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HANSARDDraft Product Safety and Metrology (Amendment and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2022Yes. We are working to bring the review forward as quickly as possible, but as I say, we want to make sure that we do a good job and not just accelerate it to an arbitrary date,…07 Dec 2022HANSARD Employment and the High StreetThat is a great example. Through the different councils, we are determined to develop different best practice examples. My hon. Friend points to the leadership in his context, and…07 Dec 2022HANSARDEmployment Relations (Flexible Working) Bill (First sitting)I thank the hon. Member for Bolton South East for bringing this Bill before the House. I twice had the honour of bringing forward legislation through a private Member’s Bill in my…07 Dec 2022HANSARDEmployment Relations (Flexible Working) Bill (First sitting)The hon. Lady raises an important point. Of course, as she will be aware, we engage heavily with ACAS on such provisions, and it does some excellent work in providing guidance for…07 Dec 2022HANSARDEmployment Relations (Flexible Working) Bill (First sitting)No, the review was of the 2014 regulations, but it was published in September last year, so the actual consultation was much more recent than that.07 Dec 2022HANSARDEmployment Relations (Flexible Working) Bill (First sitting)The source was the post-implementation review of the 2014 right to request flexible working regulations, which was published in September 2021 and found that, in most workplaces,…07 Dec 2022HANSARDEmployment Relations (Flexible Working) Bill (First sitting)It is a pleasure to serve with you in the Chair, Mr Davies. I thank the hon. Member for Hampstead and Kilburn for drawing the Committee’s attention to an important point that I…07 Dec 2022HANSARDEmployment Relations (Flexible Working) Bill (First sitting)I entirely agree. Whether they are related to a disability, childcare responsibilities or semi-retirement, such provisions mean that we can bring talented people back into the…07 Dec 2022HANSARDDraft Product Safety and Metrology (Amendment and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2022I apologise, Mrs Latham—she started it. I do not agree that we should stick to the CE marking and not have our own product standards system, because that would miss an opportunity…07 Dec 2022HANSARDDraft Product Safety and Metrology (Amendment and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2022I will not give way any more. I want to challenge a few of the other points that the hon. Lady made that do not relate to this SI. She talked about low growth. We have had the…07 Dec 2022HANSARDDraft Product Safety and Metrology (Amendment and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2022It was not this Minister who made that promise, so I cannot speak to that particular commitment, but any review should be done properly and not rushed, and we need to get this…07 Dec 2022HANSARDDraft Product Safety and Metrology (Amendment and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2022I thank the hon. Lady for her contribution, and the hon. Member for Brighton, Kemptown for his intervention. The fact that we are taking a pragmatic approach to the issue should…07 Dec 2022HANSARDDraft Product Safety and Metrology (Amendment and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2022I beg to move, That the Committee has considered the draft Product Safety and Metrology (Amendment and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2022. It is a pleasure to serve with…07 Dec 2022HANSARD Employment and the High StreetThe hon. Member makes a good point. I was just going to come to his experiences shopping with his family in the physical high street. My family does that too. On Saturday, I was…07 Dec 2022HANSARD Employment and the High StreetIt is a pleasure to serve with you in the Chair, Mrs Cummins. I congratulate the hon. Member for Hornsey and Wood Green (Catherine West) on securing this important debate. As I…07 Dec 2022HANSARD Employment and the High StreetWill the hon. Lady set out what Labour’s policy is? So far, I have heard only that it will scrap business rates; I have not heard what it will put in their place to raise the…07 Dec 2022HANSARDFlexible Working Consultation: Government ResponseThe Government have today published their response to the consultation on flexible working. This delivers on our manifesto commitment to encourage flexible working, and represents…05 Dec 2022HANSARDDraft Internal Market Information System Regulation (Amendment etc.) Regulations 2021I join the hon. Member for Newcastle upon Tyne Central in thanking the two Committees whose work preceded this debate, and I thank hon. Members for their consideration of this…01 Dec 2022HANSARDDraft Internal Market Information System Regulation (Amendment etc.) Regulations 2021Co-operation is always the best way. I agree with the hon. Gentleman that we need to be pragmatic in finding solutions. This statutory instrument is not about resolving things…01 Dec 2022HANSARDDraft Internal Market Information System Regulation (Amendment etc.) Regulations 2021We do not want to refight previous battles, and that is what a second referendum would open up for people. That is not where we want to be. We want to move forward, and that is…01 Dec 2022