Speeches by Kumar.

“Is this in a 12-month period?”

“Andy, you served as a group HR director. How many complaints have you had—or have you had any complaints—about zero-hours contracts and cancellation of shifts, or shifts being given at late notice?”

“—and when there will be peaks and troughs. That would be built in. Is this Bill something that you would be happy to fully adopt?”

“Do you think there should be compensation?”

“Just generally?”

“For businesses, how easily implemented do you think the Bill’s proposed forms of zero-hour contract and low-hour contracts are? Do you think it will be difficult? Do you think it will be quite an easy implementation process for businesses?”

“You are talking about seasonality, but you would already know this. You have the data, so year on year you know when there are going to be busy periods in your industry—”

“With this now low level of guaranteed hours, would you say it would be 16 hours, then, that you would be offering to your employees?”

“In what circumstances would you give someone just one week’s notice?”

“What are the safeguards?”

“Coming to Frasers Group, it committed to end zero-hours contracts in 2016. Why did you break the promise?”

“The same question to you, Neil Carberry. How do you feel that businesses can implement these zero-hours and low-hour contracts?”

“I thank all those who have contributed to this powerful debate. Violence against women and girls is a grave issue that urgently demands our attention and action. It is a distressing reality that countless women and girls across the UK continue to live in fear and face unacceptable violence. However, the digital era has…”

“I am staying with Tesco. In your most recent modern slavery statement, you have confirmed two to four instances of exploitation in your operations and around 15 in your supply chain. So 48% of your high-risk suppliers have had incidences of labour market non-compliance. Is labour non-compliance part of your business mo…”

“The culture and the tone of any company are always led by the top and by the leadership. How do you think, therefore, apart from spot-checking that you are doing, to eliminate or reduce the number of cases of any sort of inappropriate behaviour? All I have heard so far is spot-checking. What other mechanisms do you hav…”

“Are these cases going to the police when needed and when necessary? Some of the situations that have arisen are quite dire. What actually happens afterwards?”

“I want to follow up with Mr Macrow. Unlike Tesco, you do not publish any findings from your due diligence in your modern slavery statement. Why do you not publish the results?”

“Would you be happy to provide a statement to us, afterwards, with the results?”

“Tesco has its modern slavery statement. You have not published your findings and the results of the findings. I am asking you whether you can supply that to us.”

“Thank you.”