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HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Eighteenth sitting)I will focus the majority of my comments on Government new clause 50. As the Minister has outlined, the new clause provides a defence to the offence in clause 103 of providing…09 Jan 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Seventeenth sitting)I beg to move amendment 118, in schedule 4, page 128, leave out lines 11 to 16. This amendment is consequential on NC20 and removes those regulations from the list of legislation…09 Jan 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Eighteenth sitting)I agree with the hon. Gentleman that this is a well-established form of wording, and I do not think there is anything between our positions on national security. However, even if…09 Jan 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Seventeenth sitting)There is my first question, prompted by my hon. Friend: does that include right hon. and hon. Members of Parliament who themselves are members of trade unions? Could that be the…09 Jan 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Seventeenth sitting)I fully acknowledge and appreciate the Minister’s point about negotiation with the Treasury, but even if we take it as read that it is right to bring powers into a single…09 Jan 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Eighteenth sitting)I am grateful to the Minister, and I would be happy to follow this matter up in correspondence if we cannot make it clear in Committee. The point I was trying to make was that new…09 Jan 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Eighteenth sitting)Broadly speaking, the clause is uncontroversial. We accept the need to streamline enforcement activities and put them under one roof, notwithstanding my comments about…09 Jan 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Seventeenth sitting)Does the Minister not agree that for any power held by any Secretary of State in any Department, the critical friend is a very simple concept? It is called Parliament—it is all of…09 Jan 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Eighteenth sitting)My hon. Friend eloquently—probably more eloquently than me—gets across the point I was trying to make. Where the wording of legislation is open to wider interpretation, mission…09 Jan 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Eighteenth sitting)It is becoming almost uncomfortable how much we agree on the current set of clauses. However, these protections, particularly those against self-incrimination, come with the…09 Jan 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Eighteenth sitting)My thoughts on the clause are similar to those I expressed on the last clause we debated. The language of this one is a little clearer, so the Opposition do not object to it.…09 Jan 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Eighteenth sitting)The critical thing in what the Minister just outlined is that any information sharing must happen within the confines of our existing data protection laws. That is absolutely…09 Jan 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Eighteenth sitting)These are very minor amendments, to which the Opposition do not object. Amendment 101 agreed to. Ordered, That further consideration be now adjourned. —(Anna McMorrin.)09 Jan 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Eighteenth sitting)I will focus most of my comments on clause 87, on the means of giving notice under the provisions of clause 84. I think we can all fully understand what clause 87(1) means by “(a)…09 Jan 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Seventeenth sitting)On the face of it, the clauses are not problematic: they are quite clear, and it is important that those things that are considered as enforcement functions are clearly defined.…09 Jan 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Seventeenth sitting)I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his intervention and for what appears to be his support for the British egg industry. I encourage him to eat as many British eggs as…09 Jan 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Eighteenth sitting)As we made clear in the debate on the amendments to the clause, the official Opposition are broadly content, particularly given the explicit requirement for a warrant to enter…09 Jan 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Eighteenth sitting)It is always good to see the Government copying and pasting from a piece of Conservative legislation, with the odd use of the replace function. I will focus my comments largely on…09 Jan 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Eighteenth sitting)His Majesty’s loyal Opposition do not object to the thrust of the clauses, particularly the provision about not retaining a physical document if taking a photograph or making a…09 Jan 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Seventeenth sitting)I am always pleased to delight the Minister in these debates. It was a probing amendment, and I can confirm that we will not be pressing amendments 117 to 119 or new clause 20 to…09 Jan 2025