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
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
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
Mentions:
1: Hilary Benn (Lab - Leeds Central) Some workers have not had a pay rise for almost three years—that is not sustainable. - Speech Link
2: Chris Stephens (SNP - Glasgow South West) Public sector workers in Northern Ireland have seen their real pay fall by more than 7% over the past - Speech Link
3: Steve Baker (Con - Wycombe) We are absolutely seized, as we have said previously, of the need to ensure that public sector workers - Speech Link
4: Greg Smith (Con - Buckingham) Over-crowding on Chiltern Railways has become a daily misery for commuters from stations including Haddenham - Speech Link
5: Rishi Sunak (Con - Richmond (Yorks)) He is right that it is a hugely successful export industry that supports tens of thousands of skilled - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Huw Merriman (Con - Bexhill and Battle) The Government are committed to reforming the railways and ensuring that they are customer focused and - Speech Link
2: Mark Harper (Con - Forest of Dean) cross-Whitehall group to advise on ways to support continued production at Derby, and on how best to support the workers - Speech Link
3: Stephen Morgan (Lab - Portsmouth South) putting the country“firmly at the forefront of the high speed rail revolution”.Today, the jobs of the skilled - Speech Link
4: Huw Merriman (Con - Bexhill and Battle) We are determined to see private sector involvement in the railways continue. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: None cross-Whitehall group to advise on ways to support continued production at Derby and how best to support those workers - Speech Link
2: Lord Tunnicliffe (Lab - Life peer) Alstom’s Litchurch Lane factory in Derby has provided high-skilled jobs for generations, but uncertainty - Speech Link
3: Lord Watts (Lab - Life peer) My Lords, the Minister says that there will be investment in the railways. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Grahame Morris (Lab - Easington) Without immediate plans to allow companies to bid for new contracts, make no mistake, thousands of skilled - Speech Link
2: Simon Lightwood (LAB - Wakefield) It has provided high-skilled jobs for the local community for generations and helps support other local - Speech Link
3: Rachel Hopkins (Lab - Luton South) good, high-skilled manufacturing jobs and train production there. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Hywel Williams (PC - Arfon) public services, assailed by inflation and austerity, now face the further difficulty of recruiting the skilled - Speech Link
2: Fay Jones (Con - Brecon and Radnorshire) Narrow gauge and heritage railways are important for our tourism sector. - Speech Link
3: Michael Fabricant (Con - Lichfield) He told me that there are no narrow gauge railways like that, if at all, in France. - Speech Link
4: David T C Davies (Con - Monmouth) national insurance tax change from January, which will put £324 back into the pockets of 1.2 million workers - Speech Link
5: David T C Davies (Con - Monmouth) 9.8% rise in the national living wage, providing an extra £1,800 to the annual earnings of full-time workers - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Kevin Hollinrake (Con - Thirsk and Malton) We think that is the best way to deal with this, by striking a balance between companies and their workers - Speech Link
2: Kevin Hollinrake (Con - Thirsk and Malton) A consultation is clearly needed to make sure those provisions are fair on both businesses and workers - Speech Link
3: Greg Hands (Con - Chelsea and Fulham) She has already referred to railways and other infrastructure. - Speech Link
4: Nusrat Ghani (Con - Wealden) This is not a victimless crime; it impacts shops, workers and customers. Credit is due to the hon. - Speech Link
5: Kemi Badenoch (Con - Saffron Walden) That will create around 750 high-skilled jobs and builds on the measures announced in the autumn statement - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Tunnicliffe (Lab - Life peer) transition, which is why these Benches will call on the Government to engage with trade unions and workers - Speech Link
2: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) by 2026,“if they were proved safe”.When I challenged her, the noble Baroness, Lady Penn, being the skilled - Speech Link
3: Lord Moylan (Con - Life peer) First, I accept on the basis of my experience of railways that it is likely that these vehicles will - Speech Link
4: Lord Hampton (XB - Excepted Hereditary) systems, safely and efficiently working to reduce pollution, road rage and accidents, and allowing skilled - Speech Link