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HANSARDEmployment Rights BillMy Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Sharpe of Epsom, for tabling amendments relating to the fair work agency’s powers. Clause 94 introduces a single power to enter business…18 Jun 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillI do not want to disappoint the noble Lord, but I am afraid he is stuck with me again. I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Coffey, for tabling amendments on legal assistance and the…18 Jun 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillMy Lords, I thank the noble Lords, Lord Sharpe of Epsom and—in absentia—Lord Fox, for tabling Amendments 271ZZA, 274, 277, 278 and 328. Before I go any further, I think we all…18 Jun 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillI thank the noble Lord, Lord Paddick, for tabling Amendments 279ZA and 279ZB and the noble Baroness, Lady Hamwee, for her Amendment 273PA. I reflect that on an earlier group we…18 Jun 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillI was certainly happy to reflect that there was cross-party agreement on this. I am unable to recall the exact terms of the Good Work Review here, so I undertake to write to the…16 Jun 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillMy Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lords, Lord Freyberg and Lord Clement-Jones, and the noble Viscount, Lord Colville of Culross, for tabling their amendments, all concerning…16 Jun 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillMy Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Hunt of Wirral, for introducing these amendments tabled by his noble friend Lord Sharpe of Epsom. I thought that, with the contribution from…16 Jun 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillThat the House do now resume.16 Jun 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillI am always happy to meet with noble Lords on these important matters.16 Jun 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillMy Lords, I beg to move that the House resumes. We will then move on to consider two Foreign Office Statements taken in the other place. In recognition that the Statements have…16 Jun 2025HANSARDEnvironmental Targets (Public Authorities) Bill [HL]My Lords, I thank the noble Viscount, Lord Trenchard, for his amendment. He made some points about the new formation of Great British Energy-Nuclear. I am afraid that some of the…13 Jun 2025HANSARDEnvironmental Targets (Public Authorities) Bill [HL]My Lords, I congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Krebs, on his Private Member’s Bill, and thank him and all noble Lords who took part in the debate on Amendment 1. I look forward to…13 Jun 2025HANSARDEnvironmental Targets (Public Authorities) Bill [HL]My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Evans, for his amendment to include the Canal & River Trust in the list of authorities in Clause 2(2). I also pay some tribute to his…13 Jun 2025HANSARDAsylum Support (Prescribed Period) Bill [HL]My Lords, this has been an interesting and, at two points in particular, a confusing debate from my perspective. Before I go into some of the detail of my noble friend Lady…13 Jun 2025HANSARDAsylum Support (Prescribed Period) Bill [HL]I thank noble Lords for this short but interesting debate on this group of amendments. I will try to be brief, given the time. My noble friend Lady Lister’s amendment effectively…13 Jun 2025HANSARDUnited Kingdom Jobs MarketI thank the noble Lord for his question. He, like me, will be waiting with bated breath for the publication of the Government’s industrial strategy White Paper, which will set out…11 Jun 2025HANSARDUnited Kingdom Jobs MarketI thank the noble Baroness for her question. She is right to identify the huge personal impact of long periods of economic inactivity and joblessness, as well as the obvious…11 Jun 2025HANSARDUnited Kingdom Jobs MarketI thank my noble friend for his question. He is absolutely right: we need to do whatever we can to make sure that those barriers to work are torn down. To refer back to the…11 Jun 2025HANSARDUnited Kingdom Jobs MarketI thank my noble friend for that question. She makes an essential point about growing young people’s aspiration and potential, as well as about the future of our economy and of…11 Jun 2025HANSARDUnited Kingdom Jobs MarketI thank the noble Lord for his question. I have enjoyed debating issues around the Government’s flagship Employment Rights Bill with him during some fairly lengthy Committee…11 Jun 2025