Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Bill

My Lords, Amendment 68ZT asks the Government to publish a report on the whole issue of internship...

My Lords, I came along this afternoon intending to support my noble friend Lady Donaghy on this a...

I very much thank the noble Baroness for tabling this important amendment. In doing so, she bring...

My Lords, I support my noble friend Lady Donaghy’s probing amendment. I have to make a declaratio...

My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Donaghy, for raising this issue and giving us the oppo...

One word I did not hear—and I was listening very carefully—was “exploitation”. The feeling many o...

I thank the noble Lord for that further clarification. There is a lot of common ground here. We n...

My Lords, I am very grateful to noble Lords who have taken part in the debate. I thank the noble ...

It certainly has not been my experience—and I used to work outside London—that all internships ar...

I thank the Minister for that comment. I think that we are not too far apart on the need to ident...

Moved by

Lord Young of Norwood Green

68ZU: Clause 148, page 137, line 27, at end inse...

My Lords, I shall speak to a number of the amendments in this group as well say a few words by wa...

This amendment is all very well but I am not quite sure where it is leading us. It is not very sp...

I want to make it clear that this is an attempt not to rule out zero-hours contracts but to intro...

I thank the noble Lord for his speech and his intervention. I accept that there are issues here w...

I want to say a brief word about this because I must admit that I have a personal dislike of the ...

I thank the noble Lord, Lord Young, for these amendments and for the debate we have had on this p...

The Minister indicates that the Government have had some consultation and regulations will be pub...

My Lords, we shall be publishing them shortly.

Prior to Report?

I will take that point away and do my best.

Right. Obviously, as we said earlier, we welcome this measure. We are probing a bit to see whethe...

Moved by

Lord Young of Norwood Green

68ZX: Clause 148, page 137, line 36, at end inse...

My Lords, again, this amendment seeks to extend the Secretary of State’s powers and to make it mo...

My Lords, I support the amendments in this group. The daughter of a friend works for a burger com...

My Lords, I am grateful to noble Lords for their amendments and the opportunity further to debate...

The Minister says that people are satisfied with that. I was just checking my statistics from the...

I thank the noble Baroness for her clarification. This is not an easy area. I also note that she ...

The point is that if you are going to be paid only at the end of the month, what do you live on i...

The noble Baroness makes a point that bears on the universal credit payment system in the round. ...

Whether it is the handwriting or whatever, it is certainly the case that UC will be based on real...

The noble Baroness makes a good point. In a sense, that is a problem for employers, who could pre...

I was interested when the Minister said that one of our amendments, seeking compensation if shift...

I thank the noble Lord for raising the issue. I was going to deal with it in my response, but dec...

I think the noble Baroness for her response. It has been an interesting debate. I thank my noble ...

Moved by

Baroness Hollis of Heigham

68ZY: Clause 148, page 138, line 7, at end insert...

My Lords, this is a probing amendment to analyse the relationship between the flexible labour mar...

My Lords, I support Amendment 68ZY. My noble friend Lady Hollis has been tenacious in seeking to ...

My Lords, after that forensic double examination, I cannot help reflecting that I am glad I am no...

Such expectation, my Lords. I know that the question of NI eligibility raised by the amendment is...

I am sorry—I did not understand that sentence at all. Would the noble Lord care to explain to me ...

I am drawing the distinction between somebody who is on a zero-hours contract at that level of in...

No—that is not a correct statement. I made it very clear in my opening remarks that this is a pro...

My Lords, I was not suggesting that the amendment would exclude the possibility of further provis...

I thank my noble friend Lord Young, and especially my noble friend Lady Drake for her powerful sp...

Moved by

Lord Newby

68A: Clause 149, page 139, line 5, leave out “The Treasury may by...

My Lords, Clauses 149 to 151 give Her Majesty’s Treasury powers to make UK-wide regulations with ...

I see no reason to oppose the amendments.

Moved by

Lord Newby

68B: Clause 149, page 139, line 9, leave out “Treasury think” and...

Moved by

Lord Newby

68D: Clause 150, page 140, line 1, leave out from second “a” to “...

Moved by

Lord Newby

68F: After Clause 150, insert the following new Clause—

“Po...

Moved by

Lord Newby

68G: Clause 151, page 140, line 38, leave out “virtue of” and ins...