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HANSARD Employment Rights BillI thank the hon. Lady for her point, but I think it is a very difficult distinction to make: that they are pro-trade union but anti things that make it easier for trade unions to…12 Mar 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillI could talk about NDAs at some length, but I do not have time to today. They are definitely problematic, and they are definitely concealing the extent of the problems that women…11 Mar 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillI completely and utterly agree with the hon. Member. Actually, a lot of what is coming from Conservative Members is scaremongering. A lot of those discussing this behave as if…11 Mar 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillMy primary concern is that those on the Conservative Benches talk about employees as if they are, as I said, unexploded bombs, and they talk about employers as if they are…11 Mar 2025HANSARDCrown Court Backlog19. What steps her Department is taking to reduce the Crown court backlog.11 Mar 2025HANSARDCrown Court BacklogIn 2016, 120,000 cases were disposed of—concluded—in the Crown courts. That figure was never achieved again by the Conservative party, and by 2022 the figure was 17% lower.…11 Mar 2025HANSARD Employment Rights BillWill the hon. Gentleman give way?11 Mar 2025HANSARD Employment Rights BillI assure the hon. Gentleman that women absolutely do know about the right to request flexible working, and that is not the source of the problems they are facing.11 Mar 2025HANSARD Employment Rights BillOn a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. The shadow Minister is in danger of misleading the House. Nothing that he has referred to is a crime. Sexual harassment, as dealt with…11 Mar 2025HANSARD Employment Rights BillI know from experience that it is a practice of employment lawyers who work for employers to go on to Google Maps and look at the houses in which complainants live, to assess the…11 Mar 2025HANSARD Employment Rights BillIt appears to be quite commonly overlooked by Opposition Members that flexible working will still be available to people on fixed-term contracts. Does the hon. Member agree that…11 Mar 2025HANSARD Employment Rights BillThe hon. Lady will appreciate that there is a defence here if an employer has taken all reasonable steps. It is only reasonable steps.11 Mar 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillI need to highlight to the House that I am a member of the Community and USDAW trade unions, and I refer the House to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests. I…11 Mar 2025HANSARD Employment Rights BillI spent 13 years as a solicitor working in employment rights, predominantly for employees and periodically for employers, and I assure the hon. Gentleman that flexible working is…11 Mar 2025HANSARDInternational Women’s DayI thank my hon. Friend the Member for Penistone and Stocksbridge (Dr Tidball) for her incredibly powerful speech, all the women who I have heard speak today, and those who have…06 Mar 2025HANSARD Child Maintenance ServiceI thank the hon. Gentleman for giving way. Does he agree that we need more enforcement, more accurate assessment of non-resident parent income, and better joined-up working…26 Feb 2025HANSARDSocial Media Use: Minimum AgeIt is an honour to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Stringer. I did a lot of research in preparation for my speech today and, as a parent of three primary-age children, what I…24 Feb 2025HANSARD Business of the HouseMy constituent Alison Parr has had the most appalling time trying to obtain free prescriptions on the NHS, to which her profoundly disabled daughter, Ruby, is perfectly entitled.…06 Feb 2025HANSARDEngagementsQ14. Some 54,000 women a year lose their jobs when they are pregnant or on maternity leave, and one in 10 human resources managers say that they would be reluctant to hire a woman…05 Feb 2025HANSARDRoad Safety: Young DriversI thank my hon. Friend the Member for Shrewsbury (Julia Buckley) for securing this debate. In the words of my constituents Mark and Mandy Ogden, whose daughter Georgia died on 26…28 Jan 2025