UK Parliament / Open data

Private Equity (Transfer of Undertakings and Protection of Employment) Bill

Debate on bills on Friday, 7 March 2008, in the House of Commons, led by John Heppell. The answering member was Pat McFadden.
Private Equity (Transfer of Undertakings and Protection of Employment) Bill. Second reading debate. Motion that Bill be read a second time withdrawn. Bill withdrawn.
Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
472 c2031-94 
Session
2007-08
Department
Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform
Legislative stage
Second reading
Procedure
Private members' bills proceedings
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Related items
Private Equity (Transfer of Undertakings and Protection of Employment) Bill.
Wednesday, 5 December 2007
Bills
House of Commons
Proceeding contributions
John Heppell | 472 c2050;472 c2048 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman misunderstands me. I am not talking about the private equity industry, but indust...
Philip Davies | 472 c2050;472 c2048 (Link to this contribution) Yes, I am quite happy with the current arrangements across the board. I am not arguing for any chang...

Show all contributions (173)
John Heppell | 472 c2050-1;472 c2048-9 (Link to this contribution) We are not talking about something that happened 30 years ago, but about the Transfer of Undertaking...
Nigel Evans | 472 c2049-50;472 c2047-8 (Link to this contribution) I, as much as any other hon. Member, am waiting with bated breath to hear my hon. Friend's examples,...
Philip Davies | 472 c2050;472 c2048 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is entirely right about that. It is noticeable that Labour Members come from certain ...
John Heppell | 472 c2050;472 c2048 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman's speech so far has been a great advert for private equity companies generally. H...
Philip Davies | 472 c2050;472 c2048 (Link to this contribution) I am perfectly satisfied with the current arrangements. As I made clear earlier, this country's priv...
Philip Davies | 472 c2049;472 c2047 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right. I was nervous when he said that he was hesitant about disagreein...
Philip Davies | 472 c2049;472 c2047 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman and am delighted to hear that he is waiting in anticipation of w...
Jim Dowd | 472 c2049;472 c2047 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has been speaking for well over half an hour. I, for one, do not dispute the impo...
Philip Davies | 472 c2052;472 c2050 (Link to this contribution) It is difficult to get to the point of my speech, for which hon. Members are waiting with bated brea...
Philip Davies | 472 c2051;472 c2049 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady makes a pertinent point. We should reflect on the fact that in the past 15 or more yea...
Tony Lloyd | 472 c2052;472 c2050 (Link to this contribution) It might help the hon. Member for Solihull (Lorely Burt) if I say that the point of the Bill, which ...
Philip Davies | 472 c2052;472 c2050 (Link to this contribution) I certainly am, but the hon. Gentleman will have to be slightly more patient. It is important that ...
Baroness Burt of Solihull | 472 c2051;472 c2049 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman agree that the TUPE arrangements were extensively revised, after great consu...
Philip Davies | 472 c2051;472 c2049 (Link to this contribution) This Government have imposed many regulations on businesses. If my memory serves, about 3,000 or 4,0...
John Heppell | 472 c2051;472 c2049 (Link to this contribution) Let us be clear. Is the hon. Gentleman saying that TUPE represents a burden on business generally? I...
Philip Davies | 472 c2051;472 c2049 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman talks about increased burdens, but I am not talking only about the burdens he ref...
Philip Davies | 472 c2053-5;472 c2051-3 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman. There seems to be a new tactic: the hon. Members at the very ba...
Christopher Chope | 472 c2055;472 c2053 (Link to this contribution) I have an advantage over my hon. Friend, as I have a copy of the explanatory notes, kindly provided ...
Philip Davies | 472 c2055;472 c2053 (Link to this contribution) I am incredibly grateful to my hon. Friend for that clarification—if, indeed, it is a clarification—...
Christopher Chope | 472 c2055;472 c2053 (Link to this contribution) Surely the implication of the explanatory notes is that a private equity organisation would be any o...
Philip Davies | 472 c2052-3;472 c2050-1 (Link to this contribution) Of course I will abide by your ruling, Madam Deputy Speaker. I hope that I have managed to go some w...
Speaker | 472 c2053;472 c2051 (Link to this contribution) That is not a point of order for the Chair, but the hon. Member for Shipley has heard my ruling and ...
