VoteClimate: Small and Medium-sized Enterprises: Great Yarmouth - 7th June 2023

Small and Medium-sized Enterprises: Great Yarmouth - 7th June 2023

Here are the climate-related sections of speeches by MPs during the Commons debate Small and Medium-sized Enterprises: Great Yarmouth.

Full text: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2023-06-07/debates/EDA40C12-B719-4C71-B231-99C945944F04/SmallAndMedium-SizedEnterprisesGreatYarmouth

19:11 Brandon Lewis (Great Yarmouth) (Con)

SMEs play a part for the big companies as well. The oil and gas and renewable energy industry has a huge presence in Great Yarmouth, particularly in servicing. Companies such as Seajacks, which work around the world, are from and based in Great Yarmouth. They are there because an entrepreneur from the oil and gas industry had an idea, took the risk and developed it in Great Yarmouth. Now, he is employing people from across Great Yarmouth. When clients come to companies like Seajacks and others in the energy industry, they often take their clients, visitors and customers for lunch in places like the Imperial Hotel in Great Yarmouth, and restaurants like the Waterside, or Planet Spice in Ormesby. Those businesses are integral to big and medium-sized businesses. It is a symbiotic relationship. Our economies work because of all of those layers.

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19:25 Kevin Hollinrake (Conservative)

In Great Yarmouth there are some fantastic opportunities for the future, not least in green energy. My right hon. Friend pointed out the businesses that are benefiting from that. I am aware of ASCO, which employs more than 100 people, providing services to the North sea opportunity that is green energy—30 wind turbines on the Scroby sandbank. There are many more opportunities in that sector.

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