Oral Question·Department for Education
“If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities.”
Tabled: 31 August 2021Answered: 6 September 2021
Asked by
Bambos Charalambous
Labour — Southgate and Wood Green
Answering Minister
the Secretary of State for Education
Answer from Hansard
The Prime Minister
I thank my hon. Friend, who does a superb job for Peterborough. We are proud of the fact that our Employment Rights Bill is tackling the cost of insecure work, and that we are delivering that pay rise for 3 million of the lowest-paid. We know that the Leader of the Opposition opposes all that. She thinks that the minimum wage is a burden, and that maternity pay is excessive. It is the same old Tories. They opposed the minimum wage in the first place; they have learnt absolutely nothing.