"Workers at GKN’s Luton plant in my constituency are world leaders in ice protection systems for flight-deck windows and fast-jet canopies, and I believe they will share my dismay that the assurances the Secretary of State has put in place amount to little more than the new management picking up …..." Gavin Shuker - View Speech
"Last week it was Monarch, headquartered in my constituency. This week it is Vauxhall, headquartered in my constituency. Yet the Minister did not once use the word “Brexit” during her statement. Does she believe that these redundancies are being caused primarily by a lack of consumer confidence stemming from the …..." Gavin Shuker - View Speech
"11. To ask the Secretary of State what assessment he has made of the capacity of the industrial strategy challenge fund to increase economic growth...." Gavin Shuker - View Speech
"Can the Secretary of State explain why his challenge fund is directed at sectors that are dominated by an over-representation of men, while many of the professions in which females are over-represented face low investment, low skills, low pay and low productivity?..." Gavin Shuker - View Speech
"8. What steps he is taking to ensure that all EU-derived employment rights will be protected after the UK leaves the EU. ..." Gavin Shuker - View Speech
"Is it not the fact that our EU-derived employment rights are upheld not by legislation but because they are enforced by the relevant European courts? Given that progress on a British Bill of Rights has been patchy at best, what will guarantee those rights after we leave?..." Gavin Shuker - View Speech