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Speech in Commons Chamber - Fri 04 Nov 2016
National Minimum Wage (Workplace Internships) Bill

"My hon. Friend will have noted my proposal to add some carrot by exempting national insurance contributions in the same way as is done with apprenticeships...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Fri 04 Nov 2016
National Minimum Wage (Workplace Internships) Bill

"Specifically on those points, it will not have escaped my hon. Friend’s notice that the Bill contains an exemption for people on accredited degree courses. We were willing to put that in because many accredited degree courses contain a period of internship and—this was my reason—have access to student finance. …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Fri 04 Nov 2016
National Minimum Wage (Workplace Internships) Bill

"I am conscious that my hon. Friend is drawing his remarks to a close, but what I have drawn from his comments is that he agrees with me that there must be a mechanism by which people can do these roles and be able to live, survive and do something. …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Fri 04 Nov 2016
National Minimum Wage (Workplace Internships) Bill

"My hon. Friend is summing up very well a lot of what has been said. She was in the Chamber when I spoke and will have heard my comments about the model contract from the Institute of Directors, and the voluntary internships with Vivienne Westwood being advertised from 1 January …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Fri 04 Nov 2016
National Minimum Wage (Workplace Internships) Bill

"I am grateful to my hon. Friend for addressing those points. May I urge him to focus on the statistic that shows that 40% of people who are offered an internship have to turn it down because they cannot afford do to it? On opportunities and choice, we are getting …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Fri 04 Nov 2016
National Minimum Wage (Workplace Internships) Bill

"My hon. Friend will have heard the examples I have given of major multinational, multimillion-pound corporations, such as KPMG, making it very clear that everybody working in their organisation is contributing to it. It is unfair to say that interns in a business do not contribute in the same way …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Fri 04 Nov 2016
National Minimum Wage (Workplace Internships) Bill

"For the purposes of clarification, may I assume that my hon. Friend nevertheless supports the National Minimum Wage Act 1998?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Fri 04 Nov 2016
National Minimum Wage (Workplace Internships) Bill

"My hon. Friend is making a case that many others have made today. It is unfortunate that, when I was drafting the Bill, the advice I was given was that the 28-day provision was unenforceable. However, if my hon. Friend were minded, by some miracle, to allow the Bill a …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Fri 04 Nov 2016
National Minimum Wage (Workplace Internships) Bill

"What advice could my hon. Friend give to someone who is the only employee in a business?..."
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Written Question
Electricity: Weather
Wednesday 16th March 2016

Asked by: Alec Shelbrooke (Conservative - Wetherby and Easingwold)

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what steps her Department is taking to prevent electricity shortages in the winter of 2016-17.

Answered by Andrea Leadsom

The UK will not face a power shortage in winter 2016/17. National Grid has the right tools they need to manage the system and will ensure that they continue to do so.

National Grid has already procured 3.6GW of reserve capacity for next winter and, in January, the Capacity Market Transitional Arrangements auction bought 800MW of demand side response capacity for winter 16/17 which will also help secure the system. In addition, National Grid has the option to procure further demand side balancing reserve for 2016/17.