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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 29 Oct 2019
Leaving the EU: Workers’ Rights

"To understand the Government’s real attitude to workers’ rights, we need only look at the treatment of the Interserve workers at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Those cooks, cleaners and porters have been engaged in a long-standing dispute over terms and conditions and pay, and over the recognition of their …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 23 Apr 2019
Climate Change Policy

"There seems to be precious little action on achieving the Aichi biodiversity targets. The UK is on track to achieve only five of these 20 targets by 2020, so what action does the Minister intend to take to rectify this woeful situation?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 19 Mar 2019
Oral Answers to Questions

"T9. In my constituency, the Crown post office in Middleton is to be closed and franchised into WHSmith, the consultation on which has just finished. As if that were not enough for one constituency, a consultation has just begun on moving the Heywood post office into an empty shop with …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Thu 10 Jan 2019
Crown Post Offices: Franchising

"It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Evans. I pay tribute to my hon. Friend the Member for Wigan (Lisa Nandy) for her thorough and eloquent opening speech, which set out very clearly why this is such an important subject. It means a lot to my constituents, …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Thu 10 Jan 2019
Crown Post Offices: Franchising

"My hon. Friend is right. There was a scandal last year about a particular hospital outlet that was charging eight times the high street price for toiletries, and getting away with it because it had a captive audience. Last year, a 7% rise in trading profits at WHSmith’s hospital and …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Thu 10 Jan 2019
Crown Post Offices: Franchising

"Follow that...."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Thu 10 Jan 2019
Crown Post Offices: Franchising

"Given that Crown post offices are Government property, and that Post Office Ltd is proposing a change that may well be detrimental to disabled people, does my hon. Friend agree that it is absolutely incumbent on it to carry out an equality impact assessment?..."
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Written Question
Shop Direct Group: Greater Manchester
Wednesday 9th May 2018

Asked by: Liz McInnes (Labour - Heywood and Middleton)

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what discussions he has had with the Minister for the Northern Powerhouse on the Shop Direct closure in Greater Manchester.

Answered by Andrew Griffiths

I have regular meetings with ministerial colleagues, including the Minister for the Northern Powerhouse (Jake Berry). Government is responding to the Shop Direct closures and has held a number of conversations with various parties to ensure proper processes are followed and employee rights are upheld. We will continue to engage with relevant parties as appropriate. My rt. hon Friend the Secretary of State has already met with the hon. Member for Oldham East and Saddleworth (Debbie Abrahams) about Shop Direct and will be having a further meeting with her in due course.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 01 May 2018
Shop Direct (Greater Manchester)

"I wonder if my hon. Friend is aware of the ironic fact that on 23 March, just three weeks before it announced the closures, Shop Direct was crowned best employer at the Retail Week awards 2018 for its

“coordinated programme of pioneering initiatives designed to empower colleagues, support new talent …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 08 Jan 2018
Office for Students: Appointment

"The Ministers says that he condemns Toby’s Young’s past comments, but the only appropriate condemnation would be to remove him from the board of the Office for Students. Does the Minister agree that a suitable replacement would be a representative from the University and College Union, so that university staff …..."
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