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HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Eighteenth sitting)I beg to move amendment 101, in schedule 6, page 133, line 7, at end insert “and the italic heading before that section.” This amendment makes a further consequential amendment to…09 Jan 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Eighteenth sitting)The shadow Minister was quite right to refer back to our earlier debate on flexible working. Today, he certainly is the man with the golden pun, but this set of rules is slightly…09 Jan 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Eighteenth sitting)Enforcement officers need the powers to do their jobs effectively, and that is what we are providing through the Bill. Clause 95 introduces a key safeguard around carrying out the…09 Jan 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Seventeenth sitting)I am grateful to the shadow Minister for not rehearsing the arguments, as we may end up having them every five minutes, given the number of technical amendments we will deal with…09 Jan 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Seventeenth sitting)I beg to move amendment 84, in clause 72, page 79, line 15, at end insert— “(4A) Accordingly, in the case of the exercise by an enforcement officer of an enforcement function of…09 Jan 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Eighteenth sitting)The shadow Minister raises some fair points. I commend him for the work he does on the loan charge, and that all-party group is important. Certainly, HMRC’s functions in terms of…09 Jan 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Eighteenth sitting)Let me deal first with the usual concern raised by the shadow Minister about why we have had to table an amendment. He has probably noticed that schedule 6 contains a considerable…09 Jan 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Eighteenth sitting)I beg to move amendment 92, in clause 83, page 85, line 10, at end insert— “(aa) exercise any power conferred by section 79(2) or (4),”. This amendment would enable an enforcement…09 Jan 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Eighteenth sitting)Data from His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs will be crucial for the investigation and enforcement of many different employment rights beyond the national minimum wage, which HMRC…09 Jan 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Eighteenth sitting)I beg to move amendment 175, in clause 101, page 95, line 11, leave out from “person” to end of line 12 and insert “to disclose information to an enforcing authority where— (a)…09 Jan 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Eighteenth sitting)When carrying out investigatory and enforcement activity, the enforcement officers will need to obtain information relevant to the Secretary of State’s enforcement functions. That…09 Jan 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Eighteenth sitting)The clause refers to where provision is made for authorised enforcement officers to exercise relevant powers under the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984. Those powers are…09 Jan 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Eighteenth sitting)I am sure if we had a Division on that, there would be some interesting comments. It can be difficult to keep up, but your understanding of the current grouping, Sir Christopher,…09 Jan 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Eighteenth sitting)I hope that I can put the shadow Minister’s mind at rest. My interpretation of the provisions of clause 81(2) are that they would apply equally to the provisions of clause 81(3)…09 Jan 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Eighteenth sitting)Clause 76 will require the Secretary of State to prepare and publish a labour market enforcement strategy every three years, which should give an assessment of levels of…09 Jan 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Eighteenth sitting)That is a perfectly reasonable question. It is dealt with in the clauses, which we are about to debate and which address the requirement for the board to set out an annual report…09 Jan 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Eighteenth sitting)I understand the hon. Gentleman’s point, but this is about how we intend to deal with industrial relations and the workplace in future—the tripartite arrangement, where we get…09 Jan 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Fifteenth sitting)I beg to move amendment 72, in clause 46, page 50, line 30, leave out “listed” and insert “qualifying”. This amendment and other amendments to this clause would require a trade…07 Jan 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Fifteenth sitting)The clause is relatively simple in that it seeks to repeal section 15 of the Trade Union Act 2016 by amending the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 to…07 Jan 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Fifteenth sitting)There is.07 Jan 2025