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HANSARDSupporting High StreetsI enjoy a full English as much as I suspect my colleague does. It is not just breakfast that is under threat; it is also lunch, supper, tea, dinner and the great British pub.04 Nov 2025HANSARDSupporting High StreetsI will make some progress. Last week, I had the opportunity to visit the Queen’s Head in the constituency of my hon. Friend the Member for Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner (David…04 Nov 2025HANSARDSupporting High StreetsIf the hon. Lady wants to talk about what the Government are doing to help employment, I would love to hear her intervention.04 Nov 2025HANSARDSupporting High StreetsYou do not improve workers’ rights by making them unemployed, creating a generation of jobless young people who cannot find their way into gainful employment. And do you know…04 Nov 2025HANSARDSupporting High StreetsMy right hon. Friend represents his constituents in Salisbury diligently, and makes exactly the same point. With respect, the Government have not understood business, and the…04 Nov 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsI welcome the team to their significant roles for the United Kingdom. This week, the other place voted for five reasonable amendments to the Employment Rights Bill, representing a…30 Oct 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsI will save time, Mr Speaker, by not mentioning the 13 leading business organisations that have all called for certainty now—not well-intentioned future consultations on…30 Oct 2025HANSARD Employment Rights BillMy right hon. Friend, with his experience, is exactly right. Just think about the impact on a small business of a fee of that magnitude and the length of time it takes to get…15 Sept 2025HANSARD Employment Rights BillI will happily give way if the hon. Gentleman will talk about the other organisations that will do a brilliant job of representing employees.15 Sept 2025HANSARD Employment Rights BillThe hon. Member has probably wilfully misinterpreted what I said. I am talking about the right for individuals to be represented by a trade union or by a qualified professional…15 Sept 2025HANSARD Employment Rights BillOf course I will give way to the hon. Gentleman—we are missing him already.15 Sept 2025HANSARD Employment Rights BillI welcome the new Secretary of State to his place, and congratulate him as well as the hon. Members for Halifax (Kate Dearden) and for Rhondda and Ogmore (Chris Bryant) on their…15 Sept 2025HANSARD Employment Rights BillThe hon. Member has done a great deal of work on the Bill, and it is a great shame that he was cut short in his prime, but with respect the point is about choice for the…15 Sept 2025HANSARD Employment Rights BillThe shadow Minister absolutely understands that. He does so and understands the implication of clause 23 from having spoken to Make UK, the CBI, the Institute of Directors, the…15 Sept 2025HANSARD Employment Rights BillOf course not all dismissals are unfair, but if it was not a process that ended up in court or in a tribunal, we would not be facing a backlog of 491,000 individuals with current…15 Sept 2025HANSARD Hospitality SectorMy background is in business, and I celebrate anybody who succeeds and takes a risk in business, including the hospitality venue in the hon. Lady’s constituency. One of the…03 Sept 2025HANSARD Hospitality SectorI absolutely agree that we have to do everything we can to help. This is about tax and employment, because one of the characteristics that hospitality, tourism and retail share is…03 Sept 2025HANSARD Hospitality SectorAll I can suggest, and I say this in all seriousness, is that the hon. Gentleman should spend a lot more time in local pubs in his constituency, because the people there will talk…03 Sept 2025HANSARD Hospitality SectorI beg to move, That this House regrets the combination of catastrophic choices made by the Government causing the closure, downsizing and lack of hiring by pubs, restaurants,…03 Sept 2025HANSARD Hospitality SectorAs it happens, I was in Edinburgh yesterday, talking to representatives of the hospitality sector and the hard-pressed tourist sector, and they made exactly the same point to me.…03 Sept 2025