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HANSARDInsecure WorkMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. In fact, the number is 3.25 million more jobs since 2010, and 80% of those have been full-time. The number of zero-hours contracts has actually…12 Feb 2019HANSARDInsecure WorkMy right hon. Friend is absolutely right. We made that change, and it was of great benefit. We should be proud of the increase in employment that has taken place. According to the…12 Feb 2019HANSARDInsecure WorkI am glad the hon. Lady mentions our high employment levels—she is right to do so—because for people to have the best opportunities for prosperity we have to ensure that there are…12 Feb 2019HANSARDInsecure WorkMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. The Taylor report called for two-sided flexibility, so that employers and employees can make a choice as to what the best arrangements are for…12 Feb 2019HANSARDInsecure WorkThe hon. Gentleman makes an excellent point. I met Tim Roache, the head of the GMB, last week and congratulated him and Hermes on having come to their agreement. It shows that…12 Feb 2019HANSARDInsecure WorkThe Taylor report, and indeed the Select Committee, considered the recommendation that has come from some sources to ban zero-hours contracts. The Taylor report concluded that…12 Feb 2019HANSARDInsecure WorkTwo thirds of workers on zero-hours contracts say that they do not want any more hours and that they are content. On the break in service, the hon. Gentleman will know that that…12 Feb 2019HANSARDTopical QuestionsMy right hon. Friend is right to say that we need to bring certainty and enable businesses to plan for the future, but she is also fortunate, in that the Prime Minister is about…12 Feb 2019HANSARDInsecure WorkI agree with my hon. Friend that having jobs and vacancies available is the best source of security for people in this country. We have a proud record of having secured that over…12 Feb 2019HANSARDInsecure WorkBritain has a very strong record in this area, with the highest level of employment in our history, combined with some of the strongest rights for workers in Europe. Last month, I…12 Feb 2019HANSARDNissan in SunderlandMy hon. Friend is absolutely right, but it is also right to reflect that for more than two and a half years now the industry, and Nissan in particular, has been worried about the…04 Feb 2019HANSARDNissan in SunderlandWhen I first made the statement to the House on 31 October 2016, I described the programme of support that has been operated for many years, in which investment in training the…04 Feb 2019HANSARDNissan in SunderlandIf the hon. Lady had spent time talking to employers in the automotive sector, she would have come to a different set of conclusions. First, she should welcome the fact that…04 Feb 2019HANSARDNissan in SunderlandWith permission, Mr Speaker, I would like to make a statement about Nissan. The House should know the background to the decision that the company announced yesterday. In July…04 Feb 2019HANSARDNissan in SunderlandMy right hon. Friend makes an excellent point. He has experience of dealing with businesses that are making investments in this country. It is the view of investors in this…04 Feb 2019HANSARDNissan in SunderlandFirst, let me remind the hon. Gentleman that a greater amount of financial investment is going into Sunderland than was anticipated in 2016; this is a long-term commitment that…04 Feb 2019HANSARDNissan in SunderlandI say to my right hon. Friend that, in fact, the extra investment is going into new Powertrains—cleaner Powertrains. Far from being critics of this, Nissan, as people who know the…04 Feb 2019HANSARDNissan in SunderlandOne of the pleasures of dealing with the automotive industry in the UK is that it is one of the most advanced and most capable in the world in innovation. We are working with the…04 Feb 2019HANSARDNissan in SunderlandI am grateful to my right hon. Friend for her question. What I said in my statement and what I said at the time was that the programme of support for the automotive sector is very…04 Feb 2019HANSARDNissan in SunderlandI say to the hon. Lady, whose constituents depend on successful future investments, as well as the ones that have been secured, which she rightly welcomed when they were first…04 Feb 2019