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HANSARDForeign Direct InvestmentMy Lords, we all want to see more inward investment, yet the figures on the Minister’s departmental website show a fall of about 12% over the last year. We hear from those…10 Mar 2026HANSARDBritish Business BankMy Lords, does the Minister agree with me how grateful we are to the noble Baroness, Lady Jones of Whitchurch, for introducing the subject of the British Business Bank,…09 Mar 2026HANSARDIndustrial Training Levy (Construction Industry Training Board) Order 2026My Lords, I join the noble Lord, Lord Jones, and the noble Baroness, Lady Bennett of Manor Castle, in thanking the Minister for introducing this order and setting out its purpose…09 Mar 2026HANSARDEmployment Rights Act 2025 (Investigatory Powers) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2026My Lords, the instrument before us is, on the face of it, a technical one. As the Minister explained, it ensures that enforcement officers of the new Fair Work Agency inherit the…09 Mar 2026HANSARDUK-India: Comprehensive Economic and Trade AgreementMy Lords, I pay special tribute to the noble and learned Lord, Lord Goldsmith, for his pioneering work in chairing the International Agreements Committee. Several speakers have…04 Mar 2026HANSARDBereaved Partner’s Paternity Leave Regulations 2026My Lords, these Benches offer our wholehearted support for these regulations, and I know our colleague, the noble Lord, Lord Palmer of Childs Hill, if he were not involved in the…02 Mar 2026HANSARDBereaved Partner’s Paternity Leave Regulations 2026I pay tribute, as did the Minister, to those who have secured this important step forward. Of course, we on these Benches know this terrain. It was His Majesty’s Official…02 Mar 2026HANSARDUS TariffsMy Lords, the Government are trying to reassure the nation that they do not expect the ruling to affect the majority of trade under the economic prosperity deal, but as the noble…23 Feb 2026HANSARDPost Office Capture and Horizon ScandalsMy Lords, the Minister will already be aware that there is considerable concern in this House, on all sides, that there are still victims who have not received financial…12 Feb 2026HANSARDJobs MarketI make no apology for holding the Government to account on the issue of employment. Having been brought up in Liverpool and been a Merseyside MP for 21 years, I have seen the…05 Feb 2026HANSARDJobs MarketTo ask His Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the jobs market, and of the implications for the wider economy.05 Feb 2026HANSARDLand Covenants: Supermarket ChainsFollowing on from the question of the noble Lord, Lord Watts, does the Minister share my concern that, over recent months, there is increasing evidence that delays from the…04 Feb 2026HANSARDBusiness RatesAlthough my experience of government is now over 30 years old, the one message I remember from being in Cabinet is that on matters of taxation and investment, the Government have…29 Jan 2026HANSARDUK Start-up CompaniesMy Lords, does the Minister share my concern that an increasing number of entrepreneurs are saying that Britain is becoming an increasingly unattractive place to grow a business?…28 Jan 2026HANSARDILO Convention 190Might I share with the Minister my concern that backlogs in employment tribunals have now reached record levels? He referred to the Employment Rights Act. That statute and the…26 Jan 2026HANSARDParental Leave and Pay ReviewMy Lords, when we dealt with the Employment Rights Bill, just before Royal Assent there was a draft implementation plan, which the noble Lord, Lord Fox, referred to. We were…20 Jan 2026HANSARDJobs Market: Wider Economic ImplicationsTo ask His Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the jobs market, and of the implications for the wider economy.18 Dec 2025HANSARDJobs Market: Wider Economic ImplicationsThe Minister omitted to mention that unemployment has now risen to 1,830,000 and, perhaps most chilling of all, that the number of young people without the dignity of work has…18 Dec 2025HANSARDFair Work Agency: Small and Micro BusinessesMy Lords, is the Minister aware of the words of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who said that, too often, “regulation … acts as a boot on the neck of businesses, choking off ……17 Dec 2025HANSARDProduct Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure (Security Requirements for Relevant Connectable Products) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2025My Lords, I join the noble Lord, Lord Addington, in welcoming the Minister to her first appearance in Grand Committee. What better example could she have of the way in which…19 Nov 2025