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HANSARD Rolls-Royce (Redundancies)I am grateful for the hon. Gentleman’s question, and I will come to that a little later in my speech. Essentially, the number reflects the proportion of civil aerospace jobs here…10 Jun 2020HANSARD Rolls-Royce (Redundancies)I thank the hon. Member for Paisley and Renfrewshire North (Gavin Newlands) for securing this important debate today. I note that my hon. Friend the Member for Pendle (Andrew…10 Jun 2020HANSARD Rolls-Royce (Redundancies)With respect to the hon. Lady, I completely disagree. At the beginning of this epidemic, when we were in the contain phase because the number of incidences was low, we had a…10 Jun 2020HANSARD Rolls-Royce (Redundancies)The hon. Gentleman makes a powerful point, but I did address it earlier in my speech—I hope he will read it in Hansard tomorrow morning. I know that workers at Rolls-Royce who…10 Jun 2020HANSARD Rolls-Royce (Redundancies)I hope to address the hon. Gentleman’s point in my concluding remarks. Suffice it to say that the most valuable resource in any organisation—I have spent more years being in…10 Jun 2020HANSARDCoronavirus Job Retention Scheme: Ineligible WorkersAs I said, we have tried to prioritise helping the greatest number of people as quickly as possible. To make sure that other people can be helped, including those who are…04 May 2020HANSARDCoronavirus Job Retention Scheme: Ineligible WorkersI am sorry that the hon. Gentleman feels that way. My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State’s counterpart in the Scottish Government, Fiona Hyslop, to whom I speak every week,…04 May 2020HANSARDPPE Shortages: ProfiteeringProfiteering in PPE is completely unacceptable, and I want to be clear that no one should seek to exploit this health emergency for financial gain.04 May 2020HANSARDPPE Shortages: ProfiteeringThe Competition and Markets Authority has already written to the small number of firms suspected of profiteering, and the Secretary of State has recently met business and consumer…04 May 2020HANSARDCoronavirus Job Retention Scheme: Ineligible WorkersMy Department is working closely with the Treasury on the coronavirus job retention scheme and the wider Government response. In developing the scheme, the Government have…04 May 2020HANSARDContingencies Fund AdvanceI hereby give notice of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy having drawn advances from the Contingencies Fund totalling £12,409,000,000 to enable…27 Apr 2020HANSARDTopical QuestionsI thank the hon. Member for his question, but he is wrong. We have stood up a very important group within the Department that is working with the automotive sector, the retail…03 Mar 2020HANSARDAerospace Sector: InnovationThe hon. Gentleman, as chair of the all-party parliamentary group on aerospace, will know that aerospace is a high-value growth sector driven by innovation, which is why the…03 Mar 2020HANSARDAerospace Sector: InnovationThe hon. Gentleman raises an important question. The Prince of Wales and I co-chaired a deep dive at the Whittle laboratory, with the whole industry around the table, to consider…03 Mar 2020HANSARDEnergy-Intensive Industries: DecarbonisationWe have schemes worth nearly £2 billion operating, or in development, to support our vital energy-intensive industries to decarbonise. We will also invest in building the UK’s…03 Mar 2020HANSARDEnergy-Intensive Industries: DecarbonisationWe must work together with industry to help our vital manufacturing regions benefit from clean growth opportunities. Stoke-on-Trent North is lucky to have such a Member…03 Mar 2020HANSARDEnergy-Intensive Industries: DecarbonisationI am grateful to my hon. Friend the Member for Stoke-on-Trent South (Jack Brereton) and, of course, the south is as lucky as the north to have such a fantastic champion in this…03 Mar 2020HANSARDEnergy-Intensive Industries: DecarbonisationI am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his question. We engaged with industry constantly throughout this process: when I took this job on last year, we engaged with industry over…03 Mar 2020HANSARDEnergy-Intensive Industries: DecarbonisationI am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his question. The Secretary of State will certainly meet him and other concerned MPs and make sure that the Coal Authority is doing…03 Mar 2020HANSARDTopical QuestionsI had the pleasure, with my hon. Friend, of meeting Cornish Lithium recently, and it was made clear that lithium extraction provides an excellent opportunity to contribute to our…03 Mar 2020