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Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Bill

Debate on bills on Tuesday, 24 March 2015, in the House of Commons, led by Jo Swinson. The answering member was Toby Perkins.
Lords amendments 1-33, 63-85, 87-131, 133-135 and 142-193 agreed to, with Commons financial privileges waived in respect of Lords amendments 85, 123 and 133.
Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
594 cc1341-1362 
Session
2014-15
Legislative stage
Lords amendments
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Proceeding contributions
Baroness Laing of Elderslie | 594 c1341 (Link to this contribution)

I must draw the House’s attention to the fact that financial privilege is involved in Lords amend...

Jo Swinson | 594 c1341 (Link to this contribution)

I beg to move, That this House agrees with Lords amendment 34.


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Baroness Laing of Elderslie | 594 c1341 (Link to this contribution)

With this it will be convenient to discuss: Lords amendments 35 to 62, 86, 132 and 136 to 141.

Jo Swinson | 594 cc1341-2 (Link to this contribution)

Part 4 of the Bill will introduce a statutory code and an independent adjudicator to regulate the...

Jim Cunningham | 594 c1342 (Link to this contribution)

What would the penalty be for any breaches?

Jo Swinson | 594 cc1342-3 (Link to this contribution)

The adjudicator will be able to make recommendations so that problems can be put right, and ultim...

Toby Perkins | 594 c1343 (Link to this contribution)

In the event of marketing arrangements which meant that the only place that beers could be purcha...

Jo Swinson | 594 cc1343-5 (Link to this contribution)

The adjudicator could look into whether practices were all fair and whether the code had been pro...

Greg Knight | 594 c1345 (Link to this contribution)

I understand that the provisions on staff secondment require the Secretary of State’s approval. C...

Jo Swinson | 594 cc1345-6 (Link to this contribution)

Clearly, the intention is to make sure that the adjudicator is able to recruit staff with the req...

Toby Perkins | 594 c1346 (Link to this contribution)

I endorse what the Minister says about the need to deal with this matter urgently. Given that urg...

Jo Swinson | 594 cc1346-8 (Link to this contribution)

The hon. Gentleman says that the Opposition have been calling for this throughout this Parliament...

Toby Perkins | 594 cc1348-9 (Link to this contribution)

It is a great pleasure to speak on the amendments proposed by the noble Lords.

On 16 July, ...

Andrew Griffiths | 594 c1349 (Link to this contribution)

The hon. Gentleman mentioned his party’s position on investment. What scale of investment does he...

Toby Perkins | 594 c1349 (Link to this contribution)

That is an excellent question. The whole reason this issue is being placed in secondary legislati...

Matt Hancock | 594 c1349 (Link to this contribution)

For the record, the Conservative party’s position on this issue is exactly the same as that of th...

Toby Perkins | 594 c1349 (Link to this contribution)

Excellent. I am glad that that has been placed on the record. That will give people considerable ...

Toby Perkins | 594 cc1349-1351 (Link to this contribution)

The Minister says from a sedentary position, “Get ready.” We understand that Lynton Crosby has be...

Andrew Griffiths | 594 cc1351-2 (Link to this contribution)

I draw the House’s attention to my chairmanship of the all-party group on beer, and to my entry i...

Greg Mulholland | 594 cc1353-5 (Link to this contribution)

It is a pleasure to speak at the final stage of this important Bill. I shall of course speak abou...

Neil Carmichael | 594 cc1354-6 (Link to this contribution)

I shall not linger long on this matter, although it has been very complicated and at times the de...

Jo Swinson | 594 c1356 (Link to this contribution)

With the leave of the House, I wish to respond briefly to the debate and thank hon. Members for t...

Matt Hancock | 594 c1356 (Link to this contribution)

I beg to move, That this House agrees with Lords amendment 1.

Lindsay Hoyle | 594 c1356 (Link to this contribution)

With this it will be convenient to take Lords amendments 2 to 33, 63 to 85, 87 to 131, 133 to 135...

Matt Hancock | 594 c1357 (Link to this contribution)

With only a few days remaining in this Parliament, the Government continue to work tirelessly to ...

John Howell | 594 c1357 (Link to this contribution)

I very much welcome what the Minister said and I welcome the clause. When I was running a small b...

Matt Hancock | 594 c1357 (Link to this contribution)

I am grateful for that intervention. I, too, have personal experience of poor payment performance...

Toby Perkins | 594 c1358 (Link to this contribution)

I fear that the Minister is rather over-selling the measures he proposes, welcome though they are...

Matt Hancock | 594 cc1358-1360 (Link to this contribution)

There are already sanctions under EU law relating to interest payments, but the transparency meas...

Toby Perkins | 594 cc1360-3 (Link to this contribution)

The Minister questioned whether the amendments will have the support of the Opposition. They will...

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