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Commons Chamber
Warm Homes Plan - Wed 21 Jan 2026
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Gareth Snell (LAB - Stoke-on-Trent Central) We have old, terraced housing, often with single glazing and small yards, so space for heat pumps and - Speech Link
2: Ed Miliband (Lab - Doncaster North) Small and medium-sized enterprises will be crucial to the scheme. - Speech Link
3: Ed Miliband (Lab - Doncaster North) Small businesses are eligible for the boiler upgrade scheme and there is a substantial investment in - Speech Link
4: Ed Miliband (Lab - Doncaster North) Friend speaks eloquently, and I am sure that what he said will resonate with Members across the House - Speech Link
5: Ed Miliband (Lab - Doncaster North) We are seeing record demand, and the question for this House and for all of us is whether we want that - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Polly Billington (Lab - East Thanet) Which bit of our plan for small and medium-sized businesses, action to tackle late payments, reducing - Speech Link
2: Anna Dixon (Lab - Shipley) When I have talked to small and medium-sized enterprises in my constituency of Shipley, they have welcomed - Speech Link
3: Simon Hoare (Con - North Dorset) They are family businesses, most will be micro, some will be small, and precious few will be medium-sized - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Budget Resolutions - Mon 01 Dec 2025
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Tom Rutland (Lab - East Worthing and Shoreham) cut NHS waiting lists and support the 3,500 small and medium-sized enterprises in my constituency with - Speech Link
2: Richard Burgon (Lab - Leeds East) I congratulate everyone in this House and outside it who fought to scrap the two-child benefit cap and - Speech Link
3: Frank McNally (Lab - Coatbridge and Bellshill) lunch and which child would have a small dinner. - Speech Link
4: Wendy Morton (Con - Aldridge-Brownhills) She must come to this House and explain herself, and I hope she does the winding-up speech tomorrow evening - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Planning and Infrastructure Bill
Report stage part one - Wed 29 Oct 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Lord Jackson of Peterborough (Con - Life peer) indefatigability in defending small and medium-sized enterprises. - Speech Link
2: Lord Jamieson (Con - Life peer) I support my noble friend Lady Neville-Rolfe’s amendments to support small and medium-sized businesses - Speech Link
3: None and medium-sized enterprises(1) When discharging any duty under this Act relating to planning and development - 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: None and medium-sized developers when engaging with the planning system. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Scott of Bybrook (Con - Life peer) and medium-sized developers when engaging with the planning system. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (Lab - Life peer) and medium-sized developers when engaging with the planning system. - Speech Link
4: None Small and medium-sized developers are the backbone of our construction industry. - Speech Link
5: Earl Russell (LD - Excepted Hereditary) The need to do more for small and medium-sized developers is widely felt among all parties across the - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Planning and Infrastructure Bill
Committee stage - Thu 04 Sep 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Baroness Thornhill (LD - Life peer) I recognise and acknowledge that this Government are trying to address the concerns of SME builders in - Speech Link
2: Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay (Con - Life peer) As well as speeding up the delivery of the provision of more houses, making it easier for small and medium-sized - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Business and the Economy - Wed 21 May 2025
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Andrew Griffith (Con - Arundel and South Downs) , small and medium-sized enterprises, family businesses and entrepreneurs who take risks to create wealth - Speech Link
2: Andrew Griffith (Con - Arundel and South Downs) That Bill is undergoing scrutiny in the other House as we speak, and the Opposition would welcome and - Speech Link
3: Gavin Williamson (Con - Stone, Great Wyrley and Penkridge) However, small and mid-sized businesses in my constituency—especially those in the hospitality sector—have - Speech Link
4: Gagan Mohindra (Con - South West Hertfordshire) expenditure for small and large businesses. - Speech Link
5: Damian Hinds (Con - East Hampshire) In fact, 99.9% of businesses in East Hampshire are small or medium-sized enterprises. - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Planning and Infrastructure Bill (Twelfth sitting)
Committee stage: 12th sitting - Tue 20 May 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Matthew Pennycook (Lab - Greenwich and Woolwich) small and medium-sized enterprises and community led-housing back in the game.The hon. - Speech Link
2: Paul Holmes (Con - Hamble Valley) Friend raises a good point; in fact, we have tabled some amendments on targets regarding small and medium-sized - Speech Link
3: Paul Holmes (Con - Hamble Valley) for both planning authorities and small and medium-sized developers, and they are strengthening the - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Town and Country Planning (Fees for Applications, Deemed Applications, Requests and Site Visits) (England) (Amendment and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2025 - Mon 03 Mar 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (Lab - Life peer) and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2025 were laid before the House on 13 January 2025. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (Lab - Life peer) builders and medium-sized enterprises. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education (Transfer of Functions etc) Bill [Lords]
2nd reading - Tue 25 Feb 2025
Department for International Development

Mentions:
1: Toby Perkins (Lab - Chesterfield) of the biggest failings of the apprenticeship levy approach has been that small and medium-sized enterprises - Speech Link
2: Gurinder Singh Josan (Lab - Smethwick) and medium-sized enterprises and 411 apprentices through fully funded apprenticeships. - Speech Link
3: Dan Aldridge (Lab - Weston-super-Mare) because of the hoops that providers and small and medium-sized enterprises have had to jump through. - Speech Link
4: Amanda Martin (Lab - Portsmouth North) heating businesses, particularly small and medium-sized enterprises, to train apprentices in sustainability - Speech Link
5: Catherine Atkinson (Lab - Derby North) small and medium-sized companies in their supply chains and more broadly, from a wide range of industries - Speech Link