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HANSARDOnline Safety Act 2023 (Qualifying Worldwide Revenue) Regulations 2025That the Grand Committee do consider the Online Safety Act 2023 (Qualifying Worldwide Revenue) Regulations 2025. Relevant document: 31st Report from the Secondary Legislation…08 Sept 2025HANSARDOnline Safety Act 2023 (Qualifying Worldwide Revenue) Regulations 2025I thank all noble Lords, especially my noble friend Lord Stevenson, the noble Baroness, Lady Humphreys, and the noble Viscount, Lord Camrose, for their valuable contributions to…08 Sept 2025HANSARDOnline Safety Act 2023 (Qualifying Worldwide Revenue) Regulations 2025My Lords, as set out in the Online Safety Act 2023, Ofcom is empowered to make regulations that define how the qualifying worldwide revenue—QWR—of a provider of a regulated…08 Sept 2025HANSARDOnline Safety Act 2023 (Qualifying Worldwide Revenue) Regulations 2025My noble friend makes a good point. Ofcom is consulting on the guidance to help providers understand the ways of apportioning revenue in a “just and reasonable” manner. Its…08 Sept 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillThis is Report.23 Jul 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillMy Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Jackson of Peterborough, and my noble friend Lady O’Grady of Upper Holloway, for contributing to this debate, and to the noble…23 Jul 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillGood try. My Lords, I am grateful to all noble Lords who have spoken. On behalf of these Benches, I wish the noble Lord, Lord Aberdare, all the best for his forthcoming…23 Jul 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillFront Bench.23 Jul 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillMy Lords, I thank all noble Lords who spoke—my noble friends Lord Hendy, Lady O’Grady, Lord Monks and Lord Berkeley, and the noble Baroness, Lady Verma. The noble Lord, Lord…21 Jul 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillMy Lords, I am grateful to all noble Lords who have spoken. I may not agree with some of the sentiments of some noble Lords, but I have listened to all the arguments in the last…21 Jul 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillMy Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Bennett of Manor Castle, for tabling Amendment 127A. Although it rightly raises the important issue of pay inequality, it effectively…21 Jul 2025HANSARDRenters’ Rights BillGood.21 Jul 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillIt is just like any other right that employees expect, such as health and safety, annual leave and all that. The right to join a union does not mean that they have to join a…21 Jul 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillMy Lords, if the noble Lord starts throwing statistics around, I can throw statistics at him as well. As I said earlier, the Deloitte survey shows that the UK is the top…16 Jul 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillMy Lords, I am grateful to all noble Lords who have spoken. Amendments 108 and 109, tabled by the noble Lord, Lord Moynihan of Chelsea, would amend Clause 27. I thank the noble…16 Jul 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillThe R3 website said that it was concerned about the amendment because it may devalue a company’s valuation on an ongoing basis because of the day-one rights accorded to employees.…16 Jul 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillNoble Lords opposite may laugh but this is the Lloyds Business Barometer, which I am sure many noble Lords across the aisle will know—with a second consecutive rise in workforce…16 Jul 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillWe got into government one year ago, after 14 years. Business confidence was very low then, and at the same time unemployment was on the rise. At the end of the day, we are making…16 Jul 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillMy Lords, I am grateful to all noble Lords who have spoken in this debate. Amendment 94 from the noble Baroness, Lady Noakes, would exempt specific groups from all or some of the…16 Jul 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillMy Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Hunt of Wirral, for his contribution and to the noble Lord, Lord Goddard, for speaking to his amendment. Amendment 194, tabled by…16 Jul 2025