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Commons Chamber
Energy (oil and gas) profits levy - Tue 22 Nov 2022
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Drew Hendry (SNP - Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey) are the war in Ukraine and the global pandemic, but they must take responsibility for the economic self-harm - Speech Link
2: Neale Hanvey (Alba - Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath) Failure is supposed to self-regulate markets.The public’s money has been used to bail out failing bankers - Speech Link
3: Paula Barker (LAB - Liverpool, Wavertree) People who do all the hours God sends—the nurse, the self-employed worker at a start-up, the pub owner - Speech Link
4: Anna Firth (CON - Southend West) developed in the UK that those companies were able to use their expertise to create our world-beating coronavirus - Speech Link
5: Beth Winter (LAB - Cynon Valley) As with austerity, that punishes those on low and middle incomes to fill a self-imposed and questionable - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Britain’s Industrial Future - Tue 15 Nov 2022
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mentions:
1: Bill Esterson (LAB - Sefton Central) Friends should be self-evident. - Speech Link
2: Grahame Morris (LAB - Easington) In my constituency, Vivarail—a world-beating, self-charging all-electric train manufacturer—is starved - Speech Link
3: Alex Cunningham (LAB - Stockton North) manufacturing to celebrate in the north-east, but Teesside’s steel industry is a shadow of its former self - Speech Link
4: George Freeman (CON - Mid Norfolk) There are 155,000 people employed in automotive manufacturing in the UK in 2021. - Speech Link
5: Kevin Hollinrake (CON - Thirsk and Malton) meant, but that is definitely how it sounded.From the aftermath of the global financial crisis to the coronavirus - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Creative Industries: North-east - Wed 09 Nov 2022
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Julie Elliott (LAB - Sunderland Central) the pandemic set the sectors back across the north-east and the country.There are some 3,500 people employed - Speech Link
2: Julia Lopez (CON - Hornchurch and Upminster) The coronavirus job retention scheme did a good job at protecting the vast majority of businesses across - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Public Order Bill
2nd reading - Tue 01 Nov 2022
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Paddick (LDEM - Life peer) Home Office offer an alternative explanation for the measures in it, saying:“Recent changes in tactics employed - Speech Link
2: Lord Frost (CON - Life peer) the then “plan B” measures and restrictions on civil liberties that would have come with a further coronavirus - Speech Link
3: Baroness Ludford (LDEM - Life peer) Bishop of St Albans said, we need evidence of how this Bill can succeed when its predecessors have self-evidently - Speech Link
4: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (CON - Life peer) right to engage in peaceful protest, as it would be targeted only at preventing the guerrilla tactics employed - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Economic Responsibility and a Plan for Growth - Wed 19 Oct 2022
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Paula Barker (LAB - Liverpool, Wavertree) from the Prime Minister’s, but it is dogma nevertheless—a school of economics that saw us enter the coronavirus - Speech Link
2: Sarah Olney (LDEM - Richmond Park) This economic crisis is a self-inflicted national humiliation that has put markets in the driving seat - Speech Link
3: Janet Daby (LAB - Lewisham East) Many self-employed people were left to fend for themselves during the pandemic, and millions, even billions - Speech Link
4: Pat McFadden (LAB - Wolverhampton South East) All of it has been self-inflicted—not an act of God, not the result of global conditions, but the result - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Health and Social Care Levy (Repeal) Bill
2nd reading - Mon 17 Oct 2022
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Viscount Younger of Leckie (CON - Excepted Hereditary) All employees earning more than the annual equivalent of £12,570 and self-employed people earning more - Speech Link
2: Lord Macpherson of Earl's Court (CB - Life peer) We are still dealing with the aftershock of coronavirus, which exposed the weakness of the social care - Speech Link
3: Lord Davies of Brixton (LAB - Life peer) However, the way in which it is employed—I hesitate to say “prostituted”—to create additional resources - Speech Link
4: Lord Tunnicliffe (LAB - Life peer) Although Covid infections and admissions are increasing, we have not yet encountered a significant wave of coronavirus - Speech Link
5: Viscount Younger of Leckie (CON - Excepted Hereditary) , with employers, employees and the self-employed paying towards the protection of those who have been - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Employment Law: Devolution to Scotland - Tue 06 Sep 2022
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mentions:
1: Angela Crawley (SNP - Lanark and Hamilton East) More people are under-employed, and more people are holding down multiple jobs and yet struggling to - Speech Link
2: Hywel Williams (PC - Arfon) In Wales we have a great deal of low pay and self-employment is a very common pattern. - Speech Link
3: Ian Murray (LAB - Edinburgh South) Ten years later, zero-hours contracts, the gig economy and forced self-employment are rampant, and there - Speech Link
4: Jane Hunt (CON - Loughborough) throughout the covid-19 pandemic, taking steps to protect the earnings of workers through the UK-wide coronavirus - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Negotiating Objectives for a Free Trade Agreement with India - Tue 06 Sep 2022
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town (LAB - Life peer) urged the Government to hold out for a meaningful, comprehensive deal, even if it means missing the self-imposed - Speech Link
2: Lord Hannan of Kingsclere (CON - Life peer) It is the kind that Gandhi used to carry around with him because, in his mind, independence and self-sufficiency - Speech Link
3: Lord Kerr of Kinlochard (CB - Life peer) Mr Modi’s Government have raised no objections to the invasion of Ukraine or the barbaric methods employed - Speech Link
4: Lord McNicol of West Kilbride (LAB - Life peer) It is still not enough, but at least it would be a step.Perhaps most alarming is the self-imposed deadline - Speech Link
5: Viscount Younger of Leckie (CON - Excepted Hereditary) Prior to the coronavirus crisis, between 2009 and 2019, UK services exports to India doubled. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Energy Update - Mon 05 Sep 2022
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mentions:
1: Anna Firth (CON - Southend West) children’s education does not suffer as a result of the energy crisis, as it did as a result of the coronavirus - Speech Link
2: Anne McLaughlin (SNP - Glasgow North East) If he does not think it is fair, will he join my campaign to outlaw so-called self-disconnection? - Speech Link
3: Greg Hands (CON - Chelsea and Fulham) licensing conditions, including an ability-to-pay principle and the obligation on suppliers to identify self-disconnection - Speech Link
4: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) It was a family enterprise that employed some 68 people. - Speech Link


Written Statements
Coronavirus-related Spend - Wed 20 Jul 2022
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mentions:
1: Kwasi Kwarteng (CON - Spelthorne) In addition to the obligation to report on spend under the Industrial Development Act annually, the Coronavirus - Speech Link