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HANSARD Employment Rights BillWe can find out, Madam Deputy Speaker; I believe it is. Can you advise whether Conservative Members who received money from businesses affected by this legislation should make a…12 Mar 2025HANSARD Employment Rights Billrose—12 Mar 2025HANSARD Employment Rights BillI am happy to declare my interest as a member of three trade unions, but I got less from them than the shadow Minister got from a small business—I think his declaration is…12 Mar 2025HANSARD Crime and Policing Billrose —10 Mar 2025HANSARD North Sea EnergyThrough support for jobs, support for skills, the prominence of the industrial strategy and support for a clean transition, the Minister has demonstrated what is possible when…06 Mar 2025HANSARDDepartment for Business and TradeThe Minister is making an excellent speech setting out this Government’s ambitious plans. While he is looking at the industrial strategy and those eight high-growth areas, can I…05 Mar 2025HANSARDJammu and Kashmir: Human RightsIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Dr Allin-Khan, and I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Hyndburn (Sarah Smith) on securing the debate. I think that it…05 Mar 2025HANSARD Antisocial Behaviour and Illegal BikesI thank my hon. Friend for securing this timely debate. The stories she has told about her community match those I heard when I was out with Councillor Laura Carter in Sneyd Green…05 Mar 2025HANSARDJammu and Kashmir: Human RightsI thank the Minister for replying in such detail to the points made, and I fully accept that she and the Government are raising the article 370 suspension with India. Is she able…05 Mar 2025HANSARDCourts and Tribunals: Sitting DaysI am slightly worried about Conservative Members, who appear to be the arsonists complaining that the fire brigade has turned up too late to put out the fire, when they were the…05 Mar 2025HANSARDJammu and Kashmir: Human RightsI thank the Minister for being so generous with her time. I want to pick up on her point about it not being for the UK to prescribe a solution. I entirely understand why that is…05 Mar 2025HANSARDDepartment for Business and TradeMy right hon. Friend’s point about energy costs and opening markets chimes with everything that the ceramics industry is telling me about what it is facing. He is right about the…05 Mar 2025HANSARDCourts and Tribunals: Sitting DaysIt is getting worse. If the right hon. Gentleman spent more time providing leadership, rather than auditioning for it, he would own up to his failures in the House, and admit that…05 Mar 2025HANSARDJammu and Kashmir: Human Rightsrose—05 Mar 2025HANSARD North Staffordshire Ceramics Industry: Energy CostsThe Minister probably knows as much about ceramics as those of us from Stoke-on-Trent, as she is constantly on her brief. On the transition, one of the challenges facing ceramics…04 Mar 2025HANSARD North Staffordshire Ceramics Industry: Energy CostsAgain, I am grateful to the Minister for her generosity in giving way. My hon. Friend the Member for Stoke-on-Trent North (David Williams) is right that hydrogen could be the…04 Mar 2025HANSARD North Staffordshire Ceramics Industry: Energy CostsI thank my hon. Friend and constituency neighbour for giving way. Like me, he will have heard that advanced ceramics carbon filters are going into submarines being built not just…04 Mar 2025HANSARDFamily BusinessesI thank the shadow Chancellor for giving way. Will he spell out the specific rights in the Employment Rights Bill that he and his party believe should not be afforded to working…26 Feb 2025HANSARDFamily Businessesrose—26 Feb 2025HANSARDFamily BusinessesI will happily declare an interest, Madam Deputy Speaker, as a proud member of many trade unions. My declaration is up to date and free for all to see. I very much enjoyed the…26 Feb 2025