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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


Lords Chamber
Health Protection (Coronavirus, Testing Requirements and Standards) (England) (Amendment and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2023 - Mon 27 Nov 2023
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Lord Markham (Con - Life peer) During the Covid-19 pandemic, the Health Protection (Coronavirus, Testing Requirements and Standards) - Speech Link
2: Lord Allan of Hallam (LD - Life peer) The regulations themselves are entirely sensible as tidying-up legislation after the coronavirus pandemic - Speech Link
3: Baroness Merron (Lab - Life peer) subsequently found to have been one of 50 firms that had been put into the priority lane for test and trace contracts - Speech Link


General Committees
Draft Health Protection (Coronavirus, Testing Requirements and Standards) (England) (Amendment and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2023 - Wed 22 Nov 2023
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Maria Caulfield (Con - Lewes) We all remember that during the covid-19 pandemic the Health Protection (Coronavirus, Testing Requirements - Speech Link
2: Preet Kaur Gill (LAB - Birmingham, Edgbaston) subsequently found to have been one of 50 firms that had been put into the priority lane for test and trace contracts - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Energy Supply Market: Small Businesses - Wed 13 Sep 2023
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Robin Millar (CON - Aberconwy) I cannot see an effective way for the Government to intervene in contracts that have been voluntarily - Speech Link
2: Wera Hobhouse (LDEM - Bath) Local firms that agreed to new energy contracts in the second half of 2022, have been paying premium - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Reinforced Autoclaved Aerated Concrete in Education Settings - Mon 04 Sep 2023
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Gillian Keegan (CON - Chichester) We have got the contracts for the portacabins. - Speech Link
2: Paulette Hamilton (LAB - Birmingham, Erdington) They have faced austerity, coronavirus, energy bills and strikes. - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Non-Domestic Rating Bill
Committee stage - Mon 03 Jul 2023
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: None some agents seek to take advantage of their clients through predatory practices, using exploitative contracts - Speech Link
2: Earl of Lytton (CB - Excepted Hereditary) That much is evident from the paperwork.The Government passed the Coronavirus Act 2020, which prevented - Speech Link
3: Baroness Scott of Bybrook (CON - Life peer) Such general market matters should be considered at general revaluations.Therefore, the Rating (Coronavirus - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Privilege: Conduct of Right Hon. Boris Johnson - Mon 19 Jun 2023
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Margaret Hodge (LAB - Barking) speaking truth to power; cronies appointed to key public positions; pals rewarded with honours and contracts - Speech Link
2: William Cash (CON - Stone) and the lack of clarity as to where one starts and the other stops, have been recurring themes of the coronavirus - Speech Link
3: Debbie Abrahams (LAB - Oldham East and Saddleworth) Prime Minister deliberately deceived the House in February 2021 in relation to the publication of covid contracts - Speech Link
4: Marsha De Cordova (LAB - Battersea) saw that not only when they kept Boris Johnson in power for so long, but when they handed out covid contracts - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Insolvency Law and Director Disqualifications - Wed 14 Jun 2023
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Rebecca Long Bailey (LAB - Salford and Eccles) directors’ remuneration arrangements are welcome in principle, but the reality is that these employment contracts - Speech Link
2: John McDonnell (LAB - Hayes and Harlington) companies went into insolvency and left behind large-scale debts, large numbers of workers laid off and contracts - Speech Link
3: Seema Malhotra (LAB - Feltham and Heston) audit and corporate governance reform here.As one example, in 2021, clauses 2 and 3 of the Rating (Coronavirus - Speech Link