Results 481–500 of 3000 for (in the 'Commons debates' OR in the 'Westminster Hall debates' OR in the 'Lords debates' OR in the 'Northern Ireland Assembly debates') speaker:Paul Scully

Fireworks: Sale and Use — [Derek Twigg in the Chair] ( 8 Nov 2021)

Paul Scully: I understand my hon. Friend’s point. I would differentiate between a constant noise of 120 dB in a confined area and the more individual use of fireworks in an outdoor area, but none the less I take his point. The Government are also committed to giving the police what they need to support local communities, including through the recruitment of an additional 20,000 police officers by March...

Fireworks: Sale and Use — [Derek Twigg in the Chair] ( 8 Nov 2021)

Paul Scully: I have not had a discussion at ministerial level, but officials look at what is happening in Northern Ireland, Wales and Scotland—and in other countries. Clearly, there is a difference in the law in Northern Ireland, predominantly because of troubles and the historical context there; however, officials from the Office for Product Safety and Standards do look at that.

Fireworks: Sale and Use — [Derek Twigg in the Chair] ( 8 Nov 2021)

Paul Scully: Scotland has put forward some proposals and there has been a consultation; I am interested in seeing what happens there. I am also aware that the Scottish Government are drafting a Bill on fireworks to be introduced next year; that primary legislation is still at the proposal stage. My officials engage regularly on the matter with officials in the Scottish Government; it will be interesting...

Fireworks: Sale and Use — [Derek Twigg in the Chair] ( 8 Nov 2021)

Paul Scully: I will happily engage with the hon. Lady on her private Member’s Bill.

Fireworks: Sale and Use — [Derek Twigg in the Chair] ( 8 Nov 2021)

Paul Scully: I was going to turn back to exactly that. In our polling, the Government found that 11% of the population want a total ban on fireworks, 36% want a ban on the private sale of fireworks, and, from memory, 64% enjoy the use of fireworks and want to be able to enjoy them both privately and publicly. We came to similar conclusions from our evidence as were reached by the Petitions Committee in...

Fireworks: Sale and Use — [Derek Twigg in the Chair] ( 8 Nov 2021)

Paul Scully: I want to leave my hon. Friend the Member for Carshalton and Wallington time to conclude, so I will not give way to my hon. Friend for a second time. We have an ongoing programme of action for fireworks, responding to the key issues raised. This included commissioning the research by Ipsos MORI that provided evidence on consumer attitudes and behaviours around using fireworks in the UK. The...

Fireworks: Sale and Use — [Derek Twigg in the Chair] ( 8 Nov 2021)

Paul Scully: I will give way very quickly, but this will be the last time.

Fireworks: Sale and Use — [Derek Twigg in the Chair] ( 8 Nov 2021)

Paul Scully: That is a really interesting idea. Any way of taking potentially dangerous things that will not be used correctly off the streets is well worth another look. More widely, we have partnered with the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents and other organisations, which will undoubtedly look at that as well. In addition, this year the Government collaborated with the Association for...

Employment and Trade Union Rights (Dismissal and Re-engagement) Bill (22 Oct 2021)

Paul Scully: I congratulate the hon. Member for Brent North (Barry Gardiner) on securing the Second Reading of his private Member’s Bill and on the way in which he has engaged with both sides of the House, as well as with unions, workers and employers. I met him twice over the summer, and indeed, again this week, to discuss his ambitions for the Bill. In a slightly surreal surprise moment, he leaped...

Employment and Trade Union Rights (Dismissal and Re-engagement) Bill (22 Oct 2021)

Paul Scully: My hon. Friend is absolutely right. The unambiguous message is that using fire and rehire as a bully-boy negotiating tactic is absolutely inappropriate. However, and I will develop this point later, I do not believe that the Bill as it stands—even if it is amended, because we do not believe that we need primary legislation to achieve these ends—will have the intended effect, because it...

