Enterprise Bill [ Lords ] (Eighth sitting)

Lucy Frazer Excerpts

Thursday 25th February 2016 Public Bill Committees

[Bill Esterson]

I am grateful to my hon. Friend for making that point and reminding us that there was a time when workers received overtime payments for unsocial hours. Bank holidays were triple time. I have similar experience, so long ago that I cannot quite remember, but I know that overtime payments were as my hon. Friend described, and there has been a fundamental change. I think that my hon. Friend the Member for Cardiff West will deal with some of those points a bit later.

[Lucy Frazer (South East Cambridgeshire) (Con)]

It is, again, a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir David. Is there not a flaw in the hon. Gentleman’s argument? If he is suggesting that currently 60% of shop workers complain about working on Sundays, a significant number are already working on Sundays.

[Bill Esterson]

Okay. I thank the hon. and learned Lady—