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HANSARD Employment Rights BillI will if, 24 hours on, he can name a small business that supports the Bill.12 Mar 2025HANSARD Employment Rights BillMy right hon. Friend makes a superb point, as she always does. Every single small business that I have talked to in my constituency is very concerned about the measures in this—12 Mar 2025HANSARD Employment Rights BillIf the hon. Gentleman wants to try to defend that, I will give him the opportunity.12 Mar 2025HANSARD Employment Rights BillI will make a bit of progress, then I will come to the hon. Lady. An opt-in is the default under consumer protection law and information law. Combined with the 10-year reminder…12 Mar 2025HANSARD Employment Rights BillThe hon. Lady is putting up a smoke-and-mirrors argument to try to cover the fact that the Government are changing the status quo from an opt-in system to an opt-out system. To…12 Mar 2025HANSARD Employment Rights BillAs ever, Madam Deputy Speaker, I take your advice and will speed up. [ Interruption. ] The Minister urges me to carry on, but of course I would not ignore your advice—never say…12 Mar 2025HANSARD Employment Rights BillFor the avoidance of all doubt and in all transparency, I declare all my entries in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests for all to look at. They are all there for anybody…12 Mar 2025HANSARD Employment Rights BillMy hon. Friend served assiduously on the Committee, raising many good points, including the one that he just made, which I absolutely agree with. The public will be asking serious…12 Mar 2025HANSARD Employment Rights BillI am making a point about the trade union movement, which I have never been a part of, and certainly never received any money from. I am happy for the hon. Gentleman to look at…12 Mar 2025HANSARD Employment Rights BillTwenty-four hours later, the Minister still cannot name a small business that supports the Bill. That shows how out of their depth this trade union Government are when it comes to…12 Mar 2025HANSARD Employment Rights BillWell, cut red tape for a start. We see from Lib Dem Members that “The Orange Book” tradition of the Liberal Democrats is well and truly dead; they now position themselves firmly…12 Mar 2025HANSARD Employment Rights BillMy right hon. Friend makes an incredibly important point. If we look at the detail of this Bill, it is very clear and obvious that the Government are trying to make it as…12 Mar 2025HANSARD Employment Rights BillAhead of getting into the detail of the many amendments before us, which the Minister rattled through in just 10 minutes, let me say that overnight we learned that the Government…12 Mar 2025HANSARD Employment Rights BillI will get back to James Murray, the legal director of Doyle Clayton, who has pointed out that this clause could well cause difficulties for universities in offering those…11 Mar 2025HANSARD Employment Rights BillThe hon. Gentleman has had a go; he may come back later. Kate Nicholls, the chief executive of UKHospitality, said that staff in restaurants, bars, pubs and hotels work in a…11 Mar 2025HANSARD Employment Rights BillI am happy to confirm to the hon. Lady that I have read the Bill, and I have read a considerable number of documents from the House of Commons Library and many other…11 Mar 2025HANSARD Employment Rights BillI will give way one more time, and then I will make some progress.11 Mar 2025HANSARD Employment Rights BillMy right hon. Friend makes a very good point in his stylish, witty manner. As my hon. Friend the Member for Hinckley and Bosworth (Dr Evans) said, the Regulatory Policy Committee…11 Mar 2025HANSARD Employment Rights BillI will give way to the hon. Lady in a moment. This Bill would criminalise and bring in the banter police and so on just because people are expressing a perfectly legitimate…11 Mar 2025HANSARD Employment Rights BillThe hon. Gentleman says it is “the vast majority”. I do not know whether it is the vast majority, but some people, of course, will want the guarantee of the hours he talks about.…11 Mar 2025