Speeches by Griffiths.

“I am not the one pushing this. I am asking you to give your prescription for those businesses and what they should be doing. How do they keep their businesses viable, even in the event of not being able to manage their costs when they do not have income coming in?”

“I want to go back to the earlier question to Mr Lillis about SMEs. You gave an example of Tesco, which you have worked with and which is obviously one of the largest, most successful businesses in the UK. I do not feel that you answered the question about SMEs. Could you please, in shorter sentences perhaps, tell us ho…”

“Mr Carberry, many aspects of the Employment Rights Bill will be decided after the Bill reaches Royal Assent. What do you see as the risks of this approach?”

“Thank you. Mr Lillis, the same question to you. Many aspects will be decided after the Bill reaches Royal Assent. What risks do you see in that?”

“Could you give a couple of examples of those?”

“I want to come back to the seasonality point and ask Paddy in particular, but Neil, too, for those seasonal businesses that are affected by the wonderful British weather, like amusement parks in my constituency, what do you recommend? If they do have day after day of bad weather when there are no tourists to be seen an…”

“I am just asking a straightforward question. What do you want me to say to the employers in my constituency who have asked me this specific question?”

“Sorry to interrupt, but if you are so confident, why have you not worked with any SMEs to develop this? Why only work with Tesco?”

“Give me some examples of SMEs.”

“Madam Deputy Speaker, I am sure you will have noticed that the Secretary of State did not answer one question, which was whether he would clarify that the final assembly and systems integration will take place in Belfast, rather than in the Navantia shipyards in Spain.”

“In West Sussex, the number of education, health and care plans has risen from 3,362 in 2015 to 7,684 in 2024—a 228% increase. With schools increasingly stretched, there is an inevitable cost to children with and without special needs. I have recently met special needs co-ordinator leads from two excellent schools in my…”

“The Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill, introduced to the House yesterday, sets out to unpick every aspect of the school reforms that have led English school children to rocket up the international league tables in English, maths and science. How can the Government possibly say that they want to break down barriers …”

“In your view, what does “good” look like when it comes to a new settlement for industrial relations?”

“As you have already said, both businesses work, in your supply chains, with a range of smaller businesses, which have been described by some business representatives as more exposed to the costs of employment reform. Should more be done to help smaller firms to manage the costs of change? Who wants to go first?”

“That answers the second part of my question. What is the JLR perspective?”

“Question No. 1 is “Should more be done to help smaller firms to manage the costs of change?” The second part of the question—which I did not need to ask you, Dominic, because you answered it for me—is this: “The CIPD has called for renewed investment to support the work of bodies such as ACAS and enhance social partner…”

“Do you think a proportion of your supply chain is at risk from any of the changes?”

“To bring you back to the question, though, what is in it for the employer?”

“I just want to go back to a point that Nicola Smith made earlier about the benefits to employers. I just want to flip this the other way briefly. There has to be an incentive for employers, so how would you characterise the benefit to an employer—Amazon in particular, if you like—of union recognition?”

“Can you be more specific?”