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2 July 2026

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Oral questions to the Business and Trade team on the Employment Rights Act 2025, labour‑market policy, regulatory reform, SME conditions, trade support and sector‑specific issues including green transition and UK‑EU trade, with ministers tested on implementation, enforcement capacity and economic impact.

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Business and Trade questions — employment, regulation and growth

34:11

Department for Business and Trade — employment, regulation and growth

34:11

Business and Trade Questions — employment, supply chains and exports

34:11

Employment Rights Act, labour costs and youth jobs

34:11

Opening and initial update on Employment Rights Act 2025

34:11

SMEs’ costs and political challenges around new employment rights

37:14

Employment Rights Act and flexible work — Liberal Democrat concerns

38:54

Q7 & Q16 — Youth jobs guarantee, SEND internships and SME support

59:00

Supply chain resilience and defence industrial base

40:19

UK supply chain resilience, El Niño and Windsor Framework impacts

40:19

Defence SMEs, supply chains and investment uncertainty

42:34

Export support and industrial strategy — distillers, manufacturing and EU trade

45:42

Q3 — Support for distillers and kerosene costs

45:42

Q4 — Advanced manufacturing, Glasgow and automotive exports to US

48:40

Q5 — Increasing trade with Europe and Brexit impacts

52:54

Domestic regulation, sector pressures and SME operating conditions

57:17

Domestic business regulation, youth employment and carers’ rights

57:17

Q6 — ADR fees: impact on small arbitration providers

57:17

Q8 — Youth jobs and clean energy investment in Greater Lincolnshire

01:02:46

Q9 — Review of workplace rights for unpaid carers

01:04:24

Sector pressures — hospitality taxation, jobs and agri‑food trade

01:05:59

Q10 — Tax, VAT and licensing issues for hospitality

01:05:59

Q11 — Hospitality employment trends and youth jobs grant

01:10:59

Q12 — Trade policy, SPS rules and farming profitability

01:13:08

SME operating conditions — late payments, labour costs and investment

01:15:48

Q14 — Commercial Payments Bill and late payment enforcement

01:15:48

Q15 — Employment Rights Act, labour costs and SME concerns

01:17:18

Industrial strategy year one and SME investment concerns

01:18:49

DBT questions — growth, enforcement, trade and skills

01:22:08

Opposition scrutiny — growth, Horizon scandal, workers’ rights and skills

01:22:08

Shadow Minister Baldwin — business confidence and Horizon compensation

01:22:08

Employment Rights Act awareness, oil and gas transition, and automation

01:24:30

Rural SMEs’ cost pressures and widening access to further education

01:26:39

DBT oral questions — enforcement, investment, trade and regulation

01:28:49

Enforcement against illicit retailers, defence drone hub and post office continuity

