Tuesday, 11 March 2025
The Secretary of State was asked—
What steps her Department is taking to use technology to improve the efficiency of the criminal justice system.
Whether she plans to release land owned by her Department at Springhill Road to the Springhill Road Residents Association.
What steps she is taking through the criminal justice system to help prevent defendants absconding before their trial.
What steps she is taking to reduce the cost of court transcripts for victims.
What steps her Department is taking to help support victims of knife crime through the criminal justice system.
What steps her Department is taking to help tackle violence against women and girls.
If she will make an assessment of the potential merits of ensuring that all prison leavers receive resettlement support from mentors.
What steps her Department plans to take to reduce the backlog of domestic violence cases.
What assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of trends in the level of illegal drug use in prisons.
What steps her Department is taking to support female offenders.
What assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of the independent sentencing review’s interim report, published on 18 February 2025.
What steps her Department is taking to help tackle intimate image abuse.
What steps her Department is taking to increase prison capacity.
What support she has provided to prisons that have received an urgent notification since July 2024.
What steps she is taking to tackle backlogs in the courts.
What steps her Department is taking to reduce the Crown court backlog.
If she will make a statement on her departmental responsibilities.
With permission, Mr Speaker, I will make a statement on the collision that occurred between two vessels off the east coast of Yorkshire yesterday. I want to begin by offering my sincere thanks to...
On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. Earlier today, David Lawrence, a former Labour parliamentary candidate, put out a public statement saying that he was pleased to be “invited to...
Presentation and First Reading ( Standing Order No. 57 Secretary Angela Rayner, supported by the Prime Minister, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Secretary Ed Miliband, Secretary Heidi Alexander,...
Presentation and First Reading ( Standing Order No. 57) Robert Jenrick, supported by Mrs Kemi Badenoch, Rebecca Harris, Dr Kieran Mullan and Helen Grant, presented a Bill to provide that the...
Motion for leave to bring in a Bill ( Standing Order No. 23)
Ordered, That the Order of 21 October 2024 (Employment Rights Bill: Programme) be varied as follows: 1. Paragraphs 4 and 5 of the Order shall be omitted. 2. Proceedings on Consideration and...
Consideration of Bill, as amended in the Public Bill Committee [Relevant documents: Third Report of the Business and Trade Committee, Make Work Pay: Employment Rights Bill, HC 370; Second Report...
“(1) After section 27BU of the Employment Rights Act 1996 (inserted by section 3) insert—
27BUA Agency workers (1) In this Part, “agency worker” means an individual— (a) who has a worker’s contract or an arrangement with a work-finding agency by virtue of which...
80EF Kinship care leave (1) The Secretary of State must make regulations entitling an employee to be absent from work on leave under this section if the employee satisfies conditions specified in...
187A Duty of employer to consult representatives (1) This section applies to an employer where, in an undertaking or establishment with 50 or more employees, in the light of recent events or...
27BA (1) Any variation to an employment contract is void if it— (a) was obtained under the threat of dismissal, and (b) is less favourable to the employee than the pre-existing provision,...
4H Regulations relating to other working conditions (1) Regulations may specify conditions relating to other working conditions of seafarers who carry out work relating to the provision of a...
4I Request for declaration relating to other working conditions (1) Subsection (2) applies where a harbour authority has reasonable grounds to believe that ships providing a service to which...
(1) A declaration relating to other working conditions in respect of a service for a relevant year is a declaration within any of subsections (2) to (5). (2) A declaration is within this...
I have to notify the House, in accordance with the Royal Assent Act 1967, that the King has signified his Royal Assent to the following Acts: Supply and Appropriation (Anticipation and...
Debate resumed.
“(1) The Employment Rights Act 1996 is amended as follows. (2) After section 27BUA (inserted by section (Agency workers: guaranteed hours and rights relating to shifts)) insert—
27BUB Zero hours workers, etc (1) This section applies in relation to— (a) a duty imposed on an employer in respect of a worker, and (b) a right conferred on a worker in respect of an...
“(1) Chapter 2 of Part 4 of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 (procedure for handling redundancies) is amended as follows. (2) In section 189 (duty to consult...
“(1) The Working Time Regulations 1998 (S.I. 1998/1833) are amended as follows. (2) In Part 2 (rights and obligations concerning working time), after regulation 16A insert—...
“In section 13 of the Employment Agencies Act 1973 (interpretation), for subsection (3) substitute— ‘(3) For the purposes of this Act “employment business” means the...
“(1) For the purposes of this Chapter, the Secretary of State may by regulations provide for there to be a body in England known as the Adult Social Care Negotiating Body for England. (2)...
“(1) This section applies in any case where an individual (the ‘agency worker’)— (a) is supplied by a person (the ‘agent’) to do work for another (the...
“(1) In section 80K of the Employment Rights Act 1996, omit subsection (3) and insert— “(3) In subsection (1)(a), “terms and conditions of employment”...
“(1) The Employment Rights Act 1996 is amended is follows. (2) In section 50 (Right to time off for public duties), after subsection (1) insert— ‘(1A) An employer shall permit...
“When making regulations under Parts 1 and 2 of this Act, the Secretary of State must have regard to the following objectives— (a) the international competitiveness of the economy of...
Amendments made: 8, page 3, line 5, leave out “section 27BW for power to make provision about” and insert “Part 1 of Schedule A1 for provision about guaranteed hours and”....
Amendments made: 27, page 15, line 39, at end insert— “and the shift is to be worked under the contract referred to in paragraph (a) or (b).” This amendment clarifies that a...
