Mentions:
1: Lord Howell of Guildford (Con - Life peer) unions were thrown out. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Moyo (Con - Life peer) International investment flows are also bleak; for example, foreign direct investment into the United - Speech Link
3: Lord Bishop of Worcester (Bshp - Bishops) difficult to see how Britain can be re-established as a world leader with a great reputation for development—because - Speech Link
4: Baroness Kramer (LD - Life peer) Our trade in services is strong, but the UK’s growth in goods trade is well below expectations and well - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) because their party was in the pockets of militant trade unions—but I am not holding my breath, because - Speech Link
2: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) will fall to the Department for Work and Pensions. - Speech Link
3: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) I will certainly ensure that the Department for Business and Trade, which has oversight of this matter - Speech Link
4: Liam Byrne (Lab - Birmingham, Hodge Hill) for Business and Trade is more than a fortnight late in providing the explanatory memorandum for its - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord McInnes of Kilwinning (Con - Life peer) by the United Kingdom Government because it improves connectivity and not because, as all too often department - Speech Link
2: Lord Lilley (Con - Life peer) Particularly, of course, nations and unions are very often forged in war, as ours have been. - Speech Link
3: Lord Bew (XB - Life peer) issues—the big-name economists such as Krugman, Stiglitz and Piketty—are all critics of the Irish model of development - Speech Link
4: Lord Udny-Lister (Con - Life peer) This union has endured domestic trials and tribulations and international wars and conflicts. - Speech Link
5: Lord Cameron of Lochiel (Con - Life peer) In Scotland, for example, the majority of outgoing trade is with the rest of the UK, more than with the - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Andrew Jones (Con - Harrogate and Knaresborough) schools are rising up the international league tables for maths and science, and we are the best in - Speech Link
2: Lilian Greenwood (Lab - Nottingham South) the Trade Descriptions Act long ago. - Speech Link
3: Yvonne Fovargue (Lab - Makerfield) the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero. - Speech Link
4: Bim Afolami (Con - Hitchin and Harpenden) True to form, the shadow Chancellor has cut and pasted this plan from the trade unions to such a degree - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Vere of Norbiton (Con - Life peer) girls strategy in March last year and the international development White Paper in November. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Northover (LD - Life peer) The international development White Paper says that it puts women and girls front and centre but, without - Speech Link
3: Baroness Chakrabarti (Lab - Life peer) unions, to investigate what their male colleagues are being paid for the same or equivalent work and - Speech Link
4: Baroness Barran (Con - Life peer) stage, last year we launched our first international women and girls strategy and international development - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Greg Hands (Con - Chelsea and Fulham) However, we are always open to new ideas at the Department for Business and Trade and I am happy to meet - Speech Link
2: Greg Hands (Con - Chelsea and Fulham) Our embassy is following up by preparing for the Zimbabwe international trade fair in April, and it is - Speech Link
3: Liz Twist (Lab - Blaydon) Last week, Carl Cresswell, director of business resilience in the Department for Business and Trade, - Speech Link
4: Kevin Hollinrake (Con - Thirsk and Malton) The GLO—group litigation order—scheme is already being delivered by the Department for Business and Trade - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Tom Tugendhat (Con - Tonbridge and Malling) Financial Conduct Authority, the Department for Work and Pensions, the Treasury, the National Crime - Speech Link
2: Stuart C McDonald (SNP - Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East) security of users of services operating in the UK, by introducing bureaucratic hurdles that slow the development - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (Con - Life peer) For example, our trade was £539 million in 2022-23, which is a direct challenge to what is sometimes - Speech Link
2: Lord Collins of Highbury (Lab - Life peer) it—is the importance of civil society, particularly representation of workers in Zimbabwe, because international - Speech Link
3: Lord Howell of Guildford (Con - Life peer) My Lords, I think the State Department described its latest move in relation to sanctions as fine-tuning - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Drew Hendry (SNP - Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey) sector—it is not too late for him to do that; reinstate VAT-free shopping for international visitors - Speech Link
2: Meg Hillier (LAB - Hackney South and Shoreditch) On the schools budget, the Department for Education wanted £4 billion a year to build the new schools - Speech Link
3: Chris Grayling (Con - Epsom and Ewell) That requires, over the coming months, the Department for Transport and the Treasury to work together - Speech Link
4: Thérèse Coffey (Con - Suffolk Coastal) The ongoing activity of the Department of Business and Trade and all of Government shows that Britain - Speech Link
5: Kevan Jones (Lab - North Durham) I give credit to the Under-Secretary of State for Business and Trade, the hon. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Helen Whately (Con - Faversham and Mid Kent) for jobs in social care, and I will raise that point with my colleague in the Department. - Speech Link
2: Helen Whately (Con - Faversham and Mid Kent) Lady will have heard me say earlier, we are grateful to international care workers who come to care for - Speech Link
3: Andrew Stephenson (Con - Pendle) We have reached pay settlements with the “Agenda for Change” unions, and we continue to reach pay deals - Speech Link
4: Will Quince (Con - Colchester) It shows that by being reasonable, pragmatic and acting in good faith, unions can deliver for their members - Speech Link