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Lords Chamber
Creative Industries: Creating Jobs and Productivity Growth - Thu 06 Feb 2025
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Lord Londesborough (XB - Excepted Hereditary) exemptions to this national insurance increase for all small businesses employing between 10 and 50 - Speech Link
2: Baroness Griffin of Princethorpe (Lab - Life peer) I look forward to working with you all in the future. - Speech Link
3: Earl of Clancarty (XB - Excepted Hereditary) Yet the amount of money needed to put all this right and to fund new projects would still be a drop in - Speech Link
4: Lord Freyberg (XB - Excepted Hereditary) from 24% to just 7% in the past decade.While large institutions struggle, small craft businesses and - Speech Link
5: Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay (Con - Life peer) option might be to look at the acceptance in lieu scheme so that they could be donated to the state - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Non-Domestic Rating (Multipliers and Private Schools) Bill
2nd reading - Wed 29 Jan 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Lord Fox (LD - Life peer) new small business relief in a targeted way to support such small independent businesses? - Speech Link
2: Lord de Clifford (XB - Excepted Hereditary) be to ensure that small businesses end up paying less or similar amounts of business rates than they - Speech Link
3: Baroness Pinnock (LD - Life peer) How much better it would be to have a blanket of small businesses in town centres all being part of this - Speech Link
4: Baroness Barran (Con - Life peer) We know that the reduction in small business rate relief from 75% to 40% will have a big impact on many - Speech Link
5: Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (Lab - Life peer) to support all of our small businesses. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Creative Industries - Mon 27 Jan 2025
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Mentions:
1: Chris Bryant (Lab - Rhondda and Ogmore) We have said that the relief will be 40%, and there will be a renewal of and change to business rates - Speech Link
2: Alice Macdonald (LAB - Norwich North) It would be good to understand how businesses in my area can benefit from that funding. - Speech Link
3: Paul Kohler (LD - Wimbledon) The Chancellor’s decision in October to reduce business rates relief from 75% to 40% will put 350 grassroots - Speech Link
4: Alison Hume (Lab - Scarborough and Whitby) All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.”We must act to protect our creative talent - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
High Streets: Autumn Budget 2024 - Thu 23 Jan 2025
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Sarah Dyke (LD - Glastonbury and Somerton) Responding to my small business survey, a local business in Street said that high employer national insurance - Speech Link
2: Emma Reynolds (Lab - Wycombe) not to introduce, but through a higher tax rate on the most valuable 1% of business properties in the - Speech Link
3: Sarah Dyke (LD - Glastonbury and Somerton) Will the Minister consider implementing a fundamental business rates overhaul for small businesses in - Speech Link
4: Emma Reynolds (Lab - Wycombe) We need to treat all small businesses equally. I understand the hon. - Speech Link
5: Emma Reynolds (Lab - Wycombe) Member for Harpenden and Berkhamsted for bringing the voice of small businesses in her constituency to - Speech Link


Grand Committee
National Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) Bill
Committee stage - Tue 21 Jan 2025
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Lord Forsyth of Drumlean (Con - Life peer) the cost to the NHS of those beds being occupied by people who would otherwise be able to be in their - Speech Link
2: Baroness Smith of Newnham (LD - Life peer) A report by the Federation of Small Businesses back in 2019, A Force for Business, clearly highlighted - Speech Link
3: Viscount Chandos (Lab - Life peer) the same rate to pretty much all organisations in the private and voluntary sectors. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Renters’ Rights Bill - Tue 14 Jan 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Judith Cummins (Lab - Bradford South) to let a property to a tenant who—(a) is in receipt of benefits; or(b) will be keeping a pet in the - Speech Link
2: David Simmonds (Con - Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner) All those requirements need to be addressed effectively in this legislation. - Speech Link
3: Rebecca Smith (Con - South West Devon) In the light of some conversations we had in Committee, I am interested to see who is in scope to be - Speech Link
4: Carla Denyer (Green - Bristol Central) If all tenants can replace a showerhead, disabled tenants should be allowed to put in accessible washing - Speech Link
5: Claire Young (LD - Thornbury and Yate) , but not all small landlords are scrupulous, and relying on them to be so is not appropriate protection - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
UK Strategy Towards the Arctic (International Relations and Defence Committee Report) - Thu 09 Jan 2025
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Lord Browne of Ladyton (Lab - Life peer)to be extraordinarily capable in one environment to the exclusion of their capability in another. - Speech Link
2: Lord Hannay of Chiswick (XB - Life peer) due to be presented in a few months’ time? - Speech Link
3: Baroness Fraser of Craigmaddie (Con - Life peer) Logistics have to be prioritised in the Arctic. - Speech Link
4: Lord Callanan (Con - Life peer) We all understand that resources in this area are limited but I hope the Minister will be able to provide - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Employer National Insurance Contributions: Charities - Tue 07 Jan 2025
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: John Milne (LD - Horsham) Member agree that when one in five pensioners are adjudged to be living in poverty, this is the wrong - Speech Link
2: Joe Robertson (Con - Isle of Wight East) financial relief to all charities, even if they might not want to admit that in black and white. - Speech Link
3: Joe Robertson (Con - Isle of Wight East) The alternative options are to provide some other form of relief, but that relief should be felt by all - Speech Link
4: Shockat Adam (Ind - Leicester South) be provided to local governments to cover the cost in full. - Speech Link
5: Peter Fortune (Con - Bromley and Biggin Hill) to pay tax, and in all likelihood to do less. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 19 Dec 2024
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Lucy Powell (LAB - Manchester Central) We do expect democratic norms to be upheld in Pakistan, as we do in other countries. - Speech Link
2: Claire Hughes (Lab - Bangor Aberconwy) FSB Wales, the Federation of Small Businesses in Wales, is asking people to join its £10 pledge by spending - Speech Link
3: Lucy Powell (LAB - Manchester Central) I know it is difficult to hear, but paying flat-rate compensation to all women born in the 1950s, at - Speech Link
4: Lindsay Hoyle (Spk - Chorley) We need to try to be a bit shorter in asking the questions. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
National Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) Bill
Committee of the whole House - Tue 17 Dec 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Caroline Nokes (Con - Romsey and Southampton North) (b), for “£9,100” substitute—“(i) in respect of an earner to whom the healthcare and small charities - Speech Link
2: Joe Morris (Lab - Hexham) We need to restore faith in our NHS and our small businesses that were so badly let down. - Speech Link
3: Chris Curtis (Lab - Milton Keynes North) made it a priority to listen to small business owners. - Speech Link
4: James Murray (LAB - Ealing North) allowance to support small businesses. - Speech Link