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HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Thirteenth sitting)We covered many of the issues relating to this clause when we discussed amendments 112 and 162. I am grateful to the Minister for citing the 2017 changes, which were brought about…17 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Thirteenth sitting)The hon. Gentleman is clearly not of the orange book wing of the Liberal Democrats.17 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Thirteenth sitting)I am grateful to the hon. Lady for that clarification. There is a danger that we will end up dancing on the head of a pin, but I am always concerned about naming individual things…17 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Thirteenth sitting)I hear very clearly what the hon. Lady and the hon. Member for Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough have said. I do not take issue with anything that has just been said. The…17 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Fourteenth sitting)As we prepare to begin the 12 days of Christmas, we have the 16 clauses of the adult social care negotiating body. I am not sure which has the better ring to it, but I think only…17 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Fourteenth sitting)I took careful notes, and we can check Hansard later, but I am pretty certain that the Minister himself used the word sufficient in his remarks.17 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Fourteenth sitting)I beg to move amendment 123, in schedule 3, page 124, line 39, at end insert— “(2A) Before making or revising arrangements under sub-paragraph (1), the Secretary of State must…17 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Fourteenth sitting)After that lengthy oration from the Minister, I can only conclude that when it takes that long to explain something, a bureaucracy is coming that probably nobody wants. As we…17 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Fourteenth sitting)I am grateful to the Minister for his remarks, and not least for acknowledging the importance of the points about just travel time and about compensation for using one’s own…17 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Fourteenth sitting)I think the hon. Lady has potentially misinterpreted my remarks. I am not directly conflating the pay of staff with the educational outcome: I am saying that there are academies…17 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Fourteenth sitting)Further to that point of order, Ms Vaz. I seek your guidance on how we might put it on the record that we wish a very merry Christmas to everyone involved in this Bill Committee.…17 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Fourteenth sitting)I listened very carefully to what the Minister and the hon. Member for Birmingham Northfield said about amendment 168. I was open to dialogue on it to see if we can make it…17 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Thirteenth sitting)How does the hon. Gentleman feel that the NHS in Wales is doing—better or worse than in England?17 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Fourteenth sitting)I beg to move amendment 168, in schedule 3, page 115, leave out from the beginning of line 15 to the end of line 31 and insert— “(1) In the case of staff employed under subsection…17 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Fourteenth sitting)They are.17 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Fourteenth sitting)I will give way to the hon. Lady first.17 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Thirteenth sitting)The Opposition have tabled a number of amendments that probe what is introduced by clause 28 and schedule 3, which we will come on to in subsequent debates today. I will reserve…17 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Thirteenth sitting)I am glad the festive spirit is alive and well, but I remind the hon. Gentleman—there is no sugar coating it for Opposition Members—that the Labour party had a thumping victory in…17 Dec 2024HANSARDEnergy SecuritySmall modular reactors are less land intensive, are very efficient and would get us to clean energy very quickly if the Government were to get on and actually support some orders.…17 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Fourteenth sitting)Some are definitely more memorable than others. Amendment 168, tabled in my name and that of my hon. Friends on the Conservative Benches, would change the matters that are within…17 Dec 2024