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Commons Chamber
Autumn Statement Resolutions - Mon 27 Nov 2023
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Nickie Aiken (Con - Cities of London and Westminster) with 75% relief on business rates. - Speech Link
2: Steve Double (Con - St Austell and Newquay) done to support our small businesses. - Speech Link
3: Nigel Mills (Con - Amber Valley) Businesses in my high streets and the hospitality sector will welcome the business rate reliefs that - Speech Link
4: Wendy Morton (Con - Aldridge-Brownhills) little difference to too many small businesses. - Speech Link
5: Nigel Huddleston (Con - Mid Worcestershire) For those smaller businesses that are so integral to their communities, we are freezing the small business - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Autumn Statement Resolutions - Thu 23 Nov 2023
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Kevin Hollinrake (Con - Thirsk and Malton) As someone who was in business myself, starting and scaling up businesses for 30 years prior to entering - Speech Link
2: Kevin Hollinrake (Con - Thirsk and Malton) visit their small businesses on 2 December—it could not be a more timely moment to announce our business - Speech Link
3: Robert Syms (Con - Poole) the uniform business rate; and to help working people through a reduction in their national insurance - Speech Link
4: Peter Grant (SNP - Glenrothes) support small businesses. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Autumn Statement - Wed 22 Nov 2023
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Jeremy Hunt (Con - South West Surrey) the successful tackling paramilitarism programme in Northern Ireland.I turn next to small businesses—I - Speech Link
2: Rachel Reeves (Lab - Leeds West) Small and medium businesses, which play a pivotal role in growing our economy, are left exposed to the - Speech Link
3: Jeremy Hunt (Con - South West Surrey) What I would say to the businesses in Blaby and Glen Prva is that for every single small business we - Speech Link
4: Barbara Keeley (Lab - Worsley and Eccles South) At the 2023 Budget, he extended the uplifted rate of relief until March 2024, after which it will taper - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Autumn Statement Resolutions - Wed 22 Nov 2023
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Liam Fox (Con - North Somerset) It should be a requirement on local authorities that they pay all their bills to small businesses on - Speech Link
2: Priti Patel (Con - Witham) I have previously called for a freeze of the small business rate multiplier, and I am pleased that the - Speech Link
3: Anna Firth (Con - Southend West) until 2025 and the decision to freeze the small business multiplier, which will be a huge benefit to - Speech Link
4: Kevin Foster (Con - Torbay) those who put their faith in us.I welcome in particular the business rates relief for tourism and hospitality - Speech Link
5: Bim Afolami (Con - Hitchin and Harpenden) There are measures to protect small businesses on business rates; on R&D tax credits, we are reducing - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
International Men's Day - Tue 21 Nov 2023
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Nick Fletcher (Con - Don Valley) Tommy’s dad often turns inwards and often to the fridge, looking for relief. - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) , simply because we are a country of small farms. - Speech Link
3: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) May I seek clarity from the Minister and ask whether the money will be extended to the devolved nations - Speech Link
4: Maria Miller (Con - Basingstoke) Again, I challenge the Minister to ensure that we have a gendered approach to healthcare in our country.Let - Speech Link
5: Abena Oppong-Asare (Lab - Erith and Thamesmead) Our mission will be to get the rate of suicide down. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
King’s Speech - Wed 15 Nov 2023
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Lord Bishop of Southwark (Bshp - Bishops) A ceasefire in Gaza is not only to be hoped for but needs to begin now, with extended pauses for humanitarian - Speech Link
2: Lord Leigh of Hurley (Con - Life peer) the right to live in a very small part of the land that some of them had called home for some 2,000 - Speech Link
3: Lord Adonis (Lab - Life peer) When it was proposed that shop workers should be given relief from having to stand up for more than five - Speech Link
4: Baroness Goudie (Lab - Life peer) to advocate for policies that benefit all society, such as much better healthcare and education systems - Speech Link
5: Lord Tunnicliffe (Lab - Life peer) ensure quicker access to important services, such as healthcare. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Economic Growth - Tue 14 Nov 2023
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Drew Hendry (SNP - Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey) We should have mortgage interest rate tax relief and there should be action on food costs, but of course - Speech Link
2: Liam Fox (Con - North Somerset) our priority should be to cut taxes for small businesses, because they are the ones that create prosperity - Speech Link
3: Priti Patel (Con - Witham) If addressed in a considered way by Government, a freeze in the business rates multiplier can help small - Speech Link
4: Steve McCabe (Lab - Birmingham, Selly Oak) In fact, the interest rate rises forced on the Bank of England are more likely to damage business and - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
King’s Speech - Mon 13 Nov 2023
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Lord Callanan (Con - Life peer) We have announced a £27 billion tax cut for business, and the UK now has the lowest corporation tax rate - Speech Link
2: Lord Hain (Lab - Life peer) This long-term failure to invest in our healthcare, housing and transport services is the reason why - Speech Link
3: Lord Jones (Lab - Life peer) Shall there be small modular nuclear reactors at Trawsfynydd? - Speech Link
4: Lord Grocott (Lab - Life peer) It continues:“All schemes will be subject to the development and approval of business cases and will - Speech Link
5: Viscount Trenchard (Con - Excepted Hereditary) The best way to provide much-needed relief to struggling households and businesses is to increase very - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Building an NHS Fit for the Future - Mon 13 Nov 2023
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Steve Tuckwell (Con - Uxbridge and South Ruislip) There are some fantastic businesses from small, home-based entrepreneurs and medium-sized exciting businesses - Speech Link
2: Edward Leigh (Con - Gainsborough) We all want solar panels as long as it is proportionate, but 10,000 acres ringing one small town in Lincolnshire - Speech Link
3: Lilian Greenwood (Lab - Nottingham South) That is the population of a small city, and those chronic shortages are leading to all-too-predictable - Speech Link
4: Helen Morgan (LD - North Shropshire) of Small Businesses reported that in 2022, 6% fewer rural businesses reported that they planned to expand - Speech Link
5: Liz Kendall (Lab - Leicester West) in the G7 with an employment rate that still has not returned to pre-pandemic levels. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Debate on the Address - Tue 07 Nov 2023
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Stephen Flynn (SNP - Aberdeen South) If you want to open a business in Scotland, you will have access to the small business bonus, and as - Speech Link
2: John Redwood (Con - Wokingham) in inflation, which will then help reduce the deficits.We also need measures to help small business - Speech Link
3: Rachael Maskell (LAB - York Central) I am all too aware that the Flood Re scheme should also be extended to leaseholders, as they ultimately - Speech Link