Voluntary Sector and Social Enterprise

Baroness Stowell of Beeston Excerpts

Thursday 21st June 2012 Lords Chamber

[Lord Prescott]

I take advice and I only take the advice of the advice.

[Baroness Stowell of Beeston]

I am sorry to interrupt the noble Lord but this is a time-limited debate. As it makes clear on the Order Paper, Back-Bench contributions are limited to six minutes.

[Lord Prescott]

I apologise. I took advice; obviously I got the wrong advice, but I will not exploit that situation. This whole business now means that a massive pool of cheap labour is going to be exploited, and now G4S even wants to buy the police and replace them with this kind of labour. We had better start looking at what is happening with the exploitation of people. I hope we can have a public debate about it. We have started it thanks to the noble Baroness, Lady Scott, and I am obliged to her, but I would like to get into the details of the issue perhaps when there are fewer people here and I can have a longer time to develop the argument.