Single Status of Worker Debate
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Clive Efford
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Single Status of Worker
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Several hon. Members rose—
Clive Efford (in the Chair)
Order. We are likely to start voting between 3 pm and 3.30 pm, and there could be up to 16 votes. At that stage, I will suspend the sitting and we will have to return. I cannot see us finishing all the speeches and the Front-Bench speeches in the time we have available—although if that happens, it is all good news.
Justin Madders
I refer hon. Members to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests—it was my oversight to not mention that earlier.
Technically, the problem for a lot of the people who we are discussing is that they are not employees, so they have no recognition process. The debate has been interesting. I pay tribute to my hon. Friend the Member for Middlesbrough and Thornaby East (Andy McDonald), who made some very important points, particularly on the tax take. That is something that we absolutely need to address, but this issue is fundamentally about fairness. Our Make Work Pay agenda has to be bolstered by action to address this problem. I hope the Minister gets the message that we need to do that soon.
Clive Efford (in the Chair)
Congratulations to the hon. Member for Swansea West (Torsten Bell) for keeping the debate in the main Chamber going long enough for us to finish this debate.
Question put and agreed to.
Resolved,
That this House has considered the potential merits of creating a single status of worker.