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Liam Byrne MP
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Liam Byrne MP
@liambyrnemp
🌹MP for Hodge Hill & Solihull North | Chair, House of Commons Business & Trade Committee | New book! Why Populists Are Winning: m.cmpgn.page/wpbppt
- 380,000 UK businesses need finance to grow. We have £3 trillion in pension assets and £264 billion in unused capital sitting idle. Our new Investing in the UK Economy report sets out how to connect them: publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5902/cmse…
00:00 - £99,785 for Ward End Park! Massive congratulations to the Dolphin Centre, who've won HS2 Community & Environment Fund backing to restore the park's wildlife, grow food, and get local children learning outdoors. Brilliant work.
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Full house for the third and final #Brexit event in partnership with @UKandEU - Fascinating discussion on the likely future of UK-EU relations - with thanks to panellists @CSBarnard24, @anandMenon1 and @liambyrnemp - and a wonderful chair @jillongovt 🇬🇧 🇪🇺
New Event this coming Wednesday - The final one of the #Brexit series What are the options for UK-EU economic relations going forward? The issues will be discussed by @CSBarnard24, @anandMenon1 and @liambyrnemp in a panel chaired by @jillongovt Sign up here⤵️ - Britain's car industry can't wait. The ZEV Mandate review must be brought forward now. This is an alarming set of letters which reveal ministers recognise our automotive industry faces serious industrial challenges - but see no need for urgency in fixing the ZEV Mandate that
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UK Private Capital welcomes the Business and Trade committee's report on investing in the UK economy The report makes several recommendations about how to transform the UK’s investment environment and access to finance for British businesses, including: 📌 Reform incentives for
This morning at the London Stock Exchange the @CommonsBTC launched our new report on transforming access to finance for British business. Britain isn't short of money. We're short of the systems to put it to work. A year's work, scores of recommendations, the start of a new - Replying to @liambyrnempIf we want the highest growth in the G7, we need the best system in the G7 for turning savings into investment and ideas into world-leading companies. That means a bigger Growth Guarantee Scheme, pension reform that backs British business, banking back on the high street, and a
- Yesterday at @LSEplc the Business and Trade Committee @HoCcommitteesUK launched our report on transforming access to finance for British business. The argument is simple. Britain is not short of money. We are short of the systems to put it to work. £3 trillion sits in our
- Replying to @liambyrnempWatch live here: parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/cc… Read about the inquiry here: committees.parliament.uk/work/9660/chin…
- Third session of the Business and Trade Committee inquiry into China and the UK economy taking place this afternoon. We’ll be joined by @MadelineCarr Professor of Global Politics and Cyber Security, UCL; Charles Parton OBE, Associate Fellow, Council on Geostrategy; Tor
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This is a very good report from @CommonsBTC. It threads the needle between the flaws/fiduciary duty challenges of pension fund mandation, and the naivety of relying on EMH when the process of allocating capital has a myriad of existing frictions.This morning at the London Stock Exchange the @CommonsBTC launched our new report on transforming access to finance for British business. Britain isn't short of money. We're short of the systems to put it to work. A year's work, scores of recommendations, the start of a new