Employment and Trade Union Rights (Dismissal and Re-engagement) Bill (22 Oct 2021)

Paul Scully: The hon. Member talks about being unambiguous and says that we are refusing to legislate. As we heard from my hon. Friend the Member for North East Bedfordshire (Richard Fuller), legislation that comes from the fact that we are coming to the end of a pandemic is not the right way to reflect the concerns about the long-term issue of workers’ rights. We need to make sure that we can address...

Employment and Trade Union Rights (Dismissal and Re-engagement) Bill (22 Oct 2021)

Paul Scully: We published the “Good work plan”, in which we accepted many of Matthew Taylor’s reviews, but we did not have to wait for an employment Bill to begin progress on this. We have closed the loophole which saw agency workers employed on cheaper rates than permanent workers, we have quadrupled the maximum fine for employers who treat their workers badly, and we have given all workers the...

Employment and Trade Union Rights (Dismissal and Re-engagement) Bill (22 Oct 2021)

Paul Scully: I am sorry if the hon. Member feels that I have been here for years. I think I have been here for only 18 or 19 months, but it does seem like years, so perhaps I am boring for Britain in talking about workers’ rights and standing up for those rights. None the less, we are acting on this, and I will develop my speech to show exactly how we are doing so.

Employment and Trade Union Rights (Dismissal and Re-engagement) Bill (22 Oct 2021)

Paul Scully: My hon. Friend is absolutely right. We have heard about reaching for primary legislation. We have had a very reasonable debate which, as I have said, was opened in a very reasonable way by the hon. Member for Brent North. We heard a forensic response from my hon. Friend the Member for Newbury, who brought her expertise to the debate with such élan and showed how we can keep the flexibility...

Employment and Trade Union Rights (Dismissal and Re-engagement) Bill (22 Oct 2021)

Paul Scully: My hon. Friend has hit the nail on the head. What we have on this side of the House is the expertise that we are bringing to bear to try and solve the problem, rather than just throwing things around. Earlier, someone accused the hon. Member for Newbury of over-egging the cake; in one of the other Front-Bench speeches, we heard, basically, no cake but a lot of egg. We cannot take a Poundland...

Employment and Trade Union Rights (Dismissal and Re-engagement) Bill (22 Oct 2021)

Paul Scully: My hon. Friend is right. We heard another accusation, in relation to whether or not those on this side of the House are uncaring when it comes to workers’ rights. What it boils down to is this: would an employee facing a rogue employer using a bully-boy tactic rather have a solution that protects their rights, or would they rather have a jabbing-finger Opposition politician who relies on an...

Employment and Trade Union Rights (Dismissal and Re-engagement) Bill (22 Oct 2021)

Paul Scully: The hon. Lady raises very important points about the situation facing ethnic minority employees, but that is why we are acting. It is why we sought quantitative evidence from ACAS. It is why we charged ACAS to come up with guidance in the first instance. There are plenty of other things we can look at, but as well as giving employers certainty in knowing how they should approach the...

Employment and Trade Union Rights (Dismissal and Re-engagement) Bill (22 Oct 2021)

Paul Scully: Thank you very much for that clarification, Madam Deputy Speaker. My hon. Friend makes a really interesting point about unemployment.

Employment and Trade Union Rights (Dismissal and Re-engagement) Bill (22 Oct 2021)

Paul Scully: Thank you for that clarification, Madam Deputy Speaker. Indeed, I think Members from both sides of the House are taking advantage of the Tea Room, because both sides are lighter in numbers at the moment, but I always bow to your perspicacity. I would have thought that, in the last 20 minutes or so of the debate, Members pushing the Bill would want to hear the Government’s response to the...

Employment and Trade Union Rights (Dismissal and Re-engagement) Bill (22 Oct 2021)

Paul Scully: I think it depends on which employer. We are trying to make sure that we can root out bad employers who fail to understand that investing in their workforce and respecting their workforce is good for business as well as good for the workers. As Business Minister, I speak to businesses every day and I know that the vast majority of employers want to do the right thing. When it comes to fire...


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