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HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Eighteenth sitting)It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Christopher. On behalf of my residents in Torbay, whether they are employers or workers, a strategy to know how the…09 Jan 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Eighteenth sitting)It is important that we hear from the Minister about getting the balance right and supporting people’s rights, while not being too invasive to businesses. I look forward to…09 Jan 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Eighteenth sitting)I broadly welcome the way forward proposed in these clauses.09 Jan 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Eighteenth sitting)I welcome the further clarity that the amendments offer. Amendment 92 agreed to. Amendments made: 93, in clause 83, page 85, line 11, after “any” insert “other”. This amendment is…09 Jan 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Eighteenth sitting)I welcome the points made by the shadow Minister, and wait eagerly to hear from the Minister.09 Jan 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Seventeenth sitting)It is a pleasure to work under your chairmanship, Mr Mundell. I broadly welcome the bringing together of powers under the fair work agency. I note that the Secretary of State is…09 Jan 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Seventeenth sitting)I am concerned about the heavy weather that colleagues on the Opposition Benches are making of this. For me, this measure is about driving a positive culture in employment, and…09 Jan 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Seventeenth sitting)I broadly welcome the proposals in the clauses, and I look forward to the Minister’s explanation of the issues outlined by the shadow Minister.09 Jan 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Seventeenth sitting)I know from my surgeries and casework in Torbay that discrimination is sadly alive and well. I ask the Minister to reflect on some of the evidence from the Equality and Human…09 Jan 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Sixteenth sitting)I have some sympathy with the desire to understand the cost, but to me, the vast majority of the Government proposals before us today are about modernising the system…07 Jan 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Fifteenth sitting)It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Mundell. I wish all colleagues a happy and prosperous new year. I welcome these proposals. Only this weekend, I was speaking…07 Jan 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Fifteenth sitting)I welcome the amendments. Driving our economy to achieve the productivity that we need must be a mission for all of us in this House. The culture in our businesses is really…07 Jan 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Fifteenth sitting)I will be concise and echo the shadow Minister’s call for clarity.07 Jan 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Fifteenth sitting)Bill Committees are here to check for snags in the final construction of legislation. I am pleased that this snag has been picked up and will be sorted out by this amendment.07 Jan 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Fifteenth sitting)To me, the clause is all about resetting the culture within our employment world, and I welcome the proposals within it. It is about driving the partnership approach that we…07 Jan 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Sixteenth sitting)Happy new year, Sir Christopher. I have a small amount of sympathy with the shadow Minister—I understand the cost to business, so I welcome that element of the amendments—but I…07 Jan 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Sixteenth sitting)I am concerned that the hon. Gentleman is taking a Panglossian approach that all in the world is perfect. It is far from perfect, which is why I welcome large tracts of the Bill,…07 Jan 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Sixteenth sitting)I strongly welcome this modernisation of approach. Question put and agreed to. Clause 53 accordingly ordered to stand part of the Bill. Clause 54 Industrial action ballots:…07 Jan 2025HANSARD NHS BacklogIn my constituency, our hospital faces almost 700 sewage leaks, which has an impact on its ability to provide services. That is another pressure. Does my hon. Friend agree that…06 Jan 2025HANSARD UkraineWe have seen the proliferation of drone warfare in Ukraine as never before. I was struck by how the Minister referred to drones repeatedly in his statement; it is a massive change…19 Dec 2024