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HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Eleventh sitting)I take on board the comments that the Opposition spokespersons have made, but if we put something in the Bill now, we would be pre-empting the consultation. It is very important…12 Dec 2024HANSARDParental Leave Take-upThe parental rights survey 2019 found that 89% of employee mothers took maternity leave and 70% of employee fathers took paternity leave, but take-up of shared parental leave is…12 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Eleventh sitting)I am grateful to Opposition Members for tabling their amendments and asking a series of questions. The hon. Member for Chippenham seeks to set the boundaries for the statutory…12 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Twelfth sitting)I recognise that the shadow Minister welcomed the clarification I provided. No doubt there will be debate to come, as is often the case with legal issues, but the Government are…12 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Eleventh sitting)I take the shadow Minister’s point, but that presupposes that businesses bake into their business plans compensation for unfairly dismissing their staff, and I do not think any…12 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Tenth sitting)We seem to have lost a few colleagues during the votes; hopefully, they are coming back. It seems a while since they were made, but I will pick up on comments and questions of…10 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Tenth sitting)Let me sum up the debate. The shadow Minister asked some questions, and there were other contributions to the debate, which I hope to come on to. I think that the shadow…10 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Tenth sitting)I will not speak for long on clause 19, because it is a fairly straightforward clause and there are more detailed clauses and amendments that may generate further debate. Clause…10 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Ninth sitting)First, I will acknowledge, as did the shadow Minister, the hon. Member for Mid Buckinghamshire, the work in this area by previous Members of this place, including the former…10 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Ninth sitting)Jacob has gone, hasn’t he?10 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Tenth sitting)It is a pleasure to see you in the Chair, Mr Stringer. As always, I draw the Committee’s attention to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests and my membership of…10 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Ninth sitting)It is a pleasure to see you in the Chair this morning, Mr Mundell. As is customary, I refer to my declaration in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests and my membership of…10 Dec 2024HANSARDFireworks: Sale and UseIt is a pleasure to see you in the Chair, Mr Mundell. As the shadow Secretary of State, the hon. Member for Arundel and South Downs (Andrew Griffith), said, this has been a good…09 Dec 2024HANSARDFireworks: Sale and UseI thank my hon. Friend for her intervention. I think I have already recognised and acknowledged that there is a slight incongruity about how it works, which is something we will…09 Dec 2024HANSARDFireworks: Sale and UseThis is the first time in several years that the campaign has taken place. Hopefully there will be a baseline of evidence that we can look to. I will commit to write to my hon.…09 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Seventh sitting)I beg to move amendment 48, in schedule 1, page 107, line 37, at end insert— “(2A) In subsection (2), for ‘and (6)’ substitute ‘, (6), (7) and (7A)’.” This amendment makes…05 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Seventh sitting)We are not talking about the general running of a business, with reference to shift notice and cancellations; we are talking about a very specific set of circumstances in which an…05 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Eighth sitting)Clause 8 provides for the removal of the waiting period from the statutory sick pay system, meaning that all eligible employees are able to access statutory sick pay from the…05 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Eighth sitting)I beg to move amendment 53, in schedule 1, page 109, line 30, leave out “last” and insert “latest”. This amendment and amendment 54 concern the calculation of a week’s pay for the…05 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Seventh sitting)Amendment 42 is another technical amendment that concerns not the function of the Bill but parliamentary procedure, so if we want another dry, technical debate, we certainly have…05 Dec 2024