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Proceeding contribution from Mark Harper (Conservative) in the House of Commons on Wednesday, 11 December 2013. It occurred during Adjournment debate on Immigration.

To be clear, it is worse than the hon. Gentleman suggests. The chief executive of Domino’s Pizza was not arguing that he could not recruit in the UK alone. He was arguing that he could not recruit enough people from the whole EU labour pool, and that we needed to start importing low-skilled workers from outside the EU in order that he could keep low wages in his business. That is why I said he perhaps ought to reflect on the terms and conditions. So he was arguing that we should have an unrestricted free-for-all, but I do not think it is the role of Government policy to let multinationals keep wages low when, frankly, they should pay their staff a little more.

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
572 c79WH 
Session
2013-14
Chamber / Committee
Westminster Hall
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