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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 05 Sep 2022
Four-Day Working Week

"Does the Minister acknowledge that a reduction in the working week has been a trend overall—although there have been hiccups—in people’s working experience over the last 100 years? The previous generation would normally have worked a five-and-a-half-day week, not a five-day week. Is not the problem at present that those …..."
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Written Question
Property: Ownership
Monday 24th January 2022

Asked by: Lord Grocott (Labour - Life peer)

Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask Her Majesty's Government when they will establish a beneficial ownership register of overseas entities which own UK property, as envisaged in the draft Registration of Overseas Entities Bill.

Answered by Lord Callanan - Shadow Minister (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)

As set out in the Written Ministerial Statement I made on 2nd November 2021, the Government remains committed to establishing a new beneficial ownership register of overseas entities that own UK property. This register will help combat money laundering and achieve greater transparency in the UK property market. We will legislate when parliamentary time allows.

Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 17 Jan 2022
National Living Wage

"I am grateful to the Minister for reminding us that it was a Labour Government who introduced the national minimum wage. He did not remind us that it was done in the teeth of Tory opposition, and neither did he remind us that the principal argument used by the Tories …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 06 Dec 2021
Companies (Strategic Report) (Climate-related Financial Disclosure) Regulations 2021

"My Lords, I strongly agree with my noble friend. This is not directly the subject of the noble Lord, Lord Callanan, and I do not expect a comprehensive and detailed reply. But I urge him to talk to his ministerial colleagues, particularly to the Leader of the House, and make …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 15 Nov 2017
Fourth Industrial Revolution

"My Lords, as we are referring to the fourth industrial revolution, is this not a timely occasion to remember the first Industrial Revolution and its birthplace, Telford in Shropshire, particularly in view of the fact that the Iron Bridge is currently being refurbished? Any support for that would, of course, …..."
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