Taylor Review: Working Practices

Lord McCabe Excerpts
Tuesday 11th July 2017

(7 years, 10 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Margot James Portrait Margot James
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To correct the record, I was not saying that flexibility was always a one-way street in favour of the employer; I said that this was, in exceptional cases, a real problem that needs addressing, but that is not necessarily the norm. In response to the other matters the hon. Lady has raised, I urge her to contribute her views as we go through the consultation.

Lord McCabe Portrait Steve McCabe (Birmingham, Selly Oak) (Lab)
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When the Minister is considering how to respond to the review, will she talk to her colleagues in the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport about the youth full-time social action review, which is considering the question of long-time volunteering? I realise that these are slightly different issues, but there is still a considerable overlap. The question of safeguards and protections is the same in some cases, so it seems sensible to wrap the two together.

Margot James Portrait Margot James
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The hon. Gentleman makes good points about volunteering and the framework that governs it, and I hope that he will make them during our consultation.