Member

There is more. The removal of long-accepted caps on awards that can be made by employment tribunals has been inserted with no impact assessment and no prior consultation. It is the most last-minute of last-minute additions—completely irregular, and disrespectful to this House and to the other place. It will be ruinously expensive for small businesses and in the public sector it will leave the taxpayer on the hook for huge payouts for managers’ failures at the expense of frontline services. The independent Growth Commission has reported today that that alone could have an additional £15 billion cost to the economy. I look forward to seeing what the Office for Budget Responsibility thinks of that when it next downgrades productivity.