01:28:49

Office for Investment leadership and inward investment objectives

01:31:46

Imported steel tariffs, specialist exemptions and EPR glass recycling

01:32:47

Topical DBT questions — critical minerals, borders, cyber and unsafe e‑bikes

01:34:26

House business statement and backbench scrutiny requests

01:39:21

Leader of the House — forthcoming business and backbench priorities

01:39:21

Leader’s business statement, defence and public services

01:39:21

Business Statement and national defence, restoration and renewal

01:39:21

Business Statement — legislative agenda and summer recess dates

01:39:21

Defence investment plan, major projects and restoration & renewal

01:41:32

Constituency services, serious crime and welfare administration

01:52:14

Constituency maternity services and small business tax pressures

01:52:14

Grooming gang deportation and police widows’ pensions campaign

01:56:07

Civil service pensions outsourcing and DWP constituency casework access

02:00:35

Local growth, services and community safety

02:03:04

Local growth, devolution, infrastructure and connectivity

02:03:04

Empty shops, community auctions and local growth

02:03:04

Devolution and unitary authorities announcements before recess

02:03:59

Royal Mail NHS barcode performance and Towns Fund delays

02:05:24

9/11 hero commemoration and cancelled East Midlands road schemes

02:07:28

Rural road maintenance, sinkholes and zero‑emission bus policy

02:10:35

Royal Mail governance, executive pay and mobile coverage obligations

02:13:06

Housing, community funding and public safety

02:15:07

Leaseholders under 11m, cladding costs and upcoming leasehold debates

02:15:07

Cultural bids, youth awards and Town of Culture 2026

02:16:18

Sentencing Act 2026 victim communication and nursery safety review

02:18:16

Business Questions — standards, procurement and international issues

02:20:43

Public standards, procurement rules and local economic regulation

02:20:43

Local procurement rules, MPs’ second jobs and sector regulation

02:20:43

Oil and gas job losses and homelessness rules on pets

02:25:49

Backbench concerns — frozen pensions and international crises

02:28:37

Frozen pensions overseas and support for bereaved families in murder case

02:28:37

Russian children’s content, insurance delays and Nigerian abductions

02:31:42

Business Questions — community services, culture and local resilience

02:35:25

Business Questions — community sport, youth provision and local culture

02:35:25

Business Questions — community football, Welsh ALN funding and SEND respite

02:35:25

Business Questions — motorsport, Scouts, choirs and community cohesion

02:38:42

Business Questions — climate resilience, local media and education inequalities

02:42:28

Business Questions — heat mortality, community radio, disability access and Dunfermline city centre

02:42:28

Business Questions — early years development gap and schools overcoming adversity

02:45:38

Historic forced adoption — Prime Minister apology and extended scrutiny

02:48:43

Prime Minister apology and initial party responses

02:48:43

Prime Minister apology and redress commitments

02:48:43

Prime Minister — apology and planned redress

02:48:43

Prime Minister’s national apology on historic forced adoption

02:48:43

Planned redress measures: records, support and NHS recognition

02:57:48

Opposition and Liberal Democrat responses — redress and mental health

03:01:20

Opposition response and questions on redress and support groups

03:01:20

Education Committee chair — monitoring redress and survivor involvement

03:06:16

Liberal Democrat response — mental health pathways and ongoing dialogue

03:11:27

Prime Minister’s Questions — forced adoption apology and survivor support

03:15:31

Survivor testimonies, records access and tailored support

03:15:31

Backbench MPs — survivor experiences, scale, records and cultural change

03:15:31

Backbench testimonies — support for mothers and ending dehumanisation

03:15:31

Northern Ireland lessons, survivor‑led support and records access

03:20:09

Scale of forced adoption, therapeutic support and unmarked graves

03:25:30

Support access — digital inclusion, funding and portal design

03:30:32

Digital inclusion, national advice line and centring women’s voices

03:30:32

Funding reunions, specialist therapy and clinician support

03:34:23

Religious dogma, misogyny and design of the online resource

03:38:32

Forced adoption apology — misogyny, records and survivor support

03:42:04

State misogyny, memorialisation and practical adoption barriers

03:42:04

State misogyny, memorialisation and lessons for modern adoption

03:42:04

Current adoption barriers, Irish homes compensation and medical records

03:45:24

Post‑PM business — forced adoption apology follow‑up and points of order

03:52:15

Forced adoption apology — devolved coordination, child migrants and survivor support

03:52:15

Points of order — ministerial misrepresentation and constituency visit courtesies

04:08:51

Leasehold reform — abuses, regulation and ministerial plans

04:12:17

Procedural context and initial leasehold concerns

04:12:17

House business, NAO appointment and sub judice leasehold context

04:12:17

House business — Controlled Drugs Bill timetabling and NAO chair appointment

04:12:17

Controlled Drugs Bill scheduling and NAO chair appointment motion

04:12:17

PAC endorsement and approval of Michael Jary as NAO chair; sub judice note on leasehold case

04:14:27

Housing Committee chair — key findings and reform priorities

04:16:57

Housing Committee chair — findings on leasehold injustices and ground rent cap

04:16:57

Ground rent transition, judicial review threats and push for faster implementation

04:21:11

Commonhold rollout and regulation of managing agents

04:25:09

Leasehold Bill — retirement abuses and managing agent regulation

04:38:58

Leasehold Bill — retirement abuses, ground rents and commonhold

04:38:58

Robbie Moore MP — retirement leasehold abuses and service charges

04:38:58

Andrew Cooper MP — commonhold readiness, 40‑year ground rent transition and missing agent regulation

04:43:08

Will Forster MP — ‘fleecehold’, FirstPort failures and call for a regulator

04:47:06

Managing agent failures in retirement and leasehold blocks

04:55:01

Constituency retirement schemes — FirstPort and Cognatum failures

04:55:01

Lost reserve funds and cross‑party calls for managing agent regulation

04:59:09

Danny Beales MP — case for a managing agents regulator

05:05:15

Leasehold abuses and regulatory failures

05:09:06

Systemic leasehold and estate management abuses

05:09:06

Escalating abuses, frozen client accounts and unadopted estates

05:09:06

Siân Berry MP — frozen client accounts and service charge protections

05:09:06

Constituency abuses and FirstPort — demand for statutory regulation

05:12:28

Peter Lamb MP — unadopted estates and ‘turning off the tap’

