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Small Businesses

Secondary information

Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

481 c305-17 

Session

2007-08

Department

Treasury

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

Proceeding contributions

Alan Duncan | 481 c307-8 (Link to this contribution) The Minister's statement is an unprecedented occasion, representing an unacceptable mixture of farce...

Ian Pearson | 481 c308-9 (Link to this contribution) I start by thanking the hon. Gentleman for his courteous welcome to me at the Dispatch Box. What we...

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Ian Pearson | 481 c305-7 (Link to this contribution) With permission, Mr. Speaker, I shall now make a statement on the latest Government measures to help...

Viscount Thurso | 481 c309-10 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Minister for having sent me a copy of his statement in advance—although there i...

Ian Pearson | 481 c310-1 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for his comments, particularly his welcome for the Government's attempt t...

David Clelland | 481 c309 (Link to this contribution) The Chancellor of the Exchequer is considering bringing forward capital works in order to stimulate ...

Ian Pearson | 481 c309 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right to point out that a number of worthwhile infrastructure projects could be br...

David Hamilton | 481 c311 (Link to this contribution) On Monday, I met the chamber of commerce chief executive, who is also chief executive of the enterpr...

Ian Pearson | 481 c314 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend has made some good points. We certainly want to encourage local authorities to pay pr...

Anne Snelgrove | 481 c314 (Link to this contribution) Last year, Swindon and Bristol jointly topped the league for the biggest growth in the number of sma...

Ian Pearson | 481 c315 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for his opening remarks. As somebody who used to run a small business, I ...

Rob Wilson | 481 c314-5 (Link to this contribution) I, too, congratulate the Minister on his new post. Does he agree that SMEs need proper and detailed ...

Ian Pearson | 481 c315 (Link to this contribution) It is important that we have a properly effective small firms loan guarantee scheme that is actively...

David Kidney | 481 c315 (Link to this contribution) The Government cannot make banks lend money to small businesses under the small firms loan guarantee...

Ian Pearson | 481 c315 (Link to this contribution) I cannot guarantee to do that at this point in time, but let me take that request away and see wheth...

Robert Smith | 481 c315 (Link to this contribution) It is all too timely that we are recognising the real consequences for real people of this recession...

Ian Pearson | 481 c315-6 (Link to this contribution) The situation involving the Icelandic banks is complicated, and people's circumstances depend on whe...

Alison Seabeck | 481 c315 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the package my hon. Friend has announced, but he will be aware that many small businesses ...

Anne Main | 481 c316 (Link to this contribution) For about eight to 10 days now, I have been asking the Government one simple question, and I would l...

Ian Pearson | 481 c316 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is right that cash flow is one of the first priorities for businesses during econ...

Adrian Sanders | 481 c316 (Link to this contribution) The Government are right to focus on cash flow and improving credit, but what more can be done to he...

Ian Pearson | 481 c316 (Link to this contribution) RDAs are important economic agents in their regional and local economies, and it is right that the G...

Speaker | 481 c317 (Link to this contribution) Order. We must move on.

Ian Pearson | 481 c317 (Link to this contribution) That matter, which is clearly one for the Department for Work and Pensions, does not relate to the s...

Peter Luff | 481 c311 (Link to this contribution) I intend no criticism of the Minister, who is an able and decent man, when I say that he has said no...

Ian Pearson | 481 c311 (Link to this contribution) As the House will be aware, enterprise policy is a devolved matter, so today's statement applies onl...

Ian Pearson | 481 c312 (Link to this contribution) What I can tell the hon. Gentleman is that, in my view, the measures we have announced can help to m...

Brian Binley | 481 c312 (Link to this contribution) The Minister says that the Government are keen to do all that they can to help small business, yet t...

Ian Pearson | 481 c312-3 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is a doughty champion of rural areas, and he is right to raise the issue of broadband...

Eddie McGrady | 481 c311-2 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the Minister's statement and his commitment to SMEs, on which the economy and community of...

Ian Pearson | 481 c311 (Link to this contribution) I acknowledge the hon. Gentleman's points. As Chair of the Select Committee on Business, Enterprise ...

Ian Pearson | 481 c312 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend raises a number of points, most of which are the responsibility of the Northern Irela...

Speaker | 481 c312 (Link to this contribution) Order. I am always interested to hear the hon. Gentleman's questions, and I am, as he knows, very fo...

Harry Cohen | 481 c313 (Link to this contribution) The Prime Minister has said that, at the European summit, he put pressure on the European Investment...

Ian Pearson | 481 c313 (Link to this contribution) We all want to see responsible lending, but, as I said earlier, the banks that have taken advantage ...

Adam Price | 481 c313 (Link to this contribution) The Minister says that he expects the rest of the banking sector to follow the lead of the recapital...

John Baron | 481 c314 (Link to this contribution) May I return the Minister to the issue of small business rate relief? Many businesses across south E...

Ian Pearson | 481 c314 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right to point out that the Opposition have form in this regard. The fact that the...

Nigel Griffiths | 481 c314 (Link to this contribution) Will my hon. Friend avoid returning to the woeful Conservative record on small businesses, which exp...

Ian Pearson | 481 c313-4 (Link to this contribution) I also said earlier that conditions had been applied to the banks involved in the recapitalisation s...

Gregory Campbell | 481 c313 (Link to this contribution) The Minister has outlined a number of measures which we hope will go some small way towards assistin...

Ian Pearson | 481 c313 (Link to this contribution) As I said earlier, the banks have expressed an initial interest in making £1 billion available to sm...

Ian Pearson | 481 c314 (Link to this contribution) I understand that there is a two-page form for the claiming of small business rate relief, and that ...

Lord Bellingham | 481 c316-7 (Link to this contribution) Does the Economic Secretary agree that sub-post offices are among the most important family-run busi...

Paddy Tipping | 481 c312 (Link to this contribution) Small businesses are vital to the health of the rural economy. Will the Minister continue to work to...

Subjects

Debts Bank services Banks Financial markets Payments Loans Lloyds TSB Small businesses HBOS Royal Bank of Scotland

Contains statistics

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