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Westminster Hall
Onshoring: Fashion and Textiles - Thu 12 Feb 2026
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Catherine West (Lab - Hornsey and Friern Barnet) fashion and textiles courses. - Speech Link
2: Rebecca Paul (Con - Reigate) and textile industry in the UK is significant and important. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Fairtrade Certification - Thu 11 Dec 2025
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Martin Rhodes (Lab - Glasgow North) , provides a Fairtrade premium, ensures labour and environmental standards, and provides support and - Speech Link
2: Martin Rhodes (Lab - Glasgow North) Trade and business become more important as means of supporting and helping countries, and of narrowing - Speech Link
3: Chris Bryant (Lab - Rhondda and Ogmore) beverages or fashion, but the same is true for furniture and other sectors, too. - Speech Link
4: Martin Rhodes (Lab - Glasgow North) Friends the Members for Ealing Central and Acton and for Cumbernauld and Kirkintilloch. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Specialist Manufacturing Sector: Regional Economies - Wed 19 Nov 2025
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Sarah Dyke (LD - Glastonbury and Somerton) Needles and Pins Aerospace is a small, women-led business based in Somerton that provides precision textile - Speech Link
2: Allison Gardner (Lab - Stoke-on-Trent South) Ours is a post-industrial city and, typically for the coalfield and other regions across the north and - Speech Link
3: Rebecca Smith (Con - South West Devon) displays for museums and fashion retailers. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
London Fashion Week: Cultural Contribution - Tue 16 Sep 2025
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Rosie Wrighting (Lab - Kettering) London Fashion Week and the British fashion industry. - Speech Link
2: Uma Kumaran (Lab - Stratford and Bow) generation of students and fashion creators. - Speech Link
3: Clive Jones (LD - Wokingham) fashion and textile industry adds more than £60 billion to our economy and gives work to more than 1 - Speech Link
4: Ian Murray (Lab - Edinburgh South) freelancers inspire one another, and fashion plays a key and leading role. - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Craft Industry: Support - Thu 12 Jun 2025
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Lord Freyberg (XB - Excepted Hereditary) her briefing, and those from the Church of England and the UK jewellery, silverware and allied crafts - Speech Link
2: Baroness Twycross (Lab - Life peer) We will create inventories better to map and understand the sector and its issues and to raise awareness - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Creative Industries: Creating Jobs and Productivity Growth - Thu 06 Feb 2025
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Baroness Thornton (Lab - Life peer) From film to fashion to music and advertising, our creative industries are truly world-class and play - Speech Link
2: Lord Harlech (Con - Excepted Hereditary) I declare an interest as an alumnus of Central Saint Martins, and my mother has worked in the fashion - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill - Wed 08 Jan 2025
Department for International Development

Mentions:
1: Bridget Phillipson (Lab - Houghton and Sunderland South) deliver high and rising standards for each and every child. - Speech Link
2: Bridget Phillipson (Lab - Houghton and Sunderland South) They are engines of innovation and civic leaders, and collaboration and improvement are central to their - Speech Link
3: Anna Sabine (LD - Frome and East Somerset) That also reduces clothing and textile waste.Will the Minister consider, for example, why three items - Speech Link
4: David Baines (Lab - St Helens North) to protect and support children and young people. - Speech Link
5: Daniel Francis (Lab - Bexleyheath and Crayford) and Crayford and across our country. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Income Tax (Charge) - Mon 04 Nov 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Harpreet Uppal (Lab - Huddersfield) social reforms in education, health and housing, and in gender and race equality. - Speech Link
2: Gareth Bacon (Con - Orpington) employed people, and created wealth and growth. - Speech Link
3: Greg Smith (Con - Mid Buckinghamshire) It is very apparent to me that petrol and diesel are overtaxed as it is, and working people up and down - Speech Link
4: Susan Murray (LD - Mid Dunbartonshire) Residents and health professionals in Bearsden and Milngavie desperately need the new health and care - Speech Link
5: Sarah Bool (Con - South Northamptonshire) , I appreciate that the Chancellor wants to ensure that everyone pays what they owe and in a timely fashion - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Great British Energy Bill
Report stage - Tue 29 Oct 2024
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Harriet Cross (Con - Gordon and Buchan) Jobs and investment in Gordon and Buchan and across north-east Scotland are being lost, and a home-grown - Speech Link
2: Harriet Cross (Con - Gordon and Buchan) Existing oil and gas and supply chain businesses in Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire and the north-east need a - Speech Link
3: None Dewsbury and Batley became a global textile centre during the industrial revolution and a world leader - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Employment Rights Bill
2nd reading - Mon 21 Oct 2024
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Shivani Raja (Con - Leicester East) Our city is where Walkers crisps were born and where fashion guru Gok Wan grew up. - Speech Link
2: Sarah Smith (Lab - Hyndburn) red and khaki dyes enabled the globalisation of the textile industry, but the huge wealth that the mill - Speech Link
3: Joe Robertson (Con - Isle of Wight East) burden and red tape on employers and on employees, and those that are a threat to and a drag on economic - Speech Link
4: Kirith Entwistle (Lab - Bolton North East) and my right hon. and hon. - Speech Link