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HANSARDSteel TariffsI am grateful for this urgent question. Today, I am publishing the Committee’s correspondence with Ministers after the roundtable we held with steel producers, expressing a very…17 Jun 2026 · 3d agoHANSARDTopical QuestionsThe Committee is meeting steel makers later today and will supply the Government with its advice from that, but I want to raise the automotive sector. We are not going to double…21 May 2026HANSARD Costs for MotoristsThank you for facilitating the urgent question, Mr Speaker. I welcome the announcements on fuel duty, but I did not hear the Chief Secretary say anything about remedies for the…21 May 2026HANSARD Steel Industry (Nationalisation) BillI will be very quick, because I know that colleagues are keen to get in. I am going to speak against the amendment and in support of the Bill for the simple reason that a speech…21 May 2026HANSARD Steel Industry (Nationalisation) BillThe hon. Gentleman makes an excellent point that I am about to come on to. My point, I suppose, is that there is a case for this Bill. I think it is actually quite important, and…21 May 2026HANSARDPension Schemes BillI congratulate my hon. Friend on stewarding the Bill with such expertise, and I very much hope that the cultural change that he is hoping for sticks and that we do not just get an…22 Apr 2026HANSARDPension Schemes BillI rise to say a couple of things in support of the Minister, who not only has done a heroic job in laying out the intellectual architecture for the legislation before he got to…22 Apr 2026HANSARDPension Schemes BillI am grateful for that intervention, because the hon. Lady made my second point for me. It is just not good enough to will the ends and not the means. The reality is that, after…22 Apr 2026HANSARDPension Schemes BillI can advance only my own analysis of what will be needed. Indeed, it is part of a wider Business and Trade Committee inquiry, which will produce a report in a couple of weeks, on…22 Apr 2026HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe Select Committee recently flagged that small businesses in our country now face pandemic-level pressures. In April, standing charges for energy are set to rise by 60%, with no…12 Mar 2026HANSARD Department for Business and TradeAt the end of a long day, let me express my gratitude to the Backbench Business Committee for providing us with this time to debate the supplementary estimates and the priorities…04 Mar 2026HANSARD Department for Business and TradeThis is the most extraordinary country on earth. It is the home of the industrial revolution, and the home of the scientific revolution. It is a country with an abundance of…04 Mar 2026HANSARD Department for Business and TradeMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. The chief executive of Fujitsu came before the Committee to say that Fujitsu did indeed have a moral obligation to make a contribution. That is…04 Mar 2026HANSARDSpring ForecastThe plan that the Chancellor has set out this afternoon shows that inflation, debt and bills are down, and that headroom, growth and living standards are up. That is testament to…03 Mar 2026HANSARDMiddle EastI think the diffidence that we have heard towards international law this afternoon is as unwise as, perhaps, it is unsurprising. For the sake of clarity, can the Prime Minister…02 Mar 2026HANSARD Representation of the People BillOn a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. I believe that I heard the hon. Gentleman accuse a political party in the Chamber of a “criminal abuse of democracy”. Did I hear that…02 Mar 2026HANSARD Representation of the People BillI, too, want to welcome the Bill; I think it has a lot of good measures. However, whether it becomes the watershed Bill that I think it could be depends on whether much of the…02 Mar 2026HANSARDUK-India Free Trade AgreementThe evidence that we took in the Business and Trade Committee did raise concerns about the impact of the deal on both the brick industry and the ceramics industry in the UK. The…09 Feb 2026HANSARDUK-India Free Trade AgreementI am grateful for the opportunity to speak in this debate. I want to start with huge thanks to my colleagues on the Business and Trade Committee for helping to inform the debate…09 Feb 2026HANSARDUK-India Free Trade AgreementThe hon. Member is exactly right. When the Committee published our report, we lamented that there was not a full-scale, full-blown implementation plan alongside the proposals. To…09 Feb 2026