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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 09 Mar 2020
Birmingham Commonwealth Games Bill [Lords]

"Keep up...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 09 Mar 2020
Birmingham Commonwealth Games Bill [Lords]

"When the Minister does so, will he clarify for the House whether anyone in his Department has told the organising committee that it should not become an accredited living wage employer? I tabled a parliamentary question on that, and it is fair to say that the answer was not crystal …..."
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Written Question
Commonwealth Games 2022
Monday 10th February 2020

Asked by: Liam Byrne (Labour - Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North)

Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask the Minister of State, Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether (a) verbal and (b) written guidance has been issued to the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games delivery authority on becoming accredited by the Living Wage Foundation as a living wage employer.

Answered by Nigel Adams

The Department has confirmed to the Organising Committee for the 2022 Commonwealth Games that it should ensure that its staff and contractors are paid the national living wage, in line with the government’s policy. The Organising Committee also asks suppliers to demonstrate how they support its Social Values Charter as part of the procurement process. The Social Values Charter is on the Organising Committee’s website at https://www.birmingham2022.com/news/blog/delivering-social-value/.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 28 Oct 2019
Shared Rural Network

"I thank the Secretary of State for advance sight of her statement. May I start by welcoming her professed enthusiasm for pulling this country out of the cyber slow lane? However, having read her statement, I am afraid to say that, on close examination, it would appear that our Teletext …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Thu 03 Oct 2019
Internet of Things: Regulation

"What a fantastic debate we have had this afternoon. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Newcastle upon Tyne Central (Chi Onwurah) very warmly on securing it. I am extremely glad that she started with a brief account of the industrial revolution, which started in 1712 when the Newcomen …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Thu 03 Oct 2019
Internet of Things: Regulation

"It absolutely could and it absolutely should, because the truth is that that work will have to happen at some point, so all we are arguing about is when and how. It is inconceivable that we will have 13— now 14—different regulators and advisers; the Data Protection Act 2018 brought …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Thu 03 Oct 2019
Internet of Things: Regulation

"Before the Minister moves on, I just want to clarify one point. Is it his position to accept that data that is generated as user data does have an economic value, but that it is basically fine for the individual to surrender that economic value through the way in which …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Thu 03 Oct 2019
Internet of Things: Regulation

"The Minister is helpfully helping me join some dots. Why does he think that it is right for the Government to intervene to ensure that the consumer has particular cyber-security protections but not to ensure that the consumer enjoys any particular economic protections, for example around the value that is …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Thu 03 Oct 2019
Internet of Things: Regulation

"My point is simply that according to the Chancellor of the Exchequer I will soon not be allowed to sell my labour for less than £10.50 an hour. The Government have put a floor on the economic freedom that I enjoy, and that is giving me a degree of economic …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Thu 03 Oct 2019
Internet of Things: Regulation

"The Minister is being incredibly generous and this is the last time I shall intervene. To round out the picture that my hon. Friend the Member for Cambridge (Daniel Zeichner) is presenting, network effects mean, obviously, that in social media land we have monopolies—or, if not monopolies, certainly oligopolies. It …..."
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