Tony Lloyd | 472 c2053;472 c2051 (Link to this contribution) On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. Following your ruling to the hon. Member for Shipley (Phi...
John Heppell | 472 c2053;472 c2051 (Link to this contribution) Some of the information has been provided to me. It is stated that such protections are included in ...
Philip Davies | 472 c2053;472 c2051 (Link to this contribution) Indeed, Madam Deputy Speaker. I think that I made it abundantly clear before the point of order that...
Speaker | 472 c2058;472 c2056 (Link to this contribution) Order. The hon. Gentleman is clearly not giving way.
Andrew Miller | 472 c2058-60;472 c2056-8 (Link to this contribution) I certainly will not give way until I have set out at least my opening remarks. There is a powerful...
Baroness Burt of Solihull | 472 c2060;472 c2058 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for the hon. Gentleman's intervention, but I am not sure where he is coming from. I do...
Christopher Chope | 472 c2060;472 c2058 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady seems to be arguing in favour of the same regime applying to private companies as to p...
Baroness Burt of Solihull | 472 c2060;472 c2058 (Link to this contribution) There has been a lot of discussion this morning, and I should like to suggest that a key word is bal...
Christopher Chope | 472 c2060;472 c2058 (Link to this contribution) Why is it a reasonable concern? Surely it is for individual workers to decide whether they want to j...
John Heppell | 472 c2062;472 c2060 (Link to this contribution) The regulations were introduced in 2006, but most of the discussions about them would have ended in ...
Baroness Burt of Solihull | 472 c2061-2;472 c2059-60 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right—no, I do not believe that. I am trying to set out a balanced ...
John Heppell | 472 c2056;472 c2054 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is correct, and the same situation applies under TUPE.
Philip Davies | 472 c2056;472 c2054 (Link to this contribution) From what I read in the Bill, I also believe that any dismissal in relation to the acquisition would...
John Heppell | 472 c2056;472 c2054 (Link to this contribution) I understand that that is the TUPE requirement. If there is anything in the Bill that goes beyond TU...
Philip Davies | 472 c2056-7;472 c2054-5 (Link to this contribution) I am genuinely grateful to the hon. Gentleman for that clarification. Some of the provisions might g...
Nigel Evans | 472 c2057;472 c2055 (Link to this contribution) As I understand it, one of the sovereign wealth funds that we have heard about today might well inve...
Philip Davies | 472 c2057-8;472 c2055-6 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a good point. The Bill's promoter might be able to clarify some of the points t...
Andrew Miller | 472 c2058;472 c2056 (Link to this contribution) I shall be extremely brief in setting out my reasons why the hon. Member for Shipley (Philip Davies)...
Andrew Miller | 472 c2058;472 c2056 (Link to this contribution) No, I will not give way. The hon. Gentleman has had an hour.
Philip Davies | 472 c2075;472 c2073 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend has more money than a private equity firm.
Nigel Evans | 472 c2075;472 c2073 (Link to this contribution) I wish. The Government think that pre-legislative scrutiny is a good idea. I was not so sure to beg...
Philip Davies | 472 c2074;472 c2072 (Link to this contribution) I agree entirely. A private equity firm gave £1 million to Remprobe, one of my local firms, which ma...
Nigel Evans | 472 c2074-5;472 c2072-3 (Link to this contribution) If the hon. Member for Nottingham, East has done one great service this morning, it is giving us an ...
Tom Clarke | 472 c2072-3;472 c2070-1 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend the Member for Paisley and Renfrewshire, North (Jim Sheridan) is absolutely right. I ...
Nigel Evans | 472 c2073-4;472 c2071-2 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Member for Nottingham, East (Mr. Heppell) on his success in the private Memb...
Jim Sheridan | 472 c2072;472 c2070 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend agree that the fundamental effect of the Bill is to provide basic support ...
Tom Clarke | 472 c2071-2;472 c2069-70 (Link to this contribution) I am not giving way; I did not intervene on anyone else and I am going to be brief. I am not going t...
Philip Davies | 472 c2075;472 c2073 (Link to this contribution) I am very reluctant even to try to suggest that I might disagree with my hon. Friend, but does he ag...
