Baroness Verma
The Baroness Verma
Conservative
•House of Lords•ActiveMember since 1 June 2006
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Employment Rights Bill
20/07/2025 • Lords
My Lords, in response to the amendments from the noble Lord, Lord Hendy, I want to explore the fact that we currently have strong
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16/07/2025 • Lords
My Lords, I am also grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Hussain, for initiating this debate. Of course, all of us come with very different viewpoints fro...
Armed Forces: Recruitment and Retention
06/07/2025 • Lords
My Lords, will the Minister join me in congratulating the Armed Forces on the wide diversity that it holds now? Will he also tell the House what we ne...
Employment Rights Bill
23/06/2025 • Lords
We are talking about small and medium-sized businesses too, and they are not all going to be tech companies; they are not all going to be Amazons. The...
My Lords, I agree with almost everything that my noble friend said. When I was growing up, my father, who was in business, suffered the three-day week...
Social Care
23/06/2025 • Lords
My Lords, I declare my interest as a director of an adult social care business. It is time—and I hope the review looks at this—to rename carers someth...
Official Development Assistance: Vulnerable Children
22/06/2025 • Lords
My Lords, does the Minister agree that part of how to help children through their education is by encouraging businesses to grow in the countries wher...
Employment Rights Bill
17/06/2025 • Lords
I am slightly confused. This seems to be quite a heavy-handed way of capturing workers who may have difficulties understanding their rights. Instead o...
Child Sexual Exploitation: Casey Report
17/06/2025 • Lords
My Lords, it is really good to hear what the Minister has said, but victims will need a lot of help to readjust into normal life. We cannot just do an...
Employment Rights Bill
15/06/2025 • Lords
I want to ask the Minister a question. It may be that I have missed the answer, although I have tried really hard to listen to every word that she has...
Can the Minister tell me what percentage of the consultation was among BME businesses?
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Employment Rights Bill
09/06/2025 • Lords
I thank the Minister, but I think he is going to tie himself in knots on this one, because there are challenges that will not be rightly represented. ...
May I just ask the Minister a very small question? In business, we already comply with the Equality Act. Most businesses do it because it is mandated,...
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