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Lords Chamber
Building Safety - Wed 27 Mar 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Baroness Pinnock (LD - Life peer) tenants live in such flats, which the Government regard as being relatively safe but which insurance companies - Speech Link
2: Baroness Swinburne (Con - Life peer) The Building Safety Act also gives courts new powers to extend liability to the associated companies - Speech Link
3: Earl of Lytton (XB - Excepted Hereditary) connection with building remediation, has the department any estimate of instances of potential freeholder insolvency - Speech Link
4: Baroness Swinburne (Con - Life peer) There is an agreement with insurance companies that, if remediation work has been done, the insurance - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill
2nd reading - Wed 27 Mar 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Lord Campbell-Savours (Lab - Life peer) The question is: how will service charge companies compensate for their lost revenues? - Speech Link
2: Viscount Hanworth (Lab - Excepted Hereditary) A search of the companies register reveals that the constituent parts have directors in common. - Speech Link
3: Lord Thurlow (XB - Excepted Hereditary) Many of them buy through companies registered overseas that probably pay little or no tax. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Code of Practice on Dismissal and Re-Engagement - Mon 25 Mar 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Lord Offord of Garvel (Con - Life peer) This Government believe that we must preserve companies’ flexibility to manage their workforce in times - Speech Link
2: Lord Fox (LD - Life peer) are reasonable companies, and most employees operate with reason. - Speech Link
3: Lord Leong (Lab - Life peer) We could see companies rewarding executives who are prepared to brush off a few bad PR headlines while - Speech Link
4: Lord Offord of Garvel (Con - Life peer) Companies that are, for example, going through difficult economic times or a change in their business - Speech Link


General Committees
Draft Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (Consequential, Supplementary and Incidental Provisions) Regulations 2024 Draft Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (Financial Penalty) Regulations 2024 - Thu 14 Mar 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Kevin Hollinrake (Con - Thirsk and Malton) We now face the task of designing and implementing the many new processes and procedures at Companies - Speech Link
2: Rushanara Ali (Lab - Bethnal Green and Bow) It will help strengthen the role of Companies House. - Speech Link
3: Kevin Hollinrake (Con - Thirsk and Malton) We think that provides Companies House and the Insolvency Service, which is the enforcement body for - Speech Link
4: Kevin Hollinrake (Con - Thirsk and Malton) conduct or offences are sufficiently serious, they can pass that on to the relevant prosecution body —the Insolvency - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill
Report stage - Wed 13 Mar 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: None This ensures that consumers are safeguarded across a more comprehensive range of insolvency events, as - Speech Link
2: None sequestrated),(b) a winding up order having been made in relation to the trader as a result of the trader’s insolvency - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Employment and Trade Union Rights (Dismissal and Re-engagement) Bill [HL]
2nd reading - Fri 01 Mar 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Lord Leong (Lab - Life peer) What is especially galling is that it appears that some of the companies that treat their workers so - Speech Link
2: Lord Johnson of Lainston (Con - Life peer) I am aware that there is an inquiry by the Insolvency Service into P&O, on which it would be inappropriate - Speech Link
3: Lord Johnson of Lainston (Con - Life peer) First, the increased consultation becomes extremely onerous on companies. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Alternative Investment Fund Designation Bill [HL]
2nd reading - Fri 01 Mar 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Baroness Altmann (Con - Life peer) For listed companies, consumer value is the share price. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Bowles of Berkhamsted (LD - Life peer) witnessed—that there “can sometimes be amounts repayable, in some circumstances”, by which it means insolvency - Speech Link
3: Lord Reay (Con - Excepted Hereditary) Research coverage, particularly for junior companies, has been decimated. - Speech Link
4: Lord Macpherson of Earl's Court (XB - Life peer) Investment companies are an effective way of building a diversified portfolio. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Welsh Affairs - Thu 29 Feb 2024
Wales Office

Mentions:
1: Stephen Crabb (Con - Preseli Pembrokeshire) We have held not just one, but two sessions with the bosses of the water companies in Wales, Natural - Speech Link
2: Ben Lake (PC - Ceredigion) I am very pleased to say that some companies are looking to relocate their head offices to Ceredigion - Speech Link
3: David T C Davies (Con - Monmouth) The only plan that they were going to consider was insolvency, and pulling out of steelmaking in the - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill
Report stage - Tue 27 Feb 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Lee Rowley (Con - North East Derbyshire) However, there is a conflict with insolvency law and a risk that, instead of being used for remediation - Speech Link
2: None Mortgage companies value the flat at literally zero. - Speech Link
3: None This new clause amends the Building Safety Act 2022 to impose a new duty on insolvency practitioners - Speech Link
4: None ) (higher-risk and relevant buildings: notifications in connection with insolvency).” - Speech Link
5: None ) (higher-risk and relevant buildings: notifications in connection with insolvency).” - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Financial Risk Checks for Gambling - Mon 26 Feb 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Christina Rees (LAB - Neath) information such as credit reference data and negative indicators such as county court judgments or insolvency - Speech Link
2: Carolyn Harris (Lab - Swansea East) information such as credit reference data alongside negative indicators such as county court judgments and insolvency - Speech Link
3: Iain Duncan Smith (Con - Chingford and Woodford Green) That information travels across the gambling companies, so a gambler who happens to be moderately or - Speech Link
4: Wera Hobhouse (LD - Bath) could not get close to the cap with several companies at the same time. - Speech Link