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HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Fifteenth sitting)I am grateful for that, but there is not an increase every year.07 Jan 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Fifteenth sitting)Of course we wish to save taxpayers money, particularly when it comes to the public sector, but likewise we do not see why businesses should bear the cost of trade union…07 Jan 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Sixteenth sitting)I beg to move amendment 167, in clause 57, page 69, line 16, leave out “seventh” and insert “twenty-first”. This amendment would increase, from seven to 21 days, the notice period…07 Jan 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Sixteenth sitting)My straightforward and simple reply is that I want to get this right in the United Kingdom’s interest. No, I cannot name another country that has 21 days’ notice, but that does…07 Jan 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Sixteenth sitting)I understand the point that the Minister makes about prejudging any consultation, notwithstanding the points he makes about international obligations, but this is one of those…07 Jan 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Sixteenth sitting)I will come up with another example when the hon. Member for Birmingham Northfield is finished.07 Jan 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Sixteenth sitting)I will not detain the Committee with a commentary on this clause. Question put and agreed to. Clause 70 accordingly ordered to stand part of the Bill. Clause 71 Devolved Welsh…07 Jan 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Sixteenth sitting)I will focus my remarks on new clause 30, tabled in my name and that of my hon. Friends the Members for West Suffolk, for Bridgwater and for Mid Leicestershire. It is good to see…07 Jan 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Fifteenth sitting)The Minister is going to tempt me to say which memberships, isn’t he?07 Jan 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Fifteenth sitting)I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his intervention. I understand his fundamental point, but before the Government tabled the amendment a feasible interpretation of the rules…07 Jan 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Fifteenth sitting)I understand the point the Minister is making. On the one hand, he wants everyone to be reminded annually of their right to join a trade union, but he wants them to be reminded of…07 Jan 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Fifteenth sitting)I beg to move amendment 126, in clause 48, page 61, line 20, at end insert— “4A In subsection (1) of section 82 (Rules as to political fund), after paragraph (d) insert— ‘(e) that…07 Jan 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Sixteenth sitting)This is one of the less contentious clauses in the Bill. The Minister is right to say that something that has not been updated for a decade probably should be looked at again,…07 Jan 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsWill the additional money announced for hospices before Christmas cover the full cost of the increase in employer’s national insurance contributions or not?07 Jan 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Fifteenth sitting)Well, there is. The Conservative party held our membership at £25 for far too long, which was why the increase was so big a couple of years ago. I appreciate that most Labour…07 Jan 2025HANSARDNorthern GazaThe aggressors in this situation are the terrorists in Hamas. The ones who took and continue to hold hostages are the terrorists in Hamas. Does the Minister therefore agree that…07 Jan 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Fifteenth sitting)We have covered the bulk of the commentary that the Opposition want to make in the debate that we have had on the amendments. All I will say on clause 46 is that there is still so…07 Jan 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Fifteenth sitting)One moment and I will, of course, give way to the hon. Gentleman. If unions cannot reach 10%, what is the rationale for saying, “Oh well, we’ll just lower it to 2%”? Surely, if…07 Jan 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Sixteenth sitting)Can he name them?07 Jan 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Fifteenth sitting)As the Minister said, the amendment clarifies that the Employment Appeal Tribunal may dismiss an appeal under new section 70ZK(2) of the Trade Union and Labour Relations…07 Jan 2025