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Lord Hunt of Wirral (Con)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 24 June 2025

Debate

Employment Rights Bill

Contribution

My Lords, this has been such an important debate. We have been throwing statistics around the Chamber as if they had just been invented. The very latest statistic that I have in front of me, published in Business Matters, is that: “Britain has recorded its highest number of company closures for two decades, with the final quarter of 2024 seeing 198,046 businesses struck off the official register”. That is hot from the press. We have really been debating—

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