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Debate on bill on Friday, 22 October 2010, in the House of Commons, led by John McDonnell. The answering member was Ed Davey.

Lawful Industrial Action (Minor Errors) Bill

Second reading. Closure motion. Agreed to on division (87 to 27). The Deputy Speaker declared that the Question was not decided in the affirmative because fewer than 100 Members voted in the majority in support of the motion. Debate adjourned. To be resumed on 29 October.

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Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
516 c1211-76 
Session
2010-12
Department
Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
Legislative stage
Second reading
Procedure
Closure motions
Private members' bills proceedings
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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Proceeding contributions
Andrew Bridgen | 516 c1229 (Link to this contribution) Is not the crux of the matter that if substantial compliance had been fully defined in the Bill, tha...
David Nuttall | 516 c1229 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend hits the nail on the head. Back in 1999 there was a new Labour Government with a subs...
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Henry Smith | 516 c1229 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that that is precisely why the 1999 and 2004 legislation introduced by the...
David Nuttall | 516 c1230-1 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right, because rather than deal with the matters raised in the judgment, such as t...
Philip Davies | 516 c1230 (Link to this contribution) I am pleased my hon. Friend agrees with me about that. However, has not the hon. Member for Hayes an...
David Nuttall | 516 c1230 (Link to this contribution) Absolutely. My hon. Friend is right that there is a real danger that this Bill will not only move in...
Philip Davies | 516 c1229-30 (Link to this contribution) Returning to the point made by my hon. Friend the Member for Dover (Charlie Elphicke), is there not ...
David Nuttall | 516 c1231 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right about that point, although I had not thought of it, because emplo...
Brandon Lewis | 516 c1231 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that the problem with having the onus on the companies and the employers i...
Charlie Elphicke | 516 c1231 (Link to this contribution) Will not the reversal of the burden of proof and the introduction of this wholly uncertain new test ...
Jacob Rees-Mogg | 516 c1232 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that the clause is particularly dangerous, because it allows errors that h...
David Nuttall | 516 c1231-2 (Link to this contribution) There is a real danger of that. One of the reasons it would be wrong for us to pass this Bill in its...
David Nuttall | 516 c1232-3 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is quite right. It is slipped in at the very end, in the last couple of lines of a cl...
David Nuttall | 516 c1233 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a reasonable point. One difficulty in defining a small or minor error is the si...
Brandon Lewis | 516 c1233 (Link to this contribution) A couple of issues come to mind. Does my hon. Friend agree that as well as moving employers into a p...
David Nuttall | 516 c1234 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is quite right. That is a point that I did not consider fully—I apologise for that—wh...
Andrew Bridgen | 516 c1233-4 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps I could bring to my hon. Friend's attention another complication that might not have been co...
Charlie Elphicke | 516 c1234 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is making a technical and detailed speech, but do I understand his case correctly? Is...
David Nuttall | 516 c1221-2 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right. In most areas of the law, people are quite rightly expected to f...
Andrew Bridgen | 516 c1222 (Link to this contribution) Can my hon. Friend think of any other aspect of the law where ““substantial compliance”” is consider...
David Nuttall | 516 c1222 (Link to this contribution) There are various areas of the law. We have a de minimis rule, for example, which covers cases where...
David Nuttall | 516 c1222 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right. I was about to come on to the history of how we arrived at where...
Charlie Elphicke | 516 c1222 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend think that now is the time to be passing legislation to make it easier to strike...
Charlie Elphicke | 516 c1222 (Link to this contribution) It is not nonsense; it is accurate. It was Labour Members who caused the recession and now they are ...
Philip Davies | 516 c1223 (Link to this contribution) I want to drag my hon. Friend back to the point made by my hon. Friend the Member for North West Lei...
David Nuttall | 516 c1222 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for that intervention, which highlights the real danger. He strikes to the he...
Philip Davies | 516 c1224 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that when we consider what is fair and reasonable in such legislation, par...
Andrew Bridgen | 516 c1223 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that the problem is not just with substantial compliance some of the time,...
David Nuttall | 516 c1223-4 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right. I can well understand those who comply with the law for all of the time not...
David Nuttall | 516 c1224 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. I will indeed. If I may, I will deal briefly with the intervention ...
Speaker | 516 c1224 (Link to this contribution) Order. I hear what the hon. Gentleman says. He has set the scene, so he can deal with the interventi...
