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Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 23 Oct 2025
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Nick Thomas-Symonds (Lab - Torfaen) We will consider the range of responses, including those from trades unions. - Speech Link
2: Darren Jones (Lab - Bristol North West) A very key part of that is the sanitary and phytosanitary agreement for food and drink trade, which my - Speech Link
3: Nick Thomas-Symonds (Lab - Torfaen) We will work in partnership with trade unions to avoid unnecessary disruption and not end up in the situation - Speech Link
4: Tessa Munt (LD - Wells and Mendip Hills) On 5 June, the Paymaster General said he would consider the compensation arrangements. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Korean War: 75th Commemoration - Wed 22 Oct 2025
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Iain Duncan Smith (Con - Chingford and Woodford Green) During that visit, both nations reaffirmed their collaboration in diplomacy, trade, vehicles, military - Speech Link
2: Ed Davey (LD - Kingston and Surbiton) that is being bashed out by trade negotiators. - Speech Link
3: Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Con - North Cotswolds) General Marzuki Darusman, he conducted a comprehensive set of hearings, gathering witness testimony - Speech Link
4: Ian Roome (LD - North Devon) It does not allow“any organised political opposition, independent media, free trade unions, civil society - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 16 Sep 2025
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Peter Lamb (Lab - Crawley) who have been victims of some of the most serious offences and were waiting for years before the general - Speech Link
2: Grahame Morris (Lab - Easington) Last week in Brighton, the TUC unanimously backed the “Safe Inside” campaign promoted by the Joint Unions - Speech Link
3: David Lammy (Lab - Tottenham) We are talking to the unions. - Speech Link
4: Alex Davies-Jones (Lab - Pontypridd) and Local Government, the Department of Health and Social Care, and the Department for Business and Trade - Speech Link
5: Robert Jenrick (Con - Newark) The previous Justice Secretary pretended that we could reform the ECHR, but the Attorney General, Lord - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Employment Rights Bill
Consideration of Lords amendments - Mon 15 Sep 2025
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Sarah Olney (LD - Richmond Park) Although trade unions provide valuable support to their members, only 22% of workers are in a trade union - Speech Link
2: None On trade unions, I also support the amendment on retaining the 50% ballot threshold requirement for trade - Speech Link
3: Andy McDonald (Lab - Middlesbrough and Thornaby East) Trade unions must not be uniquely singled out. - Speech Link
4: Laurence Turner (Lab - Birmingham Northfield) Of course, the great majority of trade union political funds are operated by trade unions that are not - Speech Link
5: None Also, trade unions get the credit. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Employment Rights Bill
Report stage part one - Wed 23 Jul 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Barber of Ainsdale (Lab - Life peer) In 1909 the Osborne judgment ruled that trade unions could not legally use their general funds for political - Speech Link
2: Lord Evans of Rainow (Con - Life peer) Then I started to learn one or two things about trade unions. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Jones of Whitchurch (Lab - Life peer) Trade unions have long fought for equality. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Employment Rights Bill
Report stage part one - Mon 21 Jul 2025
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Baroness Jones of Whitchurch (Lab - Life peer) unions for their continuing engagement on these issues. - Speech Link
2: Lord Hendy (Lab - Life peer) been endorsed in almost every speech I have heard my noble and learned friend Lord Hermer KC, the Attorney-General - Speech Link
3: Baroness O'Grady of Upper Holloway (Lab - Life peer) Many of Britain’s most innovative companies recognise trade unions and the real value that an independent - Speech Link
4: Lord Monks (Lab - Life peer) He promoted collective bargaining and trade unions as an antidote to that kind of greed. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill
Report stage part one - Wed 09 Jul 2025
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Lord Ashton of Hyde (Non-affiliated - Excepted Hereditary) The attorney under a lasting power of attorney has duties. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Smith of Basildon (Lab - Life peer) That decision is based on a lasting power of attorney or an enduring power of attorney, so we are clear - Speech Link
3: Lord True (Con - Life peer) In a previous debate, the Attorney-General offered the argument that it was so confusing. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Finn (Con - Life peer) I have, for my sins, been involved in many negotiations with trade unions and their leaders and representatives - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Employment Rights Bill
Committee stage part one - Tue 24 Jun 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Deben (Con - Life peer) I do not understand why representatives of the trade unions are not getting up and saying to the Government - Speech Link
2: Lord Carter of Haslemere (XB - Life peer) , entitled “The Rule of Law in an Age of Populism”, the noble and learned Lord, Lord Hermer, the Attorney-General - Speech Link
3: None In many ways, it is sad that the Attorney-General—who was in the Chamber earlier—is not here to give - Speech Link
4: Lord Leong (Lab - Life peer) I have read the entire Bingham lecture from my noble and learned friend the Attorney-General. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 19 Jun 2025
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Joy Morrissey (Con - Beaconsfield) If the unions want something, they give it to them. - Speech Link
2: Lucy Powell (LAB - Manchester Central) She did not mention the three unprecedented trade deals that we have secured. - Speech Link
3: James MacCleary (LD - Lewes) There are newspaper reports this morning that the Attorney General has provided the Government with legal - Speech Link


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