Christopher Chope | 472 c2068;472 c2066 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my hon. Friend on a very good demolition job. Will he illustrate his last point by re...
Christopher Chope | 472 c2069;472 c2067 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend accept that the promoter of the Bill has now said that he does not wish the inju...
David Kidney | 472 c2063-5;472 c2061-3 (Link to this contribution) Like the hon. Member for Shipley (Philip Davies), I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Notti...
Jonathan Djanogly | 472 c2065;472 c2063 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes exactly the point that many Conservative Members have been making. Even if ...
David Kidney | 472 c2065;472 c2063 (Link to this contribution) Obviously, I do not agree, because the rights involved are specific to a transfer situation and are ...
Jonathan Djanogly | 472 c2065-8;472 c2063-6 (Link to this contribution) I disclose my interests as a partner in a law firm that acts for various private equity firms as wel...
Tom Clarke | 472 c2070-1;472 c2068-9 (Link to this contribution) When I read the Bill of my hon. Friend the Member for Nottingham, East (Mr. Heppell) last night, I w...
Christopher Chope | 472 c2082;472 c2080 (Link to this contribution) The Minister is making some excellent points, and I wonder whether he could use the good offices of ...
Pat McFadden | 472 c2078-82;472 c2076-80 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Nottingham, East (Mr. Heppell) on his success in the pr...
Nigel Evans | 472 c2077-8;472 c2075-6 (Link to this contribution) I understand that that is a movable feast as far as the Government are concerned, and I should hate ...
Christopher Chope | 472 c2090;472 c2088 (Link to this contribution) I appreciate the level of detail that the Minister has provided. Will he explain why the Government ...
Pat McFadden | 472 c2087-90;472 c2085-8 (Link to this contribution) Conservative Members' comments that they were satisfied with the current regulations were reflected ...
Andrew Miller | 472 c2087;472 c2085 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend will recall that those regulations replaced the regulations that were put in place by...
Pat McFadden | 472 c2082-7;472 c2080-5 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that the Leader of the House has more important business to deal with than arranging meeti...
John Heppell | 472 c2093-4;472 c2091-2 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Member for Ribble Valley (Mr. Evans) talked about the unintended consequences of the Bill, ...
Christopher Chope | 472 c2091-3;472 c2089-91 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the Minister on having given us almost one hour of good, robust common sense. I sympa...
Christopher Chope | 472 c2075;472 c2073 (Link to this contribution) May I give my hon. Friend an example from my constituency, where a partnership whose results are in ...
Nigel Evans | 472 c2075;472 c2073 (Link to this contribution) I find myself in a similar position to my hon. Friend at the beginning of the day, when he felt that...
Nigel Evans | 472 c2076;472 c2074 (Link to this contribution) If I have read it right in the papers as well, that business is sharing about £180 million with its ...
Philip Davies | 472 c2077;472 c2075 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is making a powerful point. Does he agree that we have fairly high levels of rights i...
Nigel Evans | 472 c2076;472 c2074 (Link to this contribution) I agree with the hon. Gentleman that we must seek out those employers—I hope that they are a small g...
Nigel Evans | 472 c2077;472 c2075 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a valid point: not only would we export jobs but we would abandon the protectio...
Stephen Pound | 472 c2077;472 c2075 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving way, particularly when he is tossing things in our di...
Nigel Evans | 472 c2077;472 c2075 (Link to this contribution) That leads me nicely to devolution, but before I do so, I shall give way to the hon. Member for Eali...
Christopher Chope | 472 c2037;472 c2035 (Link to this contribution) Would the legislation have applied in the case of the takeover of Northern Rock? In supplementing th...
John Heppell | 472 c2037;472 c2035 (Link to this contribution) I apologise to the hon. Gentleman; I have not made them available. I will try to get a copy to him b...
Tony Lloyd | 472 c2037;472 c2035 (Link to this contribution) Except in relation to the beauty of my hon. Friend's ears, the point is quite trivial. If there is t...
John Heppell | 472 c2037;472 c2035 (Link to this contribution) That is the argument that I started with. We cannot have it both ways. If someone says, ““They're al...
