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Lords Chamber
Steel Industry (Special Measures) Act 2025 - Thu 23 Oct 2025
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Baroness Lloyd of Effra (Lab - Life peer) The Minister for Industry spoke to representatives of the steel industry on 9 October to listen to their - Speech Link
2: Lord Mohammed of Tinsley (LD - Life peer) The respected industry leader whom I quoted at the start concluded that:“Stabilising the UK steel industry - Speech Link
3: Lord Murphy of Torfaen (Lab - Life peer) and Industry Secretary, tried to save lots of that steel industry from the cuts made by what was then - Speech Link
4: Lord Liddle (Lab - Life peer) I know we are very proud of the trade agreements that we have negotiated, but I would like to see a cost-benefit - Speech Link
5: Lord Prior of Brampton (Con - Life peer) We cannot pour more taxpayer money into the steel industry if we do not give the industry a chance of - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Planning and Infrastructure Bill
Report stage: Part 3 - Wed 22 Oct 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Baroness Willis of Summertown (XB - Life peer) , the Minister responded that:“Designers of new homes may also choose to follow the Construction Industry - Speech Link
2: Baroness McIntosh of Pickering (Con - Life peer) August 2025, calling for reform and wide-ranging proposals, titled, Licensing Policy Sprint: Joint Industry - Speech Link
3: Earl of Clancarty (XB - Excepted Hereditary) It has the backing of the music industry, in particular many household names including Paul McCartney - Speech Link
4: Lord Addington (LD - Excepted Hereditary) My Lords, live music events and things like that improve people’s lives and the quality of life. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Planning and Infrastructure Bill
Report stage: Part 2 - Wed 22 Oct 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Baroness Pinnock (LD - Life peer) Although there are occasions during the life of a plan when unforeseen events arise which mean the local - Speech Link
2: Lord Fuller (Con - Life peer) all claim a veto, and it is from this that we have the £100 million bat bridge or that mitigating trade - Speech Link
3: None Where agreements are reached, they can often be made formal and public. - Speech Link
4: None Small and medium-sized developers are the backbone of our construction industry. - Speech Link
5: Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (Lab - Life peer) On larger-scale schemes, planning performance agreements have also played an increasingly valuable role - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Diego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory Bill
Committee of the whole House - Mon 20 Oct 2025
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Stuart Anderson (Con - South Shropshire) The Minister for Defence Readiness and Industry says that is not true. - Speech Link
2: Blake Stephenson (Con - Mid Bedfordshire) Within his obfuscation about separate agreements with Mauritius, which hope we can “share objectives - Speech Link
3: Jerome Mayhew (Con - Broadland and Fakenham) first such free trade agreement that China has entered into on the African continent. - Speech Link
4: Stephen Doughty (LAB - Cardiff South and Penarth) Just for comparison, the costs compare favourably to other international basing agreements. - Speech Link
5: Luke Pollard (LAB - Plymouth Sutton and Devonport) I thank the International Agreements Committee and the International Relations and Defence Committee - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction Bill
2nd reading - Thu 16 Oct 2025
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Emma Hardy (Lab - Kingston upon Hull West and Haltemprice) People in civil society, academia and industry will be delighted to see the introduction of the Bill. - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) coastal communities—I would like to say that marine biodiversity is the lifeblood of the fishing industry - Speech Link
3: Emma Hardy (Lab - Kingston upon Hull West and Haltemprice) The Bill supports our efforts to maintain multilateral agreements and international governance as the - Speech Link
4: Andrew Rosindell (Con - Romford) to a vast array of life that sustains the planet’s ecosystems.Britain depends on the seas for our trade - Speech Link
5: Martin Rhodes (Lab - Glasgow North) Multilateral agreements implemented by collective action are the way forward on this issue. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Ambassador to the United States - Tue 16 Sep 2025
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: David Davis (Con - Goole and Pocklington) In 1998, he was sacked as Trade and Industry Secretary for failing to declare a pretty enormous interest-free - Speech Link
2: David Davis (Con - Goole and Pocklington) Mr Deripaska was the winner of the battle for control of the Russian aluminium industry, a battle in - Speech Link
3: Florence Eshalomi (LAB - Vauxhall and Camberwell Green) I have recently returned from a trade envoy visit to Nigeria. - Speech Link
4: Richard Foord (LD - Honiton and Sidmouth) On 1 April, I gave the First Reading of the UK-USA Trade Agreements (Parliamentary Scrutiny) Bill, a - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Planning and Infrastructure Bill
Committee stage - Mon 15 Sep 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (Lab - Life peer) working with the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, the Department for Business and Trade - Speech Link
2: Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (Lab - Life peer) I did mention that they will be able to enter into joint ventures and land agreements to obtain private - Speech Link
3: Lord Lucas (Con - Excepted Hereditary) We need to move that on a bit.The local news industry has undergone a deep transformation with the rise - Speech Link
4: None Over half the world’s trade goes through a handful of what are known as choke points. - Speech Link
5: Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts (Con - Life peer) He says this about yesterday’s march:“The usual suspects, left and right, who always show up at events - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Planning and Infrastructure Bill
Committee stage - Thu 11 Sep 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: None Since the general election, we have launched root and branch reform to revolutionise the water industry - Speech Link
2: Lord Wilson of Sedgefield (Lab - Life peer) The UK’s climate is getting hotter and wetter, with more extreme weather events. - Speech Link
3: Lord Moynihan (Con - Excepted Hereditary) Playing fields often host local events and tournaments, strengthening community bonds and promoting a - Speech Link
4: Lord Fuller (Con - Life peer) In the brewing industry, the smaller brewers have an adventitious duty regime. - Speech Link
5: Baroness Pinnock (LD - Life peer) Amendment 185K seeks to make legally binding agreements associated with development consent orders or - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill - Wed 10 Sep 2025
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Baroness Spielman (Con - Life peer) I will not repeat what others have said, but I believe that academy funding agreements should continue - Speech Link
2: Baroness Twycross (Lab - Life peer) no longer apply to academy schools or that these powers would need to be recreated via funding agreements - Speech Link
3: Baroness Smith of Malvern (Lab - Life peer) schools and colleges must make any further checks they think are appropriate, so that any relevant events - Speech Link
4: Lord Hampton (XB - Excepted Hereditary) Noble Lords have highlighted the benefits of getting industry experts to teach in schools. - Speech Link
5: Baroness Caine of Kentish Town (Lab - Life peer) Ukie, the trade body for computer games, on the back of its very successful Digital Schoolhouse project - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill
Committee stage - Mon 08 Sep 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: None Finally, I refer to Amendment 154 on the fishing industry. - Speech Link
2: None As the noble Lord, Lord German, said, the UK’s fishing industry is reliant on migrant workers. - Speech Link
3: Lord Dubs (Lab - Life peer) that people do not work below the proper wage level for the industry they are in. - Speech Link