Affiliation
House: Commons
Constituency: Hove and Portslade
Status: Current member
Secretary of State for Business and Trade
Affiliation
House: Commons
Constituency: Hove and Portslade
Status: Current member
Latest Activity
Sitting day: 2026-04-16
Activity total: 18
Contributions: 18
Votes recorded: 0
Current Offices
President of the Board of Trade
Parliamentary post
President of the Board of Trade
Government post
Secretary of State for Business and Trade
Parliamentary post
Secretary of State for Business and Trade
Government post
Recent Votes
Recent recorded divisions
Victims and Courts Bill: motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 6
Commons - 2026-03-25T16:00:00+00:00
Victims and Courts Bill: motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 5
Commons - 2026-03-25T15:48:00+00:00
Victims and Courts Bill: motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 4
Commons - 2026-03-25T15:37:00+00:00
Victims and Courts Bill: motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 3
Commons - 2026-03-25T15:26:00+00:00
Victims and Courts Bill: motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 2
Commons - 2026-03-25T15:15:00+00:00
Victims and Courts Bill: motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 1
Commons - 2026-03-25T15:01:00+00:00
Opposition Day Motion: Defence
Commons - 2026-03-24T19:01:00+00:00
Opposition Day Motion: Oil and Gas
Commons - 2026-03-24T16:00:00+00:00
Recent Participation
Recent speeches in the feed
British Industrial Competitiveness Scheme
2026-04-16 · 13:40I am grateful to my hon. Friend for getting the Lea Valley Growers on the record, and I am keen to meet him to hear more about it.
British Industrial Competitiveness Scheme
2026-04-16 · 13:19I am grateful for my hon. Friend’s thoughtful words. I can assure her that the ceramics sector and the subsectors she mentions are in my mind. I said in my statement that the Chan…
British Industrial Competitiveness Scheme
2026-04-16 · 13:19I thank my hon. Friend for his passionate intervention. I understand the pressing needs and am fully aware of the issues facing Denby, which is partly, I believe, in his constitue…
British Industrial Competitiveness Scheme
2026-04-16 · 13:19The scheme we have designed is aimed at manufacturing. The figure the hon. Member quotes is for all businesses in the UK, whereas this is one scheme aimed at competitiveness withi…
British Industrial Competitiveness Scheme
2026-04-16 · 13:19I am thankful for the right hon. Member’s acknowledgment of the work we are doing to invest in Wales—not only the small modular reactor, which we are already starting to construct…
British Industrial Competitiveness Scheme
2026-04-16 · 13:19I am grateful to the shadowy Business Minister for his greatest hits performance for the House today. He says that supporting 10,000 businesses is nothing. I can tell him that it…
British Industrial Competitiveness Scheme
2026-04-16 · 13:19I am extremely grateful for my hon. Friend’s representations and reflections. I can assure her that the BIC scheme is being calculated on the electricity intensity threshold. It i…
British Industrial Competitiveness Scheme
2026-04-16 · 13:13I could have listened to the hon. Lady for much longer, because she is listing important areas across the sector. I am very aware of the challenges and opportunities in an economy…
British Industrial Competitiveness Scheme
2026-04-16 · 13:10I am grateful to my hon. Friend for his passionate intervention. I came into Parliament 10 years ago, and he came here just a short time afterwards. He has been raising these issu…
British Industrial Competitiveness Scheme
2026-04-16 · 13:05I thank the hon. Gentleman for his support for the scheme. I know it is qualified support, but where that qualified support exists, I am grateful for it. Let us be very clear abou…
British Industrial Competitiveness Scheme
2026-04-16 · 12:03My hon. Friend mentioned palaces—is he living in a palace, I wonder? Given the success he has outlined in his career in manufacturing, who knows? I can assure him that manufacture…
British Industrial Competitiveness Scheme
2026-04-16 · 12:03I am highly aware of my hon. Friend’s advocacy for those sectors; she is a true credit to them. The BIC scheme is about competitiveness. It has been designed in co-operation and p…