James Cleverly - Contributions

James Cleverly

Conservative
Commons, Braintree (2015 - present)

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Engagements

Commons Chamber on 18 October 201718/10/2017

Earlier this year, I opened a state-of-the-art manufacturing training facility at Braintree’s further education college. On Friday, I opened a new training centre for Contracts Support Services, a family-run business. Now that unemployment is at a record...

Nuclear Safeguards Bill

Commons Chamber on 16 October 201716/10/2017

No, I will not give way, because a number of Members still wish to speak. I apologise; I would normally give way, but I am about to conclude because I know we are short of time. The Bill will give the Office for Nuclear Regulation additional powers. I...

Nuclear Safeguards Bill

Commons Chamber on 16 October 201716/10/2017

I rise to support the Bill, unsurprisingly, because as colleagues well know, the decision to leave the European Union also meant, by extension, a decision to leave Euratom. This issue has been debated on the Floor of the House, but that is the position o...

Nuclear Safeguards Bill

Commons Chamber on 16 October 201716/10/2017

I chose not to bring this up when the Opposition Front-Bench spokesman was speaking, but the Bill has nothing to do with nuclear safety. It is about nuclear safeguarding. The words are similar, but they have a fundamentally different meaning.

Nuclear Safeguards Bill

Commons Chamber on 16 October 201716/10/2017

Those were the days.

Topical Questions

Commons Chamber on 12 October 201712/10/2017

T4. The all-party parliamentary group on trade out of poverty, which I chair, is initiating an investigation into the role that the Commonwealth can play to help developing nations to trade out of poverty. We hope that that agenda will be taken up at t...

Finance Bill

Commons Chamber on 11 October 201711/10/2017

Although, as I am reminded, there is an NI implication. Again, I have heard a number of anecdotes about conversations with departing employees from not the most honourable of companies in which things have been said such as, “If this complaint were to g...

Finance Bill

Commons Chamber on 11 October 201711/10/2017

I thank my hon. Friend for that intervention. There is little direct financial benefit to the company—

Finance Bill

Commons Chamber on 11 October 201711/10/2017

I thank the hon. Lady for informing me of that. I am more than happy to look in more detail at that definition, because I do not have it at my fingertips, but putting it in the Bill would present to unscrupulous employers something that looks like an inv...

Finance Bill

Commons Chamber on 11 October 201711/10/2017

The hon. Gentleman will be unsurprised to hear that I do not agree with him. The Bill is where the proposal is and the passage of the Bill has been timetabled in the way that it has. The idea that we delay changing the tax treatments of severance payment...

Finance Bill

Commons Chamber on 11 October 201711/10/2017

I am happy to take interventions, but I have never been a particularly good lip reader, so the Opposition will have to help me out on that one. The Opposition suggested that somehow there would be some terrible Government sleight of hand to try to did...

Finance Bill

Commons Chamber on 11 October 201711/10/2017

Yes, but at the moment it is £30,000, and that is what it says here—[Interruption.]

Finance Bill

Commons Chamber on 11 October 201711/10/2017

Above the £30,000 threshold, there are tax treatments. Through the Bill, the Government are seeking to make the treatment of the figure above £30,000 most important and straightforward—[Interruption.] I absolutely welcome that.

Finance Bill

Commons Chamber on 11 October 201711/10/2017

My hon. Friend is absolutely right. I will respond to her point in a few moments, but it is a very important one and we must not overlook it. We have had a jobs boom over the past few years, in stark contrast to many other developed economies around t...

Finance Bill

Commons Chamber on 11 October 201711/10/2017

“The narrative”—those were the word used by the Opposition Front-Bench spokesman in response to the Minister. We should remind ourselves that the narrative is that we are discussing employment-related tax treatments against a backdrop of a significant in...

Topical Questions

Commons Chamber on 11 October 201711/10/2017

The vast majority of private sector employment in my constituency of Braintree is in small to medium-sized enterprises. What steps are the Government taking to make it easier for SMEs to bid for and successfully win Government contracts?

Topical Questions

Commons Chamber on 11 October 201711/10/2017

T1. If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities.

UK Plans for Leaving the EU

Commons Chamber on 9 October 201709/10/2017

I am sure that Members on both sides will confirm that listening to senior Danish politicians is a very good idea. Would my right hon. Friend recommend that the leaders of the other 27 EU countries listen to the wise counsel of the Danish Foreign Ministe...

Monarch Airlines

Commons Chamber on 9 October 201709/10/2017

Although the distance between Stansted, my local regional airport, and Luton, which is Monarch’s home airport, is relatively small, some people will be displaced much further afield. What plans has the Department put in place to ensure that those who are...

Business of the House

Commons Chamber on 14 September 201714/09/2017

The number of people claiming out-of-work benefits in my constituency is now 67% lower than it was in 2010, but that brings a different challenge: several employers, particularly high-tech manufacturing employers, are struggling to fill vacancies. May we...

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