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Division Vote (Commons)
25 Mar 2025 - Non-Domestic Rating (Multipliers and Private Schools) Bill (changed to Non-Domestic Rating (Multipliers) Bill) - View Vote Context
John Whitby (Lab) voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 311 Labour Aye votes vs 0 Labour No votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 322 Noes - 117
Division Vote (Commons)
25 Mar 2025 - Non-Domestic Rating (Multipliers and Private Schools) Bill (changed to Non-Domestic Rating (Multipliers) Bill) - View Vote Context
John Whitby (Lab) voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 311 Labour Aye votes vs 0 Labour No votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 316 Noes - 183
Division Vote (Commons)
25 Mar 2025 - National Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) Bill - View Vote Context
John Whitby (Lab) voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 308 Labour Aye votes vs 0 Labour No votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 314 Noes - 196
Division Vote (Commons)
25 Mar 2025 - National Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) Bill - View Vote Context
John Whitby (Lab) voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 308 Labour Aye votes vs 0 Labour No votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 313 Noes - 194
Division Vote (Commons)
24 Mar 2025 - Planning and Infrastructure Bill - View Vote Context
John Whitby (Lab) voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 322 Labour Aye votes vs 0 Labour No votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 330 Noes - 74
Written Question
Personal Care Services: Apprentices
Wednesday 19th March 2025

Asked by: John Whitby (Labour - Derbyshire Dales)

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has made an assessment of the impact of informal and disguised employment in the beauty sector on the number of apprenticeship places available in hairdressing and beauty.

Answered by Janet Daby - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Education)

Apprenticeships are jobs with training, and it is for employers in the hair and beauty sector to decide how they use apprenticeships to meet their skills needs.

The sector has developed several apprenticeship standards, including the level 2 hairdressing professional standard. To support smaller employers to access apprenticeships, the government pays the full training costs for young apprentices aged 16 to 21, and for apprentices aged 22 to 24 who have an education, health and care (EHC) plan or have been in local authority care.

Employers can benefit from £1,000 payments when they take on apprentices aged 16 to 18, or apprentices aged 19 to 24 who have an EHC plan or have been in local authority care. Employers can choose how they spend these payments. Employers are also not required to pay anything towards employees’ National Insurance for all apprentices aged up to age 25, where they earn less than £50,270 a year.

Division Vote (Commons)
12 Mar 2025 - Employment Rights Bill - View Vote Context
John Whitby (Lab) voted No - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 302 Labour No votes vs 0 Labour Aye votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 167 Noes - 328
Division Vote (Commons)
12 Mar 2025 - Employment Rights Bill - View Vote Context
John Whitby (Lab) voted No - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 303 Labour No votes vs 0 Labour Aye votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 164 Noes - 324
Division Vote (Commons)
12 Mar 2025 - Employment Rights Bill - View Vote Context
John Whitby (Lab) voted No - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 304 Labour No votes vs 0 Labour Aye votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 168 Noes - 314
Division Vote (Commons)
12 Mar 2025 - Employment Rights Bill - View Vote Context
John Whitby (Lab) voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 303 Labour Aye votes vs 0 Labour No votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 333 Noes - 100