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HANSARDDraft Weights and Measures Act 1985 (Definitions of @0082Metre@0083 and @0082Kilogram@0083) (Amendment) Order 2020I beg to move, That the Committee has considered the draft Weights and Measures Act 1985 (Definitions of “Metre” and “Kilogram”) (Amendment) Order 2020. It is a pleasure to serve…02 Jun 2020HANSARDDraft Weights and Measures Act 1985 (Definitions of 'Metre' and 'Kilogram') (Amendment) Order 2020I beg to move, That the Committee has considered the draft Weights and Measures Act 1985 (Definitions of “Metre” and “Kilogram”) (Amendment) Order 2020. It is a pleasure to serve…02 Jun 2020HANSARDDraft Weights and Measures Act 1985 (Definitions of @0082Metre@0083 and @0082Kilogram@0083) (Amendment) Order 2020I thank the hon. Member for Newcastle upon Tyne Central for her contribution, and I thank the Committee for its consideration of the draft order. As we heard in both…02 Jun 2020HANSARDDraft Weights and Measures Act 1985 (Definitions of 'Metre' and 'Kilogram') (Amendment) Order 2020I thank the hon. Member for Newcastle upon Tyne Central for her contribution, and I thank the Committee for its consideration of the draft order. As we heard in both…02 Jun 2020HANSARDDraft Weights and Measures Act 1985 (Definitions of “Metre” and “Kilogram”) (Amendment) Order 2020I beg to move, That the Committee has considered the draft Weights and Measures Act 1985 (Definitions of “Metre” and “Kilogram”) (Amendment) Order 2020. It is a pleasure to serve…02 Jun 2020HANSARDDraft Weights and Measures Act 1985 (Definitions of “Metre” and “Kilogram”) (Amendment) Order 2020I thank the hon. Member for Newcastle upon Tyne Central for her contribution, and I thank the Committee for its consideration of the draft order. As we heard in both…02 Jun 2020HANSARDLifting the Lockdown: Workplace SafetyI am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for the constructive way in which we began our relationship as our opposite numbers in a call we had last week. We have plenty of opportunity…06 May 2020HANSARDLifting the Lockdown: Workplace SafetyWe have made it clear that there are five tests that the Government will need to be satisfied of before we will consider it safe to adjust the current measures. As hon. Members…06 May 2020HANSARDLifting the Lockdown: Workplace SafetyWe are working on the guidance with a number of business representative organisations and with the trade unions, and when we complete that work, we will publish it at the…06 May 2020HANSARDLifting the Lockdown: Workplace SafetyI can assure my hon. Friend that we will indeed look at all of this in the round to ensure that we can work out the different scenarios as people return to work. What we have at…06 May 2020HANSARDLifting the Lockdown: Workplace SafetyI thank my hon. Friend for his question and for giving me the opportunity to thank those people who have kept our economy going through this difficult time. We rightly say a…06 May 2020HANSARDLifting the Lockdown: Workplace SafetyI am grateful for that question. As my right hon. Friend knows, we have had three independent reviews of various aspects of audit by John Kingman, the Competition and Markets…06 May 2020HANSARDLifting the Lockdown: Workplace SafetyI am grateful for the hon. Gentleman’s comments. I agree with him that our message and our processes need to be as consistent as possible, not least for people across the UK, but…06 May 2020HANSARDLifting the Lockdown: Workplace SafetyI am grateful to my hon. Friend for that question. She is absolutely right, and that is why we have consulted as widely as possible. We will continue to do so, because we need to…06 May 2020HANSARDLifting the Lockdown: Workplace SafetyIn the first instance, what I would say to the hon. Lady is that as well as employers working on that guidance and ensuring that they are offering a safe place, employees and…06 May 2020HANSARDLifting the Lockdown: Workplace SafetyI am grateful for that comment. Clearly, the Government’s first priority in all of this is saving lives, but livelihoods and making sure that businesses and jobs are retained and…06 May 2020HANSARDLifting the Lockdown: Workplace SafetyI am grateful to the hon. Gentleman. Part of giving people the confidence to return to work is giving them the confidence to be able to travel to and from various parts of the UK…06 May 2020HANSARDLifting the Lockdown: Workplace SafetyI am grateful to my hon. Friend for raising the important issue of those people who are most vulnerable in this situation. The guidance already sets out the steps that individuals…06 May 2020HANSARDLifting the Lockdown: Workplace SafetyBy consulting as many businesses, unions and representative organisations as we can, we have been able to work through the guidelines in our own times. Whereas at the beginning we…06 May 2020HANSARDLifting the Lockdown: Workplace SafetyCommunication is so important in this. We have seen how effective the message about staying home and saving lives has been so far. What we must now do is work with businesses to…06 May 2020