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HANSARDDraft Financial Reporting Council (Miscellaneous Provisions) Order 2021It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship for the first time, Sir Charles, and to be back in Parliament with my SI buddy, the Minister. We seem to do a double act on these…10 Mar 2021HANSARDVauxhall at Ellesmere Port and Battery Manufacturing StrategyI thank the right hon. Member for Tunbridge Wells (Greg Clark) for securing this urgent question and agree wholeheartedly with him. Labour stands ready to do all we can to secure…01 Mar 2021HANSARDEngagementsThe Prime Minister said in November that the £1.5 billion green homes grant would be extended to March 2022, yet in a written answer last week, the Minister for Business, Energy…10 Feb 2021HANSARDTopical QuestionsWell, I have listened to the Secretary of State’s answers so far, and I am afraid that he is all mouth and no trousers. Let’s try again, shall we? Businesses face a £50 billion…09 Feb 2021HANSARDUnsafe Cladding: Protecting Tenants and LeaseholdersI have spoken a number of times in Parliament about these issues, because Manchester Central has one of the highest numbers of private blocks that are now deemed to be dangerous.…01 Feb 2021HANSARDSupport for Businesses: Covid-19What recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of financial support schemes for businesses during the covid-19 outbreak.26 Jan 2021HANSARDSupport for Businesses: Covid-19Business support that was originally designed for three months is now wholly inadequate for 12 or 18 months. Business debts and deferrals are mounting and now have to start being…26 Jan 2021HANSARDHospitality Industry: Government SupportIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Stringer. I congratulate and thank my hon. Friend the Member for Newcastle upon Tyne North (Catherine McKinnell) for securing…11 Jan 2021HANSARDCovid-19I have just come from a call with the big business organisations. I know that the Prime Minister is meeting them later, so let me give him the heads-up. Businesses are on their…06 Jan 2021HANSARD Education: Return in JanuaryFinally, the Secretary of State has come to Parliament to address the issues that have been swirling around everywhere over Christmas, which began with him ordering schools to go…30 Dec 2020HANSARD United Kingdom Internal Market BillWell, here we are again—groundhog day. Early on, I dubbed this Bill the infernal market Bill, and it has certainly lived up to that name. It is good to see the hon. Member for…16 Dec 2020HANSARD United Kingdom Internal Market BillI have just been alerted to that. I am not sure of the details at this stage, so it is probably best that I do not comment. However, it is obviously a Labour Administration, and…16 Dec 2020HANSARD United Kingdom Internal Market BillThe hon. Gentleman knows that that is not the case. That is not what happened in the other place. It is thanks to the Labour leadership in the other place that we have seen…16 Dec 2020HANSARDUnited Kingdom Internal Market BillI disagree with the point that the right hon. Lady makes. We have been making the weather on the Bill, both in this place and the other place, which I will come on to discuss. We…15 Dec 2020HANSARDUnited Kingdom Internal Market BillNo, I am afraid I will not; I am finishing. I sincerely hope that the Government will reflect on that approach in future.15 Dec 2020HANSARDUnited Kingdom Internal Market BillI rise to uphold the Lords amendments. It is a pleasure to be back at the Dispatch Box, given that I have been cooped up at home self-isolating, having been pinged. I was not…15 Dec 2020HANSARDUnited Kingdom Internal Market BillWe have worked incredibly hard to maintain the devolution settlement through the Bill; that is not something that the hon. and learned Lady’s party want to do. The SNP wants to…15 Dec 2020HANSARDUnited Kingdom Internal Market BillYes, I will give way, if the hon. and learned Lady has something she wants to say.15 Dec 2020HANSARDUnited Kingdom Internal Market BillIt would be nice if the Government used the powers that they already have, let alone those that it will soon acquire, to invest once and for all in British industry and British…15 Dec 2020HANSARDCorporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2020 (Coronavirus) (Suspension of Liability For WrongFul Trading and Extension of the Relevant Period) Regulations 2020It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship for the first time, Dr Huq. I am going to race to see whether I can beat the Minister; I shall endeavour to do that so that…14 Dec 2020