Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill — Commons Reasons — Motion A1 (as an amendment to Motion A) — 4 Jul 2023 at 15:30

Moved by Lord Collins of Highbury

2D: Page 3, line 31, at end insert-“(5) Minimum service regulations may only be made if-(a) the Secretary of State has published draft regulations;(b) the Secretary of State has consulted the International Labour Organisation and given due consideration to such advice as it has proffered;(c) the Secretary of State has conducted an impact assessment of the effect of the draft regulations on the services to which the draft regulations relate, addressing, in particular, the effect-(i) on the general public;(ii) on the conduct of these services;(iii) on the conduct and effectiveness of the exercise of the right to strike in those services; (d) the Secretary of State has conducted a consultation with the representatives of trade unions, employers and any other interested party on the draft regulations and on the matters to be addressed by the impact assessment and, in particular, on whether the draft regulations should or do sufficiently provide, so far as possible under section 234F(2)(a), for protection of workers who do not receive a work notice or fail to comply with it, and for the identification of the “reasonable steps” which a union must not fail to take under section 234E and those which it is reasonable for it not to take;(e) the Secretary of State has laid before Parliament a report on any advice proffered under paragraph (b) and the consultation under paragraph (d);(f) the Secretary of State has placed before a Joint Committee of both Houses of Parliament, convened for the purpose of reviewing them, the impact assessment under paragraph (c) and the report under paragraph (e) and the Joint Committee’s review has been published in a report to Parliament.””

Ayes 223, Noes 204.

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