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Lords Chamber
Covid-19: Businesses and the Private Sector - Thu 21 May 2020
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mentions:
1: Baroness Noakes (CON - Life peer) Growth and jobs come from new businesses and new investments in products and markets. - Speech Link
2: Lord Hunt of Wirral (CON - Life peer) between private and public, and stranger and stranger, suddenly no longer mean so much. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Redfern (CON - Life peer) Textile factories have switched production from curtains and duvets to hand sanitisers, and clothing - Speech Link
4: Lord Hussain (LDEM - Life peer) and economic and human loss, they often give a society a sense of unity and sympathy. - Speech Link
5: Lord Callanan (CON - Life peer) As mentioned by the noble Lord, Lord Dobbs, our leading world fashion houses have gone from luxury fashion - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Budget Resolutions - Thu 12 Mar 2020
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mentions:
1: James Grundy (CON - Leigh) textile manufacturing. - Speech Link
2: John Hayes (CON - South Holland and The Deepings) fashion our society. - Speech Link
3: Richard Thomson (SNP - Gordon) pointed out, the OBR’s outlook is predicated on the assumption that the UK will move in an orderly fashion - Speech Link
4: Theo Clarke (CON - Stafford) schools and police, and I welcome the freezing of beer and fuel duty. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Gujarati Community in the UK - Wed 30 Oct 2019
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Bob Blackman (CON - Harrow East) It is a major population centre and, of course, among the most crucial textile hubs in India.Figures - Speech Link
2: Bob Blackman (CON - Harrow East) They want their children to be professionals and to go on and succeed in life—and, in the main, they - Speech Link
3: Roberta Blackman-Woods (LAB - City of Durham) they settled in a number of places of opportunity in the UK: Leicester, Coventry—the midlands—northern textile - Speech Link
4: Luke Hall (CON - Thornbury and Yate) The Gujarati community has helped to transform our social lives and our community through fashion, music - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Queen’s Speech - Wed 16 Oct 2019
Department for Exiting the European Union

Mentions:
1: Lord Campbell of Pittenweem (LDEM - Life peer) They concentrated and drew on their extensive and much-valued experience from the Foreign Office and - Speech Link
2: Lord Alderdice (LDEM - Life peer) And it is not just India and Pakistan; it is Saudi Arabia and Iran, the situation with North Korea—and - Speech Link
3: Lord Judd (LAB - Life peer) There are also the thematic and wider issues of anti-Semitism and Islamophobia, and racial and religious - Speech Link
4: Earl of Sandwich (CB - Excepted Hereditary) The FCO—not DfID—is backing an extensive gender equality programme involving major textile companies - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 25 Jul 2019
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Mary Creagh (LAB - Wakefield) What plans the Government have to reduce the (a) environmental and (b) social impact of fast fashion. - Speech Link
2: Theresa Villiers (CON - Chipping Barnet) products; consult on an extended producer responsibility scheme; and support innovation in textile recycling - Speech Link
3: Mary Creagh (LAB - Wakefield) It may be bikini weather outside, but when bikinis are being sold for £1 on fast fashion websites, it - Speech Link
4: Jeremy Lefroy (CON - Stafford) Does the Secretary of State agree with me that fashion provides very important livelihoods for people - Speech Link
5: Baroness Hayman of Ullock (LAB - Life peer) As we have heard, fast fashion has a negative impact on our environment. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Textiles and Clothing Sectors: Environmental Sustainability - Mon 22 Jul 2019
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Lord Gardiner of Kimble (Non-affiliated - Life peer) Recently we launched a £4.7 million grant scheme to support innovation in plastic and textile recycling - Speech Link
2: Baroness Jones of Whitchurch (LAB - Life peer) longer, and why do they not make textile producers pay for the environmental cost of materials that - Speech Link
3: Baroness Benjamin (LDEM - Life peer) Should the Government not encourage the fashion industry, both retailers and customers, to invest in - Speech Link
4: Baroness McIntosh of Hudnall (LAB - Life peer) President—a “fashion pact”, which is currently engaging high-end retailers and brands to change their - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Cat and Dog Fur (Control of Import, Export and Placing on the Market) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 - Tue 26 Mar 2019
Department for International Trade

Mentions:
1: Baroness Fairhead (Non-affiliated - Life peer) the ways in which animals with fur, and indeed other creatures, are protected. - Speech Link
2: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LDEM - Life peer) I know through my links with the textile and fashion industry in Scotland and across the UK that, regrettably - Speech Link
3: Lord Stevenson of Balmacara (LAB - Life peer) My Lords, the Minister brought forward a well-argued and brief case, and there is no need for us to go - Speech Link
4: Baroness Fairhead (Non-affiliated - Life peer) As the noble Lord said, the derogation is for education and taxidermy. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Fashion Industry - Thu 31 Jan 2019
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Lord Vaizey of Didcot (CON - Life peer) Members should work with her and fashion stakeholders to give British fashion a fantastic competitive - Speech Link
2: Mary Creagh (LAB - Wakefield) Areas such as my own in West Yorkshire have a long and proud tradition of textile manufacturing, weaving - Speech Link
3: Lisa Cameron (SNP - East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow) and child refugees working in a lot of the fashion and textile industry. - Speech Link
4: Mims Davies (CON - Mid Sussex) Member for Wakefield (Mary Creagh) on the all-party parliamentary group on textile and fashion. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Future Immigration - Wed 19 Dec 2018
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Diane Abbott (LAB - Hackney North and Stoke Newington) Then there will be an urgent need to fashion a new and, we hope, fairer immigration system, but the important - Speech Link
2: Lisa Cameron (SNP - East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow) The UK fashion and textile industry contributes £32 billion to the economy but it thrives on a global - Speech Link
3: Sajid Javid (CON - Bromsgrove) Lady is right to raise the importance of the fashion and textile industry and more generally our creative - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Fisheries Bill (First sitting)
Committee Debate: 1st sitting: House of Commons - Tue 04 Dec 2018
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: George Eustice (CON - Camborne and Redruth) Those kinds of distortion have been part and parcel of relative stability and equal access, and they - Speech Link
2: Bill Grant (CON - Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock) We need to be able to address those in an agile, very prompt fashion, and the Bill contains those delegated - Speech Link
3: Luke Pollard (LAB - Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport) This is an issue in the textile industry and others; it is not restricted to the food industry. - Speech Link
4: George Eustice (CON - Camborne and Redruth) and natural variants. - Speech Link