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Commons Chamber
Rail Strikes - Wed 15 Jun 2022
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Sarah Green (LDEM - Chesham and Amersham) Member for Bury North (James Daly) mentioned, self-employed people who will not get any lost earnings - Speech Link
2: Robert Largan (CON - High Peak) And let us not forget the self-employed, who will not be able to earn money because they cannot work - Speech Link
3: James Daly (CON - Bury North) Many self-employed people have been heroes throughout the pandemic. - Speech Link
4: James Daly (CON - Bury North) My answer is no, because I had the temerity to be self-employed. - Speech Link
5: Julie Marson (CON - Hertford and Stortford) Absolutely not.I am on the side of my hard-working constituents—employed and self-employed—going about - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Fire and Rehire Tactics - Wed 15 Jun 2022
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mentions:
1: Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi (LAB - Slough) Gas, which is owned by Centrica, threatened the livelihoods of 5,000 employees, using the threat of coronavirus - Speech Link
2: David Linden (SNP - Glasgow East) Because an employee has such poor rights, they might become self-employed, where they will probably not - Speech Link
3: Nia Griffith (LAB - Llanelli) We already have 3 million workers on zero-hours contracts or casual contracts and 5 million self-employed - Speech Link
4: Justin Madders (LAB - Ellesmere Port and Neston) It is a race to the bottom, which I am afraid has been accelerated by coronavirus. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Universal Basic Income - Wed 15 Jun 2022
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Christine Jardine (LDEM - Edinburgh West) many people for whom the many Government schemes offering furlough, business grants or support for the self-employed - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Online Safety Bill (Tenth sitting)
Committee stage: 10th sitting - Tue 14 Jun 2022
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Alex Davies-Jones (LAB - Pontypridd) human DNA; 18% had encountered claims that the coronavirus vaccines were a cover for the implant of - Speech Link
2: None languages in which the service has safety systems or classifiers;(b) details of how human moderators employed - Speech Link
3: None require companies to report is the employment, training and support of the human moderators who are employed - Speech Link
4: Barbara Keeley (LAB - Worsley and Eccles South) that the Minister thinks again about requiring Ofcom to provide details on human moderators who are employed - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Schools Bill [HL]
Committee stage - Wed 08 Jun 2022
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (GRN - Life peer) been said by others, but I have to begin the debate on this Bill by reflecting back on my 10 year-old self - Speech Link
2: Baroness Brinton (LDEM - Life peer) might say that in a pandemic mistakes will happen, but because there had not been a framework in the Coronavirus - Speech Link
3: Baroness Fox of Buckley (Non-affiliated - Life peer) The concern is that this can become a self-fulfilling prophecy whereby every problem—the problems ordinarily - Speech Link
4: Lord Shipley (LDEM - Life peer) headteacher … at least one person appointed by the proprietor of the Academy … at least one person employed - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Mon 06 Jun 2022
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Thérèse Coffey (CON - Suffolk Coastal) I am very conscious of the challenges for the self-employed, and also that some people have currently - Speech Link
2: David Rutley (CON - Macclesfield) £20 uplift to universal credit was only ever a temporary measure to deal with the immediate impact of coronavirus - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Hospitality Industry: Liverpool - Mon 06 Jun 2022
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mentions:
1: Dan Carden (LAB - Liverpool, Walton) emergency fund was established, including £9.5 million for small and micro-businesses, sole traders and the self-employed - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Procurement Bill [HL]
2nd reading - Wed 25 May 2022
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Fox (LDEM - Life peer) On the data protection front, the UK has to date employed GDPR as its tool. - Speech Link
2: Lord Stevens of Birmingham (CB - Life peer) procurement and to deal with some of the lessons, both positive and negative, that have arisen during the coronavirus - Speech Link
3: Lord Maude of Horsham (CON - Life peer) smaller businesses were unable to bid for.On central procurement, I found that there were 800 people employed - Speech Link
4: Baroness Noakes (CON - Life peer) a feeling that we should have a way to liberate more of them so that they can be more productively employed - Speech Link
5: Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd (CB - Life peer) There is a principle, which I think is self-evident, that you have to procure in accordance with the - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Passport (Fees) Regulations 2022 - Mon 23 May 2022
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness McIntosh of Pickering (CON - Life peer) The government website states that“There is no backlog in passport processing as a result of the coronavirus - Speech Link
2: Lord Paddick (LDEM - Life peer) Are additional temporary staff employed at peak times or are permanent staff sitting around for six months - Speech Link
3: Baroness Williams of Trafford (CON - Life peer) We have employed 500 staff since last April, and there will be a further 700 this summer. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Tackling Short-term and Long-term Cost of Living Increases - Tue 17 May 2022
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Alan Brown (SNP - Kilmarnock and Loudoun) Those people will be forced to self-disconnect this winter, as they simply will not have the funds to - Speech Link
2: Paul Blomfield (LAB - Sheffield Central) important, but their record shows that they cannot deliver it.In November 2019, before we knew the word “coronavirus - Speech Link
3: Fleur Anderson (LAB - Putney) He is 77 and self-employed, and his energy bills have gone up from £246 to £890. - Speech Link
4: Mick Whitley (LAB - Birkenhead) Sadly, this Government plan for very little beyond their own self-preservation. - Speech Link
5: Beth Winter (LAB - Cynon Valley) Gwenno, a single parent who is self-employed, says:“These price increases are making me feel ill and - Speech Link