Employment Agencies and Trade Unions

Will the Minister give way?

If you do not mind, Madam Deputy Speaker, I am going to make some progress.

I have also see...

Will the Minister give way?

I will make some progress.

Employers will still have to comply with broader health and safe...

rose—

I understand that the hon. Gentleman will be speaking later.

Employment businesses will sti...

Does the Minister think it is right that the cap on any fines issued by the Electoral Commission ...

I thank the hon. Member for his question. I will, in fact, move on.

This is a proportionate...

Just to give prior notice, there are many more speakers than have put down to speak, so I suspect...

Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. I want to say from the outset that I was an agency worker and I ...

Is this not an exploiters’ charter that is deeply anti-British? This is from an anti-British part...

On the P&O workers, it seems to me like the company broke the law and the Government implied that...

My right hon. Friend is making a terrific speech and I agree with what she is saying. She mention...

My hon. Friend makes an absolutely crucial point. The Government have been promising jam tomorrow...

I pointed out to the Minister that the Government are determined to repeal the Trade Union (Wales...

I thank the hon. Member for his point. I promise him that the Labour party will always support We...

Does the right hon. Lady agree that it is not open for trade unionists to entertain illegal strik...

We have some of the strictest trade union legislation in Europe. Members have to go through stric...

Order. A great many Members wish to speak and, as the House will be aware, we have limited time—w...

I rise to support both statutory instruments, but I will speak in support of only one: the liabil...

Could the hon. Member identify the last time that there was an illegal strike, please?

Since 1982, there has been effective legislation to dissuade that kind of act, but the effectiven...

Does the hon. Member understand that as the normal remedy is an injunction, what he proposes migh...

I am grateful for that intervention, but I fundamentally disagree. As the hon. Member will know, ...

I call the SNP spokesman.

8.15 pm

I refer to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests and to my membership of Uniso...

It is the union barons.

There is no such thing as a union baron. The hon. Gentleman is one of the hon. Members who withdr...

Does the hon. Gentleman agree that many Conservative Members would prefer to turn the clock back ...

Of course, it was Conservative Members’ party that introduced the Master and Servant Act 1823. I ...

Go on!

Well, it was about what implements could be used to discipline a worker. The hon. Gentleman may w...

The hon. Gentleman is making an excellent speech. It is also the case that employers in safety-cr...

That is absolutely true. There is a suggestion that the rail industry could bust the current rail...

I am going to impose a time limit of four minutes.

8.29 pm

It is well known to hon. and right hon. Members across the House that I am an enthusiastic suppor...

I draw the House’s attention to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests. I am a ...

The behaviour and the pay demands of the public sector at this time are unjust. Plenty of my cons...

I, too, would like to draw Members’ attention to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial I...

Order. The hon. Gentleman was speaking with such authority that I did not notice he had exceeded ...

It is always a pleasure to follow many of the Members in this House, and the hon. Member for Easi...

As I said in my speech, some of the wage demands are inappropriate. To put them into context, giv...

I thought about such issues when I was drafting my speech. There would be absolute outrage from t...

These two small pieces of legislation could have the most serious impact of any we will be consid...

The hon. Member for Glasgow South West (Chris Stephens) talked about my alleged withdrawal of lab...

I am not going to waste any of my time responding to the appalling and abhorrent comments by the ...

Does my hon. Friend agree that the easiest and best way to stop strike action is to give workers ...

I totally agree. That is what we do in Wales.

These measures are unsafe, putting workers an...

I will have to reduce the time limit to three minutes.

9.4 pm

The Government seem to think that most workers are unskilled or uncertified, but agency workers a...

I would like to put on record that I am proud member of Unite the union and the GMB. I start by p...

My hon. Friend is making a fantastic speech. Does he not think that to be a working person in Bri...

Order.

Absolutely. I agree with everything my hon. Friend said.

This is a Government who furiously...

I am grateful to the House for its consideration of the draft amendment regulations on agency wor...