Sentences with phrase «business ministers held»

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this week the Minister of Finance held his seventh National Policy Retreat with business, academic and other «experts» to discuss job creation and economic growth, particularly «issues» related to «skill shortages, labor mobility, internal trade and promoting investment in Canada.»

September 20, 2017 — As Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government doubles down on plans to change the way Canadian small business owners are taxed, entrepreneurs themselves are skeptical of one of the proposed changes: New rules for taxing passive investments held by businesses.

Earlier this month, Industry Minister Christian Paradis held a press conference to launch the Digital Technology Adoption Pilot Program, which will provide $ 80 million to small and medium sized businesses to integrate digital technologies.

With Labour leader Ed Miliband now issuing no - holds - barred attacks on Mr Murdoch and the prime minister firing a warning shot across the bows this morning by telling reporters he would have accepted Rebekah Brokes» resignation, the last thing the media mogul needed was a negative impact on his business efforts, especially after he took the drastic step of closing the News of ten World yesterday.

The clash between Labour's last prime minister and Mr Darling, who eventually held VAT at 17.5 % in his pre-election Budget, was revealed in former business secretary Peter Mandelson's memoirs, The Third Man.

The main business organisations spoke out after Miliband said Labour would reject the «threat mechanism» proposed by the prime minister to hold an in - out referendum on Britain's EU membership by 2017 after negotiations to reform the EU.

Environment minister Phil Woolas held talks with the Agricultural Biotechnology Council last night, a group which encourages the use of biotechnology in agriculture and spearheaded by controversial company Monsanto, one of the main GM businesses.

Our first blog post touches briefly on events from a very productive last week, when we met with the Minister of State for Business and Energy at our exhibition at BIS, held our AGM and annual lunch, commented on Q1 GDP numbers, and arranged interviews on the BBC and Channel 4 with our Economics Director and Chairman, respectively.

David Cameron will today hold a meeting of ministers to discuss the crisis but business secretary Sajid Javid will be unavailable — he was said to have missed the last plane to return from Australia yesterday — and George Osborne will remain in France for a meeting of European finance ministers.

Speaking on the same day Tory Immigration Minister James Brokenshire delivers his inaugural speech in his new role, the Liberal Democrat will tell an audience at the Mansion House the UK economy will be held back if the country is seen as «closed for business».

With the Treasury minister Ian Pearson promising that ministers will hold the banks to the fire over the need to lend to business, Mandelson said: «We are also doing absolutely everything we can to get bank lending started again, which is really at the core of the problems we are facing.»

Halfon, the MP for Harlow, is understood to have been given the further education and skills brief previously held by Nick Boles, but unlike his predecessor he will be a full - time DfE minister, rather than being shared with the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, which is closing.

Guy completed his MBA at the Harvard Business School, class of 1993, and holds a First Class degree in PPE (Politics, Philosophy and Economics) from Oxford University where he studied at Brasenose College with the British Prime Minister David Cameron.

Victorian Minister for Innovation, Services and Small Business Louise Asher today joined Penny Arcade President Robert Khoo to announce that Penny Arcade Expo (PAX) Australia will be held in Melbourne in 2013 and 2014.

Corporate leaders, government ministers and international development banks leading the transition to a green economy were also in Paris to highlight the multi-trillion dollar business opportunities in responding to climate change at the Sustainable Innovation Forum, the largest business - focused event held during the COP21 Paris Climate Summit.

Management in the UK could be prosecuted for failure to prevent fraud by staff Speaking at the Cambridge International Symposium on Economic Crime in September this year, the Attorney General reiterated the Prime Minister's priority of expanding economic opportunities — meaning businesses «of all sizes» should be better held accountable for their failures.