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HANSARDInsecure Employment and Poverty6. What assessment he has made of the potential impact of insecure employment on people in poverty.18 Dec 2023HANSARDTopical QuestionsT5. Ministers are rightly putting a great deal of money and focus behind back to work programmes across the country. What progress have they made towards transparently publishing…18 Dec 2023HANSARDTopical QuestionsT3. I know the Minister understands that open-access rail can provide better, cheaper, more varied and more resilient services for passengers. In the next few weeks or months, how…14 Dec 2023HANSARDTopical QuestionsT7. In yesterday’s data Bill debate, Ministers gave clear and positive replies about the importance of interoperable data standards, and the need for an investable timetable of…30 Nov 2023HANSARDRegulators: Statutory Duties8. If she will make a comparative assessment of the adequacy of the number of statutory duties of the Competition and Markets Authority and other regulators reporting to her…30 Nov 2023HANSARDRegulators: Statutory DutiesRegulators such as the CMA have huge powers, so Parliament must give clear instructions about how those powers should and should not be used. Does the Minister agree that the…30 Nov 2023HANSARD Data Protection and Digital Information BillI rise to speak to new clause 2, which, given its low number, everyone will realise I tabled pretty early in the Bill’s passage. It addresses the smart data clauses that sit as a…29 Nov 2023HANSARD Data Protection and Digital Information BillI wish I had seen something, because then I would be able to pull my amendment or inform the House. I have not seen something, and I think such a plan is essential, not just for…29 Nov 2023HANSARD Data Protection and Digital Information Billrose—29 Nov 2023HANSARD Data Protection and Digital Information BillThe Minister is very kind. I just wanted to pick up on his last point about smart data. He is right to say that the provisions are incredibly important and potentially extremely…29 Nov 2023HANSARD Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers BillI join the queue of people congratulating the Minister on his new role, which is well deserved. I think that I am right in saying that any appeal against a fine from another…20 Nov 2023HANSARD Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers BillThe Minister is being very generous. I just want to understand why the approach differs from that taken in identical appeals by other companies against other economic regulators.20 Nov 2023HANSARD Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers BillMay I start where I left off when the Bill hit Second Reading by saying that it is extremely welcome and creates an enormous amount of important and much-needed change? I continue…20 Nov 2023HANSARD Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers BillMy hon. Friend is right: I may have been guilty of being too glass half empty, rather than glass half full. The new clause goes a very long way and enfranchises large chunks of…20 Nov 2023HANSARD Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers BillI do not know whether the hon. Lady heard my earlier remarks, but let me reassure her that new clause 31 would not reduce the CMA just to that; it would still have all its other…20 Nov 2023HANSARDTopical QuestionsT8. Open-access passenger and freight train operators have recovered faster since the pandemic, experience higher staff morale with fewer strikes, provide better deals for…26 Oct 2023HANSARDTopical QuestionsT7. I thank Ministers for their earlier helpful replies about NHS dentistry, but I am afraid the situation in Weston-super-Mare remains extremely worrying. Local residents…17 Oct 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillFurther to that point about the remaining gaps in the Bill, I appreciate what the Minister says about this area being a moving target. Everybody—not just in this country, but…12 Sept 2023HANSARDEngagementsQ9. May I interest the Prime Minister in proposals from the commission for carbon competitiveness, which I chair, that would deliver net zero cheaply and without deindustrialising…06 Sept 2023HANSARDTopical QuestionsT8. Universal credit has been hugely effective in making sure it always pays to work, but for jobseekers with no savings who used to be paid daily or weekly the five-week wait for…04 Sept 2023