My rt hon Friend the Chief Secretary to the Treasury (Danny Alexander) has today made the following Written Ministerial Statement.

On 5 March 2015 I published the conclusions of HM Treasury’s second evaluation of departments’ compliance with the rules governing off-payroll appointments in central government.

The evaluation raised a number of...

My rt hon Friend the Chief Secretary to the Treasury (Danny Alexander) has today made the following Written Ministerial Statement.

On 5 March 2015 I published the conclusions of HM Treasury’s second evaluation of departments’ compliance with the rules governing off-payroll appointments in central government.

The evaluation raised a number of...

My hon. Friend the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government (Kris Hopkins) has made the following Written Ministerial Statement.

I would like to update hon. Members with a number of actions by my Department relating to local government.

Updating statutory notices for the...

My hon. Friend the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government (Kris Hopkins) has made the following Written Ministerial Statement.

I would like to update hon. Members with a number of actions by my Department relating to local government.

Updating statutory notices for the...

My hon Friend the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Employment Relations and Consumer Affairs (Jo Swinson) has today made the following statement.

Advice and Guidance services currently provided by the Pay and Work Rights Helpline will transfer to ACAS from 1 April. The Acas Helpline will, in...

My hon Friend the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Employment Relations and Consumer Affairs (Jo Swinson) has today made the following statement.

Advice and Guidance services currently provided by the Pay and Work Rights Helpline will transfer to ACAS from 1 April. The Acas Helpline will, in...

My Lords, we have again had a long debate this afternoon about the flexibility of zero-hours contracts and what constitutes fairness in such contracts. The last Division was on an amendment which looked at the question of cancellation; unfortunately, we were not successful on that. Again, in this area there...

My Lords, we have again had a long debate this afternoon about the flexibility of zero-hours contracts and what constitutes fairness in such contracts. The last Division was on an amendment which looked at the question of cancellation; unfortunately, we were not successful on that. Again, in this area there...

My Lords, there are many benefits to a flexible labour market but I believe, and I am sure your Lordships believe, that exploitation of staff by employers should not be one of them. One woman who worked in hospitality on a zero-hours contract said, “I never worked no hours in...

My Lords, there are many benefits to a flexible labour market but I believe, and I am sure your Lordships believe, that exploitation of staff by employers should not be one of them. One woman who worked in hospitality on a zero-hours contract said, “I never worked no hours in...

Moved by

Baroness Neville-Rolfe

33A: Schedule 1, page 150, line 6, leave out from “arrangements” to end of line 7 and insert “for persons to be seconded to the Adjudicator to serve as members of the Adjudicator’s staff.”

Moved by

Baroness Neville-Rolfe

33A: Schedule 1, page 150, line 6, leave out from “arrangements” to end of line 7 and insert “for persons to be seconded to the Adjudicator to serve as members of the Adjudicator’s staff.”

My Lords, we come to several sets of amendments on pubs, a subject that has been much debated in this House and in the other place. We need to set the scene for today’s debate, which I think falls more naturally under the heading of the next grouping of amendments...

My Lords, we come to several sets of amendments on pubs, a subject that has been much debated in this House and in the other place. We need to set the scene for today’s debate, which I think falls more naturally under the heading of the next grouping of amendments...

My Lords, we are happy to support these government amendments and are grateful to the Minister for the way in which she has dealt with this matter. We believe that our debate on the more substantive issues in the next group of amendments will cut to the heart of many...

My Lords, we are happy to support these government amendments and are grateful to the Minister for the way in which she has dealt with this matter. We believe that our debate on the more substantive issues in the next group of amendments will cut to the heart of many...

My Lords, I am happy to clarify that we will take secondees from the best place possible, which could include—the noble Lord is probably referring to this—another Government, a non-profit organisation or some other source. This is to give us the flexibility to find the right people.

My Lords, I am happy to clarify that we will take secondees from the best place possible, which could include—the noble Lord is probably referring to this—another Government, a non-profit organisation or some other source. This is to give us the flexibility to find the right people.

