I am always delighted to talk about the trade and co-operation agreement, as it is one of my favoured specialist areas, but I am not sure what the noble Lord wants me to refer to. If he is relating this back to the relationship with the CCOO v Deutsche Bank SAE case, the important point is that we have not brought this into effect as it stands, in any event, so I am not sure what the relevance there is. I cannot really see how his comments on the need to protect workers’ rights in terms of derogation of input production capabilities in relation to our European colleagues are relevant here. These are paperwork changes; they do not negatively change the rights of any workers in the UK.
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On the TUPE process, I cannot see why any noble Lord in this Committee would disagree with what is a perfectly rational change in the paperwork processes. As for the other sections that I went through, it is absolutely right that we should clarify how holiday pay and entitlement are calculated for part-year and irregular-hours workers. I would be delighted to have
further discussions with the noble Lord to ensure that we have not missed anything, but I am very comfortable, as are the Government, that these are eminently sensible, detail-orientated alterations to processes, which will allow businesses to function better and workers to be protected more clearly. That is the core concept of many of these moves—that workers understand clearly and easily what they are entitled to, rather than necessarily having to refer to complicated legal texts or even the text of Hansard.