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HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Eighth sitting)On the point about process: at the point at which the Bill came before the House for a Second Reading, how many of its clauses were already subject to revision within the…05 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Eighth sitting)I would be grateful if the Minister could explain what conversations she has had with MI5, MI6 and GCHQ to understand whether, given their unusual, specific, specialist…05 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Eighth sitting)I think the answer to the question must be no. That may be fair enough, but can the Minister tell us whether she has had any conversations with her opposite numbers in the Home…05 Dec 2024HANSARDManagement of Public FinancesLast week, the Chancellor told the CBI conference that she would not come back “with more borrowing or more taxes”. Last Wednesday, the Prime Minister hung her out to dry and…03 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Sixth sitting)I want to add a couple of thoughts, not so much about the principle of the amendments, but about what they say about the process. I note what the hon. Member for Birmingham…03 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Sixth sitting)I am sorry to test everyone’s patience. We have heard at different points during the proceedings that “Good employers do this already.” Undoubtedly, that is true, and where…03 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Fifth sitting)On the cumulative effect of the pressures that are building on business, during our evidence sessions last week with various witnesses, the compelling point was made that we…03 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Fourth sitting)Q Thank you. Can you name a CEO of a real business—not a representative body—employing more than, say, 100 people who would say that this Bill is unambiguously good for the…28 Nov 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Fourth sitting)Q But the only real businesspeople who have been here have been unambiguously against it. Justin Madders: I think you will find that the Co-op is a real business, and it employs…28 Nov 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Fourth sitting)That is true. That is a correction.28 Nov 2024HANSARDHorseracing5. What plans she has to support the horseracing industry.28 Nov 2024HANSARDHorseracingMr Speaker, I am not sure if it is in order to raise the travesty of the refereeing decision last night in the Aston Villa-Juventus match, but I thought I would give it a try. The…28 Nov 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Third sitting)Q Further to a point that Mr Turner made, my recollection of the session on Tuesday was that re-unionisation was first mentioned by Mick Lynch, but we might want to check the…28 Nov 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Fourth sitting)Q I think that you, like all the other witnesses from the trade unions, were quite pleased with the Bill, and understandably so. I know you said that you felt shut out over the 14…28 Nov 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Third sitting)But could you answer specifically my questions about how many meetings you have had with Ministers and officials and whether clauses were shared with you? Liron Velleman: I…28 Nov 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Third sitting)But you are not answering my question. I am asking you a question; I would like you to answer it. Liron Velleman: I am not sure how many meetings we have had with Ministers…28 Nov 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Third sitting)Did you see draft clauses? Liron Velleman: No.28 Nov 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Third sitting)Okay. Joanne Cairns? Joanne Cairns: We have been involved in a number of roundtable meetings with DBT, which have been very helpful in understanding what the Government’s…28 Nov 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Fourth sitting)Q I thought that I would quickly clear up the disagreement that seems to have broken out between the two sides of the Committee, so I have gone through the record of Tuesday’s…28 Nov 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Fourth sitting)It is about employment rights. We have been discussing P&O throughout the whole—28 Nov 2024