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Commons Chamber
Industry and Exports (Financial Assistance) Bill
2nd reading - Mon 15 Dec 2025
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Chris Bryant (Lab - Rhondda and Ogmore) read a Second time.We want businesses to grow, innovate, expand, invest, find new markets here and overseas - Speech Link
2: Chris Bryant (Lab - Rhondda and Ogmore) Especially when there is a new free trade agreement, as in relation to India at the moment, we help lots - Speech Link
3: Harriett Baldwin (Con - West Worcestershire) and US free trade deals, which are important pieces of work that he has been involved in. - Speech Link
4: Chris Bryant (Lab - Rhondda and Ogmore) We want frictionless trade. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Oil Refining Sector - Thu 11 Dec 2025
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Martin Vickers (Con - Brigg and Immingham) Expanding the CBAM to products from oil refineries based overseas, as the Government proposed in their - Speech Link
2: Edward Leigh (Con - Gainsborough) Relying on foreign refiners means exporting jobs and value overseas while leaving Britain more exposed - Speech Link
3: Luke Taylor (LD - Sutton and Cheam) As of December 2025, the industry has been halved, following the US-UK trade deal.An immediate solution - Speech Link
4: Katie White (Lab - Leeds North West) Falling demand for traditional fuels, global competition from mega-refineries in the middle east, India - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
The UK’s Demographic Future - Thu 11 Dec 2025
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts (Con - Life peer) Secondly, British industry uses overseas recruitment—the Migration Advisory Committee described it as - Speech Link
2: Baroness Stuart of Edgbaston (XB - Life peer) I sometimes wonder whether it goes back to the 1970s, when you had countries such as China and India - Speech Link
3: Baroness Verma (Con - Life peer) I came to this country as a nine month-old baby with immigrant parents from India, but my grandfather - Speech Link
4: Lord Stoneham of Droxford (LD - Life peer) There are huge benefits for our university sector in having these overseas students—we know about soft - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 11 Dec 2025
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Chris Bryant (Lab - Rhondda and Ogmore) It is delighted that we are delivering trade deals around the world. - Speech Link
2: Chris McDonald (Lab - Stockton North) The Under-Secretary of State for Business and Trade, my hon. - Speech Link
3: Wera Hobhouse (LD - Bath) Those are nothing compared with the lost trade with the European Union. - Speech Link
4: Lindsay Hoyle (Spk - Chorley) I call the Chair of the Business and Trade Committee. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
St Andrew’s Day and Scottish Affairs - Thu 11 Dec 2025
Scotland Office

Mentions:
1: Graeme Downie (Lab - Dunfermline and Dollar) see when we look up in cities like Glasgow and across the country and see the remnants of the slave trade - Speech Link
2: Florence Eshalomi (LAB - Vauxhall and Camberwell Green) from my constituency travel as far as Scotland to get a world-class education, and during a recent trade - Speech Link
3: Julie Minns (Lab - Carlisle) Our economy depends on cross-border trade, shared infrastructure and cultural exchange. - Speech Link
4: Kirsty McNeill (LAB - Midlothian) Labour’s trade deal with India is set to grow the Scottish economy by £190 million every year, in a transformative - Speech Link
5: Kirsty McNeill (LAB - Midlothian) overseas network to undertake Scotland-specific promotional activity. - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Ellie Chowns (Green - North Herefordshire) We need to ensure that trade is fair. - Speech Link
2: Rebecca Paul (Con - Reigate) As the Government have observed in the recent trade strategy, trade and development are not mutually - Speech Link
3: Chris Bryant (Lab - Rhondda and Ogmore) I have therefore always argued that we should strive for free and fair trade, not just free trade. - Speech Link
4: Sarah Olney (LD - Richmond Park) Would he not agree that fair trade is free trade, and that free trade is fair trade? - Speech Link
5: Martin Rhodes (Lab - Glasgow North) We want free trade, but if we free up trade and tear down barriers, and yet the underlying system does - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Seasonal Work - Wed 10 Dec 2025
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Anna Dixon (Lab - Shipley) Overseas agencies were charging extortionate fees. - Speech Link
2: Kate Dearden (LAB - Halifax) deals with countries such as the US and India. - Speech Link
3: Kate Dearden (LAB - Halifax) The Under-Secretary of State for Business and Trade, my hon. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Resident Doctors: Industrial Action - Wed 10 Dec 2025
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Wes Streeting (Lab - Ilford North) cannot think of a single other trade union in this country that would behave in this way. - Speech Link
2: Wes Streeting (Lab - Ilford North) We were created by the trade union movement to represent the interests of working people. - Speech Link
3: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) If they did not have the doctors from India and Africa, we would be under real pressure. - Speech Link
4: Kim Johnson (Lab - Liverpool Riverside) I am a lifelong trade unionist and a proud member of Unite and Unison. - Speech Link
5: Amanda Martin (Lab - Portsmouth North) As a proud trade unionist, I know that trade unions are there to represent their members’ interests and - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
UK-EU Customs Union (Duty to Negotiate)
1st reading - Tue 09 Dec 2025
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Al Pinkerton (LD - Surrey Heath) It has choked business investment, shattered economic resilience, strangled trade, shrunk the economy - Speech Link
2: Simon Hoare (Con - North Dorset) It has no say on EU trade decisions, agriculture or services. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Digital ID - Mon 08 Dec 2025
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Seamus Logan (SNP - Aberdeenshire North and Moray East) I will mention a few: India, Estonia and Australia. - Speech Link
2: Victoria Collins (LD - Harpenden and Berkhamsted) Government rejected that amendment because, as the Minister of State, Department for Business and Trade - Speech Link
3: Julia Lopez (Con - Hornchurch and Upminster) Ministers point to Estonia and India as models, yet Estonia has suffered repeated breaches. - Speech Link
4: Josh Simons (Lab - Makerfield) Civil society, businesses, trade unions and community groups across the UK will be our partners. - Speech Link
5: Josh Simons (Lab - Makerfield) Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, India—the list goes on. - Speech Link