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HANSARDSeasonal WorkOf course I will give way. I look forward to hearing about how one should understand that statement about the “permanently lower” business rates that this Government have…10 Dec 2025HANSARDSeasonal WorkI hear the hon. Lady’s point, and I am glad she has found some examples—I note that neither in her intervention nor in her earlier remarks did she go so far as naming any of them,…10 Dec 2025HANSARD Employment Rights BillI will happily talk about the Prime Minister’s lack of backbone.08 Dec 2025HANSARD Employment Rights BillTwo weeks ago, the Chancellor stood at the Dispatch Box and delivered a Budget that contained not a single measure to support growth. Today, in moving the motion to disagree, the…08 Dec 2025HANSARD Employment Rights BillI will happily give way if the hon. Member wants to talk about the jobs lost in his own constituency.08 Dec 2025HANSARD Employment Rights BillUnder the Conservative Government, we improved the number of people in work and unemployment fell to a record level. Since the current Government have taken office, unemployment…08 Dec 2025HANSARD Employment Rights BillI say respectfully to the hon. Member that if acting is to raise unemployment, to cost young people their jobs, to ensure that employers are not hiring and to have the worst…08 Dec 2025HANSARDProposed Solar Development in Wisborough GreenNo place is more inappropriate for a 25-hectare solar farm than the nature-rich farmland in Loxwood and Wisborough Green. One hundred and seventy-four residents and four separate…02 Dec 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillAct in haste, repent at leisure: never has that been wiser advice than in respect of this Bill. It is a rushed Bill that was half-baked when it was introduced, and has got worse…05 Nov 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillWe will have our work cut out, with its 330 pages and 122,000 words— [ Interruption. ] Labour Members seek to hide behind measures that we support, such as enhanced maternity…05 Nov 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillI trust that you will want all Members this afternoon to declare any relevant interests, Madam Deputy Speaker, and I have none. To answer the question that the hon. Gentleman did…05 Nov 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillMental health is a huge issue; across the House we would agree on that and the Mayfield report this morning is just one of many contributions to the debate. But for so many—this…05 Nov 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillWell, I am glad we have found one; I have not had any representations from it.05 Nov 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillI ask the Member strongly to withdraw that: I do not despise trade unions; not a single word I have ever said at the Dispatch Box indicates anything of the sort, and I would ask…05 Nov 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillI should give way to the hon. Member for Ellesmere Port and Bromborough (Justin Madders), who did so much service on this Bill.05 Nov 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillI am trying to be generous to the hon. Member, as this Bill was part of his legacy before he was so rudely fired by a bad boss without any notice. It is not unreasonable to say…05 Nov 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillWe on the Conservative Benches seek to respect the role of trade unions, but in a flexible workplace where we see growth in the economy and—unlike what we see today—more people in…05 Nov 2025HANSARDSupporting High StreetsI am enormously concerned. I was concerned when I woke up this morning, and I am even more concerned after hearing the intervention from our Chancellor: no certainty, confidence…04 Nov 2025HANSARDSupporting High StreetsI beg to move, That this House calls on the Government to support high streets by cutting public expenditure to facilitate the abolition of business rates for thousands of retail,…04 Nov 2025HANSARDSupporting High StreetsMy hon. Friend makes exactly the right point: it was a devastating concoction of the Chancellor’s last year, and I believe that I am right in saying that UKHospitality calibrated…04 Nov 2025