Review of Orders

Part of Regulatory Reform Bill [Lords] – in the House of Commons at 4:45 pm on 5 April 2001.

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Photo of John Bercow John Bercow Shadow Spokesperson (Home Affairs) 4:45, 5 April 2001

I am very grateful to you for that guidance, Mr. Deputy Speaker, by which I stick. I simply make the point that one of the reasons for believing that we need to be better protected in the future than we have been in the past is that we rue that past experience. That is a point about which I have regularly expatiated, not least in your presence, Mr. Deputy Speaker, in a variety of forums. I will not talk about the parental leave directive, because you will not permit it, and it seems that I am not to be permitted to talk about the merits or demerits of the Part-time Employees (Prevention of Less Favourable Treatment) Regulations 2000. Let me say again, for the avoidance of doubt, that I will not talk about them. However, they are uppermost in my mind when I say to my hon. Friend the Member for South Cambridgeshire that I believe that the new clause makes good sense.