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Nicholas Brown Excerpts
Thursday 2nd February 2012

(12 years, 9 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Vince Cable Portrait Vince Cable
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My hon. Friend is absolutely right. That is why we are stressing employee participation in remuneration discussions. There are powers under existing regulations and we want to encourage people to take more advantage of them. As she rightly says, there are enormous practical difficulties involved in choosing one employee who can properly represent the whole of an international labour force.

John Bercow Portrait Mr Speaker
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Order. The right hon. Gentleman is being saved up for later. It would be a pity to waste him at such an early stage in our proceedings.