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HANSARDStrikes (Minimum Service Levels) BillI must give up soon, but first I give way to my right hon. Friend.30 Jan 2023HANSARDStrikes (Minimum Service Levels) BillIt is a pleasure to follow the right hon. Member for Ashton-under-Lyne (Angela Rayner). I am a supporter of the Bill. I think it is a good and proportionate Bill, but it is badly…30 Jan 2023HANSARDStrikes (Minimum Service Levels) BillI am slightly more ambitious than the right hon. Gentleman, because I think that, in and of itself, clause 3—I hope Opposition Members will take note of this—is an argument for…30 Jan 2023HANSARDStrikes (Minimum Service Levels) BillI do not think there is any great need to “ram it through”, as the hon. Gentleman phrases it. The secondary legislation will not be written in time to affect the current set of…30 Jan 2023HANSARDStrikes (Minimum Service Levels) BillI am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman, but I think that he attributes to me more influence than I have. My fusillade against clause 3 will not change many votes this…30 Jan 2023HANSARDStrikes (Minimum Service Levels) BillI am afraid that the hon. Gentleman is completely wrong about that. In all the legislation that I was involved with, I pushed against Henry VIII powers on every single occasion…30 Jan 2023HANSARDStrikes (Minimum Service Levels) BillI think that the Bill should set out clearly what it is trying to achieve, so I will end with an appeal to the other place: I hope that their lordships will look at clause 3 with…30 Jan 2023HANSARDStrikes (Minimum Service Levels) BillI should love to give way to the hon. Gentleman, but lots of people want to speak and I have gone on for too long.30 Jan 2023HANSARDStrikes (Minimum Service Levels) BillI am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving way. I am in favour of their lordships doing their proper job, which is revising legislation to make this legislation, which is very…30 Jan 2023HANSARDStrikes (Minimum Service Levels) BillI do not want to be disagreeable, but I do not take that view. I think the Bill has been brought forward as it is because, actually, it is easy for Governments to bring forward…30 Jan 2023HANSARDStrikes (Minimum Service Levels) BillI agree with what the Bill is intended to do. I think that minimum levels of service are perfectly reasonable and not an outrageous thing to ask; they apply to the police and to…30 Jan 2023HANSARDStrikes (Minimum Service Levels) BillThe Bill is, as I said, a particularly extreme example of bad practice with the least possible excuse for it. There are many Bills where we can find some reason why it had to be…30 Jan 2023HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Billrose—18 Jan 2023HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillSurely the hon. Gentleman is aware that our first legislation on consumer rights was in 1893, some time before the European Union, and that the Act giving paid holidays was 1938,…18 Jan 2023HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillI am very grateful to my right hon. Friend for giving way, because I, too, am very much in favour of parliamentary scrutiny and things being done properly. Everything that is…18 Jan 2023HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillMy hon. Friend the Member for Bromley and Chislehurst (Sir Robert Neill) is fundamentally wrong. The Bill is providing legal certainty. Rather than having a flow of EU law…18 Jan 2023HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillI am very grateful. I just want to clarify a point. It is not my word that has any significance in this; it is a Dispatch Box commitment, by which Governments tend to be bound…18 Jan 2023HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillThe right hon. Gentleman makes a fair point. There will be some work for the Scottish Parliament to do to maintain the status quo. That is a policy decision for the Scottish…18 Jan 2023HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillMay I begin by thanking the fantastic Bill team, some of whom may be listening to our proceedings this afternoon? This was an extremely difficult piece of work to pull together.…18 Jan 2023HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillFirst, may I congratulate the Minister for Industry and Investment Security, my hon. Friend the Member for Wealden (Ms Ghani), on her brilliant performance today and on taking on…18 Jan 2023