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HANSARDAudit and Corporate Governance ReformsToday the Government are publishing their ambitious plans to strengthen the UK’s audit, company reporting and corporate governance framework, “Restoring trust in audit and…18 Mar 2021HANSARDBudget Resolutions and Economic SituationI must press on. Lots of Back Benchers want to speak. However eminent and distinguished my right hon. Friend is, there are lots of other people who want to speak. We are backing…09 Mar 2021HANSARDBudget Resolutions and Economic Situationindicated assent.09 Mar 2021HANSARDBudget Resolutions and Economic SituationI hear my right hon. Friend’s passionate defence of his own work, and I commend a lot of his work. I have read the industrial strategy comprehensively, and it was a pudding…09 Mar 2021HANSARDBudget Resolutions and Economic SituationIt is a real pleasure for me to open today’s debate on the Budget that my right hon. Friend the Chancellor the Exchequer brought before the House last week. It is a Budget that…09 Mar 2021HANSARDBudget Resolutions and Economic SituationI have not come here to defend or rebut any of the wonderful measures that we took under my right hon. Friend’s leadership. I am very conscious of the fact that many people want…09 Mar 2021HANSARDBudget Resolutions and Economic SituationI am very conscious, as I am sure my right hon. Friend is, that many, many Back Benchers want to take part in the debate. I understand that he is on the call list, so I am afraid…09 Mar 2021HANSARDMagnox Decommissioning Contract: Holliday InquiryOn 27 March 2017, the then Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, my right hon. Friend the Member for Tunbridge Wells (Greg Clark), informed the House of…04 Mar 2021HANSARDNational Security and Investment: Mandatory Notification Regime Consultation ResponseToday, the Government published their response to the consultation on secondary legislation to define the sectors subject to mandatory notification under the National Security and…02 Mar 2021HANSARDVauxhall at Ellesmere Port and Battery Manufacturing StrategyYes, my hon. Friend is quite right. There are lots of sites that have potential in the field of gigafactories, and we remain absolutely committed to securing UK gigafactory…01 Mar 2021HANSARDVauxhall at Ellesmere Port and Battery Manufacturing StrategyI would be delighted to make a statement that we are considering and looking at these sites. My hon. Friend will know that I have visited Hinkley Point in his constituency and…01 Mar 2021HANSARDVauxhall at Ellesmere Port and Battery Manufacturing StrategyI do not recognise some of the premises of the hon. Member’s question. The Prime Minister’s 10-point plan, far from being full of platitudes, is a world beater. I saw a story in…01 Mar 2021HANSARDVauxhall at Ellesmere Port and Battery Manufacturing StrategyMy right hon. Friend is quite right. The issues raised by his question are of critical strategic importance, and I fully appreciate the work that he did on driving the industrial…01 Mar 2021HANSARDVauxhall at Ellesmere Port and Battery Manufacturing StrategyI pay tribute to my right hon. Friend for the great work he did as Secretary of State. He was the first Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, and I…01 Mar 2021HANSARDVauxhall at Ellesmere Port and Battery Manufacturing StrategyOn the specific question, I have met Steve Rotheram a number of times in previous ministerial roles, and I believe I am setting up a meeting with him soon. He has great knowledge…01 Mar 2021HANSARDVauxhall at Ellesmere Port and Battery Manufacturing StrategyI would be delighted. I am clearly going to be a much-travelled Secretary of State investigating all these potential sites for gigafactories. I pay tribute to my hon. Friend for…01 Mar 2021HANSARDVauxhall at Ellesmere Port and Battery Manufacturing StrategyI really appreciate those words of support and help. This is a cross-national issue and a cross-party issue, and I would be very happy to engage with the hon. Gentleman. He knows…01 Mar 2021HANSARDVauxhall at Ellesmere Port and Battery Manufacturing StrategyThere are huge opportunities in Wales for the siting of gigafactories, and also, particularly, in terms of the net zero challenge. I spoke to Ken Skates of the Welsh Government…01 Mar 2021HANSARDVauxhall at Ellesmere Port and Battery Manufacturing StrategyI am fully aware and conscious of the difficult time that we are going through, but the hon. Lady will appreciate that these are ongoing conversations —ongoing sensitive…01 Mar 2021HANSARDVauxhall at Ellesmere Port and Battery Manufacturing StrategyI am not sure whether that was a yes or no question, but yes to my hon. Friend’s point. Andy is doing a great job. MPs in the region, my right hon. and hon. Friends, are really…01 Mar 2021