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

Mentions:
1: Baroness Jones of Whitchurch (Lab - Life peer) It is why we agreed a new deal with better protections for workers at Port Talbot within weeks of taking - Speech Link
2: Lord Hunt of Wirral (Con - Life peer) itself.Before I go any further, perhaps I may say that our thoughts today must be with the steel-workers - Speech Link
3: Lord Reid of Cardowan (Lab - Life peer) I can testify to the absolute devastation of communities, individuals, workers and families from the - Speech Link
4: Baroness Ramsey of Wall Heath (Lab - Life peer) The steelworks finally closed in December 1982, making the remaining 1,300 workers redundant. - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: David Chadwick (LD - Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe) Many highly skilled workers, particularly welders, are leaving south Wales in search of opportunities - Speech Link
2: Iain Duncan Smith (Con - Chingford and Woodford Green) Many of those workers have ended up burned and in great difficulty. - Speech Link
3: Sarah Jones (Lab - Croydon West) UK-forged steel built our railways, bridges and buildings. - Speech Link
4: Sarah Jones (Lab - Croydon West) We are acting today to save the workers of Scunthorpe. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Water Bill
2nd reading - Fri 28 Mar 2025
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Clive Lewis (Lab - Norwich South) The Bill introduces representation for workers and local communities on the boards of water companies - Speech Link
2: Meg Hillier (LAB - Hackney South and Shoreditch) the context that we find ourselves in today, whether we are talking about investment in water, our railways - Speech Link
3: Neil Coyle (Lab - Bermondsey and Old Southwark) Gentleman think it would take to ensure that the citizens were skilled up enough to contribute effectively - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Planning and Infrastructure Bill
2nd reading - Mon 24 Mar 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Paul Waugh (LAB - Rochdale) suggest that Rochdale’s Hopwood Hall college, which has a brilliant record in training construction workers - Speech Link
2: Lee Pitcher (Lab - Doncaster East and the Isle of Axholme) As someone who worked for decades with engineers, operational workers and planners, I can tell hon. - Speech Link
3: Angus MacDonald (LD - Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire) and Southern Electricity Networks, anticipate being required to build temporary housing for their workers - Speech Link
4: Adam Thompson (Lab - Erewash) serious industry, and Long Eaton was scarcely a village before the coming of the canals and the railways - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Employment Rights Bill
Report stage (day 2) - Wed 12 Mar 2025
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Saqib Bhatti (Con - Meriden and Solihull East) workers into owners.” - Speech Link
2: Zarah Sultana (Ind - Coventry South) Postal workers, painters, electricians, cleaners and dock workers have all launched secondary action - Speech Link
3: Gregor Poynton (Lab - Livingston) Key amendments that strengthen protections for the lowest-paid workers will ensure that all workers are - Speech Link
4: Jayne Kirkham (LAB - Truro and Falmouth) Skilled care workers are chronically underpaid for what they do, often at minimum wage, and we struggle - Speech Link
5: None reference to communication with workers (including the provision of information to workers) by any means - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
“Chapter 4A - Tue 11 Mar 2025
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Caroline Nokes (Con - Romsey and Southampton North) pay for irregular hours workers and part-year workers).”This new clause would remove regulation 16A from - Speech Link
2: Justin Madders (Lab - Ellesmere Port and Bromborough) We are keen not to see a wholesale shift from directly engaged workers to agency workers as a way for - Speech Link
3: Liam Byrne (Lab - Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North) We need to ensure that our workers, particularly young workers, are never again subjected to the kind - Speech Link
4: Matt Western (Lab - Warwick and Leamington) Whether it be the 800 P&O workers who were sacked over Zoom without notice, the retail workers whose - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Employment Rights Bill
Report stage (day 1) continued - Tue 11 Mar 2025
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Nick Timothy (Con - West Suffolk) By undercutting domestic workers—British workers—and exploiting those with no legal right to be here, - Speech Link
2: Mary Kelly Foy (Lab - City of Durham) The pressure on such workers is immense. - Speech Link
3: Anna Dixon (Lab - Shipley) This landmark Bill brings in day one rights for workers, a fair pay agreement for social care workers - Speech Link
4: Anna Dixon (Lab - Shipley) It is good for workers, and it is good for women. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education (Transfer of Functions etc) Bill [Lords]
2nd reading - Tue 25 Feb 2025
Department for International Development

Mentions:
1: Lee Pitcher (Lab - Doncaster East and the Isle of Axholme) Our housing crisis is built on a huge deficit in skilled construction workers, our hospitals and care - Speech Link
2: Luke Murphy (Lab - Basingstoke) Businesses have struggled to recruit the skilled workers they need, young people do not have the opportunities - Speech Link
3: Kirith Entwistle (Lab - Bolton North East) Visiting businesses in Bolton, I know that employers are desperate for skilled workers and that they - Speech Link
4: Catherine Atkinson (Lab - Derby North) However, I have met many businesses that say that finding skilled workers is one of the greatest challenges - Speech Link
5: Janet Daby (Lab - Lewisham East) skilled workers whom they need in order to grow. - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Bus Services (No. 2) Bill [HL]
Committee stage - Thu 13 Feb 2025
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Lord Moylan (Con - Life peer) easy to decide on a bus fare, but the whole business of fares and ticketing is a professional and skilled - Speech Link
2: None As with the railways, “Trust us” should not be enough for this Committee. - Speech Link
3: Lord Hampton (XB - Excepted Hereditary) That would be great for transparency, passenger confidence, workers and politicians.I turn to Amendment - Speech Link
4: Lord Moylan (Con - Life peer) On the railways, there is a strong focus on that mentality, and I wonder whether it exists on the buses - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Data (Use and Access) Bill [Lords]
2nd reading - Wed 12 Feb 2025
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Mentions:
1: Peter Kyle (Lab - Hove and Portslade) It will cut the time it takes for workers on site to get the data they need from six days to six seconds - Speech Link
2: Chris Kane (Lab - Stirling and Strathallan) Creative workers are right to be nervous about AI further eroding their ability to monetise their work - Speech Link
3: James Frith (Lab - Bury North) The job gains must come from skilled input and employment that puts AI to work. - Speech Link
4: Sam Carling (Lab - North West Cambridgeshire) Police officers and NHS workers, for example, protect us and save lives, and in freeing up 1.5 million - Speech Link