Mentions:
1: Baroness Lane-Fox of Soho (XB - Life peer) I was at a round table in Doncaster with a bunch of businesses—big and small, all kinds of things. - Speech Link
2: Lord Griffiths of Burry Port (Lab - Life peer) on to one government department after another—education, business, communications and so on. - Speech Link
3: Viscount Camrose (Con - Excepted Hereditary) through digital apprenticeships and by increasing the amount of business-led upskilling.I thank the - Speech Link
4: Baroness Stowell of Beeston (Con - Life peer) On the micro level, I agree with some of what the noble Lord, Lord Young said. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Jamie Stone (LD - Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross) He can only afford two small electric heaters. - Speech Link
2: Marco Longhi (Con - Dudley North) As an engineer, I know that “micro” means something extremely small. It is tiny. - Speech Link
3: Kemi Badenoch (Con - Saffron Walden) Female-led businesses often face particular challenges, and in the Department for Business and Trade - Speech Link
4: Rishi Sunak (Con - Richmond (Yorks)) will know that our £150 million community ownership fund is there specifically to help to safeguard small - Speech Link
5: Rishi Sunak (Con - Richmond (Yorks)) Those plans are in stark contrast to those of the Labour party, which has caved in to big business and - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Liddle (Lab - Life peer) We have been approached by people in the business of delivery robots that use pavements, and there is - Speech Link
2: Lord Holmes of Richmond (Con - Life peer) This could be structured in such a way that disabled people would not need to be consulted at the micro - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Jones of Whitchurch (Lab - Life peer) They damage the livelihoods of many small traders—restaurants and hotels, for example—when their business - Speech Link
2: Lord Mott (Con - Life peer) To me, this appears to be an unfair technicality impacting these businesses; many small micro-businesses - Speech Link
3: Lord Offord of Garvel (Con - Life peer) That is because Section 33 of the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act sets out only broad criteria - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Bragg (Lab - Life peer) contributed billions of pounds of business activity and exports, again and again these profits drain - Speech Link
2: Lord Vaizey of Didcot (Con - Life peer) thank business—and yes, thank BP for its grant to the British Museum. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Garden of Frognal (LD - Life peer) It is a cut-throat business, severely damaged by Brexit and the pandemic. - Speech Link
4: Lord Aberdare (XB - Excepted Hereditary) business model for grass-roots music venues. - Speech Link
5: Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay (Con - Life peer) That unenviable job is done by the Arts Council, which does the micro while the Government do the macro - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Jackson of Peterborough (Con - Life peer) More importantly, it did real damage to inward investment and future business in the Tees Valley. - Speech Link
2: Baroness McIntosh of Pickering (Con - Life peer) Is my understanding correct, and does it not seem a little unfair that we could not have even a small - Speech Link
3: Lord Beith (LD - Life peer) It states that“most decisions are vested in a small number of individuals. - Speech Link
4: Lord Udny-Lister (Con - Life peer) The report shows that there are now 9,000 jobs on the site and nearly £1.5 billion-worth of business - Speech Link
5: Baroness Penn (Con - Life peer) My Lords, the Audit Commission regulated, micro-managed and inspected local councils, forcing them to - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Matt Rodda (Lab - Reading East) and concentrating on a small area. - Speech Link
2: Gavin Robinson (DUP - Belfast East) As a constituency MP, I am very proud of the partnership’s work and of the small and singular contributions - Speech Link
3: Gavin Robinson (DUP - Belfast East) It provides a business hub, brings in council services and provides other community services, and it - Speech Link
4: Fiona Bruce (Con - Congleton) There are four micro market towns in my constituency and one large village, and we are well aware that - Speech Link
5: James Daly (Con - Bury North) the small town of Ramsbottom. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Barry Gardiner (Lab - Brent North) Q Halima and then Cathy, let me pick up this business of the fleecehold estates, as you refer to them - Speech Link
2: Marie Rimmer (Lab - St Helens South and Whiston) Clearly, for that kind of small estate, that is utterly disproportionate and I strongly recommend that - Speech Link
3: Lee Rowley (Con - North East Derbyshire) I see this Bill being part of it, but it is a small step forward. - Speech Link
4: Matthew Pennycook (Lab - Greenwich and Woolwich) the micro application of that to certain facts. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Viscount Camrose (Con - Excepted Hereditary) We expect small and micro-businesses to achieve greater overall compliance cost savings than larger business - Speech Link
2: Lord de Clifford (XB - Excepted Hereditary) At that time, it caused a significant amount of anxiety within the small business and veterinary world - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Nigel Huddleston (Con - Mid Worcestershire) Our small business rate relief means that one third of business properties in England already pay no - Speech Link
2: Nigel Huddleston (Con - Mid Worcestershire) Meanwhile, by freezing the small business multiplier for a fourth consecutive year, we will be protecting - Speech Link
3: Emma Lewell-Buck (Lab - South Shields) Why will the Government not back the Micro Business Alliance’s “Pay in 30 days” campaign? - Speech Link
4: Wendy Morton (Con - Aldridge-Brownhills) Like many of us in this place, I am a big supporter of Small Business Saturday, and it is important to - Speech Link
5: Jeremy Hunt (Con - South West Surrey) and leisure business rates in the autumn statement. - Speech Link