Railways Skilled Workers

Select Committee

Report Mar. 26 2024

Committee: Work and Pensions Committee (Department: Department for Work and Pensions)

Found: to be associated with “highly profitable companies, those that need to recruit and retain highly skilled

Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 21 Mar 2024
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Charlotte Nichols (Lab - Warrington North) The P&O seafarers were UK-based workers, but because P&O Ferries had flagged its ships out to - Speech Link
2: Louise Haigh (Lab - Sheffield, Heeley) Last Sunday marked the two-year anniversary of P&O Ferries illegally sacking 786 workers, but two - Speech Link
3: Lloyd Russell-Moyle (LAB - Brighton, Kemptown) It has been three years since we were told that Great British Railways would happen. - Speech Link
4: Lilian Greenwood (Lab - Nottingham South) The full delivery of HS2’s Eastern Leg is what the East Midlands needs to support and create highly skilled - Speech Link
5: Christine Jardine (LD - Edinburgh West) It is the wrong move when we are trying to encourage more people on to the railways. - Speech Link

Select Committee

Oral Evidence Mar. 19 2024

Inquiry: British Film and High-End Television
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Culture, Media and Sport Committee (Department: Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport)

Found: Efford: You have talked a lot about training people and giving them the skills; do we have enough skilled

Select Committee

Oral Evidence Mar. 19 2024

Inquiry: British Film and High-End Television
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Culture, Media and Sport Committee (Department: Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport)

Found: Efford: You have talked a lot about training people and giving them the skills; do we have enough skilled

Grand Committee
Strikes (Minimum Service Levels: Fire and Rescue Services) (England) Regulations 2024 - Tue 19 Mar 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Hendy (Lab - Life peer) By the exercise of that freedom the workers, through their union, have the power to convince an employer - Speech Link
2: Lord Goddard of Stockport (LD - Life peer) I have seen minimum strike levels—I think they are in the railways now, are they not? - Speech Link
3: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) We are striving to maintain a balance between the ability of workers to strike and the rights of the - Speech Link
4: None This responsibility makes it a highly skilled role. - Speech Link

Lords Chamber
Spring Budget 2024 - Mon 18 Mar 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Lord Macpherson of Earl's Court (XB - Life peer) In the old days, rentiers and capitalists tended to face higher tax rates than workers, who received - Speech Link
2: Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb (Green - Life peer) to our economic decline is not privatisation, of the NHS or anything else; it is public ownership of railways - Speech Link
3: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) One of the answers—beyond local buses, which desperately need investment—is railways. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Vere of Norbiton (Con - Life peer) Highly skilled migrants contribute highly to the UK’s tech sector: 49% of the UK’s fastest- growing businesses - Speech Link