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Westminster Hall
Seafarers’ Welfare - Thu 04 Dec 2025
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Alison Bennett (LD - Mid Sussex) Member for Sheffield Heeley (Louise Haigh), rightly described P&O Ferries as a “rogue operator”, - Speech Link
2: Alison Bennett (LD - Mid Sussex) Britain can be better than P&O Ferries’ behaviour—and Britain must be better. - Speech Link
3: Greg Smith (Con - Mid Buckinghamshire) amp;O Ferries in 2022. - Speech Link
4: Greg Smith (Con - Mid Buckinghamshire) Condor Ferries, DFDS, Stena Line and, at the time, even P&O was committing to work towards meeting - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Lord Hendy (Lab - Life peer) amp;O Ferries scandal. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Jones of Whitchurch (Lab - Life peer) As my noble friend knows, we are closing the loophole that meant that P&O Ferries could avoid prosecution - Speech Link
3: Lord Berkeley (Lab - Life peer) It would have been wonderful if we had heard their speeches before we debated P&O, because the problem - Speech Link
4: Lord Katz (Lab - Life peer) Health and safety law requires heritage railway operators to protect a young person’s health and safety - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Employment Rights Bill
Report stage - Wed 16 Jul 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Goddard of Stockport (LD - Life peer) The particular case and example is P&O Ferries, which was not so much fire and rehire, but just fire - Speech Link
2: Lord Katz (Lab - Life peer) identified this—there is wide agreement across your Lordships’ House that the unconscionable tactics we saw P& - Speech Link
3: None comply with a legal obligation;(c) a miscarriage of justice;(d) the endangering of the health or safety - Speech Link
4: Baroness Lister of Burtersett (Lab - Life peer) sequential take-up by separating out the caregiving function of parental leave from the health and safety - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Lord Katz (Lab - Life peer) Of course we care whether reps, when undertaking any role—whether it is health and safety, learning, - Speech Link
2: Lord Katz (Lab - Life peer) I observe that having health and safety reps has led to better adherence to health and safety laws and - Speech Link
3: Lord Goddard of Stockport (LD - Life peer) The concern is potentially around impact, industrial relations and public safety, especially with the - Speech Link
4: Lord Hendy (Lab - Life peer) economic protest action, are protected under the law”.In November 2023, that committee reviewed the P& - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) If a worker turns out to be unsuitable, which can happen quickly in physically demanding and safety-critical - Speech Link
2: None this agreement recorded in writing, or(c) in genuine emergency situations affecting public health, safety - Speech Link
3: Lord Leong (Lab - Life peer) to price in non-compliance with their collective consultation obligations, as we saw in the case of P& - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Employment Rights Bill
Committee stage - Wed 21 May 2025
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Lord Leong (Lab - Life peer) The Health and Safety at Work etc. - Speech Link
2: None The Health and Safety at Work etc. - Speech Link
3: None The Health and Safety at Work etc. - Speech Link
4: None The Health and Safety at Work etc. - Speech Link
5: Baroness Kramer (LD - Life peer) The Health and Safety at Work etc. - Speech Link
6: Baroness Smith of Llanfaes (PC - Life peer) The Health and Safety at Work etc. - Speech Link
7: Lord Russell of Liverpool (XB - Excepted Hereditary) The Health and Safety at Work etc. - Speech Link
8: Lord de Clifford (XB - Excepted Hereditary) This certainly was the case with the notorious P&O Ferries, which undertook an outrageous fire and - Speech Link
9: Lord Goddard of Stockport (LD - Life peer) The issue of predatory fire and rehire, as seen in the widely condemned P&O Ferries case highlighted - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Employment Rights Bill
2nd reading - Thu 27 Mar 2025
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Baroness Jones of Whitchurch (Lab - Life peer) This legislation will mean that the 1.3 million lowest-paid employees will have access to the safety - Speech Link
2: Baroness Hazarika (Lab - Life peer) We were all appalled when P&O Ferries sacked 800 workers in the most dehumanising and appalling way - Speech Link
3: Lord Browne of Ladyton (Lab - Life peer) Your Lordships’ House will recall the most egregious example of this, when the P&O Ferries instituted - Speech Link
4: Baroness Smith of Llanfaes (PC - Life peer) Under the Health and Safety at Work etc. - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Justin Madders (Lab - Ellesmere Port and Bromborough) It is similar to how other regulators operate, such as the Health and Safety Executive. - Speech Link
2: Ian Lavery (Lab - Blyth and Ashington) When P&O Ferries flouted its legal obligations by not consulting over mass dismissals and by dismissing - Speech Link
3: Zarah Sultana (Ind - Coventry South) amp;O Ferries scandal, when 800 crew members were sacked via video call and replaced with agency workers - Speech Link
4: John McDonnell (Ind - Hayes and Harlington) When it took action on health and safety grounds by convening meetings of members, it was threatened - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: John McDonnell (Ind - Hayes and Harlington) We were looking for an uncapped award, to be frank, because P&O built into the pricing the amount - Speech Link
2: Andy McDonald (Lab - Middlesbrough and Thornaby East) Friend recalls the evidence of Peter Hebblethwaite, the chief executive of P&O Ferries, to the Business - Speech Link
3: Andy McDonald (Lab - Middlesbrough and Thornaby East) Many will recall how P&O shamelessly broke the law, choosing to pay compensation rather than comply - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Scotland: Transport Links - Wed 08 Jan 2025
Scotland Office

Mentions:
1: Kirsteen Sullivan (LAB - Bathgate and Linlithgow) The reduction in hours, particularly in the evening, risks exacerbating safety concerns. - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) For example, during previous staffing challenges faced by P&O, Stena Line was able to deploy the - Speech Link
3: Angus MacDonald (LD - Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire) CalMac ferries are a complete disaster story, as we all know. - Speech Link
4: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) Gentleman plans to mention ferries, but if not, perhaps he could. - Speech Link
5: Andrew Bowie (Con - West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine) Of course, ferries are increasingly important. I did not want to embarrass the hon. - Speech Link