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Lords Chamber
Employment Rights Bill
Committee stage part one - Wed 18 Jun 2025
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Baroness Coffey (Con - Life peer) consider that it should be provided by only the government legal service, under the auspices of the Attorney-General - Speech Link
2: Lord Jackson of Peterborough (Con - Life peer) It is about labour relations and the relationships between employers, trade unions and a workforce. - Speech Link
3: None As my noble friends pointed out, it certainly should not apply to trade unions or those acting on their - Speech Link
4: Baroness Jones of Whitchurch (Lab - Life peer) Of course, members of trade unions will receive advice and representation anyway as part of their membership.Turning - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Crime and Policing Bill
Report stage - Tue 17 Jun 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lindsay Hoyle (Spk - Chorley) under this section is liable—(a) on summary conviction, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding the general - Speech Link
2: None First, the new clause aligns the provisions of the 2003 Act with the trade and co-operation agreement - Speech Link
3: Tom Hayes (Lab - Bournemouth East) Member agree that when people see potholes unfilled, litter uncollected, overgrown verges and general - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Employment Rights Bill
Committee stage part two - Tue 10 Jun 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) It risks creating the impression, fair or not, that trade unions are being afforded preferential treatment - Speech Link
2: Baroness Jones of Whitchurch (Lab - Life peer) Section 15 required trade unions to pay public sector employers where they administer payroll deductions - Speech Link
3: None In such a politically toxic atmosphere, when the trade unions seem as much of a hindrance as a help in - Speech Link
4: Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb (Green - Life peer) We need the return of strong trade unions to help turn the tide. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Employment Rights Bill
Committee stage part two - Tue 10 Jun 2025
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Lord Hunt of Wirral (Con - Life peer) The nature of work has changed, and expectations have changed, yet trade unions have not. - Speech Link
2: Lord Goddard of Stockport (LD - Life peer) unions exist because of their members; if members do not like a trade union, they can leave a trade - Speech Link
3: Lord Leong (Lab - Life peer) As far as I am aware, there is not any demand to introduce such a requirement on trade unions. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Coffey (Con - Life peer) I cannot believe that it is that arduous for trade unions to compile this information. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Employment Rights Bill
Committee stage - Thu 05 Jun 2025
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Lord Hendy (Lab - Life peer) I was suggesting not a dominant role for trade unions but a balanced role, where trade unions and employers - Speech Link
2: Lord Hendy (Lab - Life peer) People will not join trade unions when they know that the trade union will not have a voice in setting - Speech Link
3: Lord Jackson of Peterborough (Con - Life peer) It is not about bashing the trade unions. - Speech Link
4: Lord Katz (Lab - Life peer) unions to their employees without the trade unions having direct access to the systems at all. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Employment Rights Bill
Committee stage part two - Tue 03 Jun 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Hendy (Lab - Life peer) of the rule of law, and the importance of compliance with international law was emphasised by the Attorney-General - Speech Link
2: Lord Davies of Brixton (Lab - Life peer) I ask the Minister to meet with the unions to explain why we have ended up in this situation. - Speech Link
3: None It provides the Government, trade unions, progressive employers and seafarers with transparent and statutory - Speech Link
4: None In general, I want women to have a fair shot in the workplace. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill
2nd reading - Mon 02 Jun 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Davies of Gower (Con - Life peer) While there are large numbers of people who are undeterred from paying the traffickers, the trade will - Speech Link
2: Baroness Hoey (Non-affiliated - Life peer) The noble Lord, Lord Jackson, has already mentioned this, but I was very disappointed when our Attorney-General - Speech Link
3: Lord Bilimoria (XB - Life peer) I worked very hard on the UK-India free trade agreement, which we have just agreed. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Hamwee (LD - Life peer) As the post was established, I think, the day after the general election, and that must in large part - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Employment Rights Bill
Committee stage - Thu 08 May 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: None Nobody gave trade unions the power and influence they have. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Fox of Buckley (Non-affiliated - Life peer) The trade unions today are not the trade unions of old. They could do with upping their game. - Speech Link
3: Lord Moynihan of Chelsea (Con - Life peer) London docks was destroyed by the trade unions. - Speech Link
4: Lord Hendy (Lab - Life peer) But, as trade unions, they have consequential obligations. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Steel Industry
2nd reading debate taken as second reading - Sat 12 Apr 2025
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Baroness Brinton (LD - Life peer) Has the Secretary of State for the Ministry of Justice, the Attorney-General, been consulted on the creation - Speech Link
2: Lord Fox (LD - Life peer) Further commitments are contained in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, in trade-related investment - Speech Link
3: Lord Davies of Gower (Con - Life peer) I therefore ask the Minister: what, if any, role has been played by trade unions in negotiations over - Speech Link
4: Baroness Jones of Whitchurch (Lab - Life peer) The noble Baroness, Lady Brinton, asked about the legal advice from the Attorney-General. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Steel Industry (Special Measures) Bill
2nd reading - Sat 12 Apr 2025
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Bill Esterson (Lab - Sefton Central) I add to that my praise for trade unions, local management and Members of Parliament of both main parties—not - Speech Link
2: Laurence Turner (Lab - Birmingham Northfield) The Manufacturing Trade Remedies Alliance has long called for our trade defences to be strengthened, - Speech Link
3: Harriett Baldwin (Con - West Worcestershire) Can the Minister also tell the House what the Attorney General has advised on compliance with international - Speech Link