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HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Thirteenth sitting)I thank my hon. Friends the Members for Penistone and Stocksbridge and for Scarborough and Whitby for their powerful contributions. I cannot stress enough to the hon. Member for…17 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Thirteenth sitting)If I may, Mr Mundell, I will draw attention to my registered interests, including my membership of the Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers and the National Education…17 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Thirteenth sitting)Well, I shall leave Members to interpret my words in Hansard as they choose. On that note, may I just make sure that I have not inadvertently made a mistake? I was referring to…17 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Thirteenth sitting)This clause is the first step towards requiring employers that already report gender pay gap data also to provide information about where they receive outsourced support from. A…17 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Eleventh sitting)Let me pick up on the point about the consultation. We very much recognise the urgency, so the consultation is expected to take place in 2025—this coming year—after which we will…12 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Eleventh sitting)Clause 20 amends an existing power in section 49D of the Employment Rights Act 1996, which allows the Secretary of State to make regulations “about redundancy during, or after, a…12 Dec 2024HANSARDTransport ConnectivityIndeed. The Welsh Government have been clear that the priority objective of the 20-mph policy was to save lives and reduce casualties. Recent collisions data provide an…11 Dec 2024HANSARDTransport ConnectivityI remind the right hon. Member that Holyhead was recently given freeport tax status, and I assure him that the Welsh Government have not ruled out a third Northern Ireland…11 Dec 2024HANSARDStrengthening the UnionWe are working in close partnership with the Welsh Government to grow our economy and unleash Wales’s potential. This has already delivered tangible results, including securing…11 Dec 2024HANSARDViolence against Women and GirlsAs my hon. Friend says, the Welsh Government’s violence against women and girls strategy has been pioneering delivery on that important issue for two years now. The UK…11 Dec 2024HANSARDViolence against Women and GirlsAbsolutely; that is central to our manifesto. Our commitments will take in the whole of the UK—particularly the Home Office commitments on policing, and the commitments in the…11 Dec 2024HANSARDViolence against Women and GirlsThe Government hold regular discussions with the Welsh Government on tackling violence against women and girls to help drive forward the Government’s ambition to halve violence…11 Dec 2024HANSARDStrengthening the UnionWhat do you make of that, Mr Speaker? With the additional funding that we have provided for the Welsh Government, I can assure the right hon. Member that there will be proper…11 Dec 2024HANSARDStrengthening the UnionThe Secretary of State was very pleased to chair the first meeting of the advisory group last week. The group will work with us to inform the UK Government’s industrial strategy…11 Dec 2024HANSARDTransport ConnectivityThe Government are absolutely committed to working collaboratively with the Welsh Government to improve transport connectivity within Wales and with the rest of the UK. We are…11 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Ninth sitting)The point of clause 13 is to give employed fathers, partners and secondary adopters, including those who have their children through a surrogacy arrangement, the ability to take…10 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Ninth sitting)Clause 14 establishes a new day one right to bereavement leave. The loss of a loved one is a deeply personal experience, and a sad reality that almost all of us will experience.…10 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Tenth sitting)Clause 18 will strengthen the protections for whistleblowers by making it explicit that sexual harassment can be the basis for a protected whistleblowing disclosure. It will do so…10 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Ninth sitting)I, too, thank the hon. Member for Mid Buckinghamshire for sharing such a personal story with us today. As he says, the loss of a child or a baby at any stage is incredibly…10 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Ninth sitting)If I may just correct the record, there was not an impact assessment on clause 13—I inadvertently said that there was—because the impact is so small. But there was on clauses 11…10 Dec 2024