Speaker | 516 c1224 (Link to this contribution) Order. May I gently remind the hon. Gentleman about the remarks made at the beginning of this debate...
David Nuttall | 516 c1223 (Link to this contribution) I am sure, Madam Deputy Speaker, that Mr Speaker is most upset that he has not been able to stay and...
David Nuttall | 516 c1224 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. I will indeed. My hon. Friend the Member for Shipley (Philip Davie...
Andrew Bridgen | 516 c1226 (Link to this contribution) Compliance with the notice period is essential because, as my hon. Friend has pointed out, there are...
David Nuttall | 516 c1226 (Link to this contribution) Indeed. The time is needed so that other people—not just other employees—can be notified. Deliveries...
Charlie Elphicke | 516 c1226 (Link to this contribution) My understanding—correct me if I am wrong—is that the substantial compliance provision would allow f...
David Nuttall | 516 c1226-7 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an interesting point, which we will look at in more detail when I look at the n...
Speaker | 516 c1225 (Link to this contribution) Order. Let me also remind the hon. Member for Bury North (Mr Nuttall), before he rises to reply to ...
David Nuttall | 516 c1225 (Link to this contribution) I certainly will, Madam Deputy Speaker. To be fair, I think that I have already dealt with my hon. F...
Charlie Elphicke | 516 c1225 (Link to this contribution) Given that the Court of Appeal reversed the injunction in the British Airways case, does my hon. Fri...
David Nuttall | 516 c1225-6 (Link to this contribution) No, I do not. We have not yet had time to see the details of the Court of Appeal's decision in the c...
Andrew Bridgen | 516 c1224 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that the fact that Bill seeks to send industrial relations between employe...
David Nuttall | 516 c1229 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right. One of the defects of the Bill is that there is no definition of what const...
David Nuttall | 516 c1228 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for his intervention. I certainly do not think that it is appropriate that th...
Philip Davies | 516 c1228 (Link to this contribution) Given that the purpose of the Bill is to try to avoid any misunderstandings, does my hon. Friend agr...
David Nuttall | 516 c1228 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a valid point. One of the problems with the interpretation of the clause relate...
Henry Smith | 516 c1228 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend think it in order that the House should legislate to allow for incompetence, whe...
David Nuttall | 516 c1227 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right. The concept that is introduced by the proposed amendment to section 232B of...
Philip Davies | 516 c1228 (Link to this contribution) This appears to get down to the nitty-gritty of what is accidental. It seems to me from the judge's ...
David Nuttall | 516 c1227 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for that intervention. It is more complex perhaps than I originally intimated...
Philip Davies | 516 c1227 (Link to this contribution) It may be straightforward to someone as intelligent as my hon. Friend, but may I ask him to clarify ...
Peter Bone | 516 c1211 (Link to this contribution) I agree entirely with the hon. Gentleman's case and I think that reform is needed. However, if we ca...
John McDonnell | 516 c1211 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time. This measure is the first private Member's ...
Peter Bone | 516 c1211 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
John McDonnell | 516 c1211-6 (Link to this contribution) I understand the hon. Gentleman's point. He has intervened very thoughtfully several times in debate...
Angus Brendan MacNeil | 516 c1217 (Link to this contribution) Is it the hon. Gentleman's intention to talk out this Bill? Are we going back to the old tactics, or...
David Nuttall | 516 c1217 (Link to this contribution) I will indeed, Sir, but I feel it important that I should declare my interest.
David Nuttall | 516 c1217-8 (Link to this contribution) I intend to take interventions, as is the normal custom in this House. I have no intention to speak ...
Speaker | 516 c1217 (Link to this contribution) Order. There is a lot of chattering taking place. Whether Members are yet captivated by the hon. Gen...
David Nuttall | 516 c1216-7 (Link to this contribution) May I thank you, Mr Speaker, for calling me to speak in this Second Reading debate? It is a great ho...
David Nuttall | 516 c1218-9 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is quite right. I will have something to say on that later, although I should point o...
Speaker | 516 c1219 (Link to this contribution) Order. The hon. Gentleman has now been on his feet for 15 minutes. I understand that he wanted, very...
David Nuttall | 516 c1220-1 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is broadly right. The Bill seeks to move the law from a situation in which the courts...
Philip Davies | 516 c1220 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend has a legal background, and I do not. The case being made by Labour Members seems to ...