Jonathan Djanogly | 472 c2037;472 c2035 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry, but how can the hon. Gentleman assume that there will be considerable consequences for t...
John Heppell | 472 c2037;472 c2035 (Link to this contribution) How can I be sure that there will be any changes under any takeover? Of course, I cannot be sure. Al...
Jonathan Djanogly | 472 c2037;472 c2035 (Link to this contribution) The point is that the existing law provides no less protection for workers made redundant after a sh...
John Heppell | 472 c2037;472 c2035 (Link to this contribution) No, it does not. The reality is that Joe or Josephine on the shop floor knows that they are being ta...
John Heppell | 472 c2038;472 c2036 (Link to this contribution) To be honest, I am no great expert on Northern Rock and I am not really sure.
John Heppell | 472 c2035;472 c2033 (Link to this contribution) I think that there is a definition in the explanatory notes to the Bill, so I will ensure that the h...
Philip Davies | 472 c2036;472 c2034 (Link to this contribution) To help the hon. Gentleman get his train of thought back, his Bill says that it would apply to ““sub...
John Heppell | 472 c2036;472 c2034 (Link to this contribution) It means a controlling shareholding, where someone takes control of a company. It is not too difficu...
Baroness Burt of Solihull | 472 c2036;472 c2034 (Link to this contribution) I am a little confused, because as I understand it, all the rights to which the hon. Gentleman is re...
Paul Farrelly | 472 c2035;472 c2033 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my hon. Friend on introducing this Bill. Generous as he has been to private equity, i...
John Heppell | 472 c2035;472 c2033 (Link to this contribution) That is what I was trying to say. I do not want to make judgments. I have examples of private equity...
Christopher Chope | 472 c2035;472 c2033 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman cannot even tell the House what a private equity takeover is. That is the problem...
Jonathan Djanogly | 472 c2037;472 c2035 (Link to this contribution) Surely the same statutory provisions would apply in respect of any redundancy programme put in place...
John Heppell | 472 c2036;472 c2034 (Link to this contribution) It is because the situation for workers is different when there is a transfer. When a company is tak...
Nigel Evans | 472 c2032-3;472 c2030-1 (Link to this contribution) My point follows on from the question asked by the hon. Member for Manchester, Central (Tony Lloyd) ...
John Heppell | 472 c2033;472 c2031 (Link to this contribution) No, I did not, but I consulted other people. I have not simply sat down with trade union colleagues ...
Philip Davies | 472 c2034;472 c2032 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman mentioned that he met the BVCA, and said that his discussions were confidential. ...
John Heppell | 472 c2034;472 c2032 (Link to this contribution) The message I got from the BVCA was that it would leave the working on the matter to the CBI. My sus...
David Kidney | 472 c2033;472 c2031 (Link to this contribution) I am following my hon. Friend's speech with interest. On the point he just made, do we not stand on ...
John Heppell | 472 c2033;472 c2031 (Link to this contribution) That is exactly the point. Anyone using common sense can see that that is the case. I have talked to...
John Heppell | 472 c2034;472 c2032 (Link to this contribution) I think that I had better leave that to the Minister. I am sure that I am being so persuasive that h...
Nigel Evans | 472 c2034;472 c2032 (Link to this contribution) During the Division earlier, the Minister said to me, ““Are you here every Friday?”” I could have as...
John Heppell | 472 c2034;472 c2032 (Link to this contribution) I agree with the hon. Gentleman completely. The problem is that I had to put a long title to the Bil...
Christopher Chope | 472 c2034;472 c2032 (Link to this contribution) Surely the first point is to discuss to whom the Bill applies. The long title of the Bill refers to ...
James Duddridge | 472 c2031;472 c2029 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman's modesty is admirable, but he is bringing to this House a Bill that asks us to c...
John Heppell | 472 c2031;472 c2029 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time. A couple of months ago, when I first embark...
Tony Lloyd | 472 c2032;472 c2030 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is making an interesting point. One of the great disadvantages of TUPE, where it appl...
John Heppell | 472 c2031-2;472 c2029-30 (Link to this contribution) I do not want to get bogged down in the legal niceties of these things. Let me freely admit from the...
