All 1 John Redwood contributions to the Subsidy Control Act 2022

Read Bill Ministerial Extracts

Wed 20th Apr 2022
Subsidy Control Bill
Commons Chamber

Consideration of Lords amendments & Consideration of Lords amendments

Subsidy Control Bill

John Redwood Excerpts
Consideration of Lords amendments
Wednesday 20th April 2022

(2 years, 6 months ago)

Commons Chamber
Read Full debate Subsidy Control Act 2022 Read Hansard Text Read Debate Ministerial Extracts Amendment Paper: Commons Consideration of Lords Amendments as at 20 April 2022 - (20 Apr 2022)
Paul Scully Portrait Paul Scully
- Hansard - - - Excerpts

I thank the hon. Lady for her intervention. This is what I mean about using other areas of law; other areas testing the value of the use of public money will be better suited for addressing exactly those points, but I very much take the one she makes.

John Redwood Portrait John Redwood (Wokingham) (Con)
- Hansard - -

Would it not in future be possible for the Government, when offering a subsidy to companies, to specify that they need to meet certain labour standards so that the subsidies regime would apply?