05:17:21

Constituency leasehold abuses — Sheffield and Luton

05:21:19

Abtisam Mohamed MP — Sheffield leaseholders and enforcement powers

05:21:19

Rachel Hopkins MP — constituency cases and backing for managing agent regulator

05:24:48

Fleecehold and unfinished freehold estates — systemic failures

05:28:42

Justin Madders MP — fleecehold estates, debt escalation and estate adoption reform

05:28:42

Julie Minns MP — unfinished freehold estates and need for stronger regulation

05:33:47

Leasehold reform — right to manage and managing agents

05:37:17

Empowering leaseholders — right to manage and Law Commission reforms

05:37:17

John Slinger MP — FirstPort overcharging, Clarion example and right to manage thresholds

05:37:17

Barry Gardiner MP — Law Commission reforms and right to manage thresholds

05:42:32

MPs’ evidence on leasehold and managing agents

05:46:34

Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP — leasehold complexity and strong regulator for managing agents

05:46:34

Reading constituency cases — mismanagement, commonhold savings and enforcement gaps

05:50:23

Apsana Begum MP — high‑rise conditions, soaring service charges and demand for a regulator

05:54:01

Sheffield MP — forfeiture, house leaseholds and first refusal right

05:57:29

Private estates and leasehold abuses — MP cases and ministerial reply

06:01:26

Estate management abuses and fleecehold impacts

06:01:26

Estate management abuses and fleecehold case studies

06:01:26

Jonathan Brash MP — estate management abuses and call for council adoption

06:01:26

Constituency case studies — rising service charges, fleecehold estates and retirement schemes

06:46:24

Leasehold reform — backbench concerns and ministerial response

06:52:32

Backbench and Opposition priorities on leasehold reform

06:52:32

Gideon Amos MP — Liberal Democrat demands on commonhold, RTM and regulation

06:52:32

Opposition response — service charges, ground rent cap and managing agent regulation

06:57:36

Leasehold and commonhold reform — ministerial response and motion agreed

07:07:05

Minister Pennycook — government leasehold reform plans and regulator options

07:07:05

Leasehold reform debate concluded — motion agreed

07:15:28

House of Commons debates: education funding and FCDO policing support

07:16:06

Commons debate — further education access and funding

07:16:06

Commons debate on FE access, funding and reform

07:16:06

Constituency evidence on FE access, funding and transport

07:16:06

Access to further education — Runcorn skills and apprenticeship hub proposal

07:16:06

Stafford and Gorton contributions — FE funding model and apprenticeship access

07:25:38

Cornwall FE colleges, mining academy and transport barriers

07:29:41

Harrogate College rebuild, adult skills funding and SEND transport

07:32:29

Systemic FE issues — qualifications, capital, ‘cold spots’

07:34:32

V‑levels timetable, sixth form capital gaps and buses to colleges

07:34:32

Cheshire post‑16 review fallout and FE ‘cold spots’

07:36:33

Commons debate — FE funding, youth offer and apprenticeships

07:38:29

Liberal Democrat spokesperson — FE funding reforms and youth transport

07:38:29

Opposition response — apprenticeships access and Labour new deal

07:43:56

Minister MacAlister — FE funding uplift, youth guarantee and apprenticeships

07:48:15

Minister’s constituency responses, college funding mechanics and debate closure

07:52:12

Lebanon policing contract — MP scrutiny and ministerial defence

07:59:22

Lebanon policing contract — MP challenge and ministerial response

07:59:22

Tice MP — challenge to Lebanon police contract and defence of scrutiny

07:59:22

Adjournment debate opened — Lincolnshire police vs Lebanese funding

07:59:22

Siren Associates’ contracts, related companies and fee flows

08:02:20

Lebanon security context, Hezbollah links and CSSF scrutiny

08:06:18

Tweets, defamation writ and alleged veiled threat to MP

08:07:58

Minister Falconer — funding clarification and justification of Lebanon programme

08:15:45

Minister Falconer — Lincolnshire police funding uplift and defence of Lebanon contract

08:15:45

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House of Commons

2 July 2026

Thu, 2 Jul 2026 Actual start 09:00 House of Commons

34:10 - 34:15

Speaker 2

Order, order. We start with questions to the Secretary of State for Business and Trade. Katrina Murray.

34:15 - 34:17

Speaker 1

Question number one, Mr. Speaker.

34:17 - 34:18

Minister.

34:18 - 34:20

Speaker 3

Good morning, Mr. Speaker.

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