John Heppell | 472 c2032;472 c2030 (Link to this contribution) That is true; I agree with my hon. Friend. People forget that a lot of the drive to make it clear wh...
Tony Lloyd | 472 c2046;472 c2044 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has just made a very important statement. He has said that protection already exi...
Philip Davies | 472 c2045;472 c2043 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right: protection does already exist.
Nigel Evans | 472 c2045;472 c2043 (Link to this contribution) That brings me back to a question I asked earlier about whether Lord Jones had been consulted. Clear...
Philip Davies | 472 c2045;472 c2043 (Link to this contribution) As my hon. Friend the Member for Huntingdon (Mr. Djanogly) made clear earlier, there are rules apply...
John Heppell | 472 c2045;472 c2043 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman not believe that this industry should be expected to obey the same rules as ...
Philip Davies | 472 c2045;472 c2043 (Link to this contribution) I understand the hon. Gentleman's point, but it is not always possible to reconcile the future of a ...
John Heppell | 472 c2045;472 c2043 (Link to this contribution) I fear that the debate is turning into exactly what I did not want it to become: a debate for or aga...
Philip Davies | 472 c2045;472 c2043 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right. Before we embark on a measure that could have such a negative ef...
Nigel Evans | 472 c2044;472 c2042 (Link to this contribution) This reinforces my point about the need for more pre-legislative scrutiny. We are talking about legi...
Philip Davies | 472 c2044;472 c2042 (Link to this contribution) If the hon. Gentleman had listened to what I said in the first place, he would know that I made it c...
Philip Davies | 472 c2044;472 c2042 (Link to this contribution) If the hon. Gentleman is not questioning Michael Wright, whose figures I am quoting, he will accept ...
Andrew Miller | 472 c2044;472 c2042 (Link to this contribution) I am not questioning Michael Wright. I am questioning the hon. Gentleman.
Andrew Miller | 472 c2044;472 c2042 (Link to this contribution) My point is that there are several different ways of measuring productivity. This could be about mas...
Philip Davies | 472 c2044;472 c2042 (Link to this contribution) I just told the hon. Gentleman that I would send him a copy of the report, which he can study at his...
Andrew Miller | 472 c2044;472 c2042 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has prayed in aid a study carried out by Nottingham university. I want to underst...
Philip Davies | 472 c2044;472 c2042 (Link to this contribution) I am not sure whether the hon. Gentleman is trying to question the ability of Michael Wright of Nott...
Philip Davies | 472 c2043;472 c2041 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is right that workers are often in the dark. I was working for Asda when it was t...
Philip Davies | 472 c2044;472 c2042 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for the hon. Gentleman's interest in the study to which I referred. I will happily sen...
Andrew Miller | 472 c2044;472 c2042 (Link to this contribution) How were those productivity figures measured?
Nigel Evans | 472 c2042;472 c2040 (Link to this contribution) I agree with my hon. Friend that painless panaceas do not exist; if only they did. We have put sever...
Philip Davies | 472 c2041-2;472 c2039-40 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Member for Nottingham, East (Mr. Heppell) on bringing forward his Bill and o...
John Heppell | 472 c2040-1;472 c2038-9 (Link to this contribution) I agree completely with my hon. Friend. [Interruption.] I have just realised that I have found a cop...
Tony Lloyd | 472 c2040;472 c2038 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend's most recent exchange has raised an important point. As he says, his ambition is to ...
John Heppell | 472 c2043;472 c2041 (Link to this contribution) I accept that the hon. Gentleman feels that he is very much in the dark about the Government's respo...
Philip Davies | 472 c2042-3;472 c2040-1 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a good point. My understanding is exactly the same as his. No doubt the Ministe...
Christopher Chope | 472 c2042;472 c2040 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend accept that one problem today is the Government's failure to respond to the Trea...
Philip Davies | 472 c2042;472 c2040 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend raises a valid point, and I am sure that what he describes would make us all better o...
Nigel Evans | 472 c2040;472 c2038 (Link to this contribution) I am not a fan of the European Union by any stretch of the imagination—quite the opposite—but we wer...
David Kidney | 472 c2038;472 c2036 (Link to this contribution) First, the existing regulations would apply to Northern Rock, because there is a transfer of ownersh...
