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HANSARDTopical QuestionsThat is a very disturbing case, and I am happy to help the hon. Lady with it. I know that the guide dog campaigning organisations have this issue in their sights as something we…29 Nov 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsI am grateful to my hon. Friend for standing up for his constituency businesses; I hope he is supporting Small Business Saturday this weekend, as I am sure hon. Members across the…29 Nov 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsThat is a very important point. The Government are determined to tackle not just their own procurement practices, but those further afield. Clearly, we want to keep our markets…29 Nov 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsIt is great to hear that my hon. Friend’s constituent is looking to export right across the world, and we are determined to make it easier to do so through trade deals outside the…29 Nov 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsI thank the hon. Member for his question. He is absolutely right to bring up this matter. It is one of the concerns that has been raised most frequently with me since taking on…29 Nov 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsI thank the right hon. Member for all his work in this area; I know that he has done an awful lot. We have no plans to bring forward a garment code adjudicator, but we do take…29 Nov 2022HANSARDSMEs: Recruitment SupportIt is, of course, right that we look after the interests of business and consumers. There is no doubt that the strikes will have an impact on both parts of that sector, and it is…29 Nov 2022HANSARDSMEs: Recruitment SupportI am grateful for the hon. Gentleman’s correspondence on this matter, and I look forward to meeting him on 7 December. The prompt payment code, which we introduced and which we…29 Nov 2022HANSARDSMEs: Recruitment SupportI am new to this, Mr Speaker. My Department works closely with other Government Departments and with firms in all sectors of the economy on a range of issues relating to the…29 Nov 2022HANSARDSmall Business SupportAll businesses have access to the energy bill relief scheme. There are concerns about which sectors will be covered by the revised scheme. We will have details on that by the end…29 Nov 2022HANSARDSmall Business SupportWell, Labour is proposing a radical reform, but we cannot quite work out whether it will scrap business rates or reform them. There have been mixed messages among Labour Front…29 Nov 2022HANSARDSmall Business SupportI thank my hon. Friend for his recognition of the small businesses in his constituency. He is absolutely right: there is no greater force behind the supply side of the economy…29 Nov 2022HANSARDSmall Business SupportI am grateful for the hon. Lady’s question, especially the part about Small Business Saturday. As hon. Members can imagine, I will be spending much of the day visiting small…29 Nov 2022HANSARDSmall Business SupportIt is a delight to be part of a ministerial team of whom many members actually have a business background. We are for business because we are from business, and we know what it is…29 Nov 2022HANSARDSmall Business SupportAs one who was in business in 2010, I remember very well what the economy was like in that year, when we took over from Labour: it was not having a good time. [Interruption.] Yes,…29 Nov 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (Eighteenth sitting)The right hon. Gentleman says that there is a much stricter cost-control regime in the United States. He is clearly not aware that there is no such regime in the United States,…24 Nov 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (Eighteenth sitting)As Ronald Reagan used to say about the Russians: trust, but verify. It is important that we trust our partners but also that we see what they are doing to put these measures into…24 Nov 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (Eighteenth sitting)New clause 54 seeks to prevent the acquisition of land in the UK by companies registered in jurisdictions that are listed as high risk by the Financial Action Task Force or so…24 Nov 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (Eighteenth sitting)I am not aware of that. Clearly, it is important that the overseas territories and Crown dependencies respect the will of Parliament and the spirit of the will of Parliament, so…24 Nov 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (Seventeenth sitting)I thank the hon. Member for his amendment. As he set out, new clause 50 would require all companies to have at least one person who ordinarily resides in the UK among their…24 Nov 2022