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HANSARDEmployment Rights BillWith all due respect, this Bill is full of situations in which the consultation for its implementation is yet to be completed. Having adopted a principle in primary legislation,…13 May 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillMy Lords, we could hardly have expected two more expert speakers to propose this amendment. This is another case where society is getting something on the cheap and, even though…13 May 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillMy Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have spoken in what has been a very interesting debate. I will try to reflect on what I have heard as I speak; that will make my job quite…13 May 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillIt would be very useful if she could share it with the other Front Benches as well.13 May 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillBefore the Minister exits the review, it clearly reflects on a number of the issues in the Bill. It would make an awful lot of sense, if the Government are going to do this within…13 May 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillMy Lords, I was a little disappointed that the noble Lord, Lord Moynihan, did not welcome me back as well, but I am coming to terms with that disappointment. To briefly refer back…08 May 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillI thank the Minister for her partial response, but will she reveal the draft of those regulations while we still have an opportunity to debate them? Secondly, I think she was…08 May 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillI do not know whether I am allowed to intervene on this, but I wonder whether the noble Lord heard the Minister say that the Government are consulting on draft regulations.…08 May 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillI am excited by the noble Lord’s anecdote, as I was by other noble Lords’ anecdotes, but would he perhaps concede that that was several years ago and the employment market, and…08 May 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillMy Lords, in the main, this is a reasonable debate—or, rather, a debate about “reasonable”. We have yet to hear the proposal from the noble Lord, Lord Sharpe, on Amendments 22 and…08 May 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillThese are probing amendments; they are designed not for us to tell the Government what we think, but for them to tell us what they think. Simply knocking our argument down does…08 May 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillI apologise for intervening again. That is a really helpful response, because it confirms my fears. The less specific the supporting documentation is around what is reasonable,…08 May 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillOn a number of occasions, the Minister set out that the Government are consulting. What is the timetable for that consultation, and when can we expect the results from it?08 May 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillMy Lords, this is another one of those divided-off groups. I am going to speak to impact assessments and reserve what I say on tribunals for the next group. There is a danger when…08 May 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillWhen I talked about taking the Bill on a holiday, I was not joking; I was serious, and it would be quite nice if the Minister would take it seriously and respond.08 May 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillMy Lords, just when I was getting worried that everybody was going to agree, the noble Lord, Lord Jackson, popped up to rescue us. In his objection, it seems that the noble Lord…08 May 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillI will not give way. I apologise to the noble Baroness, Lady Penn. Had I been a little more organised, I would have signed her amendment.08 May 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillWill the noble Lord stop interrupting me?08 May 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillIf I get to a point where I feel like it, I will. At the moment, I would like to develop my point. The issue in Amendment 64 was dealt with very well by the noble Baroness, Lady…08 May 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillI was about to, but I clearly will not now, so the noble Lord can fly for that one. Flexible working is an important tool for getting people back in the workplace and keeping them…08 May 2025