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Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 29 Apr 2021
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Robert Courts (CON - Witney) A home port call is estimated to generate approximately £2.95 million in today’s money, which underlines - Speech Link
2: Dan Poulter (CON - Central Suffolk and North Ipswich) The Secretary of State will be aware that almost 50% of UK container freight goes through Felixstowe - Speech Link
3: Rachel Maclean (CON - Redditch) Since 2009, more than £200 million has been invested in capacity on the Felixstowe to Nuneaton freight - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Finance (No. 2) Bill
Committee stageCommittee of the Whole House (Day 1) - Mon 19 Apr 2021
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Ben Lake (PC - Ceredigion) rhetoric of levelling up every single nation and region of the United Kingdom, it is clear that no port—or - Speech Link
2: Jesse Norman (CON - Hereford and South Herefordshire) the Chancellor announced the locations successful in securing freeport status: East Midlands airport, Felixstowe - Speech Link
3: Abena Oppong-Asare (LAB - Erith and Thamesmead) UK Trade Policy Observatory found that the main effect of freeports was to divert businesses into a port - Speech Link
4: Jesse Norman (CON - Hereford and South Herefordshire) Friend the Member for Thurrock (Jackie Doyle-Price) rightly talked about the magnificent port at Tilbury - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Finance (No. 2) Bill
2nd reading - Tue 13 Apr 2021
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Mel Stride (CON - Central Devon) One is the possibility of fraud in free port areas. - Speech Link
2: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) good faith but adapting and improving the UK’s model to address the climate emergency in our green port - Speech Link
3: Peter Aldous (CON - Waveney) infrastructure.From a Suffolk and Waveney perspective, the headlines in the Budget and the Bill are the Felixstowe - Speech Link
4: Jacob Young (CON - Redcar) The Teesside freeport, which covers Teesworks, Wilton, port of Hartlepool, port of Middlesbrough, Wilton - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 11 Mar 2021
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Stephen Morgan (LAB - Portsmouth South) Ministers continue to withhold the vital funds needed for Portsmouth international port to complete the - Speech Link
2: Robert Courts (CON - Witney) Portsmouth was awarded more than £17 million, which is the third-largest amount awarded to any port and - Speech Link
3: Tom Hunt (CON - Ipswich) Also, the port of Felixstowe is to become a freeport—very good news; Orwell bridge—good news. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 09 Mar 2021
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Jesse Norman (CON - Hereford and South Herefordshire) the hydrogen hub and, of course, £30 million towards the global centre of rail excellence in Neath Port - Speech Link
2: Tom Hunt (CON - Ipswich) Some 6,000 of my constituents are employed, directly or indirectly, through the port of Felixstowe. - Speech Link
3: Ian Levy (CON - Blyth Valley) In my home constituency of Blyth Valley we have the only deep-water port in Northumberland, with investments - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation - Tue 09 Mar 2021
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mentions:
1: Natalie Elphicke (CON - Dover) The recent pandemic has seen thousands of jobs at risk in the ferry, port, retail, hospitality and tourism - Speech Link
2: Martin Vickers (CON - Cleethorpes) Chancellor published his report some years ago advocating freeports, I spoke to local businesses and to the port - Speech Link
3: Peter Aldous (CON - Waveney) the Budget were the towns fund deal announcement for Lowestoft and the successful freeport bid for Felixstowe - Speech Link
4: Steve Barclay (CON - North East Cambridgeshire) Friend the Member for Waveney (Peter Aldous) praised the successful freeport bid for Felixstowe and the - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Income Tax (Charge) - Thu 04 Mar 2021
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Thérèse Coffey (CON - Suffolk Coastal) I was delighted that Freeport East was successful, as it covers the ports of Felixstowe and Harwich, - Speech Link
2: Paul Howell (CON - Sedgefield) Decisions like a freeport for Teesside and funding for new port infrastructure to build offshore wind - Speech Link
3: Jackie Doyle-Price (CON - Thurrock) Clearly, that will benefit my constituents, but it takes in not just the port of Tilbury but that at - Speech Link
4: Tom Hunt (CON - Ipswich) Some 6,000 of my constituents are employed either directly or indirectly by the port of Felixstowe, so - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Financial Statement - Wed 03 Mar 2021
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Rishi Sunak (CON - Richmond (Yorks)) innovative industry where the UK already has a global competitive advantage, so we are funding new port - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Railways: Electrification - Tue 19 Jan 2021
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb (GRN - Life peer) The port of Dover already has links with HS1, so have the Government investigated the option of moving - Speech Link
2: Lord Faulkner of Worcester (LAB - Life peer) major freight operator which said it would it prefer to use the railway from east coast ports like Felixstowe - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
UK Hydrogen Economy - Thu 17 Dec 2020
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mentions:
1: Alexander Stafford (CON - Rother Valley) Cadent is planning a similar idea of piping 100% hydrogen by Pilkington’s glassworks in Ellesmere Port - Speech Link
2: Peter Aldous (CON - Waveney) opportunity to decarbonise portside operations and shipping activities at the east coast ports of Harwich, Felixstowe - Speech Link
3: Christian Matheson (LAB - City of Chester) Detailed design work is already under way on the pipelines needed to connect the Ellesmere Port industrial - Speech Link