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HANSARD 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 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 thank my hon. Friend for making that important point. We all agree across the House that families play an important role, that businesses can help to support families, whatever…21 Oct 2024HANSARD Employment Rights BillThe impact assessment also makes it clear that the Bill will have a positive impact on growth. More than 10 million workers, in every corner of this country, will benefit from…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 2024HANSARD Employment Rights BillI agree, and can confirm to the House that the Bill will finally end the exploitative zero-hours contract. Up to 2.4 million workers will finally have the right to a contract that…21 Oct 2024HANSARD Employment Rights BillI agree with the hon. Member and thank her for her work in that area. We must ensure that workplaces have a good culture that does not tolerate any form of harassment, including…21 Oct 2024HANSARD Employment Rights BillWill the hon. Member listen to my response? I gave way to him. For 14 years, the Tories promised employment Bills and an industrial strategy, and in 14 years they delivered the…21 Oct 2024HANSARD Employment Rights BillI agree with my hon. Friend. The previous Government promised to do something about the practice but failed to do anything.21 Oct 2024HANSARD Employment Rights BillI thank my hon. Friend for his intervention. That is why we have moved at pace. The previous Government promised an employment Bill to protect workers and they did not deliver.…21 Oct 2024HANSARD Employment Rights BillWe have already written to the Low Pay Commission, as I have set out, and we want to go further through the fair pay agreement to make sure that carers are recognised for the…21 Oct 2024HANSARD Employment Rights BillThe Conservatives had 14 years to support the working people of this— [ Interruption . ]21 Oct 2024HANSARD Renters’ Rights BillI beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time. I hope the entire House will agree that everyone should live in a decent, safe and affordable home. Everyone should, but…09 Oct 2024HANSARD Renters’ Rights BillI thank my hon. Friend for giving us the benefit of his personal experience—an experience that is suffered by far too many families. Hundreds of thousands of young families are in…09 Oct 2024HANSARD Renters’ Rights BillI will set out later in my speech what we are doing to ensure that renters get a fair deal. This is why we have moved so speedily in getting this Bill to its Second Reading. We…09 Oct 2024HANSARD Renters’ Rights BillI understand the right hon. Gentleman’s point, but I disagree on how to resolve the issue. Rent controls restrict housing supply, which does not help anyone, but our Bill takes…09 Oct 2024HANSARD Renters’ Rights BillI say to the right hon. Gentleman, whose interventions are normally more pithy, that the Bill accommodates the unique circumstances of students. I hope he can see that we are…09 Oct 2024HANSARD Renters’ Rights BillI absolutely agree with my hon. Friend. I, too, pay tribute to the Housing Minister for the work that he did in opposition and in getting us here today. In saying that we need to…09 Oct 2024HANSARD Renters’ Rights BillI absolutely agree with my hon. friend, and I pay tribute to him for the work that he did in local government before coming to this place. He will know about the direct impact of…09 Oct 2024