Unpaid Trial Work Periods (Prohibition) Bill Debate
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David Linden
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Unpaid Trial Work Periods (Prohibition) Bill
David Linden ExcerptsFriday 16th March 2018
(6 years, 10 months ago)
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David Linden (Glasgow East) (SNP)
In the light of the information that my hon. Friend has given, will he place a copy of it in the Library of the House so that all Members can familiarise themselves with it? That is a very interesting point.
Stewart Malcolm McDonald
I am happy to place that information in the Library, although I rather suspect that it will find its way on to Twitter soon enough.
In closing—I do not wish to cheat the Minister out of his time—this is a Bill that makes work pay and that empowers people who, as the hon. Member for Midlothian (Danielle Rowley) said, need empowerment. This is supposed to be a Parliament of legislators that makes good law. I believe we have an opportunity today to make good law, so let us not filibuster, kill it or somehow ensure that it cannot pass. I realise that is looking tough, but stranger miracles have happened. I ask Members to get behind the Bill, and to get it into Committee. Let us make good law and protect people who need protecting.