Shadow Secretary of State for Business and Trade
ConservativeMP for Arundel and South Downs
“Thank you very much, Madam Deputy Speaker. And can I welcome the moratorium, the saving potentially, of West Sussex in response to my opposition, but that of thousands of residents across West Sussex who did not want our historic county cle…”
“Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. I am grateful to their lordships for their work on this bill, and we support the amendments before the House. Let me be plain from the outset. Our objection was never has been, never been to steelmaking, nor…”
“Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker, and I thank the Minister for advance sight of his statement. We conservatives warmly welcome this excellent agreement and congratulate the ministers and officials that delivered it. I was I was pleased as mi…”
“Today, we Conservatives have launched a campaign to save the summer job. Employment rights do not help young people if they cannot get a first experience of work, and they are trapped in a Catch-22 situation of needing experience to get wor…”
“I thank the Minister for advance sight of his statement. We welcome the partial U-turns that have been announced, the engagement there has been and the reflection, even at this very late hour, that the original proposals from the Government…”
“I rise to present a petition from residents in my constituency of Arundel and South Downs in West Sussex. Hundreds of signatures have been gathered from local residents who see at first hand what feels like a constant attack on our countrys…”
“(Urgent Question): To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade if he will make a statement on steel tariffs.…”
“I beg to move an amendment, to leave out from “That” to the end of the Question and add: “this House declines to give a Second Reading to the Steel Industry (Nationalisation) Bill because it believes that politicians should not be running b…”
“Thank you, Mr Speaker, for your dispensation to speak on behalf of my constituents. Not once in six years in this House have my constituents written to me saying that we need to cleave West Sussex in two, with two educational catchment area…”
“On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. I wrote to the Chancellor on behalf of a constituent on 10 December last year; I followed that up on 6 January and 20 January, but on each occasion I received no substantive reply. It was only when…”
“I am delighted to see not just the excellent Minister for Trade, but the Secretary of State. [ Interruption. ] I did; just bank the win. I read that the Secretary of State is being earmarked as a caretaker Prime Minister, so we are pleased …”
“The Minister has just heard from across the House continuing pleas to support the hospitality industry. It is always a good day when the Government U-turn and provide more support for pubs, so we welcome that. However, unless the Minister c…”
“May I start by echoing the Deputy Prime Minister’s comments about Holocaust Memorial Day? We must never forget. May I also associate the Opposition with the condolences expressed by the Deputy Prime Minister to the family of Captain Philip …”
“A very independent source!…”
“The concerns that we Conservatives have with the Bill have long been known, and I accept that we have debated them at length. I will not repeat them all today, because we are not here to debate the whole Bill, just the message sent to us fr…”
“Five Lib Dem Lords a-leaping. That is all it took for the Liberal Democrat party to throw every British business under the bus and expose them to the unimaginable liability of infinite tribunal payouts. It is hard to think of a more anti-gr…”
“Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. It is always a pleasure to see you in the Chair. We have heard from Members from across the House who understand a fundamental truth: that the hospitality sector is the cornerstone not only of our economy bu…”
“Two weeks ago, the Chancellor stood at the Dispatch Box and delivered a Budget that contained not a single measure to support growth. Today, in moving the motion to disagree, the Minister has signed the warrant for a war on jobs. She is at …”
“No place is more inappropriate for a 25-hectare solar farm than the nature-rich farmland in Loxwood and Wisborough Green. One hundred and seventy-four residents and four separate parish councils have objected to the proposal. Solar on this …”
“Act in haste, repent at leisure: never has that been wiser advice than in respect of this Bill. It is a rushed Bill that was half-baked when it was introduced, and has got worse since. It has failed every test of scrutiny, from the Lords De…”
“I beg to move, That this House calls on the Government to support high streets by cutting public expenditure to facilitate the abolition of business rates for thousands of retail, hospitality and leisure premises on the high street; and fur…”
“I welcome the new Secretary of State to his place, and congratulate him as well as the honourable Members for Halifax (Kate Dearden) and for Rhondda and Ogmore (Chris Bryant) on their appointments. His is a vital role in Government, and it …”
“I beg to move, That this House regrets the combination of catastrophic choices made by the Government causing the closure, downsizing and lack of hiring by pubs, restaurants, hotels and hospitality businesses across the United Kingdom, with…”
“I thank the Secretary of State for advance sight of his statement. It is always a good day when we can talk about our wonderful and innovative British businesses, but, sad to say, this strategy has taken the best part of 12 months to appear…”
“Let me place on record my thanks to my honourable Friend the Member for West Worcestershire (Dame Harriett Baldwin), my right honourable Friend the Member for Basildon and Billericay (Mr Holden) and my honourable Friends the Members for Bog…”
“I beg to move, That this House regrets that unemployment is rising and causing misery for young people in particular, that this Government has displayed a negligible understanding of business and that investors and entrepreneurs are being d…”
“We have had a strong debate this afternoon, with many contributions on both sides. I thank so many of my honourable and right honourable Friends, including my honourable Friends the Members for East Wiltshire (Danny Kruger) and for Beaconsf…”
“Thank you for ensuring that the House had the opportunity to hear this statement today, Mr Speaker. Free trade betters us all. It has lifted billions from poverty and has made us the country we are today, and the country that had the abilit…”
“In a grave and exceptionally rare step, five major business groups, including the Confederation of British Industry, Make UK, the Institute of Directors, and the Federation of Small Businesses, have all written to condemn the Employment Rig…”
“I thank the Minister for advance sight of her statement, and I join her in thanking the Scunthorpe workers for their efforts over the last few weeks. We are here once again because the Government had no plan—they failed to prepare, they bun…”
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