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Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 21 Mar 2024
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Charlotte Nichols (Lab - Warrington North) The P&O seafarers were UK-based workers, but because P&O Ferries had flagged its ships out to - Speech Link
2: Louise Haigh (Lab - Sheffield, Heeley) Last Sunday marked the two-year anniversary of P&O Ferries illegally sacking 786 workers, but two - Speech Link
3: Lloyd Russell-Moyle (LAB - Brighton, Kemptown) It has been three years since we were told that Great British Railways would happen. - Speech Link
4: Lilian Greenwood (Lab - Nottingham South) The full delivery of HS2’s Eastern Leg is what the East Midlands needs to support and create highly skilled - Speech Link
5: Christine Jardine (LD - Edinburgh West) It is the wrong move when we are trying to encourage more people on to the railways. - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Strikes (Minimum Service Levels: Fire and Rescue Services) (England) Regulations 2024 - Tue 19 Mar 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Hendy (Lab - Life peer) By the exercise of that freedom the workers, through their union, have the power to convince an employer - Speech Link
2: Lord Goddard of Stockport (LD - Life peer) I have seen minimum strike levels—I think they are in the railways now, are they not? - Speech Link
3: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) We are striving to maintain a balance between the ability of workers to strike and the rights of the - Speech Link
4: None This responsibility makes it a highly skilled role. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Spring Budget 2024 - Mon 18 Mar 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Lord Macpherson of Earl's Court (XB - Life peer) In the old days, rentiers and capitalists tended to face higher tax rates than workers, who received - Speech Link
2: Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb (Green - Life peer) to our economic decline is not privatisation, of the NHS or anything else; it is public ownership of railways - Speech Link
3: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) One of the answers—beyond local buses, which desperately need investment—is railways. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Vere of Norbiton (Con - Life peer) Highly skilled migrants contribute highly to the UK’s tech sector: 49% of the UK’s fastest- growing businesses - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Budget Resolutions - Mon 11 Mar 2024
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Wes Streeting (Lab - Ilford North) And unprecedented levels of low-wage, low-skilled migration are damaging the economy. - Speech Link
2: Ranil Jayawardena (Con - North East Hampshire) We need to build more roads, some railways and some homes. - Speech Link
3: Peter Gibson (Con - Darlington) my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests.As we approach the 200th anniversary of the railways - Speech Link
4: Gareth Davies (Con - Grantham and Stamford) The workers and businesses will drive our growth. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Budget Resolutions - Wed 06 Mar 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Drew Hendry (SNP - Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey) Of course it would have been easy to fill vacancies with skilled people who want to do the jobs we have - Speech Link
2: David Davis (Con - Haltemprice and Howden) Because income tax applies to people above the age of 65, cutting it would also keep highly skilled and - Speech Link
3: Thérèse Coffey (Con - Suffolk Coastal) In Suffolk Coastal we have a lot of seasonal workers. - Speech Link
4: Edward Leigh (Con - Gainsborough) Not only does such an influx of people drain our economy, displacing investment in domestic skilled work - Speech Link
5: Paul Bristow (Con - Peterborough) When I asked him for an example, he decided, curiously, to talk about the railways. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Automated Vehicles Bill [Lords]
2nd reading - Tue 05 Mar 2024
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Mark Harper (Con - Forest of Dean) is a growing global market, Britain’s share of which could be worth £42 billion and generate 38,000 skilled - Speech Link
2: Mark Harper (Con - Forest of Dean) Bosch and ZF, among others, are investing in the UK, drawn by our highly skilled workforce. - Speech Link
3: Louise Haigh (Lab - Sheffield, Heeley) From the way this Government have politicised the ongoing industrial dispute on our railways and Ministers - Speech Link
4: Bill Esterson (Lab - Sefton Central) employment for their members and in ensuring that the economic benefits of new technologies are available to workers - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Welsh Affairs - Thu 29 Feb 2024
Wales Office

Mentions:
1: Nia Griffith (Lab - Llanelli) topics so that there is time for other colleagues to come in, and I would like to talk first about railways - Speech Link
2: Robin Millar (Con - Aberconwy) The creation of a freeport in Anglesey with £26 million of seed funding will ensure that investment, skilled - Speech Link
3: Richard Thomson (SNP - Gordon) constitutional future of Wales, alongside other matters such as the devolution of justice and the devolution of railways - Speech Link
4: David T C Davies (Con - Monmouth) Lady’s words are also going to be seen by workers in Port Talbot, who may be thinking to themselves that - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Steel Industry: Wales - Wed 21 Feb 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Nia Griffith (Lab - Llanelli) We need investment in our railways, housing, hospitals and so on. - Speech Link
2: Jessica Morden (Lab - Newport East) West (Ruth Jones).We should never underestimate just how difficult a time this is for these highly skilled - Speech Link
3: Ruth Jones (Lab - Newport West) well in south Wales that once these sorts of industries are closed down, it is very unlikely that the skilled - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Industrial Strategy - Thu 01 Feb 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Watson of Wyre Forest (Lab - Life peer) similarities with the destruction of our manufacturing base in the 1980s, with the price paid by miners, steel-workers - Speech Link
2: Lord Whitty (Lab - Life peer) It needs to be a just and fair transition—fair to workers and to different parts of the country. - Speech Link
3: Lord Mountevans (XB - Excepted Hereditary) the sector delivered during the pandemic and, indeed, at all times—although perhaps I should leave railways - Speech Link
4: Lord Mair (XB - Life peer) led by the Institution of Engineering and Technology“estimated there is a shortfall of over 173,000 workers - Speech Link
5: Lord McNicol of West Kilbride (Lab - Life peer) Our productivity levels remain stubbornly low and, as a result, workers have seen no growth in real pay - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Offshore Petroleum Licensing Bill
2nd reading - Mon 22 Jan 2024
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Claire Coutinho (Con - East Surrey) I now turn to perhaps the most important reason to back this Bill: the workers. - Speech Link
2: Claire Coutinho (Con - East Surrey) Those are the workers whose skills we will need for our future energy production. - Speech Link
3: Nia Griffith (Lab - Llanelli) the Government’s energy should be concentrated, not on this ridiculous Bill.On electrification of the railways - Speech Link
4: Kenny MacAskill (Alba - East Lothian) Where the blame does not lie is with a workforce who are skilled and who presently have to work with - Speech Link
5: Sammy Wilson (DUP - East Antrim) Has it resulted in jobs for workers in the United Kingdom? [Hon. Members: “Yes!”] - Speech Link