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Lords Chamber
Environment Bill
Committee stage - Mon 05 Jul 2021
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Finlay of Llandaff (CB - Life peer) death rates from asthma are the worst in Europe. - Speech Link
2: None public may be present, including but not limited to—(i) schools and childcare nurseries, and(ii) hospitals - Speech Link
3: Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick (LAB - Life peer) , schools, childcare nurseries and other healthcare facilities. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Jones of Whitchurch (LAB - Life peer) We need to be assured that the Government are not being put under undue pressure from the business sector - Speech Link
5: Lord Khan of Burnley (LAB - Life peer) We need to make sure that we recognise the great value of the heritage vehicles sector. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Queen’s Speech - Wed 12 May 2021
Department for International Trade

Mentions:
1: Baroness Berridge (CON - Life peer) Today I shall outline the Government’s plans to support the economy, business, education and health to - Speech Link
2: Baroness Brinton (LDEM - Life peer) their capacity to support training and skills in their business. - Speech Link
3: Lord Smith of Hindhead (CON - Life peer) industry.Together with business rates relief and the reduction of VAT to 5% as applied to goods and - Speech Link
4: Lord Shinkwin (CON - Life peer) from business, academia and the voluntary sector, to serve on it. - Speech Link
5: Lord Sikka (LAB - Life peer) which is taxed at marginal rates varying from 20% to 45%. - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Covid-19: Economic Recovery - Tue 20 Apr 2021
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Baroness Penn (CON - Life peer) allowance and the annual exempt amount in capital gains tax from 2022-23 until 2025-26—that is, four - Speech Link
2: Baroness Humphreys (LDEM - Life peer) by the imposition of business rates. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Noakes (CON - Life peer) The Government should focus on what they can do to liberate our business sector, so that it can do the - Speech Link
4: Lord Bilimoria (CB - Life peer) I know from my own business, Cobra Beer, which supplies 7,000 restaurants, how much the sector has suffered - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Budget Statement - Fri 12 Mar 2021
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Doocey (LDEM - Life peer) Children’s nurseries are eligible for support, despite the fact that they are open, but language schools - Speech Link
2: Lord Hain (LAB - Life peer) The Chancellor even plans to start withdrawing the furlough scheme and the business rates holiday for - Speech Link
3: Lord Bilimoria (CB - Life peer) We were disappointed not to see fundamental reform of the unfair business rates system, or significant - Speech Link
4: Lord Agnew of Oulton (CON - Life peer) The Government have also decided to freeze the business rates multiplier in 2021-22, saving businesses - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Edward Miliband (LAB - Doncaster North) us turn more generally to business support. - Speech Link
2: James Grundy (CON - Leigh) of financial support to thrive, we must reform business rates and create a system fit for the future.As - Speech Link
3: Stella Creasy (LAB - Walthamstow) Our childcare sector is crumbling, with 58% of nurseries saying they cannot make it to the end of the - Speech Link
4: None is exempt from charge. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Covid-19 - Mon 22 Feb 2021
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Mick Whitley (LAB - Birkenhead) support staff working in colleges, schools and nurseries across my constituency. - Speech Link
2: Alex Davies-Jones (LAB - Pontypridd) Some new mothers have been excluded from furlough payments and have struggled to get childcare, forcing - Speech Link
3: Anthony Mangnall (CON - Totnes) end of this year and the business rates extension to next year. - Speech Link
4: Tim Farron (LDEM - Westmorland and Lonsdale) around the country.I urge the Government to do four things: first, to extend the business rates holiday - Speech Link
5: Andy Carter (CON - Warrington South) I make one specific request: extend the business rates holiday for eligible small businesses.Finally, - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Environment Bill
Report stage - Tue 26 Jan 2021
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Deidre Brock (SNP - Edinburgh North and Leith) led someone in Government to exempt defence, national security and the armed forces from the requirement - Speech Link
2: None I am pleased to have business support for this amendment. - Speech Link
3: Richard Fuller (CON - North East Bedfordshire) to setting targets we must make sure that we maintain support and buy-in from the various constituents - Speech Link
4: Eleanor Laing (CON - Epping Forest) but not limited to—(i) schools and childcare nurseries;(ii) hospitals and health care facilities.(2) - Speech Link
5: Wera Hobhouse (LDEM - Bath) My amendment aimed to make the reporting of the end destination of household and business waste mandatory - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Public Health - Wed 06 Jan 2021
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Damian Hinds (CON - East Hampshire) administration.As well as business support during lockdown, we are clearly going to need a sector by - Speech Link
2: Yvette Cooper (LAB - Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford) UK residents to be exempt. - Speech Link
3: Bill Esterson (LAB - Sefton Central) billion in unneeded business rates relief are that that money is used to support those who have so far - Speech Link
4: Alec Shelbrooke (CON - Elmet and Rothwell) Friend the Chancellor to consider a slight extension to the rates holiday, because the hospitality sector - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Covid-19 - Wed 18 Nov 2020
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Christopher Chope (CON - Christchurch) getting a vaccination automatically be exempt from the lockdown rules? - Speech Link
2: Nick Fletcher (CON - Don Valley) £1.9 billion in support as a result of their business rate relief. - Speech Link
3: Matt Rodda (LAB - Reading East) She set up a new small business in a thriving sector of the economy just before the pandemic started. - Speech Link
4: Tom Hunt (CON - Ipswich) retail and hospitality sector needs to know whether it will be able to use December to make those gains - Speech Link
5: David Simmonds (CON - Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner) those in the children’s sector who have ensured that nurseries, schools and childcare settings have - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (No. 2) (England) Regulations 2020 - Fri 24 Jul 2020
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Lord Bethell (CON - Excepted Hereditary) We are removing them in order to enable the reopening of non-essential retail, childcare and education - Speech Link
2: Baroness McIntosh of Pickering (CON - Life peer) It was abundantly clear from the passage of emergency legislation, the Business and Planning Bill, that - Speech Link
3: Lord Wei (CON - Life peer) to make the public and workers safe? - Speech Link
4: Lord Cormack (CON - Life peer) This morning there was much on the radio about those who are exempt from wearing them. - Speech Link
5: Baroness Brinton (LDEM - Life peer) go to work, if you cannot work from home, as long as the business is COVID-safe”.Three bullet points - Speech Link