Ministerial statement on Tuesday, 11 July 2017, in the House of Lords, led by Lord Prior of Brampton.

Taylor Review of Modern Working Practices

Lords statement on the independent review of modern working practices which was led by Matthew Taylor and published today.

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Type: Parliamentary proceeding
Reference: 783 cc1164-1174
Session: 2017-19
Department: Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Chamber / Committee: House of Lords chamber
Related items: Deposited Paper DEP2017-0429
Tuesday, 11 July 2017
Deposited papers
House of Lords
House of Commons; Deposited Paper DEP2017-0456
Tuesday, 18 July 2017
Deposited papers
House of Commons; Zero Hours Contracts
Monday, 24 July 2017
Written questions
House of Lords; Modern Working Practices
Wednesday, 7 February 2018
Written statements
House of Lords
Proceeding contributions: Lord Prior of Brampton | 783 cc1164-6 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, with the permission of the House, I would like to repeat a Statement made in the other ...; Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town | 783 cc1166-7 (Link to this contribution)
I thank the noble Lord for repeating the Statement on the review of modern working practices. We ...; Lord Fox | 783 cc1167-8 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, this report is welcome as it frames the need to reconsider working conditions in a clea...; Lord Prior of Brampton | 783 cc1168-9 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I shall first respond to the two asks from the noble Baroness, Lady Hayter, the first o...; Lord Cormack | 783 c1169 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, the remarks of the noble Baroness, Lady Hayter, about Uber were extremely important. Th...; Lord Prior of Brampton | 783 c1169 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I concur entirely with part of what my noble friend said: that black cabs in London pro...; Lord Lea of Crondall | 783 cc1169-1170 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I think it is apparent that this side of the House would not agree with the Minister’s ...; Lord Prior of Brampton | 783 c1170 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, on the noble Lord’s general point about the underlying theme of the report, I shall quo...; Lord Higgins | 783 c1170 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, it seems that both the noble Baroness on the Opposition Front Bench and my noble friend...; Lord Prior of Brampton | 783 c1170 (Link to this contribution)
My noble friend makes an interesting point which is slightly outside the remit of the report but ...; Baroness Hollis of Heigham | 783 c1170 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I think it is right to say that students and early-retired people welcome flexibility, ...; Lord Prior of Brampton | 783 c1171 (Link to this contribution)
The noble Baroness makes a very good point. Certainly, some 20% of those on zero-hours contracts ...; Baroness Altmann | 783 c1171 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords—; Lord Naseby | 783 c1171 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords—; Baroness Goldie | 783 c1171 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I think my two noble friends are capable of resolving this in some logical, courteous o...; Lord Naseby | 783 c1171 (Link to this contribution)
Normally I would not respond to that but I think perhaps the noble Baroness would recognise the s...; Baroness Altmann | 783 c1171 (Link to this contribution)
I thank my noble friend. I congratulate Matthew Taylor on his excellent report and I particularly...; Lord Prior of Brampton | 783 c1171 (Link to this contribution)
I thank my noble friend for her contribution. Of course, flexibility suits older people greatly a...; Lord Howarth of Newport | 783 c1171 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, does the Minister share my view that the term “gig economy” is unfortunate? It implies ...; Lord Prior of Brampton | 783 c1172 (Link to this contribution)
Possibly it trivialises the issue, but it does reflect the fact that these new, app-based jobs ar...; Lord Naseby | 783 c1172 (Link to this contribution)
Is the Minister aware that I had the privilege of working with Matthew Taylor on the child trust ...; Lord Prior of Brampton | 783 c1172 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, as the noble Lord said, there are three parts to this. The report focuses very much on ...; Lord Morris of Handsworth | 783 c1172 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, the House at this stage will naturally want to reserve judgment on the totality of the ...; Lord Prior of Brampton | 783 c1172 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, the terms of the report did not include discrimination. Unless I have missed something ...; Baroness Donaghy | 783 cc1172-3 (Link to this contribution)
I welcome the statement that,
“the best way to achieve better work is through good corporat...; Lord Prior of Brampton | 783 c1173 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, the noble Baroness is clearly right about the lower tax take. Clearly, if earnings are ...; Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe | 783 c1173 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I have not read the report yet, so I would be grateful if the Minister could put me rig...; Lord Prior of Brampton | 783 c1173 (Link to this contribution)
The noble Lord is right that the disparities in Sweden are smaller than in the US, the UK and oth...; Lord Lucas | 783 c1174 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, one of the protections we offer workers is through employment agency legislation, but t...; Lord Prior of Brampton | 783 c1174 (Link to this contribution)
I am not sure I can do that question justice. I would like to think about it and respond to my no...; Lord Lucas | 783 c1174 (Link to this contribution)
Agencies such as Upwork, for instance.; Lord Prior of Brampton | 783 c1174 (Link to this contribution)
I will have to respond to my noble friend by letter.; Lord Lennie | 783 c1174 (Link to this contribution)
The Minister expressed surprise that there had been so little change in employment over the perio...; Lord Prior of Brampton | 783 c1174 (Link to this contribution)
I assume that the noble Lord means that what is coming around the corner are the new technologies...
Subjects: Conditions of employment Minimum wage Self-employed Gig economy Modern Working Practices Review
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Taylor Review of Modern Working Practices

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