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HANSARDEngagementsI thank my hon. Friend for her important question. Let me say from the outset that the pace of remediation has been too slow. I do take a personal lead: seven years on from the…23 Oct 2024HANSARDEngagementsI have been asked to reply, as my right hon. and learned Friend the Prime Minister is in Samoa to discuss shared opportunities in the Commonwealth, including how we work together…23 Oct 2024HANSARDEngagementsThe hon. Gentleman raises a very important point. I will ensure that the Minister has a meeting with him. The first job of any Government is to protect their citizens and that…23 Oct 2024HANSARDEngagementsAgain, I will not speculate on the Budget, not least with the Chancellor sat beside me. To reiterate what the Chancellor and the Prime Minister have said, this Budget will…23 Oct 2024HANSARDEngagementsI do not know how the shadow Deputy Prime Minister can stand there with a straight face when it was the small businesses—the working people of this country—that paid the price of…23 Oct 2024HANSARDEngagementsLet me start by welcoming the right hon. Gentleman to his new place. Today is our first exchange since he pushed for a July general election, and if his own side has not offered…23 Oct 2024HANSARDEngagementsI remember what the Conservatives said to business. What was it? “Eff business”, whereas this party held an international investment summit last week, which put about £63 billion…23 Oct 2024HANSARDEngagementsAbsolutely, and I thank my hon. Friend for all her work in this area. This Government will boost protections for women experiencing menopause symptoms at work and I am proud that…23 Oct 2024HANSARDEngagementsI thank my hon. Friend for raising this serious and important issue. The humanitarian situation in northern Gaza is dire. We need an immediate ceasefire, much more aid allowed to…23 Oct 2024HANSARDEngagementsI thank the right hon. Gentleman, the Father of the House, for his question. My right hon. Friend the Home Secretary is taking urgent action to clear the backlog of cases and…23 Oct 2024HANSARDEngagementsI will miss our exchanges—the battle of the gingers, the late nights voting—and in that spirit, I will agree with my right hon. Friend. The King does a tremendous job, and so did…23 Oct 2024HANSARDEngagementsI thank my hon. Friend for his question and welcome him to his place. When this Government took office, we promised the biggest upgrade to workers’ rights in a generation—a new…23 Oct 2024HANSARD Employment Rights BillI have already given way to the right hon. Member, and there are so many other Members who want to speak. This Government know that the current system does not support working…21 Oct 2024HANSARD Employment Rights BillSome of the measures in the Bill do recognise the difference between large employers and smaller ones, but we also have to ensure fairness and clarity of purpose in this country,…21 Oct 2024HANSARD Employment Rights BillI do not know what the hon. Member is getting at. Maybe he is getting at the former Conservative Transport Secretary, who referred to them as pirates of the high seas or weasels—I…21 Oct 2024HANSARD Employment Rights BillThere will be statutory guidance, but of course, it would depend on the various different circumstances. We saw during the covid pandemic that people were able to be incredibly…21 Oct 2024HANSARD Employment Rights BillI agree with my hon. Friend. The Bill is pro-worker and pro-business; that is the context in which the Bill has come to fruition. We have been consulting wide and long on the…21 Oct 2024HANSARD Employment Rights BillI agree with my hon. Friend. When the previous Labour Government brought in the national minimum wage they had the same sort of arguments made at them, but what we actually saw…21 Oct 2024HANSARD Employment Rights BillWe have already been working with businesses while bringing forward the Bill, and we will continue to do that through the consultations. We have recognised probation periods, for…21 Oct 2024HANSARD Employment Rights BillI beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time. I declare that I am a lifelong proud trade union member—[Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.] When the Government took office and I…21 Oct 2024