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Lords Chamber
Renters (Reform) Bill
2nd reading - Wed 15 May 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Baroness Warwick of Undercliffe (Lab - Life peer) TPO deals with complaints and requests for assistance from private sector tenants of the 39,000 property - Speech Link
2: Lord Truscott (Non-affiliated - Life peer) As a result, the private rented sector, unlike any other business, is taxed on turnover rather than profit - Speech Link
3: Baroness Boycott (XB - Life peer) an opportunity to respond positively but, as I have mentioned, it is not just about business but about - Speech Link
4: Lord Hacking (Lab - Excepted Hereditary) This is a burden on the judiciary and a cause of delay in the courts transacting this business. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
No Recourse to Public Funds - Wed 15 May 2024
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Beth Winter (Lab - Cynon Valley) It is therefore even more vital that access to devolved schemes of assistance that are not classed as - Speech Link
2: Tom Pursglove (Con - Corby) We have a moral responsibility to put that criminality out of business. - Speech Link
3: Tom Pursglove (Con - Corby) We have a responsibility—a moral duty—to put that criminality out of business. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Employment (Allocation of Tips) - Tue 14 May 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Kevin Hollinrake (Con - Thirsk and Malton) resolution of issues is preferable for all involved, workers may consult ACAS for impartial advice and assistance - Speech Link
2: Dean Russell (Con - Watford) in each hospitality organisation, in each café and restaurant, there are not only people who run the business - Speech Link
3: Kevin Hollinrake (Con - Thirsk and Malton) I think it is reasonable to allow a business to be able to calculate the amount of tips that are received - Speech Link
4: Kevin Hollinrake (Con - Thirsk and Malton) , and the legislation is about the needs of business. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Russia - Tue 14 May 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: None offences relate to what was widely reported by the media as a suspected arson attack on a Ukraine-linked business - Speech Link
2: Lord Coaker (Lab - Life peer) When can we expect that from the Government? - Speech Link
3: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LD - Life peer) What are the delays and why have the Government not presented legislation? - Speech Link
4: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) We have funded technical support sessions delivered by UK legal experts to business and government contacts - Speech Link
5: Lord Swire (Con - Life peer) It needs all the help we can give, both materiel and, obviously, financial assistance. - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Football Governance Bill (First sitting)
Committee stage: 1st sitting - Tue 14 May 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Robin Millar (Con - Aberconwy) Without any form of assistance from the regulator, that would mean that the industry is naturally precarious - Speech Link
2: Robin Millar (Con - Aberconwy) Provided the owner is aware of the consequences of their decisions, all you can do is give advisory assistance - Speech Link
3: Stephanie Peacock (Lab - Barnsley East) Obviously, therefore, the Government have introduced this Bill, which we support. - Speech Link
4: Brendan Clarke-Smith (Con - Bassetlaw) Even from a business point of view, I cannot imagine any other sector of the economy where a business - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Risk-based Exclusion - Mon 13 May 2024
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) is subject to an existing voluntary agreement not to attend the Estate.(4) The Panel shall have the assistance - Speech Link
2: Deidre Brock (SNP - Edinburgh North and Leith) The motion mentions“the assistance of the Counsel to the Speaker, the Director of Parliamentary Security - Speech Link
3: Chris Bryant (Lab - Rhondda) Exclusion should be, as it is in nearly every other business, the very last point to go to. - Speech Link
4: Nigel Mills (Con - Amber Valley) ; we do not give them to people who are on official House Select Committee visits or other official business - Speech Link
5: Rosie Winterton (Lab - Doncaster Central) is subject to an existing voluntary agreement not to attend the Estate.(6) The Panel shall have the assistance - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Palestinians: Visa Scheme - Mon 13 May 2024
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Cat Smith (Lab - Lancaster and Fleetwood) Palestinians have no status in Egypt, so students, teachers, small business owners and so on are left - Speech Link
2: Claire Hanna (SDLP - Belfast South) There is nowhere for Gazans to go, there is very little medical assistance and there is almost nothing - Speech Link
3: Bell Ribeiro-Addy (Lab - Streatham) I came to the UK on a work permit and never applied for assistance from the UK Government.”He just wants - Speech Link
4: Tom Pursglove (Con - Corby) Member should in any way give credence to the business model of evil people-smuggling gangs, who are - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Global Health Agencies and Vaccine-Preventable Deaths - Thu 09 May 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Virendra Sharma (Lab - Ealing, Southall) I thank the Backbench Business Committee for granting me time today to speak about the importance of - Speech Link
2: Chris Law (SNP - Dundee West) However, the decision— I keep having to repeat this—to cut UK official development assistance spending - Speech Link
3: Catherine West (Lab - Hornsey and Wood Green) preventable deaths is an international development priority and a core pillar of our overseas development assistance - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Tobacco and Vapes Bill (Sixth sitting)
Committee stage: 6th sitting - Thu 09 May 2024
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Andrea Leadsom (Con - South Northamptonshire) premises order but puts a ban on an individual from selling tobacco or vape products rather than a business - Speech Link
2: Andrea Leadsom (Con - South Northamptonshire) The investigatory powers are comprehensive and include the power to purchase products, observe a business - Speech Link
3: Rachael Maskell (LAB - York Central) Therefore, it will be the business, not the shop worker, paying the fine. - Speech Link
4: Andrea Leadsom (Con - South Northamptonshire) The current penalty regime requires trading standards to prosecute an individual or business, and they - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Skills: Importance for the UK Economy and Quality of Life - Thu 09 May 2024
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Lord Aberdare (XB - Excepted Hereditary) There is still much more to do in improving the quality of careers provision and business engagement, - Speech Link
2: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) That is the product of government policy decisions and government funding decisions—a system that has - Speech Link
3: Baroness Fairhead (XB - Life peer) On business education, last week DSIT launched two activities: the AI skills for business competency - Speech Link
4: Lord Addington (LD - Excepted Hereditary) I also work for a disability assistance company, Microlink. - Speech Link
5: Baroness Barran (Con - Life peer) The Government have worked hard to bring education and business together so that skills and training - Speech Link