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HANSARDFarming and Inheritance TaxNo. The message from this Government is that we are committed to farming, and to making it profitable and sustainable. That has to be the message that we send out to those young…04 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Fifth sitting)The amendments may create a two-tier workforce, as the shadow Minister suggested. Does he know how many employees in the UK would not have the benefit of these rights if we made…03 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Sixth sitting)Will the hon. Lady give way?03 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Sixth sitting)Yes, I would, and it is entirely right that it should be. We have to have a level playing field within the UK; otherwise, we see all the perverse incentives that hon. Members,…03 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Sixth sitting)It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Mr Stringer. The Agency Workers Regulations 2010 came into force in October 2011, under the leadership of David Cameron and the…03 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Fifth sitting)I should refer to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests and my membership of the GMB. The shadow Minister talks about employment rights from day one and the…03 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Sixth sitting)Will the hon. Gentleman give way?03 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Sixth sitting)I want to pick up a point that the shadow Minister made about the effect of the pandemic on the backlog of employment tribunal claims. When the last Labour Government left office,…03 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Sixth sitting)I am grateful to the shadow Minister for giving way so often. I want to address a principle: the Working Time Regulations 1998 established that if an employee, or indeed an…03 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (First sitting)I also refer to my declaration of interests. I am a member of GMB.26 Nov 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Second sitting)I refer to my declaration in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests. I am a member of the GMB.26 Nov 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Second sitting)Q You are probably the second or third witness who has raised the idea that the removal of the “one establishment” reference will require consultation with people who are not at…26 Nov 2024HANSARDSpeaker’s StatementFurther to that point of order, Mr Speaker. It is wonderful to hear all the various tributes to John and I wanted to share my own memories of him. As some have mentioned, when it…25 Nov 2024HANSARD Paternity Leave and PayI thank my hon. Friend the Member for Telford (Shaun Davies) for bringing forward the debate. I have a declaration of interest: next Tuesday, I will become a father for the third…23 Oct 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsT4. In 2020, the US committed £250 million to support peace building and Palestinian economic development. Will the Minister consider how we can work with our partners in the US,…22 Oct 2024HANSARD Employment Rights BillI, too, am a proud member of the GMB. I refer the House to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests. This Bill delivers on a key Labour manifesto commitment. It…21 Oct 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsUK universities have experienced a fivefold increase in antisemitic incidents since the 7 October terrorist attacks. At a recent meeting of the Union of Jewish Students, I heard…21 Oct 2024HANSARDEngagementsQ5. Conservative-led Derbyshire county council is proposing to cut adult day centres and care homes across Derbyshire. My constituent Pat was diagnosed with dementia in 2016. The…09 Oct 2024HANSARD Hamas Attacks: First AnniversaryThe clarion call from this Parliament is “Bring them home.” Hamas were indiscriminate in their killing and in those that they dragged back to their terror tunnels in Gaza. They…07 Oct 2024HANSARD Hamas Attacks: First AnniversaryI thank my hon. Friend for his intervention and could not agree more with his experience of the kibbutz. In July 2023 I visited Kibbutz Kfar Aza, which was founded by the Mizrahi…07 Oct 2024