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HANSARDSeafarers' Wages Bill [ Lords ] (First sitting)I do not want to detain the Committee for long, but I want to speak briefly to this issue. The rapidly falling number of British ratings in the maritime industry is a crying…17 Jan 2023HANSARDSeafarers' Wages Bill [ Lords ] (Second sitting)I am interested in why the hon. Lady thinks putting the requirement to report into a statutory format would create a delay. How on earth does she believe it would delay anything?17 Jan 2023HANSARDSeafarers' Wages Bill [ Lords ] (Second sitting)The crucial point about safety is that the Dover to Calais run involves an incredibly fast turnaround and the work is incredibly intensive. It is not just that these exploited…17 Jan 2023HANSARDSeafarers' Wages Bill [ Lords ] (Second sitting)The Minister must accept that, when we consider the shocking and utterly disgraceful behaviour of P&O Ferries, companies such as that—and Irish Ferries, which I respectfully…17 Jan 2023HANSARDSeafarers' Wages Bill [ Lords ] (Second sitting)The analogy for fining a company such as P&O Ferries 2,500 quid is a bit like slapping a parking ticket on the windscreen of a Bentley for parking in a disabled bay. They are just…17 Jan 2023HANSARDSeafarers' Wages Bill [ Lords ] (Second sitting)Is it right that an obvious calculation that would have been made about sacking 786 British seafarers and replacing them with exploited, poorly paid staff was that nothing was…17 Jan 2023HANSARDSeafarers' Wages Bill [ Lords ] (Second sitting)I think the hon. Lady misunderstood what I said; perhaps I was not clear enough. I did not say that the Government have not taken action. Of course they have—we have a Bill. That…17 Jan 2023HANSARDSeafarers' Wages Bill [ Lords ] (Second sitting)rose—17 Jan 2023HANSARD Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) BillI am grateful to the Secretary of State for giving way. He wants to talk about minimum safety levels. The reality is this: after 12 years of a Tory Government, minimum safety no…16 Jan 2023HANSARD Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) BillWill the Secretary of State give way?16 Jan 2023HANSARDSeafarers’ Wages Bill [Lords]I do not intend to detain the House for very long, but I am grateful to speak in this very important debate. I am concerned that the Bill simply does not go far enough, but I pay…19 Dec 2022HANSARD Motor Neurone Disease Research: Government FundingI agree with the hon. Gentleman, who is an incredibly impressive campaigner on the issue. I pay tribute to him. He is knowledgeable on the subject, and he raises it both publicly…13 Dec 2022HANSARD Motor Neurone Disease Research: Government FundingI am grateful to the Minister and I welcome everything that she has helpfully just announced. However, my researcher spoke yesterday to the association and it still requests that…13 Dec 2022HANSARD Motor Neurone Disease Research: Government FundingI beg to move, That this House has considered Government funding for research into motor neurone disease. It is an absolute pleasure to serve under your chairship, Mr Mundell. MND…13 Dec 2022HANSARDDraft Non-Domestic Rating (Chargeable Amounts) (England) Regulations 2022I do not intend to detain the Committee long, but I felt that I should speak briefly. Businesses in my constituency recognise that it is the Labour party that is on the side of…12 Dec 2022HANSARDNHS Industrial Action: Government PreparationsThe Government will blame anybody and everybody for these avoidable strikes, but he knows full well that the RCN is not even affiliated to the TUC, let alone the Labour party. If…12 Dec 2022HANSARDRussia: UK CompaniesFenner Dunlop has existed in Marfleet in my constituency since the company Fenner was established in 1861. It manufactures conveyer belts for the mining industry. It refused to…07 Dec 2022HANSARDPost Office: GLO Compensation SchemeI thank the Secretary of State for his work in coming up with the scheme in such a short time. As he knows, I was instructed to defend one of these sub-postmasters in criminal…07 Dec 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsT3. The public are not daft. They know that the backlogs in the NHS existed well before the pandemic, they know that the NHS was already on its knees, and they know that it was…06 Dec 2022HANSARD Government PPE Contractsrose —06 Dec 2022