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1: Lord Offord of Garvel (Con - Life peer) Instead, a business will benefit from this exclusion so long as it meets the “micro-entity” thresholds - Speech Link
2: None is a “micro-entity”, which is assessed on the basis of the business’ turnover, balance sheet and number - Speech Link
3: None 26, at end insert— “(3A) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1), a business is a micro-entity in each - Speech Link
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1: Priti Patel (Con - Witham) Over 80% of my constituents work in self-employed small and medium-sized firms. - Speech Link
2: John Redwood (Con - Wokingham) innovation, and on small companies and the self-employed.I am delighted that the self-employed have - Speech Link
3: Priti Patel (Con - Witham) a new generation of entrepreneurs and small business leaders to come in and really help to grow the - Speech Link
4: Anna Firth (Con - Southend West) are small or medium-sized—in fact, the vast majority are micro. - Speech Link
5: John Redwood (Con - Wokingham) insurance fund—there are only residual, small amounts left—and now come out of general taxation and - Speech Link
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1: Baroness Vere of Norbiton (Con - Life peer) support from specialised business support organisations. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Rock (Con - Life peer) The campaign looks at how to build a resilient and gender-diverse business, how to recruit and retain - Speech Link
3: Lord Bishop of Southwark (Bshp - Bishops) Their activities in small and micro-enterprises are hampered, according to the International Labour Organization - Speech Link
4: Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb (Green - Life peer) small changes in rainfall or soil quality. - Speech Link
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1: Kemi Badenoch (Con - Saffron Walden) predictability for business engaging in digital trade;re-committing to find a solution to restore the - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Paul Howell (Con - Sedgefield) I bring my life experience and business background, and I react to issues that arise, particularly those - Speech Link
2: Paul Howell (Con - Sedgefield) As Julie Brett, deputy director of innovation and business change at His Majesty’s Prison and Probation - Speech Link
3: Edward Argar (Con - Charnwood) This is particularly important as some phones, known as micro-mobiles, are no bigger than a matchbox. - Speech Link
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1: Baroness Lane-Fox of Soho (XB - Life peer) I was at a round table in Doncaster with a bunch of businesses—big and small, all kinds of things. - Speech Link
2: Lord Griffiths of Burry Port (Lab - Life peer) on to one government department after another—education, business, communications and so on. - Speech Link
3: Viscount Camrose (Con - Excepted Hereditary) through digital apprenticeships and by increasing the amount of business-led upskilling.I thank the - Speech Link
4: Baroness Stowell of Beeston (Con - Life peer) On the micro level, I agree with some of what the noble Lord, Lord Young said. - Speech Link
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1: Jamie Stone (LD - Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross) He can only afford two small electric heaters. - Speech Link
2: Marco Longhi (Con - Dudley North) As an engineer, I know that “micro” means something extremely small. It is tiny. - Speech Link
3: Kemi Badenoch (Con - Saffron Walden) Female-led businesses often face particular challenges, and in the Department for Business and Trade - Speech Link
4: Rishi Sunak (Con - Richmond (Yorks)) will know that our £150 million community ownership fund is there specifically to help to safeguard small - Speech Link
5: Rishi Sunak (Con - Richmond (Yorks)) Those plans are in stark contrast to those of the Labour party, which has caved in to big business and - Speech Link
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1: Lord Liddle (Lab - Life peer) We have been approached by people in the business of delivery robots that use pavements, and there is - Speech Link
2: Lord Holmes of Richmond (Con - Life peer) This could be structured in such a way that disabled people would not need to be consulted at the micro - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Jones of Whitchurch (Lab - Life peer) They damage the livelihoods of many small traders—restaurants and hotels, for example—when their business - Speech Link
2: Lord Mott (Con - Life peer) To me, this appears to be an unfair technicality impacting these businesses; many small micro-businesses - Speech Link
3: Lord Offord of Garvel (Con - Life peer) That is because Section 33 of the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act sets out only broad criteria - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Bragg (Lab - Life peer) contributed billions of pounds of business activity and exports, again and again these profits drain - Speech Link
2: Lord Vaizey of Didcot (Con - Life peer) thank business—and yes, thank BP for its grant to the British Museum. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Garden of Frognal (LD - Life peer) It is a cut-throat business, severely damaged by Brexit and the pandemic. - Speech Link
4: Lord Aberdare (XB - Excepted Hereditary) business model for grass-roots music venues. - Speech Link
5: Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay (Con - Life peer) That unenviable job is done by the Arts Council, which does the micro while the Government do the macro - Speech Link