Employment Law: Devolution to Scotland

I thank my hon. Friend for making that point. The Taylor report gave the Government a comprehensi...

We can expect the Tories to denigrate or at the very least be uncaring on workers’ rights, but we...

I thank my hon. Friend for that intervention. It is fair to say that the Labour party, like the G...

What the hon. Lady says leads me to think that we need reform of UK employment law rather than de...

The hon. Lady makes a number of points. Given her ardent belief in the Union, she would argue tha...

Does my hon. Friend, like me, find it rather bizarre that the hon. Member for Edinburgh West (Chr...

Absolutely. There was ample opportunity when the Lib Dems were in the coalition to transform empl...

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I want to make some progress, but I will come back to the hon. Member.

There are more and m...

I thank my hon. Friend for giving way; she is being very generous. Does she share my concern and ...

I thank my hon. Friend for that intervention. I know that the hon. Member for Arfon (Hywel Willia...

I will make two brief points. I find strange the argument that multinational companies are someho...

I thank the hon. Member for that salient point. We can be under no illusion: not only are this Go...

I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Lanark and Hamilton East (Angela Crawley) on securin...

It strikes me as really concerning that part of the new Prime Minister’s reforms seems to be to u...

I thank my hon. Friend for that welcome intervention. The new Prime Minister certainly will have ...

It is, as always, a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Edward. I pay tribute to my ho...

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Edward. Like others, I congratulate the ho...

I just want to add a pertinent comment. When further devolution was being considered for Wales, w...

That shows the illogicality of the current devolved set-up.

We obviously have seen changes—...

It is a pleasure to serve again under your chairmanship, Sir Edward. Apropos of the list the hon....

I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Lanark and Hamilton East (Angela Crawley) for bringing the ...

I wonder if my hon. Friend could say whether those countries have “Wheel of Fortune”-style things...

Fortunately, they are spared that horror but, here in the UK, that is where we are at: “This Morn...

I thank my hon. Friend for giving way. To address the earlier intervention by the hon. Member for...

I could not agree more. My hon. Friend put her point succinctly. To sum up, if you are an average...

It is great to have you in the Chair for this debate, Sir Edward. I pay tribute to the hon. Membe...

It is absolutely right that we give BA and British Gas an absolute bashing, but one organisation ...

I am glad that the hon. Gentleman mentioned Asda. We could probably spend the rest of the debate ...

And your colleague.

Maybe. Well, I am not so sure if the Minister is—maybe she will tell us.

I do not want to g...

Will the hon. Member give way?

If the hon. Member will let me finish the point. This is the fact of the Smith Commission. They d...

Can I confirm on the record that the manifesto from the British Labour party for the next general...

It will have a clear commitment to implement what we are currently doing in terms of the Labour p...

I thank the hon. Gentleman for giving way. His history is a wee bit wobbly. I gently say to him t...

I cannot recall who was and who was not, but the conversations that went on through the conduit o...

I do not know whether the hon. Gentleman missed the point made in a number of our speeches when w...

The main thing that I object to about the Scottish Government’s pledges and strategies and docume...

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Edward.

I congratulate the hon. Memb...

In the 25 minutes left, will the Minister give way?

I have an awful lot to get through, but I will allow one intervention.

The Minister makes a point about companies operating over borders and having different employment...

I will get to that in a short while.

Devolving employment rights to Scotland could also dis...

My ten-minute rule Bill is due for Second Reading on 16 September. Does the Minister acknowledge ...

I will look at that point, because I understand the hon. Lady’s argument. However, a line has to ...

After 12 years of this Government, it is fair to say that many of the reasons for the cost of liv...