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HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Thirteenth sitting)I will avoid the temptation to start to read out the PISA statistics. It is important that the Bill that is published today is seen alongside this Bill, because together they chip…17 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Thirteenth sitting)Are there any left?17 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Thirteenth sitting)Will the Minister give way?17 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Thirteenth sitting)Does the hon. Lady accept that it is not just the PISA rankings that show great advances in achievement in English schools, but the TIMSS—trends in international mathematics and…17 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Thirteenth sitting)On schools’ ability to deliver, my hon. Friend the Member for Bridgwater asked the hon. Gentleman a moment ago to acknowledge the significant rise in the performance of English…17 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Fourteenth sitting)Yes, and free schools have the academy freedoms that we are talking about undermining with this and other legislation. I just wanted to draw that example to my hon. Friend’s…17 Dec 2024HANSARD Responsibilities of Housing DevelopersWe are sent here not to consider anecdotes and individual case studies, but to consider legal frameworks and systems. If the hon. Gentleman wants to remove some of the systemic…11 Dec 2024HANSARDBorder Security: CollaborationThe Home Secretary has not answered very many questions today, so can she answer this very clear question: which metric should we use, and by which date, to allow us to judge…11 Dec 2024HANSARD Responsibilities of Housing DevelopersI congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Keighley and Ilkley (Robbie Moore) on securing this debate. I echo his comments, especially on early consultation and problems with…11 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Ninth sitting)I should probably make reference to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests: I am an unpaid trustee at the Index on Censorship, which may be relevant to this…10 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Ninth sitting)Would my hon. Friend give way?10 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Ninth sitting)Will my hon. Friend give way just one more time? I have an excellent example that I would like to share.10 Dec 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsT8. One in 50 Albanians in Britain is in jail, and foreign nationals such as Jamaicans, Iraqis and Somalis are also disproportionately likely to be criminals. We need better data…10 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Ninth sitting)It has just been drawn to my attention that the Health Secretary is the subject of an official complaint to the Labour party for his jokes about the former Transport Secretary at…10 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Tenth sitting)I have absolutely no intention of correcting the record, because the record will be correct. I think the hon. Member misunderstands my point, which was not to say that in that…10 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Tenth sitting)Will the hon. Gentleman give way?10 Dec 2024HANSARDTerrorism (Protection of Premises) BillThe hon. Gentleman is making an eloquent speech about the “protect” element of the counter-terrorism strategy. It is clear from the Manchester attack inquiry report that the…09 Dec 2024HANSARDTerrorism (Protection of Premises) BillWhat has been striking about the debate so far is the extent of cross-party consensus on this matter. My worry is that the Bill contains a set of proposals that we might be…09 Dec 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsI assure the Education Secretary that we are very positive about schooling in this country. I am sure that she will want to thank all school leaders for their work to help English…09 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Eighth sitting)The hon. Gentleman is making a powerful case for the universalism, or near-universalism, of employment rights and presumably, within that, trade union rights. The power to…05 Dec 2024