David Nuttall | 516 c1220 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right. There is a real danger that the Bill could be a Trojan horse. It...
Andrew Bridgen | 516 c1220 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that the Bill is in fact a Trojan horse, out of which could spring lots of...
David Nuttall | 516 c1219-20 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for his intervention, and I agree that this is important. I shall look at the...
Peter Bone | 516 c1219 (Link to this contribution) I am genuinely undecided about how to vote today. I want to know whether the Bill has been introduce...
Henry Smith | 516 c1221 (Link to this contribution) Is it not the case that elections are held by other legal entities, such as public limited companies...
Philip Davies | 516 c1221 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend made a good point when he said that the Bill's title refers to ““minor errors””. I be...
David Nuttall | 516 c1221 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right. My concern is that if this legislation were allowed to proceed in this form...
Jacob Rees-Mogg | 516 c1265 (Link to this contribution) It was quoted from the other side of the House in Latin: de minimis non curat lex.
Ed Davey | 516 c1265-6 (Link to this contribution) I am afraid I only did Latin O-level, and I have forgotten a lot of it. Turning to the notices info...
David Nuttall | 516 c1266 (Link to this contribution) Just as a matter of interest, is the Minister aware of whether any other European Union country has ...
Ed Davey | 516 c1267 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend anticipates what I was about to say. Although it is true that in recent years there h...
Nick de Bois | 516 c1267-8 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Minister, who has been very generous with his time. Given the small number of a...
Ed Davey | 516 c1268 (Link to this contribution) I always like being invited to speculate, but the hon. Member for Hayes and Harlington is an hon. Ge...
Ed Davey | 516 c1266 (Link to this contribution) I am not, although I think it is highly unlikely that any EU country does, for the following reason....
David Nuttall | 516 c1267 (Link to this contribution) On court cases, does the Minister agree that it would have been sensible for the hon. Member for Hay...
Ed Davey | 516 c1267 (Link to this contribution) My interpretation of the fact that there are some cases before the European Court of Human Rights is...
Andrew Bridgen | 516 c1267 (Link to this contribution) Will the Minister shed some light on whether we need this Bill and whether there is any requirement ...
Jacob Rees-Mogg | 516 c1270 (Link to this contribution) As I said earlier, this would be a slippery slope. It is an attempt to take trade union law back to ...
Ed Davey | 516 c1270 (Link to this contribution) As I looked in detail at the Bill, I became increasingly concerned. I thought initially that it migh...
Nick de Bois | 516 c1268 (Link to this contribution) I would not wish to suggest otherwise; I was merely asking about the situations that might arise at ...
Ed Davey | 516 c1268-70 (Link to this contribution) I certainly agree with my hon. Friend that were we to pass this Bill, it would not help the economy,...
Speaker | 516 c1270 (Link to this contribution) I would not care to comment, and that is my ruling.
Ed Davey | 516 c1271 (Link to this contribution) I have enjoyed the sedentary interventions of the hon. Member for Bolsover (Mr Skinner) over the yea...
Speaker | 516 c1270 (Link to this contribution) Order. Mr. Skinner, your sedentary remarks can easily be heard from the Chair, and that should not b...
Dennis Skinner | 516 c1270 (Link to this contribution) On a point of order, Mr Deputy Speaker. We have a new coalition Government for the first time in 40 ...
Philip Davies | 516 c1270 (Link to this contribution) The Minister glossed over his last comment too quickly for my liking. Am I right in thinking he said...
Ed Davey | 516 c1270 (Link to this contribution) That is indeed my interpretation. I may have glossed over it because the hon. Gentleman and his hon....
Ed Davey | 516 c1255-60 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Member for Hayes and Harlington (John McDonnell) on coming first in the ball...
John McDonnell | 516 c1260 (Link to this contribution) On a point of order, Mr Deputy Speaker. I thank the Minister for giving us the opportunity to hear t...
Speaker | 516 c1260 (Link to this contribution) I shall accept the closure motion.
John McDonnell | 516 c1260 (Link to this contribution) claimed to move the closure (Standing Order No. 36). Question put forthwith, That the Question be n...
John McDonnell | 516 c1261 (Link to this contribution) On a point of order, Mr Deputy Speaker. Today we have seen a revisiting of past practices of filibus...
Speaker | 516 c1261 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr McDonnell. You have made your point, and I will ensure that Mr. Speaker reads what you...
