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Lords Chamber
Budget Statement - Thu 16 Mar 2023
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Lord Davies of Brixton (LAB - Life peer) OBR is how many of those being helped by this change are doctors, and how much of the resources being employed - Speech Link
2: Lord Bilimoria (CB - Life peer) is no help for businesses, which have been devastated by energy costs.IR35 reform is needed to help self-employed - Speech Link
3: Baroness Lea of Lymm (CON - Life peer) way of some judicious spending increases and tax cuts, yet according to the OBR, he has still met his self-imposed - Speech Link
4: Lord Tunnicliffe (LAB - Life peer) relaunches and even ministerial reshuffles, our economy remains smaller now than it was prior to the coronavirus - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill
Committee stage: Part 1 - Wed 15 Mar 2023
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Baroness Harris of Richmond (LDEM - Life peer) The staff of the fire service are employees, employed in an entirely different way from police officers - Speech Link
2: None Self-employed persons, including doctors and accountants, are exempt from it. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (LAB - Life peer) The noble Lord, Lord Young of Cookham, rightly pointed at self-sufficient, independent and confident - Speech Link
4: None I think that the proposals are all self-explanatory. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill
Committee stage: Committee of the whole House - Mon 30 Jan 2023
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mentions:
1: Jacob Rees-Mogg (CON - North East Somerset) During the passage of the Coronavirus Act 2020 it was perfectly reasonable to have Henry VIII powers. - Speech Link
2: Jacob Rees-Mogg (CON - North East Somerset) review, and then the Executive finds that it cannot carry out its plans for government, so it becomes self-defeating - Speech Link
3: None It seems completely self-defeating to keep such information from this House as the Bill moves through - Speech Link
4: Liz Saville Roberts (PC - Dwyfor Meirionnydd) I am not employed by it and do not receive a penny from it, but I still have to declare it. - Speech Link
5: David Simmonds (CON - Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner) 15% of the UK workforce consists of self-employed people. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill
Report stage - Wed 18 Jan 2023
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mentions:
1: William Cash (CON - Stone) far too late—the Government simply did not understand the undemocratic system that was and remains employed - Speech Link
2: David Davis (CON - Haltemprice and Howden) Speaker, that that was the day that we gave the Government all sorts of powers under the emergency Coronavirus - Speech Link
3: John Hayes (CON - South Holland and The Deepings) Without such impetus, we risk wallowing in the malaise and self-doubt that can too often infect those - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Royal Mail and the Universal Service Obligation - Thu 12 Jan 2023
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mentions:
1: Kate Osborne (LAB - Jarrow) Before being elected the MP for Jarrow, I was employed by Royal Mail for 25 years. - Speech Link
2: Ian Lavery (LAB - Wansbeck) a modern Royal Mail, not a gig economy, courier-type service where we hive off the letters and use self-employed - Speech Link
3: Clive Efford (LAB - Eltham) More importantly, the employers could not identify the workers they had employed to deliver those bags - Speech Link
4: Beth Winter (LAB - Cynon Valley) everybody’s communities, rather than the current proposal to cut jobs and shift to a gig economy of self-employment - Speech Link
5: Kevin Hollinrake (CON - Thirsk and Malton) It is true that the business has faced increasing pressures over the last few years, not least the coronavirus - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Future of Postal Services - Tue 10 Jan 2023
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mentions:
1: Tahir Ali (LAB - Birmingham, Hall Green) assault on working conditions and threats to cut up to 10,000 permanent jobs and replace them with self-employed - Speech Link
2: Tahir Ali (LAB - Birmingham, Hall Green) public service ethos, and seeking to emulate multinationals such as Amazon, DPD and DHL, where bogus self-employment - Speech Link
3: Kim Johnson (LAB - Liverpool, Riverside) They must investigate and bring an end to the bogus self-employment practices that are on the increase - Speech Link
4: Rachael Maskell (LAB - York Central) Ken Loach’s film “Sorry We Missed You”, the gig economy’s long hours, low wages and punitive, bogus self-employment - Speech Link
5: Kevin Hollinrake (CON - Thirsk and Malton) importance of the postal service to keeping people connected was never more apparent than during the coronavirus - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
National Security Bill
Committee stage - Mon 19 Dec 2022
Home Office

Mentions:
1: None definition has been drafted to ensure the offence addresses the increasingly diverse set of tactics employed - Speech Link
2: Lord Murray of Blidworth (CON - Life peer) dependencies and British Overseas Territories are not a part of the United Kingdom, of course, but self-governing - Speech Link
3: Baroness Ludford (LDEM - Life peer) The publication by Mr Hancock says that these were all SIs under the Coronavirus Act, which is not true - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
State Pension - Mon 12 Dec 2022
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: David Linden (SNP - Glasgow East) it is not solely because of Putin’s invasion of Ukraine or, indeed, the economic hangover from the coronavirus - Speech Link
2: Laura Trott (CON - Sevenoaks) low-income workers and to provide an incentive to work, by ensuring that workers benefit from being employed - Speech Link
3: Laura Trott (CON - Sevenoaks) design, we sought to correct some historic unfairness in the previous system, in particular for women, self-employed - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Arts and Creative Industries Strategy - Thu 08 Dec 2022
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Lord Howarth of Newport (LAB - Life peer) our witnesses emphasised the power of creativity to release individuals and communities into fruitful self-expression - Speech Link
2: Lord Leong (LAB - Life peer) Depriving the original creators and rights holders of their income would self-evidently have terrible - Speech Link
3: Lord Londesborough (CB - Excepted Hereditary) The first is on freelancers: a huge number of the 2 million people are freelance and therefore self-employed - Speech Link
4: Lord Bassam of Brighton (LAB - Life peer) Gaping holes in the then Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s coronavirus support schemes left creative freelancers - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Government PPE Contracts - Tue 06 Dec 2022
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Will Quince (CON - Colchester) In a matter of a few short weeks, this novel coronavirus pushed global health systems and global PPE - Speech Link
2: Dawn Butler (LAB - Brent Central) lot of evidence and paperwork on the Good Law Project website, just for the Minister’s reference.The coronavirus - Speech Link
3: Nadia Whittome (LAB - Nottingham East) Before coronavirus, the existing PPE stockpile did not include everything it should have. - Speech Link
4: Neil O'Brien (CON - Harborough) Self-assembly visors are not preferred in the NHS because they take a bit of time to assemble, so we - Speech Link