Alec Shelbrooke - Contributions

Alec Shelbrooke

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Commons, Elmet and Rothwell (2010 - present)

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Business of the House

Commons Chamber on 30 March 201730/03/2017

In March 2014, the only son of Joanne and Robert Wark, my 19-year-old constituent Callum Wark, was killed by an HGV driver who was three times over the legal drink-drive limit. On 29 October 2014, I held an Adjournment debate in the Chamber in which I ask...

Topical Questions

Commons Chamber on 30 March 201730/03/2017

The CH2M issue is a bigger problem for my constituents. It is welcome that instead of the proposed viaducts in my area there is now going to be a tunnel, but other changes and mitigation are still required. My constituents want to know whether the CH2M is...

Engagements

Commons Chamber on 8 March 201708/03/2017

Q15. Does my right hon. Friend agree that it is indefensible for the Labour police and crime commissioner in West Yorkshire to be raising the council tax precept when he has £120 million in reserves and underspent this year’s budget by £4 million?

European Union (Notification of Withdrawal) Bill

Commons Chamber on 1 February 201701/02/2017

I cast my personal vote for remain in the referendum. I had, and have, concerns about the security implications of leaving the EU. I have always been opposed to an EU army, and I wonder whether one may come about without us there to veto it. Many of the c...

Engagements

Commons Chamber on 1 February 201701/02/2017

Q12. I wholeheartedly congratulate my right hon. Friend on securing 100% for NATO from the new US Administration. Will she outline what she is doing to persuade our other NATO allies of the importance of achieving what was agreed at the NATO Wales summi...

New Partnership with the EU

Commons Chamber on 17 January 201717/01/2017

As the shadow Minister said, this is not a hard Brexit and nor is it a soft Brexit. This is a plan for Britain on Brexit. The pound is up almost 3% since the Prime Minister’s announcement this morning, so I urge my right hon. Friend not to give in to the...

Rail: Accessibility

Commons Chamber on 12 January 201712/01/2017

Money was secured more than three years ago for step-free access, not only for disabled people but for all people, at Garforth train station. Network Rail has been stalling and delaying. I have secured a commitment to the printing of a poster advertising...

HS2 Update

Commons Chamber on 15 November 201615/11/2016

May I start by thanking my right hon. Friend the Member for Derbyshire Dales (Sir Patrick McLoughlin), my hon. Friend the Member for Scarborough and Whitby (Mr Goodwill), the Under-Secretary of State for Transport, my hon. Friend the Member for Harrogate...

National Minimum Wage (Workplace Internships) Bill

Commons Chamber on 4 November 201604/11/2016

What advice could my hon. Friend give to someone who is the only employee in a business?

National Minimum Wage (Workplace Internships) Bill

Commons Chamber on 4 November 201604/11/2016

My hon. Friend is making a case that many others have made today. It is unfortunate that, when I was drafting the Bill, the advice I was given was that the 28-day provision was unenforceable. However, if my hon. Friend were minded, by some miracle, to all...

National Minimum Wage (Workplace Internships) Bill

Commons Chamber on 4 November 201604/11/2016

For purposes of clarification, may I assume that my hon. Friend nevertheless supports the National Minimum Wage Act 1998?

National Minimum Wage (Workplace Internships) Bill

Commons Chamber on 4 November 201604/11/2016

My hon. Friend will have heard the examples I have given of major multinational, multimillion-pound corporations, such as KPMG, making it very clear that everybody working in their organisation is contributing to it. It is unfair to say that interns in a...

National Minimum Wage (Workplace Internships) Bill

Commons Chamber on 4 November 201604/11/2016

I am grateful to my hon. Friend for addressing those points. May I urge him to focus on the statistic that shows that 40% of people who are offered an internship have to turn it down because they cannot afford do to it? On opportunities and choice, we are...

National Minimum Wage (Workplace Internships) Bill

Commons Chamber on 4 November 201604/11/2016

My hon. Friend is summing up very well a lot of what has been said. She was in the Chamber when I spoke and will have heard my comments about the model contract from the Institute of the Directors, and the voluntary internships with Vivienne Westwood bein...

National Minimum Wage (Workplace Internships) Bill

Commons Chamber on 4 November 201604/11/2016

I am conscious that my hon. Friend is drawing his remarks to a close, but what I have drawn from his comments is that he agrees with me that there must be a mechanism by which people can do these roles and be able to live, survive and do something. He has...

National Minimum Wage (Workplace Internships) Bill

Commons Chamber on 4 November 201604/11/2016

Specifically on those points, it will not have escaped my hon. Friend’s notice that the Bill contains an exemption for people on accredited degree courses. We were willing to put that in because many accredited degree courses contain a period of internshi...

National Minimum Wage (Workplace Internships) Bill

Commons Chamber on 4 November 201604/11/2016

My hon. Friend will have noted my proposal to add some carrot by exempting national insurance contributions in the same way as is done with apprenticeships.

National Minimum Wage (Workplace Internships) Bill

Commons Chamber on 4 November 201604/11/2016

Following advice on drafting the Bill, clause 1 tries implicitly to make the point that it does not apply to the charity sector, by not listing that sector among the areas that the provisions apply to. We can get into the legal ups and downs, but that is...

National Minimum Wage (Workplace Internships) Bill

Commons Chamber on 4 November 201604/11/2016

The Clerks advised me against having a 28-day limit, but would that satisfy many of my hon. Friend’s concerns? I would be interested to hear him expand on that.

National Minimum Wage (Workplace Internships) Bill

Commons Chamber on 4 November 201604/11/2016

How old was my hon. Friend at the time?

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