Ed Davey | 516 c1261-2 (Link to this contribution) May I say to the hon. Member for Hayes and Harlington, for whom I have the utmost respect, that he d...
Jeremy Corbyn | 516 c1262 (Link to this contribution) On a point of order, Mr Deputy Speaker. I have been trying to follow what the Minister is saying, an...
Speaker | 516 c1262 (Link to this contribution) I am listening to what the Minister has to say, and if I consider that he is out of order, I will ce...
Ed Davey | 516 c1262 (Link to this contribution) I certainly intend to do that, Mr Deputy Speaker, but I hoped it would help the House if I set out s...
David Nuttall | 516 c1262 (Link to this contribution) I realise that we need to stick to the point, but I think that the historical context is very releva...
Ed Davey | 516 c1263 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right. I urge Opposition Members, when they debate this issue—not just ...
Jacob Rees-Mogg | 516 c1264 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister for giving way with characteristic graciousness. Does he agree that not requiri...
Ed Davey | 516 c1264 (Link to this contribution) I agree. I put it in another way, which complements the argument that my hon. Friend is making. I th...
Nick de Bois | 516 c1263 (Link to this contribution) The Minister touches on a point on which I would welcome some clarity: the consequences of industria...
Ed Davey | 516 c1264 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend puts his finger on it. We need to weigh in the balance not just the rights of ordinar...
Jacob Rees-Mogg | 516 c1265 (Link to this contribution) The Minister is being enormously helpful to the House by taking so many interventions. Is this not t...
Ed Davey | 516 c1265 (Link to this contribution) I have to confess that that is the first time I have heard that maxim. I will have to ask my wife an...
David Nuttall | 516 c1264-5 (Link to this contribution) On the question of new technologies, the Bill would have been better if it had addressed the problem...
Ed Davey | 516 c1265 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a good point. The Court of Appeal thought about that carefully in coming to its...
Philip Davies | 516 c1248-50 (Link to this contribution) That is helpful and I am grateful to my hon. Friend for his intervention. Knowing the Minister as I ...
Philip Davies | 516 c1251-2 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend, who is, as ever, on the ball. He has just demonstrated to the House...
David Nuttall | 516 c1250 (Link to this contribution) I just want to clarify things so that we are talking about the right judgment. There are two cases w...
Philip Davies | 516 c1247 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend. I hope that I have the pleasure of listening to his own speech toda...
Philip Davies | 516 c1248 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that my hon. Friend is right. As it happens, I am content with the law as it stands. I sha...
Charlie Elphicke | 516 c1247-8 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that the errors in the Bill, although themselves minor, prevent us from su...
Nick de Bois | 516 c1252 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for being so generous in giving way. In effect, we have a situation in which ...
Philip Davies | 516 c1252 (Link to this contribution) I very much agree with my hon. Friend. I know that he is a great advocate for rail commuters in his ...
David Nuttall | 516 c1252 (Link to this contribution) I am not sure that my hon. Friend has picked up on exactly the right point. I thought that my hon. F...
John McDonnell | 516 c1255 (Link to this contribution) claimed to move the closure (Standing Order No. 36).
Philip Davies | 516 c1254-5 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right. That is why I am so disappointed that the hon. Member for Hayes and Harling...
Andrew Bridgen | 516 c1254 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for being so generous in giving way in this most interesting debate. Does he ...
Philip Davies | 516 c1254 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right, and we should guard against that. I do not think that the hon. Gentleman wa...
Jacob Rees-Mogg | 516 c1254 (Link to this contribution) It occurs to me that if the Bill were enacted and then used too widely, it would allow malevolent pe...
David Nuttall | 516 c1253 (Link to this contribution) I have to come back to this point: bearing in mind that the Bill also seeks to transfer the burden o...
Philip Davies | 516 c1252-3 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a good point. He turns the argument on its head: he says that rather than givin...
Speaker | 516 c1255 (Link to this contribution) Ideally, I would like to hear from the Minister before I accept that motion. I understand, Mr Davies...
Philip Davies | 516 c1255 (Link to this contribution) I think that that is a sensible way forward because we all want to hear what the Minister has to say...
Philip Davies | 516 c1241-2 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to participate in the debate. I congratulate the hon. Member for Hayes and Harlingt...
Philip Davies | 516 c1242 (Link to this contribution) I tend to agree with my hon. Friend. As it happens, I am a fan of the hon. Member for Hayes and Harl...
