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HANSARDEmployment Rights BillMy Lords, this has been a useful debate on the subject of those who may be made exempt from the scope of the right to guaranteed hours. First off, I say to the noble Lord, Lord…08 May 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillI will write to noble Lords about when the regulations will be available. This may well be part of the implementation plan, which is still awaited. Noble Lords can genuinely take…08 May 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill08 May 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillMy Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Sharpe, for tabling Amendments 19A, 20 and 21 to Clause 1 on the right to guaranteed hours. I say to the noble Lords, Lord Sharpe and Lord…08 May 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillMy Lords, I thought I had already offered to have further discussions, but I take the noble Lord’s point.08 May 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillPhew—I do not know whether I want to join in this philosophical debate because, clearly, we have heard strong views on both sides, and they have strayed way beyond the amendments…08 May 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill08 May 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill08 May 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillMy Lords, I am pleased that we have moved on and that we are now debating the Bill’s important provisions to improve the provision of statutory sick pay for millions of people…08 May 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillMy Lords, it is very good to return to the subject of zero-hours contracts as we start day 2 of Committee. As we debated last week, the Government are committed to ending…08 May 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill08 May 2025HANSARDNHS: Single-sex Spaces for StaffMy Lords, this is a timed debate and people have quite rightly put their names down for it. As the Deputy Chairman of Committees said, the gap has already been passed and I…01 May 2025HANSARDAI: Child Sexual Abuse MaterialMy Lords, through the Crime and Policing Bill, the Government will introduce a new suite of measures to tackle the growing threat of AI. This includes criminalising AI models made…30 Apr 2025HANSARDAI: Child Sexual Abuse MaterialThe noble Baroness is quite right that we have to keep the technology up to date, and of course we are endeavouring to do that. I should say that UK law applies to AI-generated…30 Apr 2025HANSARDAI: Child Sexual Abuse MaterialThe noble Baroness makes a really important point about media literacy. It is again an issue that my department is taking very seriously, and it is an issue that Ofcom also has a…30 Apr 2025HANSARDAI: Child Sexual Abuse MaterialI thank the noble Lord for that question. The Government are actively looking at options to address nudification tools, and we hope to provide an update shortly. It is a matter…30 Apr 2025HANSARDAI: Child Sexual Abuse MaterialMy Lords, I welcome my noble friend Lady Berger to her first Oral Question and thank her for it being on such an important issue that faces us today. The Internet Watch…30 Apr 2025HANSARDAI: Child Sexual Abuse MaterialMy Lords, we are already taking steps to deal with this. We are committed to making sure that our laws tackle child sexual abuse materials and keep pace with technological…30 Apr 2025HANSARDAI: Child Sexual Abuse MaterialIt is important to recognise that the measures that Ofcom has set out in the illegal content codes of practice and, last week, in the child safety codes of practice are a landmark…30 Apr 2025HANSARDAI: Child Sexual Abuse MaterialMy noble friend raises a really important point, but I stress that if a service, including file-sharing and storage services, poses a material risk to users in the United Kingdom,…30 Apr 2025