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Trade (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership) Bill [Lords]: New Clause 1 - Report: accession of states to the CPTPP (19 Mar 2024)

John Martin McDonnell: ...the issue and that we will then be able to raise it with the CPTPP partner countries through the formal review process, so that labour protections can eventually be significantly strengthened. That may well come under a new Government after the election, but I can reassure the whole House that a number of us will not drop this issue. It will come back time. We will raise the importance of...

State Pension Changes: Women — [Sir Gary Streeter in the Chair] (12 Mar 2024)

John Martin McDonnell: ...the argument against it was cost—that at £12 billion a year over a four-year period it was too expensive. The Government had already saved £200 billion from those affected women; £48 billion may well have seemed expensive, but I remind people that at that time interest rates were on the floor. The compensation scheme was relatively cheap, would have been paid over a limited period of...

Backbench Business: Eating Disorders Awareness Week — [Mr Philip Hollobone in the Chair] (29 Feb 2024)

John Martin McDonnell: ...who have put this issue on the agenda and provided support throughout. I pay tribute to all the clinicians, of course, and to one group in particular, which is the school nurses—Members may recall that we held a session with them. They brought forward their programme for how they would provide advice and assistance to pupils, which proved to be incredibly effective. Of course, I also pay...

Security of Elected Representatives (29 Feb 2024)

John Martin McDonnell: If the security services are advising that this £30 million is needed, I welcome that if it keeps our Members safe. The Minister has referred to the national demonstrations. May I say, as someone who has had to learn lessons over the years about the nature of statements I have made, that we must be careful about how we use words in relation to those demonstrations? I have been on virtually...

Kurdistan Region of Iraq — [Hannah Bardell in the Chair] ( 7 Feb 2024)

John Martin McDonnell: ...and of a number of confessions being extracted under duress. In fact, the Paris-based Reporters Without Borders published the world press freedom index on World Press Freedom Day—which is on 3 May each year—and Iraq is ranked 167th for press freedom out of 180 countries. That is worrying in itself, but Iraq also ranks fifth out of those 180 countries for countries where journalists...

Joint Enterprise (Significant Contribution) Bill ( 2 Feb 2024)

John Martin McDonnell: ...debate will be confused by the process that we are going through. The opportunity is still there for the Government to allow the Bill’s Second Reading, thus bringing forward a reform that they may well wish to support at a later stage.

Trade (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership) Bill [Lords] (29 Jan 2024)

John Martin McDonnell: ...effect, exactly as the Chair of the Select Committee said, which at the end of the day can have implications for the UK’s right to regulate. If a number of cases are waged against the UK, that may undermine our ability to act more freely when it comes to regulation of the water sector, and also policy development, particularly on issues around water and future public ownership. Again, I...

Tributes to Sir Tony Lloyd (23 Jan 2024)

John Martin McDonnell: ...union movement and the then Labour leadership, and that held together our relationship with the movement overall. Then there was the plot to make him chair of the PLP, to oust Ann Clwyd, as Members may recall. It was a Brownite plot—and a prominent Brownite, my right hon. Friend the Member for Newcastle upon Tyne East (Mr Brown), is sitting beside me—but it was also a good cause. Tony...

Loan Charge (18 Jan 2024)

John Martin McDonnell: ...to remember what was happening in the House at that time. Some Members will recall that there was not a normal process for the Finance Bill, because the right hon. Member for Maidenhead (Mrs May), who was then the Prime Minister, having assured us all that there would not be a general election—I think she assured us of that five times in the House—went for a walk in Wales, came back,...

Loan Charge (18 Jan 2024)

John Martin McDonnell: ...want to be here again in 2026, 2027 or 2028—and find that we are in the same situation as we were in 2019. I do not want to find that more people have suffered and, worryingly, that more people may not be with us as a result of this because they have taken their own lives. There is an element of urgency about rectifying this issue, and doing it with compassion and, in many instances,...