David Nuttall | 516 c1242 (Link to this contribution) Had interventions been taken, we might have got on a lot quicker this morning, because we could have...
Philip Davies | 516 c1242 (Link to this contribution) There may be an element of truth in what my hon. Friend says. The hon. Member for Hayes and Harlingt...
Andrew Bridgen | 516 c1242 (Link to this contribution) Is not the reason why the hon. Member for Hayes and Harlington (John McDonnell) did not take any int...
Nick de Bois | 516 c1242 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps the hon. Member for Hayes and Harlington (John McDonnell) regarded his view—and his view alo...
Philip Davies | 516 c1243-4 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right. One of the things that I have learned in my short time in Parliament is tha...
Charlie Elphicke | 516 c1244 (Link to this contribution) Picking up on that point, I would not want the House to think that I intended any personal disrespec...
Philip Davies | 516 c1244-5 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for his intervention. Anyone who knows him will know that he would n...
David Nuttall | 516 c1245 (Link to this contribution) Let me explain why my hon. Friend's point is a good one. When asked to grant an interlocutory injunc...
Charlie Elphicke | 516 c1245 (Link to this contribution) One oddity about injunctions is their application to Members of Parliament. They are very hard to en...
Philip Davies | 516 c1245 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that my hon. Friend is right. He got rather technical during the course of that interventi...
Speaker | 516 c1246 (Link to this contribution) Order. I think that the hon. Member for Shipley (Philip Davies) has already made that recommendation...
Philip Davies | 516 c1245-6 (Link to this contribution) I am being tempted by people who are more expert in the law than I am to comment on matters that the...
Philip Davies | 516 c1247 (Link to this contribution) You are very kind, Madam Deputy Speaker. It really is a red-letter day now. I shall put that in the ...
Jacob Rees-Mogg | 516 c1247 (Link to this contribution) I too have been listening to my hon. Friend's speech with great interest. Does he believe that the B...
Speaker | 516 c1247 (Link to this contribution) Order. May I say, Mr Davies, that I listen to every Member of the House's speech, and I particularly...
Charlie Elphicke | 516 c1240 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a good point. What does substantial compliance mean? I am not sure. The hon. Me...
David Nuttall | 516 c1240 (Link to this contribution) Is my hon. Friend suggesting that 20% of members need not be consulted? Would that be regarded as su...
Charlie Elphicke | 516 c1241 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend asks a fair question. Would it be okay to have substantial compliance in electoral la...
Andrew Bridgen | 516 c1240 (Link to this contribution) The salient point is on substantial compliance. Imagine if in canvassing our constituents we were to...
Charlie Elphicke | 516 c1241 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend. He makes a fair point. There are many cases in which there should be full an...
Jacob Rees-Mogg | 516 c1241 (Link to this contribution) It is extremely generous of my hon. Friend to give way once again. The concept of substantial compli...
Jacob Rees-Mogg | 516 c1240 (Link to this contribution) I would be extremely grateful if my hon. Friend, as a lawyer, explained to us whether the Court of A...
Charlie Elphicke | 516 c1240 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right. Court of Appeal decisions, by our system of precedent, bind futu...
David Nuttall | 516 c1240 (Link to this contribution) One real danger of the Bill is that the current set of established legal precedents would effectivel...
Charlie Elphicke | 516 c1240 (Link to this contribution) I completely agree with my hon. Friend, who makes a strong, powerful point. The situation is that th...
Charlie Elphicke | 516 c1238 (Link to this contribution) It is not my intention to speak at great length or to filibuster the Bill, but it does need legislat...
Nia Griffith | 516 c1236-7 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Hayes and Harlington (John McDonnell) on securing this ...
David Nuttall | 516 c1235-6 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is quite right. He has perhaps anticipated my fourth point. I was about to say that f...
Philip Davies | 516 c1234-5 (Link to this contribution) Although my hon. Friend the Member for Dover (Charlie Elphicke) is right, the category of person tha...
Charlie Elphicke | 516 c1238-40 (Link to this contribution) I agree with my hon. Friend, who makes a powerful point. The Bill is highly technical and seeks to c...
David Nuttall | 516 c1238 (Link to this contribution) That point is important. When I made my brief comments, I was not aware of Opposition Front Benchers...
Speaker | 516 c1234 (Link to this contribution) I know that the hon. Gentleman wants to make a number of points on the Bill, but he is repeating him...
