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HANSARD Employment Rights BillHas the Minister conducted an impact assessment? If so, how much does she think this change will cost? How many uncapped awards will be made? These are the kinds of big, important…15 Dec 2025HANSARD Employment Rights BillI was listening carefully to the hon. Gentleman, but he tailed off when he was talking about a problem, and it did not quite go through. I think that he was talking about the fact…15 Dec 2025HANSARD Employment Rights BillI am conscious that we are debating a particular point. Is the hon. Member voting for or against the cap? That is the essence of what we are looking at today.15 Dec 2025HANSARDEngagementsQ7. Mr Speaker, I feel for the Prime Minister. It must be tough, wherever he goes in the UK, because of his policies: a pub, higher taxes; a restaurant, higher taxes; a café,…10 Dec 2025HANSARDSeasonal WorkOn the tourism tax, only a couple of months ago, in response to a question that I had posed, the then Minister for Creative Industries, Arts and Tourism, the hon. Member for…10 Dec 2025HANSARDSeasonal WorkIt is not just wealthy people who have left. We know from the Office for National Statistics data that 257,000 Brits have gone—it had been estimated at 70,000—of whom about two…10 Dec 2025HANSARDSeasonal WorkHow much would the 5% VAT policy cost?10 Dec 2025HANSARDSeasonal WorkHow much is it?10 Dec 2025HANSARDSeasonal WorkAs it comes towards Christmas, I tend to think of the shows I like to watch, and one is “Blackadder Goes Forth”. Near the end there is a famous quote. Blackadder is finally trying…10 Dec 2025HANSARDSeasonal WorkI would love to elucidate, because if we go back to 2010, we had to deal with the financial crisis, and we had to borrow £158 billion to deal with that. Then we had to get the…10 Dec 2025HANSARDSeasonal WorkMy hon. Friend is entirely right, and I bow to her experience as I know that she has run and been involved with many businesses. She speaks the truth about what businesses and…10 Dec 2025HANSARDSeasonal WorkThe hon. Gentleman is right. As an MP, he will be an employer. No doubt, he is a good employer who offers the members of his team good terms and he cares deeply about the staff…10 Dec 2025HANSARDSeasonal WorkI will take an intervention on that point, if any Labour Member would like to make one. More importantly, my hon. Friend correctly makes the point that it is the Government’s job…10 Dec 2025HANSARDSeasonal WorkI very much welcome the hon. Gentleman’s intervention. There is a risk of doing that, but we have to remember that it does not need to be like that. There are many good employees…10 Dec 2025HANSARDSeasonal WorkWhen the Chancellor stood up and said that the Government would be changing business rates, there was some relief across the industry, but now businesses are realising that…10 Dec 2025HANSARDSeasonal WorkThe Minister’s amendment to the motion refers to “a comprehensive vision for productivity and success” for small businesses. It is incredibly similar to the amendment that the…10 Dec 2025HANSARD Conduct of the Chancellor of the ExchequerOne concern that I have is the repeated pattern seen with the Budget. At the time, the Government sat on an impact assessment that showed that 100,000 pensioners would be pushed…10 Dec 2025HANSARD Conduct of the Chancellor of the ExchequerNowhere is that more evident than in health, with the abolitions and redundancies in integrated care boards. Given that those redundancies cover 50% of ICB staff, we now…10 Dec 2025HANSARDRestriction of Jury TrialsI congratulate the Minister on both her passion and her ability to get so many words into Hansard in her responses on an urgent question. However, one bit of detail that we are…08 Dec 2025HANSARD Employment Rights BillDoes the hon. Lady agree that it would have been helpful if an impact assessment had been carried out, so that everyone could see exactly what the impact of removing the cap would…08 Dec 2025