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HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Seventh sitting)As the Minister says, this is a very technical amendment—and who doesn’t love a dry, technical debate? However, I am not sure that anyone seeking a dry, technical debate over some…05 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Seventh sitting)I will not speak at length on this clause because, as the Minister said, it has a bit more clarity in it than many of the others. He has just outlined the new definitions, but…05 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Seventh sitting)I am grateful for the Minister’s explanation. The Opposition can clearly see that amendment 46 will ensure that a worker’s right not to be subjected to detriment includes a case…05 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Eighth sitting)The Opposition are not against flexible working; as I said, we actually legislated for it in the previous Parliament. We can see the benefits of it, as we discussed this morning,…05 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Eighth sitting)New clause 26 and amendment 132 are about impact assessments of flexible working. Amid her speculation about the Mid Buckinghamshire pantomime, to which I trust she will be buying…05 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Eighth sitting)I think that has probably been a plot line already. The hon. Member for Gloucester understands the point that I am making here within certain elements of employment in this…05 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Eighth sitting)I will finish the line, and then I will. I make that point just to highlight that there are sometimes circumstances in which the flexibilities that the Minister spoke of may not…05 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Eighth sitting)I am grateful to the Minister for her responses. I highlight that this is a probing amendment designed to test the Government’s thinking. I appreciate the flexibilities that she…05 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Eighth sitting)On the one hand, the Minister says that he wants certainty. On the other hand, he is repealing legislation that is but a year old. I fully appreciate that a new Government will…05 Dec 2024HANSARDFarming and Inheritance TaxAt Treasury questions yesterday, I raised with the hon. Gentleman the case of Upper Peppershill farm in Long Crendon, a small 380-acre arable farm in my constituency, which the…04 Dec 2024HANSARDFarming and Inheritance TaxDoes my hon. Friend agree that, as part of Labour Members’ total failure to understand the countryside, they probably do not get that farmers are one of the very few sectors that…04 Dec 2024HANSARDFarming and Inheritance TaxI have no doubt about the hon. Gentleman’s personal commitment, but do not the Liberal Democrats have a credibility problem? For all the rhetoric in this Chamber and outside, when…04 Dec 2024HANSARDLeader of the House… Will the Leader of the House get the Chancellor to come to the Dispatch Box, so that we can have an informed debate about the actual impact the family farm tax will have on the…04 Dec 2024HANSARDFarming and Inheritance TaxI agree.04 Dec 2024HANSARDFarming and Inheritance TaxWill the hon. Member give way?04 Dec 2024HANSARDFarming and Inheritance TaxWill the hon. Member give way?04 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Fifth sitting)I know the hon. Gentleman is new to the House, but sometimes one has to be a bit ridiculous to prove a point and to get answers. Does he agree?03 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Fifth sitting)I think that we have had a good—possibly lengthy for a Bill Committee—debate on this group of six amendments. My fundamental concern and argument is around the cumulative impact…03 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Fifth sitting)My hon. Friend is right. The cumulative impact of other measures should be considered in the round. I might gently push back by saying that some of those matters are perhaps not…03 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Fifth sitting)I understand the hon. Gentleman’s point. Of course, it is no surprise that a Labour Government would seek to bring in such a Bill. We knew it was coming; it was in their…03 Dec 2024