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Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 21 Mar 2024
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Charlotte Nichols (Lab - Warrington North) Two years on from P&O Ferries’ shocking attack on seafarer jobs, trade union rights and employment - Speech Link
2: Anthony Browne (Con - South Cambridgeshire) As I said, the Government have introduced a comprehensive package of measures to stop the abuse of seafarers - Speech Link
3: Nick Fletcher (Con - Don Valley) yesterday that it would be closing its store in Doncaster, but would be expanding its operation to a retail - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Post Office (Horizon System) Offences Bill
2nd reading - Wed 20 Mar 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Mary Robinson (Con - Cheadle) It lands within the Department for Business and Trade—it is something that is within my right hon. - Speech Link
2: Mark Pawsey (Con - Rugby) We on the Business and Trade Select Committee heard absolutely harrowing accounts from postmasters of - Speech Link
3: David Davis (Con - Haltemprice and Howden) Over a decade ago it was known that:“Post Office systems are not fit for purpose in a modern retail and - Speech Link
4: Rushanara Ali (Lab - Bethnal Green and Bow) This scandal has been defined at every turn by an abuse of power, disregard for sub-postmasters’ lives - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Spring Budget 2024 - Mon 18 Mar 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Lord Macpherson of Earl's Court (XB - Life peer) be subsidising retail investors. - Speech Link
2: Lord Young of Cookham (Con - Life peer) I take the point about abuse, which was mentioned in the Budget debate, but there is an unforeseen consequence - Speech Link
3: Baroness Kramer (LD - Life peer) The post-Brexit fall in trade intensity was initially forecast at 15%. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Housing: Young People - Thu 14 Mar 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Lord Young of Cookham (Con - Life peer) Many older people want to trade down or to rightsize, freeing up their homes for young families. - Speech Link
2: Earl Attlee (Con - Excepted Hereditary) The old industrial sites have already been turned into retail parks and housing estates up and down the - Speech Link
3: Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (Lab - Life peer) Family breakdown because of parental conflict, as in Shannon’s case, divorce, abuse or neglect, domestic - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: None Act.(4) In this section “relevant Select Committee of the House of Commons” means the Business and Trade - Speech Link
2: Lord Clement-Jones (LD - Life peer) effective redress at no cost to the taxpayer.Amendments 91 and 92 concern an area of concern for the retail - Speech Link
3: Baroness Hayman (XB - Life peer) The Department for Business and Trade is engaged in relation to post-Brexit product safety standards. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Wed 13 Mar 2024
Wales Office

Mentions:
1: Jessica Morden (Lab - Newport East) nothing to deliver a better future for retailers and their customers.”Those are the words of the British Retail - Speech Link
2: Rishi Sunak (Con - Richmond (Yorks)) The Department for Business and Trade will be responsible for the new redress scheme, and we are widening - Speech Link
3: Rishi Sunak (Con - Richmond (Yorks)) important to distinguish between strongly felt political debate on one hand and unacceptable acts of abuse - Speech Link
4: Natalie Elphicke (Con - Dover) keep Dover clear, support the residents of Dover and Deal—and Kent—and secure our vital cross-channel trade - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Budget Resolutions - Tue 12 Mar 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Valerie Vaz (Lab - Walsall South) Those working on the high street worked during the pandemic and beyond, and they still face abuse in - Speech Link
2: Nickie Aiken (Con - Cities of London and Westminster) Reintroducing tax-free shopping would boost the economy for the retail, hospitality, hotel, leisure and - Speech Link
3: Zarah Sultana (Lab - Coventry South) down and impacting services.In particular, I want to highlight the impact on Coventry Rape and Sexual Abuse - Speech Link
4: Nia Griffith (Lab - Llanelli) Back in 2011, the Government started using the retail prices index instead of the consumer prices index - Speech Link
5: Tulip Siddiq (Lab - Hampstead and Kilburn) Directors described the Chancellor’s efforts as an “unremarkable Budget for business”, and the British Retail - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Budget Resolutions - Mon 11 Mar 2024
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Barbara Keeley (Lab - Worsley and Eccles South) Grassroots venues are where many musicians learn their trade. - Speech Link
2: James Davies (Con - Vale of Clwyd) For example, the Government are rightly extending the retail, hospitality and leisure relief in England - Speech Link
3: Anna Firth (Con - Southend West) Taken with our action at the autumn statement to extend the 75% business rates relief for retail, hospitality - Speech Link
4: Nigel Evans (Con - Ribble Valley) Member will not abuse my generosity. - Speech Link
5: Thangam Debbonaire (Lab - Bristol West) imagination—and we will support, maintain and promote the UK’s strong copyright regime, including in trade - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
International Women’s Day - Fri 08 Mar 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Baroness Vere of Norbiton (Con - Life peer) SheTrades Outlook is a unique global online platform that tracks and compares countries’ progress on trade - Speech Link
2: Baroness Gale (Lab - Life peer) Economic abuse often prevents domestic abuse survivors being able to access the vital funds needed to - Speech Link
3: Lord Bishop of Southwark (Bshp - Bishops) impact the pandemic and the cost of living crisis has had in the form of loss of jobs in the food, retail - Speech Link
4: Baroness Chakrabarti (Lab - Life peer) no enforcement mechanism other than relying on individual women, with or without the help of their trade - Speech Link
5: Baroness O'Grady of Upper Holloway (Lab - Life peer) That boost to women’s representation sadly does not mean that the trade union movement is now a feminist - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Farming - Mon 04 Mar 2024
Wales Office

Mentions:
1: Bill Wiggin (Con - North Herefordshire) A recent report found that the retail share that farmers receive is down to 0.03%. - Speech Link
2: George Eustice (Con - Camborne and Redruth) industry which requires investment over many years, if not decades, at the mercy of all-too-powerful retail - Speech Link
3: Ben Lake (PC - Ceredigion) the sources of raw materials and foodstuffs in the UK and abroad; the manufacturing, wholesale, and retail - Speech Link
4: Paul Howell (Con - Sedgefield) forces.”In summary, my farming community is concerned about: the burden of red tape; what it sees as the abuse - Speech Link