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Lords Chamber
Charities: National Minimum Wage - Thu 29 Feb 2024
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay (Con - Life peer) We saw that very clearly during the coronavirus pandemic, when we pledged £750 million to ensure that - Speech Link
2: Baroness Thornton (Lab - Life peer) Competition and Consumers Bill currently before your Lordships’ House contains provisions on subscription contracts - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill
Report stage - Tue 27 Feb 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Richard Fuller (Con - North East Bedfordshire) On the point about existing contracts that have been signed by people purchasing a leasehold property - Speech Link
2: Peter Bottomley (Con - Worthing West) disastrous Town and Country Planning (Permitted Development and Miscellaneous Amendments) (England) (Coronavirus - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Finance Bill
2nd reading - Wed 21 Feb 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Lord Sikka (Lab - Life peer) Many people have zero-hours contracts, work part-time or are maybe on a pension. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Vere of Norbiton (Con - Life peer) The Government’s economic response to the coronavirus pandemic was made possible through the powerful - Speech Link


General Committees
Draft Trade Union (Deduction of Union Subscriptions from Wages in the Public Sector) Regulations 2023 - Tue 30 Jan 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Alex Burghart (Con - Brentwood and Ongar) delays owing to other Government priorities relevant to the UK’s exit from the European Union, the coronavirus - Speech Link
2: Nia Griffith (Lab - Llanelli) corruption commissioner to help recoup billions of pounds that has been lost to waste, fraud and flawed contracts - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Loan Charge - Thu 18 Jan 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Sammy Wilson (DUP - East Antrim) And here is the ultimate irony: HMRC employed people on contracts to do work for it, knowing that those - Speech Link
2: Paul Scully (Con - Sutton and Cheam) be going after the practitioners and promoters of these schemes, which it can do under the Rating (Coronavirus - Speech Link
3: David Davis (Con - Haltemprice and Howden) Public Accounts Committee should look at the documents —not the numbers—associated with those early contracts - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
NHS Winter Update - Thu 11 Jan 2024
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: None Those offers will modernise contracts, realign pay scales and improve doctors’ career progression, while - Speech Link
2: Lord Winston (Lab - Life peer) who are most vulnerable are coming to get vaccinated, first for flu and secondly, of course, for the coronavirus - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Trade Union (Deduction of Union Subscriptions from Wages in the Public Sector) Regulations 2023 - Mon 18 Dec 2023
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Neville-Rolfe (Con - Life peer) delays owing to other government priorities relevant to the UK’s exit from the European Union and the coronavirus - Speech Link
2: Lord Wallace of Saltaire (LD - Life peer) yesterday that the noble Baroness, Lady Mone, admits to having made £60 million in profit from Covid contracts - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Employment Rights (Amendment, Revocation and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2023 - Wed 13 Dec 2023
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Lord Johnson of Lainston (Con - Life peer) We encourage employers to ensure that working patterns are clear in their workers’ contracts. - Speech Link


General Committees
Draft Employment Rights (Amendment, Revocation and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2023 - Tue 05 Dec 2023
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Kevin Hollinrake (Con - Thirsk and Malton) the European Co-operative Society (Involvement of Employees) Regulations 2006 and the Working Time (Coronavirus - Speech Link
2: Justin Madders (Lab - Ellesmere Port and Neston) I note that the proposed definition excludes workers with annual contracts who are not required to work - Speech Link
3: Stella Creasy (LAB - Walthamstow) There are women who work term-time hours or who are on zero-hours contracts who may now find themselves - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Living in a COVID World: A Long-term Approach to Resilience and Wellbeing (COVID-19 Committee Report) - Wed 29 Nov 2023
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Robathan (Con - Life peer) referred to the cost of living crisis, which is closely related to the failures of policy during the coronavirus - Speech Link
2: Lord Allan of Hallam (LD - Life peer) We are told that a lot of those contracts were commercial, so it is now really difficult to unpick that - Speech Link