Speeches by Baxter.

“I will be brief, because I understand that we are at the end of the debate, but I rise to support the Bill and pay tribute to my hon. Friend the Member for Edinburgh South West (Dr Arthur) for bringing it forward, and for the dignified, collegiate manner in which he has gone about things. Up to 95 people in Paisley and…”

“Good morning. Thanks for attending this morning. Following on from that, what does the evidence show about the effectiveness of work coaches and are there any changes you would like to see to the work coaching model?”

“The hon. Gentleman says that he is a big supporter of workers’ rights. Would he like to comment on the fact that for every year of the last nine years that I was lead negotiator for local government workers in Scotland, they had to have consultative ballots for industrial action just to get a decent pay rise out of the…”

“I draw Members’ attention to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests, and to my proud trade union membership—I am a member of the Communication Workers Union and the GMB. For too long, working families in Paisley and Renfrewshire South have been let down by outdated employment laws unfit for a modern e…”

“We in Labour have listened to business. Ann Francke of the Chartered Management Institute has gone on record as saying: “The Employment Rights Bill represents a significant step forward in improving conditions for the UK’s workforce.””

“Is the DWP having conversations about the reforms to jobcentres with either the FSB or with the chambers, to your knowledge? Is there any engagement on the policy development side of things?”

“We have talked a little bit about balancing employment assistance and benefits monitoring. Are there any lessons that we can learn from other countries in terms of how they have introduced a more holistic welfare-to-work approach? I am thinking maybe of Australia or Germany. Do you have any specific knowledge or exampl…”

“I think that is really helpful in terms of better understanding the practicalities of the relationships on the ground. Moving on from your organisations’ role as employer stakeholders to policy development, what do you see as the right role for your organisations in helping to shape and drive the reforms that we need t…”

“Thank you for that. That goes to the earlier point that your colleague made about people needing different things in employment support. Somebody in their mid-50s who is transitioning from one job will have very different needs from somebody who is entering the workforce for the first time. The DWP has 16,000 work coac…”

“I share some of the concerns expressed by the hon. Member for Richmond Park (Sarah Olney). Last week I spoke to businesses and officials working on Ukraine’s critical national infrastructure, who are on the frontline of Russian cyber-attacks. They told me that, since the invasion, there have been cyber-attacks on virtu…”

“3. What recent progress his Department has made on strengthening cyber-security.”

“We heard from the previous panel how important the connections and data will be. I am conscious there are many different bodies with responsibilities in this space. Can you tell us a little bit more about how well you are working together, particularly with the pensions dashboard programme?”

“The FCA and the Pensions Regulator are responsible for ensuring that pension providers make their data available to the dashboards ecosystem. Can you explain a bit more about your role in regulating providers?”

“What are the main challenges still facing the programme? Do you envisage any circumstances in which the October 2026 deadline will not be met?”

“Sorry, the connection trials. You have three connected at the moment out of the 19. Are you still conducting trials in terms of the others that are not fully connected yet? How are they going?”

“That is good to hear. How are the other trials progressing?”

“Thank you all for coming. Pension schemes and providers now have to connect to the dashboard ecosystem by October 2026. The guidance sets out a series of deadlines by which the Government would like different cohorts to connect to avoid causing chaos and too many choosing to connect close to the final deadline. How con…”

“I welcome the Prime Minister’s statement, and I congratulate him on the excellent leadership that he has shown on the international stage. Does he agree that in order to achieve any lasting peace in Ukraine, Russia must return the 19,546 children it has stolen from Ukraine?”

“I thank the right hon. Member for Chingford and Woodford Green (Sir Iain Duncan Smith) for bringing forward this debate. I am happy to support it. Like some colleagues in the Chamber, I spent Sunday evening in an underground bomb shelter in Kyiv as Russia launched a massive drone attack on the city and many others acro…”

“I thank the right hon. Lady for her intervention. While those Ukrainian women are fighting and sustaining their country, they are also the mothers to the 19,546 children who have been kidnapped by Russia. I want to tell the House why the fourth point of President Zelensky’s peace formula is so vital to ensuring a just …”