has been important in these matters. I am not passing the buck to anyone; I am simply saying…05 Sept 2024HANSARDSmall Businesses: Economic GrowthBusiness confidence was strengthened considerably across the United Kingdom as a whole following the general election and the return to some political stability, which businesses…05 Sept 2024HANSARDSmall Businesses: Economic GrowthI also welcome my hon. Friend to her place. I was pleased to meet her at the Farnborough air show, of which I am sure her community is extremely proud. I also extend birthday…05 Sept 2024HANSARDSmall Businesses: Economic GrowthThis issue is important to Members in all parts of the country, but I recognise my hon. Friend’s particular point about prosperous rural economies. Access to banking and financial…05 Sept 2024HANSARDSmall Businesses: Economic GrowthI thank the hon. Member for raising a matter that is important to his constituency. My Department works very closely with a range of devolved arrangements around the UK, and it is…05 Sept 2024HANSARDSmall Businesses: Economic Growthsmall businesses are the beating heart of our high streets and communities, and they are essential to economic success and our growth mission. We want growth in every part of the…05 Sept 2024HANSARDSmall Businesses: Economic GrowthI welcome my hon. Friend to his place. I have always enjoyed my visits to his constituency, particularly enjoying an ice cream at Rossi’s ice cream parlour. Those visits had a…05 Sept 2024HANSARDSmall Businesses: Economic GrowthI thank the hon. Member for that question. That is a key issue. There have been positive developments in recent years, particularly through the work of the British Business Bank.…05 Sept 2024HANSARDSmall Businesses: Economic GrowthI thank the hon. Lady for her kind words. I recognise that the Liberal Democrat manifesto shows that we have many common areas of interest, particularly on industrial strategy and…05 Sept 2024HANSARDIndustrial StrategyIt is lovely to see you in the Chair, Madam Deputy Speaker, and it is great to see so much interest in the industrial strategy from my hon. Friends. However, I believe Members in…05 Sept 2024HANSARDIndustrial StrategyIt is wonderful to hear a strong and authentic voice from the Black Country making a charge for industrial strategy; I thank my hon. Friend for her comments. The purpose of the…05 Sept 2024HANSARDIndustrial StrategyI thank my hon. Friend for his question. Teesside is a hugely exciting part of the country. There is so much to be proud of there, and so much to be excited about for the future,…05 Sept 2024HANSARDIndustrial StrategyLet me say how wonderful it is to see my hon. Friend back in her place, representing her community and bringing with her even more expertise from the roles that she has held and…05 Sept 2024HANSARDIndustrial StrategyIt is also great to see my hon. Friend in her place. I enjoyed working with her in her previous role in local government, and she brings all that expertise and achievement with…05 Sept 2024HANSARDIndustrial StrategyIt is also a pleasure to welcome my hon. Friend to her place, and I thank her for those comments, with which I thoroughly agree. This is what it is all about—good work and good…05 Sept 2024HANSARDIndustrial StrategyMy hon. Friend is not a new colleague, and her advocacy of the automotive sector, particularly given her constituency interest in Stellantis, is well known and welcome. This was a…05 Sept 2024