David Nuttall | 516 c1234 (Link to this contribution) I will indeed. I was just dealing with the intervention.
David Nuttall | 516 c1234 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a good, reasonable point. The law would not be clarified in any way by the Bill...
Jacob Rees-Mogg | 516 c1273-4 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is trying to lead me astray. Mr Deputy Speaker asked me not to carry on talking a...
Philip Davies | 516 c1274 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that there is further to go down this route, and that if we are trying to ...
Jacob Rees-Mogg | 516 c1274 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend knows that I have an affinity for thresholds in other circumstances. Obviously, I am ...
Jacob Rees-Mogg | 516 c1275 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is spot-on. We had a discussion about that on this side of the House. My hon. Friend ...
Jane Ellison | 516 c1275 (Link to this contribution) As I might not get the chance to make my own contribution, I wonder whether my hon. Friend shares my...
Jacob Rees-Mogg | 516 c1274-5 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right. If a union cannot run a ballot properly, that is a disastrous st...
Andrew Bridgen | 516 c1274 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that were the Bill to become law, it could be viewed by a vast number of u...
Jacob Rees-Mogg | 516 c1275 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an extraordinarily good and wise point. This would have been a better Bill if i...
Philip Davies | 516 c1275 (Link to this contribution) On that theme, does my hon. Friend agree that one thing that the Bill does not address is the damage...
David Nuttall | 516 c1271 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that hon. Members who have been present throughout the debate know that my hon. Friend the...
Ed Davey | 516 c1271 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for all the interventions, but I want to present my arguments because there are genuin...
Jim McGovern | 516 c1273 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving way, but I am not quite sure that I am so grateful fo...
Jacob Rees-Mogg | 516 c1273 (Link to this contribution) Mr Deputy Speaker, I was referring to the opening remarks of the hon. Member for Hayes and Harlingto...
Speaker | 516 c1273 (Link to this contribution) Order. My education is furthered every time I listen to you, Mr Rees-Mogg. I am more of an expert no...
Jacob Rees-Mogg | 516 c1272 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right. I was about to say that his speech reminded me of an age of poli...
David Nuttall | 516 c1272 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an interesting point. The Bill's title was designed to encourage exactly that r...
Jacob Rees-Mogg | 516 c1272 (Link to this contribution) Listening to the debate on the Bill since just after Prayers this morning has been of great interest...
Ed Davey | 516 c1271-2 (Link to this contribution) I listened to my hon. Friend when he expanded on that point in the debate and he was spot on. It wou...
Andrew Bridgen | 516 c1271 (Link to this contribution) As the Minister said, it is difficult to prove a negative. Also, the burden of proof will be on the ...
Jacob Rees-Mogg | 516 c1275-6 (Link to this contribution) I am so grateful to the hon. Gentleman for making that point, which is one that I made to the Minist...
Andrew Bridgen | 516 c1276 (Link to this contribution) In the light of the interventions from various Labour Members, does my hon. Friend agree that preten...
Jacob Rees-Mogg | 516 c1222 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for giving way so graciously and so often and for elucidating so many points ...
Philip Davies | 516 c1218 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend not think it strange that the previous Labour Government, who were in office for...
David Nuttall | 516 c1248 (Link to this contribution) On 21 June 2010, the BBC carried a report headlined ““Government shuns call to change strike laws””....
Philip Davies | 516 c1246 (Link to this contribution) It is a red letter day for me, Madam Deputy Speaker, because I have just found out that you were lis...
Jack Dromey | 516 c1275 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman's knowledge of members is presumably that of the Carlton club and his knowledge o...
David Nuttall | 516 c1229 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right. Whether or not something may or not result in the ballot being affected is ...
Andrew Bridgen | 516 c1227 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that the Bill effectively will give special rights, privileges and concess...
John McDonnell | 516 c1211 (Link to this contribution) One of the techniques for delaying Bills was intervention after intervention. I am no longer willing...
Philip Davies | 516 c1254 (Link to this contribution) That is a fair point, and one might legitimately ask the RMT how close it is to its members when it ...
David Nuttall | 516 c1246 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes the point, which was touched on earlier, that the way around the problem, with ...
Subjects
Disclosure of information Ballots Industrial disputes Injunctions Trade unions Torts Strikes British Airways Unite
Legislation
Lawful Industrial Action (Minor Errors) Bill 2010-12
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