Part of Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill - Committee (1st Day) (Continued) – in the House of Lords at 4:45 pm on 9 March 2023.
Can I just reiterate this point? The Minister says that she and her department would much prefer voluntary arrangements, as they work and they support them. What is her view, or the department’s view, of the impact of threatening to take these powers on those voluntary arrangements? Does she think that it might undermine the voluntary arrangements that she has been advocating?