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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 22 Jul 2025
Birmingham Bin Strikes

"I hear the hon. Member’s charac-terisation of the issue, but it bears no relationship at all to the reality of the situation. The council is an independent employer. It is not for the Government to go council by council negotiating trade union disputes or terms and condition changes. It is …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 22 Jul 2025
Birmingham Bin Strikes

"I thank the hon. Gentleman for his questions, which I will try to answer in turn. Let me say, though, that we will take no lectures at all from the party that was in government for 14 years and saw the downgrading of local authorities across the country, including in …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 22 Jul 2025
Birmingham Bin Strikes

"I thank the Chair of the Select Committee for her comments—we agree on much. She speaks to why a resolution on this issue is so important. At the heart of this, there are working people with rent and mortgages to pay, who want a resolution. To be clear, the council …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 22 Jul 2025
Birmingham Bin Strikes

"The hon. Gentleman makes fair observations about the funding crisis in local government, but it would be remiss of me not to take him back to the coalition years, which started austerity in local government. The Liberal Democrats were not just casual observers of the demise of local government but …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 22 Jul 2025
Birmingham Bin Strikes

"That is a fair point. I forgot that the hon. Member for Birmingham Perry Barr (Ayoub Khan) had a brief stint as a Liberal Democrat councillor. Actually, the people of Birmingham want us to put the party politics to one side. I think what matters to local people is, first, …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 22 Jul 2025
Birmingham Bin Strikes

"The way the right hon. Member starts is where I would hope most local authorities do when looking at equal pay, but the reality is that there will always be winners and losers in equal pay where women have been underpaid for a long time. Councils have options here: they …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 22 Jul 2025
Birmingham Bin Strikes

"I thank the right hon. Member for taking my advice and not making this party political—a bit more refining and we will get there in the end.

Surely the right hon. Member would expect that the local authority would enter a trade union negotiation in good faith and would go …..."

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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 22 Jul 2025
Birmingham Bin Strikes

"Our starting point, of course, is that we want all parties to negotiate in good faith, and we want the local authority to do its best to table a deal that goes as far as it can go, but the red line has to be that it cannot compromise and …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 22 Jul 2025
Birmingham Bin Strikes

"We have to accept that there are some issues here that are unique to Birmingham. For instance, many councils across England dealt with equal pay over a decade ago, and Birmingham did not, which is why the liabilities have escalated in the way they have.

On the hon. Member’s fundamental …..."

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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 22 Jul 2025
Birmingham Bin Strikes

"Whoever is negotiating in this environment will have the same guardrails as the local authority does. The local authority has to be mindful of the equal pay package that it has agreed with all the trade unions, and it cannot do anything in this very narrow dispute—however impactful it is …..."
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