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HANSARDFairness at Work and Power in CommunitiesI will cover P&O a bit later in my speech, if the hon. Gentleman will bear with me. While we celebrate the flexibility of our workforce and the employers that do the right thing,…12 May 2022HANSARDFairness at Work and Power in CommunitiesI think I missed the first part of the hon. Lady’s intervention, but I will happily meet her, or one of my colleagues will. The Minister responsible for corporate governance…12 May 2022HANSARDFairness at Work and Power in CommunitiesI am sure that the answer to that question will develop as the debate proceeds. I am not going to go through all the various powers now. Suffice it to say that what we will all…12 May 2022HANSARDFairness at Work and Power in CommunitiesI am pleased to speak in support of the Queen’s Speech and the measures that it contains to make the United Kingdom stronger, healthier and more prosperous than before. The rising…12 May 2022HANSARDFairness at Work and Power in CommunitiesWhat we are trying to do with the harbours Bill is resolve an anomaly between UK law and international maritime law. However, the hon. Gentleman has raised an interesting point,…12 May 2022HANSARDSizewell C Nuclear Power StationThis statement concerns an application for development consent made under the Planning Act 2008 by NNB Generation Company (SZC) Ltd for the construction and operation of a nuclear…12 May 2022HANSARDFairness at Work and Power in CommunitiesI said that the Insolvency Service would respond by 8 April, which it did, and that is why it has launched its criminal and civil investigations. That is ongoing. We have also…12 May 2022HANSARDFairness at Work and Power in CommunitiesMy hon. Friend has done amazing work in raising the profile of ensuring that there is a fair system for tipping and that the tronc actually goes to those at the front end, who are…12 May 2022HANSARDFairness at Work and Power in CommunitiesThat is the careful balance that we in this place rightly have to achieve in our legislation. The entire philosophy behind removing exclusivity clauses is that it is for people on…12 May 2022HANSARDFairness at Work and Power in CommunitiesI will come back to the future of work in a second. The hon. Gentleman talks about zero-hours contracts, but we cannot just throw that term around as if it described a single…12 May 2022HANSARDFairness at Work and Power in CommunitiesWe have had some really good conversations about this. As I say, where we have said that we will act, we will. My right hon. Friend has talked often in this Chamber and in the…12 May 2022HANSARDFairness at Work and Power in CommunitiesThe hon. Lady has raised this issue on a number of occasions. She will have seen, not that long ago, my announcement that we are establishing a statutory code of practice that…12 May 2022HANSARDFairness at Work and Power in CommunitiesI happily agree with everything the hon. Gentleman has said. The Under-Secretary of State for Education, my hon. Friend the Member for Colchester (Will Quince), is reviewing…12 May 2022HANSARDFairness at Work and Power in CommunitiesI am sure that the hon. Lady has read the report on the challenges in relation to this. We have seen how gender pay gaps have changed. There are complexities about ethnic pay gap…12 May 2022HANSARDLow-income Workers: Exclusivity ClausesI am pleased to announce the latest steps the Government have taken to better protect and support low-income workers as we look to build a high-skilled, high-productivity,…11 May 2022HANSARDRegister of Overseas EntitiesMy noble Friend Lord Callanan, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Minister for Climate Change and Corporate Responsibility) has today made the following statement: I welcome…26 Apr 2022HANSARD Subsidy Control BillI am not going to get involved in a wider discussion about freeports; I am talking about a framework Bill, which is exactly why I said that other areas of legislation and of…20 Apr 2022HANSARD Subsidy Control BillAgain, that is up to the public authorities. The whole point about this regime is that it is a loose, permissive framework, rather than something more onerous which adds layer…20 Apr 2022HANSARD Subsidy Control BillThe hon. Gentleman makes a really good point. We tried to work with all the devolved Administrations right the way through the process from beginning to end, and we have continued…20 Apr 2022HANSARD Subsidy Control BillNo. However, the UK Government have a reserved power over subsidy control, so it is the UK Government who act on that reserved power. Finally, we have introduced an amendment…20 Apr 2022