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HANSARDStrikes (Minimum Service Levels) BillThe TransPennine Express uses that clause, and that is why the public can see through this legislation. This is not about maintaining minimum service levels; this comes back to…09 Mar 2023HANSARDStrikes (Minimum Service Levels) BillSo is the noble Lord saying that those are the circumstances in which the powers in the Bill would be introduced? If so, can he explain passenger transport to me?09 Mar 2023HANSARDStrikes (Minimum Service Levels) BillSorry to interrupt, but the Health Minister was able to do that so I do not quite understand why the noble Baroness cannot.09 Mar 2023HANSARDStrikes (Minimum Service Levels) BillNormally that is a good thing in my party, but in this context it is not, because it failed completely. But let us go back to the impact assessment on passenger rail when it was…09 Mar 2023HANSARDStrikes (Minimum Service Levels) BillWe are going to return to these areas as we progress through the clauses. I just want to return to my noble friend’s point; the Minister only sort of answered the question. This…09 Mar 2023HANSARDStrikes (Minimum Service Levels) BillI hope that we will come back to this. I keep coming back to the words of the noble Lord, Lord Lisvane, which always echo in my mind: policy and legislation. We have legislation…09 Mar 2023HANSARDStrikes (Minimum Service Levels) BillI asked the Minister a specific question but I am afraid that he did not answer it. Do the three consultations that have been issued cover all the categories of worker within that…09 Mar 2023HANSARDStrikes (Minimum Service Levels) BillMy Lords—09 Mar 2023HANSARDStrikes (Minimum Service Levels) BillI certainly would not want to mislead the Committee. What I was trying to say at the beginning is that the problem with the Bill is that we do not know what it is going to lead…09 Mar 2023HANSARDStrikes (Minimum Service Levels) BillIt is not funny.09 Mar 2023HANSARDStrikes (Minimum Service Levels) BillI do not understand why it is “completely irrelevant”. Is the noble Baroness saying it is irrelevant if people participate in a ballot, there is a democratic decision, a dispute…09 Mar 2023HANSARDStrikes (Minimum Service Levels) BillMy Lords, I am sure that the Minister will feel a bit like me, having done two days of Committee on the retained EU law Bill and now going straight into this. I hope the Committee…09 Mar 2023HANSARDStrikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill09 Mar 2023HANSARDStrikes (Minimum Service Levels) BillI hope—I plead with the Minister—that the noble Baroness reads the debate on this in Hansard . If questions arise, I hope he will encourage her to write to us, because we have…09 Mar 2023HANSARDIran: Toxic Chemical AgentsMy Lords, I know that the Minister will not speculate but, just to pick up the point made by the noble Lord, Lord Alton, there is increasing evidence of the state’s involvement in…09 Mar 2023HANSARDStrikes (Minimum Service Levels) BillIt is my turn—the noble Baroness and I are a double act today, and it has been very good. I am glad we degrouped the amendments on these sectors to probe the Government on exactly…09 Mar 2023HANSARDStrikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill09 Mar 2023HANSARDStrikes (Minimum Service Levels) BillMy Lords, this has been an excellent debate. Both noble Lords on the Cross Benches have highlighted something that we all knew would happen—that this debate would beg a question…09 Mar 2023HANSARDStrikes (Minimum Service Levels) BillIf I may correct the noble Baroness, the Health Minister was not setting out the consultation, which is restricted to the ambulance services. He was specifically talking about…09 Mar 2023HANSARDStrikes (Minimum Service Levels) BillIf I may interrupt again, I think this is important because we are dealing with a skeleton Bill that outlines six sectors in which the Government will be given powers. What the…09 Mar 2023