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HANSARDEmployment Rights BillWe on these Benches meet with members of the SME sector all the time for various purposes. As well as the formal meetings, we meet them in all sorts of guises—for example, to…24 Jun 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillMy Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Sharpe, and all noble Lords who have spoken in this debate. I begin with Amendment 326B in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady Coffey,…24 Jun 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillMy Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Clement-Jones, for tabling Amendment 318. He raises an important issue. As we have been discussing, the changing nature of work and the gig…24 Jun 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillMy Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Hunt, for giving notice of his opposition to Clause 151 standing part, which gives me the chance to set out the purpose of that clause, and…24 Jun 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillMy Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Norton, for tabling Amendment 323C and the noble Lord, Lord Hunt, for Amendment 335. I pay tribute to the expertise of the noble Lord, Lord…24 Jun 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillThis has come up several times in the debates we have had on the different aspects of employment status. We have said that we need to do further work on the employment status…24 Jun 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill18 Jun 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillMy Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Coffey, for her amendment, which raises an important topic: how the enforcement provisions in Part 5 would apply to Parliament and MPs…18 Jun 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillMy Lords, I am sorry to interrupt. I am trying to follow the noble Lord’s arguments, but I think Amendment 273 is in a different group.18 Jun 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillMy Lords, 50 new fee-paid employment judges were appointed in 2024-25, and a further three recruitment exercises to further increase capacity are now being undertaken in 2025-26.18 Jun 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillI thank the noble Lord, Lord Hunt, for introducing these amendments, but I say to him that the problem he has described so vividly was one we inherited from the previous…18 Jun 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill18 Jun 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill18 Jun 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillThe evidence shows that the current wording is proportionate. There has not been a huge number of cases. Maybe we could argue about whether there should be more cases, but the…18 Jun 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillMy Lords, the first thing I will say to the noble Lord, Lord Jackson, is that if we say we are going to write, we will write: we do not need to be told that this is being…18 Jun 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillMy Lords I thank noble Lords who have spoken. I am responding to the noble Lords, Lord Sharpe, Lord Hunt and Lord Jackson, and the noble Baroness, Lady Coffey, who have tabled…18 Jun 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillI was trying to be helpful to the noble Lord, but since he provokes me, I will simply say that I have used my interpretation of “shortly”, rather than the dictionary definition.…18 Jun 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill18 Jun 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill18 Jun 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillI thank the noble Lord. My apologies; I should have answered both of those questions. On the issue of agricultural workers, I do not know the answer, so I will write to the noble…18 Jun 2025