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Lords Chamber
Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill
2nd reading: Part one - Tue 21 Feb 2023
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Lord Bishop of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich (Bishops - Bishops) reference made to reports of nurses left with no choice but to use food banks, and others who are leaving skilled - Speech Link
2: Baroness Randerson (LDEM - Life peer) The three services I mentioned are actually much more irreplaceable than the railways. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Levelling-up Fund Round 2: Bidding Process - Tue 07 Feb 2023
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Anne McLaughlin (SNP - Glasgow North East) was even tighter because it is paying the price for the previous council’s 10-year battle with women workers - Speech Link
2: Rachael Maskell (LAB - York Central) forward with an economy that will work for everyone.We have a rail cluster in York, with 5,500 highly skilled - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
British Steel: Negotiations - Thu 02 Feb 2023
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mentions:
1: Holly Mumby-Croft (CON - Scunthorpe) Government’s support for the thousands of world-class steelmakers in my patch, who are decent, hard-working, skilled - Speech Link
2: Nusrat Ghani (CON - Wealden) Friend, that we make the finest steel in the world, and the steelworkers in the UK are the most skilled - Speech Link
3: Nusrat Ghani (CON - Wealden) is going to be a 20% increase in UK contracts, we are looking at procurement and we have a fantastic skilled - Speech Link
4: Wera Hobhouse (LDEM - Bath) Steel is vital to help us move to net zero by, for example, extending our railways or building net zero - Speech Link
5: Bob Blackman (CON - Harrow East) Does she agree that it is an absolute business nonsense to lay off highly skilled staff at a time when - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Steel Industry: Contribution to the UK Economy - Wed 25 Jan 2023
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mentions:
1: Jessica Morden (LAB - Newport East) levelling-up agenda worth the paper it is written on.The workforce is a winning combination of highly skilled - Speech Link
2: Jessica Morden (LAB - Newport East) We will also upskill workers to get the jobs for the future. - Speech Link
3: Sarah Champion (LAB - Rotherham) It offers skilled, well-paid employment, with a median salary that is almost 60% higher than the average - Speech Link
4: Tim Farron (LDEM - Westmorland and Lonsdale) Steel plays a massively significant role in our ability to extend the railways, to ensure we have the - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Windrush: 75th Anniversary - Thu 19 Jan 2023
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Lord Kamall (CON - Life peer) He was part of the Windrush generation and came to work on the railways and then as a bus driver. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Lawrence of Clarendon (LAB - Life peer) It is very significant at this time as we recognise the rights of workers and the importance of the National - Speech Link
3: Baroness Burt of Solihull (LDEM - Life peer) When people first came over on the “Windrush” and subsequent ships, although they were skilled in the - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 19 Jan 2023
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: James Sunderland (CON - Bracknell) What assessment he has made of the potential merits of modernising the railways. - Speech Link
2: Huw Merriman (CON - Bexhill and Battle) who fund the railways and the difficulties they have in meeting their tax bills. - Speech Link
3: Gavin Newlands (SNP - Paisley and Renfrewshire North) Is there not a lesson here that the private sector model has failed both workers and passengers and it - Speech Link
4: Alan Brown (SNP - Kilmarnock and Loudoun) What minimum service will they impose on workers under threat of sack? - Speech Link
5: Siobhan Baillie (CON - Stroud) Friend agree to visit this important local provider of hundreds of skilled jobs and apprenticeships to - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill
2nd reading - Tue 17 Jan 2023
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Lord Hunt of Kings Heath (LAB - Life peer) Prelate the Bishop of Leeds that if he thinks that travelling from Leeds to Manchester is slow on the railways - Speech Link
2: Lord Thurlow (CB - Excepted Hereditary) There is a shortage of experienced and skilled planning individuals. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Boycott (CB - Life peer) levelling up across communities by driving investment in new, low-carbon technologies, services and skilled - Speech Link
4: Lord Berkeley (LAB - Life peer) Why is the funding not going to infrastructure in the north to help improve the railways and other infrastructure - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill
2nd reading - Mon 16 Jan 2023
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mentions:
1: Grant Shapps (CON - Welwyn Hatfield) It is fairly obvious to say that a minimum service level in railways, for example, is about people’s - Speech Link
2: Grant Shapps (CON - Welwyn Hatfield) Lady’s point on the railways. - Speech Link
3: Alan Brown (SNP - Kilmarnock and Loudoun) That phrase fools no one, but they also tell us they are all about a high-wage, skilled economy. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Industrial Action - Wed 11 Jan 2023
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mentions:
1: None Nurses, paramedics and transport workers are called key workers for a reason. - Speech Link
2: None blue-light emergency services and on delivering on our manifesto commitment to secure minimum service on the railways - Speech Link
3: Lord Lennie (LAB - Life peer) Does the Minister accept that firing highly skilled employees in essential public services would be counterproductive - Speech Link
4: Lord Callanan (CON - Life peer) We are in the business of increasing the number of public sector workers, not sacking them. - Speech Link
5: Lord Callanan (CON - Life peer) Many other European countries have statutory bans on border service workers striking at all. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Christmas Adjournment - Tue 20 Dec 2022
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Jeremy Corbyn (IND - Islington North) The management of Royal Mail is trying to reduce postal workers to gig workers and put them on a par - Speech Link
2: Peter Gibson (CON - Darlington) They offer a fantastic new educational route for young people, helping to train the next generation of skilled - Speech Link
3: Nick Fletcher (CON - Don Valley) status and the shortlisting into the final six of 43 applicants to be the headquarters of Great British Railways - Speech Link