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Westminster Hall
Oil Refining Sector - Thu 11 Dec 2025
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Martin Vickers (Con - Brigg and Immingham) Graham at Unite says that the Government“have made repeatedly clear that long-term and sustainable employment - Speech Link
2: Douglas McAllister (Lab - West Dunbartonshire) That lack of action created an employment gap and hardship to the local community that could have been - Speech Link
3: Seamus Logan (SNP - Aberdeenshire North and Moray East) doomed to fail because of three things: first, the failure to press forward with renewable energy schemes - Speech Link
4: Euan Stainbank (Lab - Falkirk) We do not want the workers at Grangemouth, many of whom have not found employment since the closure in - Speech Link
5: Luke Taylor (LD - Sutton and Cheam) incentives like business rates relief and payment holidays for new infrastructure; inclusive subsidy schemes - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 11 Dec 2025
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Gagan Mohindra (Con - South West Hertfordshire) strain of Labour’s increases to national insurance contributions and the pressures created by the Employment - Speech Link
2: Chris Bryant (Lab - Rhondda and Ogmore) Average employment in the UK under the Tories was 73.8%. What is it under Labour? 75%. - Speech Link
3: Kate Dearden (LAB - Halifax) The Employment Rights Bill will make paternity leave a day one right, extending eligibility to 32,000 - Speech Link
4: Kate Dearden (LAB - Halifax) We inherited support schemes that the previous Government had put in place with no funding for them to - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
St Andrew’s Day and Scottish Affairs - Thu 11 Dec 2025
Scotland Office

Mentions:
1: Graeme Downie (Lab - Dunfermline and Dollar) Coalfield communities were not just clusters of employment; they were webs of support, with co-operative - Speech Link
2: Graeme Downie (Lab - Dunfermline and Dollar) small and medium-sized enterprises that supply components and services, defence sustains skilled employment - Speech Link
3: David Mundell (Con - Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale) Gentleman knows, when in government I looked at various schemes that could operate separately in Scotland - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Fairtrade Certification - Thu 11 Dec 2025
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Martin Rhodes (Lab - Glasgow North) Some schemes can be used for greenwashing or to hide unethical practices through poor auditing standards - Speech Link
2: Martin Rhodes (Lab - Glasgow North) Member’s highlights that certification schemes, important though they are, are not the only answer; we - Speech Link
3: Rebecca Paul (Con - Reigate) Fairtrade certification schemes have become a visible and recognised feature of British consumer life - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Seasonal Work - Wed 10 Dec 2025
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Sarah Olney (LD - Richmond Park) Rights Bill on their monthly employment costs. - Speech Link
2: Anna Gelderd (Lab - South East Cornwall) There are more 18 to 24-year-olds in employment than there were a year ago, and the Employment Rights - Speech Link
3: Jerome Mayhew (Con - Broadland and Fakenham) That has a particular impact on those employed part-time, youth employment, and lower-wage employment - Speech Link
4: Kate Dearden (LAB - Halifax) The Employment Rights Bill takes steps to fulfil our commitment to bring employment rights into the 21st - Speech Link
5: Kate Dearden (LAB - Halifax) There are more 18 to 24-year-olds in employment than a year ago. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Sustainable Aviation Fuel Bill
Committee stage - Wed 10 Dec 2025
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Lord Hendy of Richmond Hill (Lab - Life peer) No final decisions have yet been made.Contracts issued under similar schemes are generally for a period - Speech Link
2: Lord Hendy of Richmond Hill (Lab - Life peer) significant economic benefits to the UK because of the investment needed to construct them and the employment - Speech Link
3: Lord Berkeley (Lab - Life peer) for low carbon fuels for use in aviation and road transport has been supported under two separate schemes - Speech Link
4: Lord Moylan (Con - Life peer) In the last few years, we have had schemes such as the advanced fuel funds, the Green Fuels, Green Skies - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Railways Bill
2nd reading - Tue 09 Dec 2025
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Heidi Alexander (Lab - Swindon South) have expanded pay-as-you-go contactless ticketing in the south-east, with plans to launch further schemes - Speech Link
2: Cat Eccles (Lab - Stourbridge) track and train together, but we must also bring the workforce together with clear pathways on employment - Speech Link
3: Edward Morello (LD - West Dorset) Expanding discount schemes, especially for young people through “rail miles” systems, would help people - Speech Link
4: Grahame Morris (Lab - Easington) on the intended structure of GBR and shed some light on why the Bill makes no reference to the employment - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 09 Dec 2025
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Esther McVey (Con - Tatton) link at all between her increase in employer national insurance contributions —her job tax—and employment - Speech Link
2: Torsten Bell (Lab - Swansea West) They also set out that employment is forecast to be higher in every year than previously expected back - Speech Link
3: Torsten Bell (Lab - Swansea West) Who saw a 50% rise in the number of those not in education, employment or training? - Speech Link
4: Kevin Bonavia (Lab - Stevenage) However, affordability alone is only part of the railway jigsaw; regeneration schemes like Stevenage - Speech Link
5: Rachel Reeves (Lab - Leeds West and Pudsey) Employment is up since we took office, and part of the reason for the disparity between those numbers - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Crime and Policing Bill
Committee stage part two - Tue 09 Dec 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Featherstone (LD - Life peer) The evidence is clear that where harm reduction schemes exist, sex workers are better able to report - Speech Link
2: Earl Attlee (Con - Excepted Hereditary) to a better life if they have to admit to these offences when seeking legitimate or conventional employment - Speech Link
3: Lord Hanson of Flint (Lab - Life peer) concern that this offence may criminalise vulnerable individuals and restrict their opportunities for employment - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Net Zero Transition: Consumer-led Flexibility - Tue 09 Dec 2025
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Claire Young (LD - Thornbury and Yate) A report by the MCS Foundation in August found that 78% of people are unaware of schemes that reward - Speech Link
2: Sharon Hodgson (Lab - Washington and Gateshead South) Labour’s analysis shows that employment in clean energy jobs is expected to double to 860,000 by 2030 - Speech Link