Mentions:
1: Navendu Mishra (Lab - Stockport) It failed its staff and exploited vulnerable workers, some of whom were migrant workers who feared speaking - Speech Link
2: Lucy Powell (LAB - Manchester Central) In November, we took the first steps to ban rogue employers from sponsoring overseas workers. - Speech Link
3: Rachael Maskell (LAB - York Central) That number has doubled since covid, and numbers continue to rise, yet the food supply does not. - Speech Link
4: Lucy Powell (LAB - Manchester Central) We are all concerned about the rise in food poverty in recent years. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Barran (Con - Life peer) than child and family social workers including, but not limited to, social workers”—forgive me for being - Speech Link
2: Baroness Meacher (XB - Life peer) to become agency workers, who are of course paid a lot more than social workers. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Smith of Malvern (Lab - Life peer) and other workers who are employed on a permanent basis with teams.There is a broader range of workers - Speech Link
4: Lord Bellingham (Con - Life peer) Ofsted is not actually responsible for food in schools but can comment on the standards of food. - Speech Link
5: Baroness Smith of Malvern (Lab - Life peer) This is of course about food, but it is not only about food. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Diana Johnson (Lab - Kingston upon Hull North and Cottingham) Violence and abuse against shop workers was at epidemic levels. - Speech Link
2: Diana Johnson (Lab - Kingston upon Hull North and Cottingham) Attacks on retail workers are totally unacceptable. - Speech Link
3: Diana Johnson (Lab - Kingston upon Hull North and Cottingham) Unlike most people, emergency workers cannot walk away from abuse. - Speech Link
4: Jo White (Lab - Bassetlaw) very publicly, and it is food that is worth a lot of money. - Speech Link
5: None This new clause creates a new offence in relation to emergency workers. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Kirsty Blackman (SNP - Aberdeen North) Those families should get support without needing a food bank to step in. - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) Lady, because it is not supposed to be, but I see the positives of food banks. - Speech Link
3: Keir Mather (Lab - Selby) farmers is provided as quickly as possible to children facing food poverty. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Bishop of Southwark (Bshp - Bishops) I end by drawing the Minister’s attention to the Refugee & Migrant Advice Service alternative to - Speech Link
2: Baroness Chakrabarti (Lab - Life peer) Notwithstanding Brexit slogans about controlling borders, large numbers of international workers were - Speech Link
3: Baroness Brinton (LD - Life peer) Earning wages would mean contributing to taxes and national insurance, and paying for their own food - Speech Link
4: Baroness O'Grady of Upper Holloway (Lab - Life peer) Thirdly, regarding workers, those who genuinely care about stopping those employers who abuse migrant - Speech Link
5: Lord Bilimoria (XB - Life peer) First, there was the demand for workers in the health and care sector. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Chris Philp (Con - Croydon South) end the era of mass low-skilled migration and instead focus on small numbers of very high-skilled workers - Speech Link
2: Chris Philp (Con - Croydon South) Those steps took effect in April 2023 and April 2024, and they included preventing social care workers - Speech Link
3: Al Pinkerton (LD - Surrey Heath) That came from a Government who relied utterly and shamelessly on migrant workers to prop up every sector - Speech Link
4: Al Pinkerton (LD - Surrey Heath) Skilled workers were welcomed one week and penalised the next. - Speech Link
5: Jonathan Brash (Lab - Hartlepool) The last Conservative Government put construction workers on their points-based immigration system. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Nick Thomas-Symonds (Lab - Torfaen) Lady is saying on the cost of food is precisely what an SPS agreement on agricultural products, food - Speech Link
2: Iain Duncan Smith (Con - Chingford and Woodford Green) If SPS checks concerned the price of food, we could unilaterally relax them. - Speech Link
3: David Chadwick (LD - Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe) Welsh food and drink exports have fallen by 18% since 2018. - Speech Link
4: Jack Rankin (Con - Windsor) choices and enhanced food security. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Yvette Cooper (Lab - Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley) We are therefore ending overseas recruitment of care workers. - Speech Link
2: Yvette Cooper (Lab - Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley) To give her an example of the approach we want to take, construction workers will be on the temporary - Speech Link
3: Yvette Cooper (Lab - Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley) Already we are funding training for 60,000 more construction workers as part of our growth plans and - Speech Link
4: Carla Denyer (Green - Bristol Central) Such a certificate would protect the working rights of migrant workers who are working in unacceptable - Speech Link
5: Monica Harding (LD - Esher and Walton) A care provider in my constituency has already been in touch, saying that a third of his workers are - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Adam Jogee (Lab - Newcastle-under-Lyme) Our farmers, who produce food of the greatest quality to the highest standards, deserve real and meaningful - Speech Link
2: Edward Leigh (Con - Gainsborough) Take a Somali migrant—why is he trying to come here? - Speech Link
3: Andrew Rosindell (Con - Romford) : the soldiers who fought on land, at sea and in the air; the families who endured the blitz; the workers - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Barry Gardiner (Lab - Brent West) Yesterday I spoke with colleagues in the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs about the - Speech Link
2: Navendu Mishra (Lab - Stockport) Migrant workers now make up 16% of the workforce in England. - Speech Link
3: Lucy Powell (LAB - Manchester Central) We totally condemn the exploitation of international care workers by rogue employers in the sector. - Speech Link