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Westminster Hall
Worker Exploitation: Leicester Textile Industry - Wed 18 Nov 2020
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Liz Kendall (LAB - Leicester West) in Leicester and Leicestershire, the second largest concentration of textile firms in the country outside - Speech Link
2: Liz Kendall (LAB - Leicester West) Many, although not all, of these appalling cases had been in the supply chain of fashion retailer Boohoo - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Covid-19: Employment Rights - Tue 17 Nov 2020
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Gavin Newlands (SNP - Paisley and Renfrewshire North) Health and Safety Executive, local authorities and the Equality and Human Rights Commission. - Speech Link
2: Grahame Morris (LAB - Easington) Unless the employer acts in a reasonable fashion, it will effectively close our major airport over the - Speech Link
3: Claudia Webbe (IND - Leicester East) Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs reported that, over a six-year period, one quarter of all UK textile - Speech Link
4: Andy McDonald (LAB - Middlesbrough) Look at the Leicester garment workers, knocking out fashion for Boohoo at record speed, having their - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
United Kingdom Internal Market Bill
2nd reading - Mon 19 Oct 2020
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mentions:
1: Lord Callanan (CON - Life peer) It has enabled businesses and individuals to thrive and has been the source of unhindered and open trade - Speech Link
2: Lord Wallace of Tankerness (LDEM - Life peer) In an age when resignation on a matter of principle seems to have gone out of fashion, surely we must - Speech Link
3: Lord Bruce of Bennachie (LDEM - Life peer) In typically British fashion, devolution has evolved differently in each devolved Administration and - Speech Link
4: Lord Whitty (LAB - Life peer) Government gave a subsidy or preferential public procurement arrangement to, say, a Northern Ireland textile - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Trade Bill
Committee stage - Tue 13 Oct 2020
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mentions:
1: Lord Bradshaw (LDEM - Life peer) in fairly simple terms and in a logical and timely fashion. - Speech Link
2: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LDEM - Life peer) Member of the Scottish Parliament representing the Borders constituency, an area extremely rich in textile - Speech Link
3: None Shockingly, western fashion brands and big-name companies simply turn a blind eye. - Speech Link
4: Viscount Younger of Leckie (CON - Excepted Hereditary) They can attract new businesses and spread jobs, investment and opportunity to towns and cities up and - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (Leicester) Regulations 2020 - Wed 29 Jul 2020
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Baroness Jolly (LDEM - Life peer) What is the harm in them trying to maintain their standard, too, if they can practise in a distanced fashion - Speech Link
2: Lord Garnier (CON - Life peer) Many of the textile businesses in the city are owned by residents of the borough and a great many students - Speech Link
3: Baroness Uddin (Non-affiliated - Life peer) I assume that this will continue on social distancing and the use and availability of masks, and I agree - Speech Link
4: Lord Bhatia (Non-affiliated - Life peer) , high-class Indian restaurants and gyms and swimming pools. - Speech Link
5: Baroness Thornton (LAB - Life peer) jobs, universities and voluntary groups and the mental and other long-term health consequences for the - Speech Link


General Committees
Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (Leicester) Regulations 2020 - Thu 16 Jul 2020
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Liz Kendall (LAB - Leicester West) jobs, and on our universities and voluntary groups, as well as the mental health and other long-term - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Mon 13 Jul 2020
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Kit Malthouse (CON - North West Hampshire) Friend is a doughty champion for his constituency and his county, and I understand his impatience and - Speech Link
2: Priti Patel (CON - Witham) Friend and her police and crime commissioner as well. - Speech Link
3: Zarah Sultana (LAB - Coventry South) and delivery drivers. - Speech Link
4: Philip Dunne (CON - Ludlow) The Environmental Audit Committee highlighted in our reports on hand car washes in 2018 and on fast fashion - Speech Link
5: Priti Patel (CON - Witham) organisations across Leicester about this scourge in the textile sector. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Environmental Protection (Plastic Straws, Cotton Buds and Stirrers) (England) Regulations 2020 - Fri 10 Jul 2020
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park (CON - Life peer) forward and as new technologies and evidence emerge.We are determined to get this right, and it is vital - Speech Link
2: Lord McColl of Dulwich (CON - Life peer) The inhalation of microplastics is causing health difficulties in textile workers. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Kennedy of Cradley (Non-affiliated - Life peer) harming millions of fish and animals, and ending up in our air, food and water. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Uddin (Non-affiliated - Life peer) I have a disabled family member and grandchildren, and I know that paper straws and cotton buds crumble - Speech Link
5: Baroness Jones of Whitchurch (LAB - Life peer) Where does this fashion for drink stirrers come from anyway? - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Coronavirus - Tue 07 Jul 2020
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Jonathan Ashworth (LAB - Leicester South) tracing needed to keep all our constituents safe.In Leicester, there has been speculation that the textile - Speech Link
2: Matt Hancock (IND - West Suffolk) and across the board. - Speech Link
3: Dehenna Davison (CON - Bishop Auckland) I had my first pint in a socially distanced fashion at the Durham Ox in Coundon. - Speech Link
4: David Linden (SNP - Glasgow East) , and Bliss to consider the impact the virus has had on the parents of premature and sick babies, and - Speech Link
5: Matt Hancock (IND - West Suffolk) Gentleman and the group. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Covid-19: Masks - Thu 11 Jun 2020
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Lord Campbell-Savours (LAB - Life peer) and avoid a second wave. - Speech Link
2: Lord Blencathra (CON - Life peer) One is distance and the other is face masks and hand washing. - Speech Link
3: Lord Kirkham (CON - Life peer) credibility and trust. - Speech Link