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HANSARD Industrial ActionI want to pick up the hon. Lady on those figures, because the NHS itself says that it does not recognise those numbers. When we have a strike such as the one on Wednesday by…10 Jan 2023HANSARD Industrial ActionThe Bill is being introduced today. My hon. Friend is absolutely right about this. We have seen that the RMT has not put the offers to its members, which, as I mentioned before,…10 Jan 2023HANSARD Industrial ActionIt is worth reminding the House that my hon. Friend is an acknowledged expert in employment law. I am grateful for her thoughts and clarification that the International Labour…10 Jan 2023HANSARD Industrial ActionIt is obviously not true that there has been a pay freeze for 10 years. The right hon. Gentleman stands there and makes that claim, but as I just mentioned, because the NHS was…10 Jan 2023HANSARD Industrial ActionWith permission, Mr Speaker, I would like to make a statement on industrial action and minimum service levels. Nurses, paramedics and transport workers are called key workers for…10 Jan 2023HANSARD"Help to Grow: Digital”: Scheme ClosureThis statement concerns the Government’s decision to close the Help to Grow: Digital programme. Help to Grow: Digital will close to new business applications for discounts on 2…15 Dec 2022HANSARDPost Office: GLO Compensation SchemeThe simple answer is yes, and that is the purpose of Sir Wyn Williams’s inquiry. I should remind the House that it could lead to individuals’ taking specific responsibility on the…07 Dec 2022HANSARDPost Office: GLO Compensation SchemeI add my thanks to the chair of the all-party parliamentary group on post offices for all the work she has done with colleagues over this considerable period of time. I absolutely…07 Dec 2022HANSARDPost Office: GLO Compensation SchemeI can absolutely give my hon. Friend the assurance that, under my tenure, there will be no stone left unturned when it comes to this. I want to pay tribute to her for her work on…07 Dec 2022HANSARDPost Office: GLO Compensation SchemeI am grateful for the hon. Lady’s comments, although I rather hoped the House would come together today and debate this matter in a non-political, cross-party way, and she sought…07 Dec 2022HANSARDPost Office: GLO Compensation SchemeI am just taking advice from my hon. Friend the small business Minister on the interim payments, and I think the answer is yes. On the scheduling of the SI, it will be done as…07 Dec 2022HANSARDPost Office: GLO Compensation SchemeWith permission, Mr Speaker, I should like to make a statement about Horizon and Post Office group litigation compensation. The Horizon scandal is nothing short of a travesty.…07 Dec 2022HANSARDPost Office: GLO Compensation SchemeI thank my hon. Friend, and yes, we will certainly keep the House fully informed. My hon. Friend the small business Minister will be providing updates as well. I want to pay…07 Dec 2022HANSARDPost Office Horizon Scandal: CompensationThe Post Office Horizon scandal, which began over 20 years ago, has had a devastating impact on the lives of many postmasters. Starting in the late 1990s, the Post Office began…07 Dec 2022HANSARDPoints of OrderFurther to that point of order, Mr Deputy Speaker. I am very much aware of the hardships being caused by a lack of power and utilities in Ukraine. We have three Ukrainians who…07 Dec 2022HANSARDPost Office: GLO Compensation SchemeThe hon. Gentleman makes an interesting point. We have a lot of new technologies coming along, including things such as AI and generative AI. If the Horizon Post Office scandal…07 Dec 2022HANSARDPost Office: GLO Compensation SchemeI pay tribute to my hon. Friend, as someone who has actually been a postmaster and now serves in this House; he knows what he is talking about on this. He is right to say that…07 Dec 2022HANSARDPost Office: GLO Compensation SchemeThat is absolutely the intention of this Government and Ministers. I hope that the lessons that will be drawn, both from what has happened so far and from Sir Wyn Williams’…07 Dec 2022HANSARDPost Office: GLO Compensation SchemeMy hon. Friend makes an excellent point. As the right hon. Member for North Durham has also said, we do not want to see a complex and expensive legal process that costs a fortune…07 Dec 2022HANSARDPost Office: GLO Compensation SchemeAgain, I do not want to stray too much into the legal process, other than to say that Sir Wyn Williams will report and his inquiry will make a series of recommendations, and I can…07 Dec 2022