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Written Question
Department for Exiting the European Union: Living Wage
Monday 28th October 2019

Asked by: Matthew Pennycook (Labour - Greenwich and Woolwich)

Question to the Department for Exiting the European Union :

To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, how many staff in his Department are paid less than the London Living Wage; and what requirements his Department places on contractors to pay the London Living Wage to London-based staff.

Answered by James Duddridge

There are no staff working for the Department who are paid less than the London Living Wage.

The Department does not hold information relating to the rate of pay for those employed by third party agencies or outsourcing arrangements as these would be agreed and held locally by the relevant organisations.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 01 Oct 2019
Irish Border: Customs Arrangements

"Over the last 15 minutes, the Minister has been at pains to stress the distinction between technical non- papers and final papers which are forthcoming. On the basis of that distinction, may I therefore ask him a simple question: without going into the detail, can he give the House an …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 05 Sep 2019
Oral Answers to Questions

"The Secretary of State has said once again that the new Administration want to secure a deal, rather than leave without one, yet we know that no new concrete proposals have been presented to the EU. It has been reported that in the technical talks that took place yesterday between …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 05 Sep 2019
Oral Answers to Questions

"There was no answer there on the level playing field provisions. I am not sure why the Secretary of State is so reluctant to confirm that regulatory divergence from the EU, rather than alignment with it, is what the Government want to achieve. After all, as he mentioned, in the …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 27 Jun 2019
Oral Answers to Questions

"In the finest traditions of this Government, the Brexit Secretary used an interview in The Times today to publicly air his frustrations with colleagues from the Treasury and the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy at their unwillingness to waste yet more public money on ramping up preparations for …..."
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Speech in General Committees - Mon 20 May 2019
European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 (Exit Day) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2019

"It is always a pleasure to see you in the Chair, Sir Lindsay. I intend to be brief. As I look at the impressive array of right hon. and hon. Members on the Government side, I think the Parliamentary Under-Secretary will have enough problems from Members of his party without …..."
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Speech in General Committees - Mon 20 May 2019
European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 (Exit Day) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2019

"There is a simple answer to that. Yes, the manifesto we stood on rightly said that we accepted the referendum result. It also said, clearly, that we rejected a no-deal exit and the proposition on which the Tory party is trying to take us out of the EU. We will …..."
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Speech in General Committees - Mon 20 May 2019
European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 (Exit Day) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2019

"The hon. Gentleman can call it “no deal”, but he is essentially propagating something that Conservative Members have argued for many times: a managed no deal. Certain bilateral agreements have been put in place on the EU’s terms, and they would be revoked on the EU’s terms. He makes a …..."
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Speech in General Committees - Mon 20 May 2019
European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 (Exit Day) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2019

"I am going to make some progress.

As I said, these are relatively uncontroversial regulations that should be supported. That is why the Opposition take no issue with them. I do, however, have one question for the Minister. As he will know, and as the hon. Member for Stone said, …..."
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Speech in General Committees - Mon 20 May 2019
European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 (Exit Day) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2019

"I will not give way; I have just come to a conclusion...."
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