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HANSARDEmployment Rights BillThese amendments seek to delay when unions would be able to request access during the recognition process until after the bargaining unit had been agreed or determined. While I…10 Jun 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill10 Jun 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillI can assure the noble Baroness that all the main business organisations are consulted as a matter of course, and many of our consultations are available more widely. I take on…10 Jun 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillThat that would come out in the consultation. I think the noble Lord’s proposal of three is a somewhat arbitrary number. If we are going to do that, there are all sorts of minimum…10 Jun 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillMy Lords, I am conscious that we have had a slightly disjointed debate; as I said, some of these issues were debated in the previous group and were covered in my opening remarks.…10 Jun 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillMy Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Sharpe, for Amendment 215ZA, which seeks to commit the Government to consult with trade unions and representatives of employers on the…10 Jun 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillMy Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Sharpe, for posing arguments against Clause 60 standing part of the Bill. This clause seeks to repeal Section 15 of the Trade Union Act 2016…10 Jun 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillI thank my noble friend Lord Hendy for his amendments on the right to strike and for raising the issue of prisoner officers’ right to strike, which was strongly debated in the…10 Jun 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill10 Jun 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillMy Lords, I thank my noble friend Lord Hendy for tabling Amendment 238, which would establish a broad statutory right to strike. I thank him also for our constructive and amicable…10 Jun 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill10 Jun 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillMy Lords, I am fully aware that it would help to see the implementation plan and, as I said, we are working at pace to get it to your Lordships as soon as we can.05 Jun 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillI know we have discussed the implementation plan several times now, and I can assure noble Lords that we are working at pace to finalise that. I do not think it would be helpful…05 Jun 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillMy answer was specifically about Clause 55. Amendment 206, in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Jackson, would remove the compulsory element of the proposals, making it optional…05 Jun 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillI thank the noble Lord for that introduction, because I was going to go on to say that the Government think that the powers taken in Clause 55 are necessary and proportionate.…05 Jun 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillI make my case. The only reason those interest rates were cut was that our economy has been improving. Some £63 billion of private investment was announced at the investment…05 Jun 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillWe can have a long discussion about that, but if we are talking about mandates, it may well be argued that probably Baroness Thatcher did not have that kind of mandate either. The…05 Jun 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill05 Jun 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillMy Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Clement-Jones, for his Amendments 148, 149 and 150; the noble Lord, Lord Holmes of Richmond, for his Amendments 289, 290, 291, 292, 293,…05 Jun 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillMy Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Noakes, and the noble Lord, Lord Jackson, for tabling Amendments 205, 206, 207 and 208. I acknowledge that the noble Lord introduced the…05 Jun 2025