The issue of equal pay for work of equal pay has been longstanding and not addressed by successive governments to the extent that dealing with it now will come at considerable cost. Deputy Le Clerc and myself sought to lay an amendment to the 2020 budget changing the wording used…
I made this speech in this debate on non-contributory benefits. I do welcome this amendment as I do the increases in benefits limitation. When we approved the benefits changes it was sold partly on the fact that it would bring more people into income support, which would mean they would…
I made this speech in the debate on the annual report of the contributory benefit scheme. I’d just like to pick up on the aspects that overlap the mandate of HSC and in particular the resolutions arising from our Partnership of Purpose policy letter. As acknowledged in this report, the…
I made the following speech in debate and focused on health and social care. Sir, I will focus on a couple of aspects related to health and social care. As members will be aware and as President of P&R and myself mentioned during the budget debate, significant funding for H&SC…
A major policy letter that hit the meeting of the States was that produced by SWBIC. Here is my speech. Sir, This is a good report. It is well-balanced, which I think reflects the diverse make up of that Committee, which I mean in a positive way. I would…
I made the following speech in relation to the Social Security Department’s proposals for the changes to social security contributions in October 2014. Sir, I welcome the fact that any increase in contributions has been delayed by a year and thank SSD for listening to C&E’s view on this…
I spoke in support of an amendment, which I seconded, to reverse the proposed increase in employer contributions proposed by the Social Security Department to employee contributions at the adjourned October 2013 States meeting. Whilst the amendment was probably a step too far and was defeated, I was delighted that…