Moved by

Baroness Neville-Rolfe

33B: Schedule 1, page 150, line 8, at end insert “to the person with whom the arrangements are made, or directly to seconded staff (or both).”

33C: Schedule 1, page 150, line 8, at end insert—

“( ) A period of secondment to the Adjudicator does not affect the continuity...

Moved by

Baroness Neville-Rolfe

33B: Schedule 1, page 150, line 8, at end insert “to the person with whom the arrangements are made, or directly to seconded staff (or both).”

33C: Schedule 1, page 150, line 8, at end insert—

“( ) A period of secondment to the Adjudicator does not affect the continuity...

Moved by

Baroness Neville-Rolfe

33D: Schedule 1, page 152, line 14, after first “rent” insert “only”

Moved by

Baroness Neville-Rolfe

33D: Schedule 1, page 152, line 14, after first “rent” insert “only”

My Lords, in the light of the concerns raised about our government amendments in Committee, I committed to further engagement with noble Lords and wider stakeholders, with a view to returning with further amendments on Report. My ministerial colleagues, officials and I have since had extensive discussions with noble Lords,...

My Lords, in the light of the concerns raised about our government amendments in Committee, I committed to further engagement with noble Lords and wider stakeholders, with a view to returning with further amendments on Report. My ministerial colleagues, officials and I have since had extensive discussions with noble Lords,...

My Lords, in this group I have tabled Amendment 33L in response to government Amendment 33J, to which my noble friend was kind enough to refer in her opening remarks. It tackles the reintroduction of parallel rent assessments, which were abandoned, or removed from the Bill, at an earlier stage....

My Lords, in this group I have tabled Amendment 33L in response to government Amendment 33J, to which my noble friend was kind enough to refer in her opening remarks. It tackles the reintroduction of parallel rent assessments, which were abandoned, or removed from the Bill, at an earlier stage....

My Lords, I too have some amendments in this group. The House may be surprised, but I agree with the first remarks of the noble Lord,

Lord Hodgson, that we have seen a clear response from the Government to the anxieties on this section. While there was some concern that...

My Lords, I too have some amendments in this group. The House may be surprised, but I agree with the first remarks of the noble Lord,

Lord Hodgson, that we have seen a clear response from the Government to the anxieties on this section. While there was some concern that...

My Lords, I congratulate the Government on making significant moves with these amendments to deal with some of the problems that we identified in Committee. Obviously, one of our major concerns is that a lot is still to be decided by secondary legislation. We have to make sure that as...

My Lords, I congratulate the Government on making significant moves with these amendments to deal with some of the problems that we identified in Committee. Obviously, one of our major concerns is that a lot is still to be decided by secondary legislation. We have to make sure that as...

My Lords, I support everything that my noble friend Lord Whitty said, but my main reason for rising is to challenge the noble Lord, Lord Hodgson. He said that there is a wave of money wishing to flood into the market—I hope I have got that right—but that the investors...

My Lords, I support everything that my noble friend Lord Whitty said, but my main reason for rising is to challenge the noble Lord, Lord Hodgson. He said that there is a wave of money wishing to flood into the market—I hope I have got that right—but that the investors...

I said that CAMRA claims that there is a wave of money. I said that there is not; the briefing that CAMRA sent us claims that there is a wave of money and that if you remove the tie, people will start to put money into pubs.

I said that CAMRA claims that there is a wave of money. I said that there is not; the briefing that CAMRA sent us claims that there is a wave of money and that if you remove the tie, people will start to put money into pubs.

I am grateful for that clarification. I do not know whether the noble Lord is aware that a dozen or so tenants of Punch and Enterprise Inns have gone public today, listing all the defects that have not been corrected by their owners—including unsafe gas appliances, leaking roofs, unsafe fire...

I am grateful for that clarification. I do not know whether the noble Lord is aware that a dozen or so tenants of Punch and Enterprise Inns have gone public today, listing all the defects that have not been corrected by their owners—including unsafe gas appliances, leaking roofs, unsafe fire...