SEND Provision and Funding (11 Jan 2024)

John Martin McDonnell: ...true professionals doing the best they can—but also a large number of tragedies related to the struggles those young people face, particularly to get the assessment and support they need. Members may remember that last September a report was released regarding the increase in the number of complaints from parents to the local government ombudsman. There was a 60% increase in the number...

Musculoskeletal Conditions and Employment — [Dame Caroline Dinenage in the Chair] (10 Jan 2024)

John Martin McDonnell: ...of my constituency and set out what has led me to the debate. At Heathrow airport, which is in my constituency, there was almost an epidemic of back injuries among baggage handlers. Some Members may recall, when they went through the airport over the years, that there were different campaigns about the weight of the baggage. Although mechanisation was introduced, the work nevertheless...

BBC Funding ( 7 Dec 2023)

John Martin McDonnell: May I ask the Secretary of State to get real? I am secretary of the National Union of Journalists parliamentary group, and it has other members here. She knows that as sure as night follows day there will be the loss of journalistic jobs as a result of this cut, at a key time, when we are going into a general election and they are desperately needed. Why does she not admit that this is a...

Autumn Statement Resolutions - Rates of tobacco products duty (23 Nov 2023)

John Martin McDonnell: ...they have gained. The Government would have heard about many of the experiences with the work capability assessment, which has caused so much human suffering and harm—so much so that, as Members may recall, we discovered that the DWP was secretly monitoring coroners’ reports on the suicide of people on benefits. David Cameron has just been reappointed, so I hope he points this out in...

Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) Bill: New Clause 1 - Impact assessment: trade and diplomatic relations (25 Oct 2023)

John Martin McDonnell: Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. May I echo the comments of my right hon. Friend the Member for Barking (Dame Margaret Hodge)? If we descend into accusations that those who do not support the Bill are antisemites, or that those who support it are Islamophobic, I think we are lost, to be honest. It is important that we are careful about our language. There is a profound misunderstanding about...

Points of Order (25 Oct 2023)

John Martin McDonnell: On a point of order, Mr Speaker. The House rises tomorrow for 10 days, I believe. Regrettably and sadly, it may be likely that a ground invasion of Gaza will commence during that period. This not only has consequences for the Palestinians and the Israelis, but could create turmoil and destabilise the whole middle east. I appreciate that it is the Government who determine whether or not...

Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) Bill ( 3 Jul 2023)

John Martin McDonnell: ..., I do not believe it can be amended; it is fundamentally flawed and should be defeated. Let me make one final point, as an aside. We should change the Standing Orders or look at “Erskine May”, because it would have been useful if the Secretary of State coming here to present the Bill had actually read it or addressed the same Bill that we are addressing in this debate. All we saw...

Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill: Schedule - Minimum service levels for certain strikes (21 Jun 2023)

John Martin McDonnell: ...be required to discipline your members for not working.” That basically means that the Government will cause conflict within that particular union, or across the trade union movement overall. Maybe that is what the Government are all about. When the legislation was brought forward, I thought that the motivation for it was one of two things. The first possibility was that the Government...

Podiatry Workforce and Patient Care (20 Jun 2023)

John Martin McDonnell: ...College of Podiatry, so let me thank them for the briefing that the royal college has sent me. I want to talk about the development of a workforce strategy for podiatry. To explain for those who may take an interest in the debate, podiatrists are highly skilled healthcare professionals. They are trained to assess, diagnose, prevent, treat and rehabilitate complications of the foot and...

Podiatry Workforce and Patient Care (20 Jun 2023)

John Martin McDonnell: ...and low capacity to meet it, leading to what people consider are unsafe staffing levels and to staff burnout. Expansion of the podiatric workforce across primary, community and secondary services may address some but not all of those issues. Support for workforce growth is critical, but support for those already qualified to progress to advanced clinical practice and consultancy is also...


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