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Written Question
Energy Supply: Households
Tuesday 18th October 2022

Asked by: Ian Murray (Labour - Edinburgh South)

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what estimate his Department has made of the number of households with multiple energy suppliers.

Answered by Graham Stuart

The Department have not made an estimation. Energy customers are free to choose a different supplier for each meter in their household.

Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 06 Sep 2022
Employment Law: Devolution to Scotland

"It is great to have you in the Chair for this debate, Sir Edward. I pay tribute to the hon. Member for Lanark and Hamilton East (Angela Crawley) for securing the debate. At the start of her contribution, she said she wanted the devolution of employment law, to get it …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 06 Sep 2022
Employment Law: Devolution to Scotland

"I am glad that the hon. Gentleman mentioned Asda. We could probably spend the rest of the debate coming up with other companies that have done it. There is an argument to be had about whether we should criticise the companies directly, but they are operating within the legislation. If …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 06 Sep 2022
Employment Law: Devolution to Scotland

"Maybe. Well, I am not so sure if the Minister is—maybe she will tell us.

I do not want to get into the issue of bin strikes and so on—the hon. Member for Glasgow East (David Linden) mentioned the strikes—but they go to the heart of something that is infecting …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 06 Sep 2022
Employment Law: Devolution to Scotland

"If the hon. Member will let me finish the point. This is the fact of the Smith Commission. They did not think through the consequences of cross-border employment and cross-border companies and whether it would make at that particular time a much more difficult framework to operate on...."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 06 Sep 2022
Employment Law: Devolution to Scotland

"It will have a clear commitment to implement what we are currently doing in terms of the Labour party’s commission. I am not going to discuss what is in the commission in a Westminster Hall debate because it is being finalised and will be launched in the early part of …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 06 Sep 2022
Employment Law: Devolution to Scotland

"I cannot recall who was and who was not, but the conversations that went on through the conduit of the TUC, which was responsible for taking those conversations forward, had come to the conclusion by speaking to their members that the UK trade unions would not want to devolve. Those …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 06 Sep 2022
Employment Law: Devolution to Scotland

"The main thing that I object to about the Scottish Government’s pledges and strategies and documents is that they tend to be launched with huge fanfare, including big front pages in the newspapers and pictures of the First Minister plastered all over the television, and then those pledges and documents …..."
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Written Question
Dawnfresh: Redundancy Pay
Tuesday 29th March 2022

Asked by: Ian Murray (Labour - Edinburgh South)

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will take steps to expedite the Redundancy Payment Scheme for workers at the Dawnfresh site in Uddingston.

Answered by Paul Scully

The Redundancy Payments Service aims to process all claims within 6 weeks of receipt. Before making any payments, the Redundancy Payments Service requires certain documents from the Insolvency Practitioner administering the insolvency, to validate employees’ claims. The Redundancy Payments Service received these documents on Monday 21 March and the first payments were issued on that date; the first claim having been made on 3 March. By 23 March, 311 separate payments totalling £658,002.42 (gross) had been made on the case.

Written Question
Scottish Limited Partnerships: Ownership
Tuesday 15th March 2022

Asked by: Ian Murray (Labour - Edinburgh South)

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many Scottish Limited Partnerships have failed to provide a Person of Significant Control.

Answered by Paul Scully

I refer the Hon. Member to the reply I gave the Hon. Member for Glasgow Central on 3 March 2022 to Question UIN 131219.