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• In Swindon, Honda trained up about 170 apprentices over the years, giving young people real access to good, high-skilled
• For a young person in a South Cotswolds village, the barrier to an apprenticeship is often just getting there. Buses are
• The measures in the Budget to help with the cost of living through cuts in energy bills were welcome. The Chancellor als
• The Government’s use of the outdated council tax system to roll out their energy support package has led to an absurd si
• Further to the question that the hon. Member for Eltham and Chislehurst (Clive Efford) has asked, some people and their
• I thank my right hon. and learned Friend for her response and her work on this matter. The most vulnerable families paid
• The Treasury Committee has done an enormous amount of work not only on the household bills situation, but also on the im
• 10. What steps he has taken to help reduce the cost of living.
• At the weekend the Chancellor said that the Budget would provide breathing space for families and working people, so wil
• Does the Minister understand just how devastating the effects of his Government’s spending, taxing and borrowing policie
• As chair of the all-party parliamentary group for ethics and sustainability in fashion, I ask why our military and NHS u
• At my business club in my constituency last week—before the Budget—businesses on the high street, including ones that wi
• This is fantastic news—so many people have campaigned for it over so many years. I thank my colleague Baroness Kramer in
• The Prime Minister and his Cabinet rightly point to Brexit as a major reason for the UK’s doom loop of low economic grow
• The changes to business rates announced in last week’s Budget will provide some much-needed breathing space for many bus
• 7. What fiscal steps he is taking to increase the competitiveness of the refining sector.
• As a YMCA parliamentary patron, I visited the YMCA’s home in Glastonbury, which works alongside Street Foyer to support
• The Chancellor is very well aware of the threat to our economy of Russian cyber and physical attacks, but the UK public
• That was a shockingly complacent response by the Government Minister. The latest Office for Budget Responsibility foreca
• I welcome the fact that a significant number of independent high street businesses across Bexleyheath and Crayford will
• I thank my right hon. Friend for his answer. I welcome last week’s Budget and its efforts to create breathing space for
• While the Budget provides some welcome support for high streets, so many businesses in Tiverton and Minehead tell me tha
• I welcome the Government’s announcement in last week’s Budget of the intention to expand the scope of the CBAM to includ
• 23. What fiscal steps he is taking to support high streets and town centres.
• I congratulate the Minister on her announcement, which will enable over 120,000 young people who lack capacity to access
• Critical to the competitiveness of the refinery sector is the taxation of the companies. I know we have just had the Bud
• Last week, the Chancellor had his chance to get debt under control. Instead, the Office for Budget Responsibility confir
• 9. What fiscal steps he has taken in the autumn Budget 2026 to help support small businesses in the Bexleyheath and Cray
• Small and medium-sized family businesses in the retail sector create jobs on our high streets and keep money circulating
• Borrowing is high and I welcome some of the measures in the Budget, but we need to look at how every pound of taxpayers’
• Can the Minister clarify the extent to which the data centre covenant announced in the Budget will apply in Scotland? Sh
• T5. Real progress was made in the Budget on the former mineworkers’ pensions, and I am very grateful to the Chancellor a
• It is very clear that the Chancellor does not know how to get a grip on borrowing, so let me tell him. The Conservatives
• Although Portsmouth is on the south coast, its legacy of deindustrialisation and privatisation brings us challenges fami
• Economic growth in the north-east of Scotland and our green transition rely on the carbon capture and storage project at
• My constituents and I welcome the Budget measures to support small businesses in Ilford South, including the business ra
• I recently received an email from a publican in my constituency, who said: “I cannot find people willing to work minimu
• 12. What steps he is taking to help deliver economic growth through advanced manufacturing.
• To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the answer by Lord Pitt-Watson on 26 October (HL Deb Col 929), whether they
• To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, by when he plans to establish the new Innovative Defence Finance Taskforce.
• To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 9 October 2026 to Question 32183 on Defence: Finance,
• To ask His Majesty's Government what the total receipts from the Apprenticeship Levy were, what was the total expenditur