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Westminster Hall
Coastal Tourism and Hospitality: Fiscal Support - Thu 22 Feb 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Selaine Saxby (Con - North Devon) We met several business owners and discussed business rates, VAT thresholds and Ilfracombe’s ambitions - Speech Link
2: Priti Patel (Con - Witham) We need to make sure that we have public services, NHS doctors, education, employment and banking facilities - Speech Link
3: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) To be fair, I think he clearly understands that the Barnett consequential for Northern Ireland has not - Speech Link
4: Alistair Carmichael (LD - Orkney and Shetland) the opportunity to use that extra cash to grow their business. - Speech Link
5: Peter Aldous (Con - Waveney) applications of the type that I have mentioned are promptly dealt with and are not a brake on investment, the fair - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Finance Bill
2nd reading - Wed 21 Feb 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Baroness Vere of Norbiton (Con - Life peer) I turn to the suite of measures to back British business. - Speech Link
2: Lord Leigh of Hurley (Con - Life peer) thinks that if one takes a risk and invests capital, the rewards should be taxed at the same rate as banking - Speech Link
3: Lord Sikka (Lab - Life peer) That does not seem fair to me at all.The benefits of low capital gains tax are unevenly spread, unfair - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Post Office Management Culture - Thu 08 Feb 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Marion Fellows (SNP - Motherwell and Wishaw) The former Chair of the Business and Trade Committee, the hon. - Speech Link
2: Marion Fellows (SNP - Motherwell and Wishaw) The overall process of seeking fair compensation is described by one applicant as “soul destroying”, - Speech Link
3: Rushanara Ali (Lab - Bethnal Green and Bow) Many post offices provide crucial banking services, as has been mentioned. - Speech Link
4: Kevin Hollinrake (Con - Thirsk and Malton) We are looking at ways to ensure that that scheme’s compensation is fair and seen to be fair. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Digital Exclusion (Communications and Digital Committee Report) - Thu 08 Feb 2024
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Mentions:
1: Baroness Lane-Fox of Soho (XB - Life peer) Another, a founder of their business, sitting next door to me said, “I haven’t got any digital software - Speech Link
2: Lord Griffiths of Burry Port (Lab - Life peer) Government, and those who plan the use of our time here, have given us the last fag-end of a day’s business - Speech Link
3: Baroness Jones of Whitchurch (Lab - Life peer) It is fair to say that they did not mince their words, and quite rightly, when you look at the statistics - Speech Link
4: Viscount Camrose (Con - Excepted Hereditary) We call on private sector organisations to prioritise digital inclusion in their business, which they - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill
Committee stage - Mon 29 Jan 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: None The banking commission that I chaired about a decade ago looked carefully at whether to move to a similar - Speech Link
2: None This is key to the integrity of the UK’s business environment. - Speech Link
3: Lord Tyrie (Non-affiliated - Life peer) Power by Paul Tucker, who addresses exactly this set of issues with respect to finance and central banking - Speech Link
4: None We did that through the Treasury Committee and the banking commission for what was then the FSA, which - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Post Office Ltd - Mon 29 Jan 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Kevin Hollinrake (Con - Thirsk and Malton) We are keen to identify new sources of revenue, including through the banking framework, which is a potential - Speech Link
2: Kevin Hollinrake (Con - Thirsk and Malton) and seen to be fair. - Speech Link
3: Kevin Hollinrake (Con - Thirsk and Malton) Of course we want to ensure that people get their full and fair compensation. - Speech Link
4: Kevin Hollinrake (Con - Thirsk and Malton) I do not think it is fair to say that we do not think the arm’s length model works. - Speech Link
5: Kevin Hollinrake (Con - Thirsk and Malton) The banking framework delivers more revenue into those post office branches; we are keen to see that - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 25 Jan 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Kevin Hollinrake (Con - Thirsk and Malton) I worked with him very closely on the all-party groups on poverty and fair business banking. - Speech Link
2: Kevin Hollinrake (Con - Thirsk and Malton) We continue to work with the UK finance and banking industry to make sure that SMEs have the support - Speech Link
3: Kevin Hollinrake (Con - Thirsk and Malton) It is absolutely our intention that everybody gets full and fair compensation, and that is not only for - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
High Street Banks and Banking Hubs - Thu 25 Jan 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Baroness Tyler of Enfield (LD - Life peer) February marks the third anniversary of the regulator consulting on the“fair treatment of vulnerable - Speech Link
2: Baroness Kramer (LD - Life peer) Communities desperately need access to cash but also to saving and investment products, to mortgages and business - Speech Link
3: Lord Livermore (Lab - Life peer) Here, again, banking hubs can play a vital role. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Vere of Norbiton (Con - Life peer) This means that 99% of personal banking customers and 95% of business banking customers can do their - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Shared Rural Network Implementation - Wed 24 Jan 2024
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Helen Morgan (LD - North Shropshire) A plumber or an agricultural worker relies on the mobile signal to operate their business on a daily - Speech Link
2: Helen Morgan (LD - North Shropshire) largest improvement to their business. - Speech Link
3: Helen Morgan (LD - North Shropshire) We are perhaps not so well blessed with those structures in North Shropshire, but I think it is a fair - Speech Link
4: David Duguid (Con - Banff and Buchan) is more and more of an assumption that we are all digitally connected—whether it is through online banking - Speech Link
5: Chris Evans (LAB - Islwyn) that many people do not have a local branch of their chosen bank, particularly outside cities, online banking - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Human Rights in Hong Kong - Tue 23 Jan 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Layla Moran (LD - Oxford West and Abingdon) It is fair to say that those who have come over on British national overseas visas have made an extraordinary - Speech Link
2: Alistair Carmichael (LD - Orkney and Shetland) the many aspects of the destruction of freedom and liberty in Hong Kong: the absence of a free and fair - Speech Link
3: Tim Loughton (Con - East Worthing and Shoreham) The Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation needs to decide which side it is on—freedom and liberty - Speech Link
4: Iain Duncan Smith (Con - Chingford and Woodford Green) I have urged the Government to tell British businesses to be very careful when they do business through - Speech Link
5: Paul Scully (Con - Sutton and Cheam) They buy their food from SMart Oriental, a supermarket at the top of the high street, and eat at a business - Speech Link