Baroness Noakes
The Baroness Noakes DBE
Conservative
•House of Lords•ActiveMember since 6 June 2000
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Employment Rights Bill
15/07/2025 • Lords
My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have taken part in this debate, which has covered quite a lot of ground. I cannot pretend to be anything but dis...
My Lords, Amendment 94 seeks to give the Secretary of State power to introduce exemptions from Part 1 of this Bill. I thank the noble Lord, Lord Londe...
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Employment Rights Bill
13/07/2025 • Lords
My Lords, I support Amendment 28, which has been so well moved by my noble friend Lord Hunt of Wirral. My main problem with the statutory sick pay cla...
My Lords, in this group I have Amendments 9 and 22, both of which seek to amend government amendments in identical ways. I shall speak to Amendment 9,...
Employment Rights Bill
17/06/2025 • Lords
In the case of the noble Lord’s response to this group of amendments, and the response to the previous group of amendments by the noble Baroness, Lady...
That was a rather surprising statement. Is the Minister saying that these costs are not included in the estimates that have already been given for the...
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Employment Rights Bill
17/06/2025 • Lords
My Lords, I will not detain the Committee for long. With the exception of the expert group, which I was not aware of, I could have written the Ministe...
As noble Lords know, this is the final group of amendments, and I must say that I am very flattered that so many noble Lords on the Benches opposite h...
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Employment Rights Bill
15/06/2025 • Lords
My Lords, I have Amendment 272 in this group. When an Act of Parliament creates rights and duties, it usually then allows those who benefit from the r...
My Lords, the amendments just spoken to by the noble Lord, Lord Carter of Haslemere, are clearly very important. I hope the Government will take them ...
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Employment Rights Bill
15/06/2025 • Lords
My Lords, I am a great fan of international competitiveness and growth objectives for regulators. When the first one was introduced for financial serv...
My Lords, the noble Baroness, Lady O’Grady of Upper Holloway, and I took part in the debates on the 2023 Bill when it went through your Lordships’ Hou...
Employment Rights Bill
20/05/2025 • Lords
I never mentioned spent convictions; I referred merely to the risk of employers taking on ex-offenders. I cannot think of a point I could have made in...
The noble Lord referred to the likelihood of cases succeeding if they got as far as the tribunal. Does he accept that the vast majority of cases that ...
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Employment Rights Bill
18/05/2025 • Lords
Can the Minister explain what the current jurisdiction is? What is the current territorial extent for all tribunal cases?
We are not talking about broadening protections; we are talking about setting out what constitutes reasonable steps in the case of sexual harassment, ...
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Employment Rights Bill
12/05/2025 • Lords
I have read it. There is no more detail in that impact assessment on the £15. That is why I am asking whether the Minister can provide further detail ...
My Lords, the Minister said during her remarks that there would be a cost per employee of £15; I think she said that in the earlier group as well. Can...
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Employment Rights Bill
07/05/2025 • Lords
My Lords, I will comment briefly on my noble friend Lord Sharpe of Epsom’s Amendment 28, which replaces the test of reasonable belief with that of for...
My Lords, I support the amendments in this group in the names of my noble friends on our Front Bench. I have a number of concerns about the guaranteed...
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