John Heppell | 472 c2038;472 c2036 (Link to this contribution) I do not mind hypothetical questions. What I would say is that I am sure that if the legislation app...
Baroness Burt of Solihull | 472 c2038;472 c2036 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for giving way; he is being patient. He is saying that the TUPE regulatio...
John Heppell | 472 c2038;472 c2036 (Link to this contribution) I agree completely. I think that those Members were arguing that legislation other than TUPE would a...
Nigel Evans | 472 c2039;472 c2037 (Link to this contribution) I accept that the hon. Gentleman does not want to do anything that will hit business in this country...
John Heppell | 472 c2038-9;472 c2036-7 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady has made a valid point, and it was something that I said earlier. I am not trying to b...
Dennis Skinner | 472 c2039;472 c2037 (Link to this contribution) When we discussed the TUPE ideas many years ago, when there was a Tory Government and there were all...
John Heppell | 472 c2039;472 c2037 (Link to this contribution) I am not aware of the legislation in every country, but I know that some countries' legislation is s...
John Heppell | 472 c2039-40;472 c2037-8 (Link to this contribution) I agree with my hon. Friend. I am a realist about these things; I recognise that if my Bill gets to ...
Philip Davies | 472 c2046;472 c2044 (Link to this contribution) With the greatest respect to the hon. Gentleman, if he allows me to continue my speech he will hear ...
Christopher Chope | 472 c2047;472 c2045 (Link to this contribution) It is unclear from my hon. Friend's comments whether he is for or against the Bill extending to sove...
Philip Davies | 472 c2047;472 c2045 (Link to this contribution) I hope I am making it clear that I am not in favour of the Bill at all, so I do not want it to apply...
Christopher Chope | 472 c2046;472 c2044 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend accept that the mergers and acquisitions activity that takes place in the City o...
Philip Davies | 472 c2046-7;472 c2044-5 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is entirely right. One of the consequences of globalisation is that countries will ha...
Andrew Miller | 472 c2048;472 c2046 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is describing a successful British economy. He is right that that is partly a res...
Philip Davies | 472 c2048;472 c2046 (Link to this contribution) Once again, the hon. Gentleman is clearly not listening to what I am saying in the round. I made it ...
Christopher Chope | 472 c2047;472 c2045 (Link to this contribution) Is my hon. Friend aware of this statistic: companies that have received private equity backing accou...
Philip Davies | 472 c2047-8;472 c2045-6 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right, and I am grateful to him for emphasising my point. I mentioned ...
Roger Gale | 472 c2049;472 c2047 (Link to this contribution) I hesitate to disagree with my hon. Friend about anything, but is he right that the Government shoul...
Philip Davies | 472 c2055-6;472 c2053-4 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend may well be right. He is certainly more expert than I am at understanding parliamenta...
Jonathan Djanogly | 472 c2068-9;472 c2066-7 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend gives a good example, to which I had intended to refer. He is right that there would ...
Pat McFadden | 472 c2090-1;472 c2088-9 (Link to this contribution) My understanding is that when the Government gave information to the Select Committee, they covered ...
John Heppell | 472 c2040;472 c2038 (Link to this contribution) I suspect that the European Union is often interested in legislating. A fortnight ago, we were discu...
Speaker | 472 c2052;472 c2050 (Link to this contribution) Order. The hon. Gentleman said that he would give some background on private equity companies. I thi...
Baroness Burt of Solihull | 472 c2062-3;472 c2060-1 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for that intervention. I would like to address the extra aspect...
Jonathan Djanogly | 472 c2069-70;472 c2067-8 (Link to this contribution) I agree with my hon. Friend. It seems to me, having listened to the debate so far, that a Bill has b...
Stephen Pound | 472 c2076;472 c2074 (Link to this contribution) I am extremely grateful to a poor, simple boy from Swansea for giving way. I appreciate that the hon...
Subjects
Conditions of employment
Companies
Dismissal
Mergers
Takeovers
Private equity
Legislation
Private Equity (Transfer of Undertakings and Protection of Employment) Bill 2007-08
Link
View this Parliamentary proceeding on www.publications.parliament.uk
Back to top