Amendments made: 37, page 20, leave out lines 28 to 40 and insert— “(3) A shift is also a “qualifying shift”, in relation to a worker and an employer, if— (a) it...
Amendments made: 47, page 26, line 17, leave out from first “the” to end of line 19 and insert “meaning given by section 27BUA;”. This amendment is consequential on NC32....
Amendment made: 79, page 29, line 12, at end insert— “(7) In section 202 of the Employment Rights Act 1996 (national security), in subsection (2), after paragraph (e) insert—...
Amendments made: 80, page 30, line 1, leave out “£116.75” and insert “£118.75”. Clause 9 in its current form amends section 157(1) of the Social Security...
Amendments made: 83, page 30, line 34, leave out “£116.75” and insert “£118.75”. Clause 11 in its current form amends section 153(1) of the Social Security...
Amendment proposed: 288, page 34, line 32, leave out Clause 18—(Greg Smith.) Question put, That the amendment be made.
Amendments made: 86, page 36, line 15, at end insert— “( ) Part 5B of the Employment Rights Act 1996 (redundancy during a protected period of pregnancy) is amended as...
Amendment made: 89, page 37, line 29, leave out “substantially the same duties” and insert “the same duties, or substantially the same duties,”.—(Justin Madders.)...
Amendments made: 90, page 39, line 8, leave out paragraphs (a) and (b) and insert— “(a) before subsection (1) insert— ‘(A1) Subsection (1) applies where an employer is...
Amendment made: 97, page 40, line 1, leave out “after ‘or (2)’” and insert “before ‘to the competent authority’”.—(Justin Madders.) This...
Amendments made: 98, page 48, line 32, leave out subsection (1) and insert— “(1) Where the appropriate authority provides for there to be a Negotiating Body under section (Power to...
Amendments made: 101, page 49, line 39, leave out third “the” and insert “a”. This amendment is consequential on NC37. Amendment 102, page 49, line 41, before first...
Amendments made: 110, page 50, line 8, leave out from “means” to end of line 10 and insert— “(a) in relation to England, a person who is employed wholly or mainly in, or...
Amendments made: 114, page 50, line 23, leave out “Secretary of State” and insert “appropriate authority”. This amendment is consequential on NC37. Amendment 115, page 50,...
Amendments made: 121, page 51, line 9, leave out “Secretary of State” and insert “appropriate authority”. This amendment is consequential on NC37. Amendment 122, page 51,...
Amendments made: 130, page 51, line 37, leave out “Secretary of State” and insert “appropriate authority”. This amendment is consequential on NC37. Amendment 131, page 51,...
Amendments made: 134, page 52, line 9, leave out first “the” and insert “a”. This amendment is consequential on NC37. Amendment 135, page 52, line 10, leave out...
Amendments made: 137, page 52, line 15, leave out “Secretary of State” and insert “appropriate authority”. This amendment is consequential on NC37. Amendment 138, page 52,...
Amendments made: 141, page 52, line 27, leave out first “the” and insert “a”. This amendment is consequential on NC37. Amendment 142, page 52, line 27, leave out...
Amendments made: 147, page 53, line 12, leave out “Secretary of State” and insert “appropriate authority”. This amendment is consequential on NC37. Amendment 148, page 53,...
Amendment made: 151, page 54, line 6, at end insert— “(2A) Regulations under this section that provide for any of those provisions of that Act to apply in relation to such records may...
Amendment made: 152, page 54, line 8, leave out clause 42.—(Justin Madders.) See the explanatory statement for amendment 250.
Amendment made: 153, page 55, line 4, leave out from “submitted” to “or” in line 5 and insert “by a Negotiating Body to the appropriate...
Amendments made: 154, page 55, line 18, leave out first “the” and insert “a”. This amendment is consequential on NC37. Amendment 155, page 55, line 18, leave out second...
Amendments made: 157, page 55, line 25, at end insert— “‘the appropriate authority’ has the meaning given by section (Power to establish Social Care Negotiating...
“Before Schedule 1 to the Employment Rights Act 1996 insert—
Right for qualifying agency workers to be offered guaranteed hours 1 (1) A hirer must make a guaranteed hours offer to an agency worker in accordance with paragraph 2 after the end of every...
Application of Part 2 of Schedule A1 12 (1) This Part of this Schedule applies in relation to a shift that would be (or would have been) worked, or is being worked, by an individual as an agency...
Application of Part 3 of Schedule A1 20 (1) This Part of this Schedule applies in relation to a shift that would be (or would have been) worked, or is being worked, by an individual as an agency...
Amendments made: 51, page 121, line 6, after “27BT,” insert “No. 51, 27BUD(5),”. This amendment is consequential on NC33. Amendment 52, page 121, line 6, at end...
Amendments made: 77, page 126, line 15, at end insert “or subsection (2A) of that section (read with subsections (2B) and (2C) of that section)”. This amendment is consequential on...
Amendments made: 244, page 138, line 8, leave out “(6)” and insert “(7)”. This amendment corrects an incorrect cross-reference. Amendment 245, page 138, line 39, leave out...
Motion made, and Question put forthwith ( Standing Order No. 118(6)),
That the draft Grants to the Churches Conservation Trust Order 2025, which was laid before this House on 28 January, be approved.—(Anna McMorrin.) Question agreed to.
I rise to present a petition about the proposals for a 24-hour casino in Whitby. I hope very much that planning officers take note of the petition, which has been signed on paper by seven of my...
Motion made, and Question proposed, That this House do now adjourn.—(Anna McMorrin.)
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