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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 29 Oct 2019
Leaving the EU: Workers’ Rights

"If the Secretary of State is serious about making Britain the best place in the world to work, will she commit to scrapping the anti-trade union legislation? The undermining of trade unions over the past 10 years or so has led to an explosion of precarious low-paid employment, which is …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 16 Oct 2018
Oral Answers to Questions

"15. All major forms of renewable energy, such as onshore and offshore wind and solar, are now cheaper than new nuclear, and energy storage is on a similar cost trajectory, so why are the Government wasting billions of pounds on nuclear power?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 14 Jun 2018
Rolls-Royce Redundancies

"When I left school in Derby in 1972, Rolls-Royce employed around 35,000 people. Today, it employs just under 12,000. If these job losses go ahead, the workforce will be reduced to around 8,000. That is a huge reduction. The company made a £4.5 billion profit last year, and when the …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 30 Jan 2018
Oral Answers to Questions

"4. What discussions he has had with Cabinet colleagues on the work of the legal working group on seafarers and the national minimum wage. ..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 30 Jan 2018
Oral Answers to Questions

"I am pleased to hear that, but is the Minister aware that UK seafarers are being undercut by rates of pay as low as £1.75 an hour? That is happening even though the legal working group on seafarers and the national minimum wage, which includes his Department, agrees that legislative …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Mon 29 Jan 2018
Fireworks

"Would my hon. Friend care to comment on a scenario that happened in my constituency? The home of Mr and Mrs Bagshaw was destroyed after a random firework entered the roof space and caused a fire which devastated their home. I asked if any consideration was being given by Ministers …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Mon 29 Jan 2018
Fireworks

"My hon. Friend went through the extensive regulatory safeguards in detail, but they are only as good as their enforcement. We hear every bonfire night, and on other occasions, of examples such as the appalling incident in my constituency where two vile sadists strapped two rockets to a cat and …..."
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Written Question
Fireworks: Sales
Thursday 14th December 2017

Asked by: Chris Williamson (Independent - Derby North)

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if his Department will make an assessment of the merits of lowering the net explosive content a person can obtain when purchasing fireworks without a licence; and if he will make a statement.

Answered by Margot James

The Government has no plans to make such an assessment. Certain classes of fireworks (display fireworks) can only be supplied to a person with specialist knowledge. Experience has shown that the current regulations strike the right balance between the enjoyment of fireworks by the public and restricting the sale of fireworks for public safety reasons.