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HANSARDDraft National Minimum Wage (Offshore Employment) (Amendment) Order 2020I thank the hon. Member for Wythenshawe and Sale for supporting the draft order, and I welcome him to his role. I think this is the first time he has shadowed me in Committee. I…22 Jun 2020HANSARD Covid-19: AviationMy hon. Friend is right. Across Government, we are working with the sector, at pace, and with officials and representatives, to get those measures in place so that people can get…03 Jun 2020HANSARD Covid-19: AviationThe hon. Lady is right: businesses are judged by the way they behave and the way they treat their employees. We will need to wait to see how British Airways is judged by the…03 Jun 2020HANSARD Covid-19: AviationMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. Air connectivity with all our devolved Administrations, particularly Scotland, is important, and regional connectivity and our smaller airports…03 Jun 2020HANSARD Covid-19: AviationYes.03 Jun 2020HANSARD Covid-19: AviationThe hon. Gentleman has raised several of these points with me previously, and I have tried to articulate to him before the support being offered to the aviation sector. Once it…03 Jun 2020HANSARD Covid-19: AviationI have been clear with the hon. Member for Leicester East (Claudia Webbe) about my position on that particular point. We need to recognise that coronavirus has had an…03 Jun 2020HANSARD Covid-19: AviationI thank the hon. Lady for raising that point, because it is quite right. The Department for Work and Pensions stands ready to support anyone who is affected by the announcements…03 Jun 2020HANSARD Covid-19: AviationI agree with my hon. Friend. As I have outlined, businesses get the benefits from being shareholders in the good times, and they should be sharing the burden in the bad times.…03 Jun 2020HANSARD Covid-19: AviationMy hon. Friend is quite right that the regional airports—our smaller airports throughout the UK—will be and have been affected by coronavirus. I have given my assurances to those…03 Jun 2020HANSARD Covid-19: AviationOur priority is clear: it has been to halt and limit the spread of the coronavirus. Officials in our Department are working with the sector in order to gain a set of standard…03 Jun 2020HANSARD Covid-19: AviationI thank my hon. Friend and note the importance of the Manchester airport, which is close to his constituency, and the work that is done there. We have been engaging with the…03 Jun 2020HANSARD Covid-19: AviationI recognise the importance of the aviation sector in my hon. Friend’s constituency; he has been a champion of it and spoken to me about this issue a number of times already. We…03 Jun 2020HANSARD Covid-19: AviationThe hon. Lady will accept that I have been engaging regularly throughout the last 10 weeks with the whole aviation sector, including BA and other organisations that have made…03 Jun 2020HANSARD Covid-19: AviationMy hon. Friend makes a very good suggestion. I will happily take that away and see what I can do.03 Jun 2020HANSARD Covid-19: AviationI have been very clear that the priority for this Government is to halt or limit the spread of coronavirus. It has to be accepted that we need to work to find those measures that…03 Jun 2020HANSARD Covid-19: AviationMy Department and I engage with the unions with regard to the impact on jobs. I have some other meetings coming up with the unions. Within the Department, we have been very clear,…03 Jun 2020HANSARD Covid-19: AviationMy right hon. Friend will know that in DFT, we are working closely with our colleagues in the Home Office on the implementation of the borders and quarantining policy to ensure…03 Jun 2020HANSARD Covid-19: AviationThe Home Secretary will make a statement directly after this session, and I would not want to pre-empt anything that she may be inclined to speak about. It is right that at this…03 Jun 2020HANSARD Covid-19: AviationMy right hon. Friend the Chancellor has asked me to respond on his behalf. The covid-19 crisis has affected every person in the country and every sector of the UK economy, and…03 Jun 2020