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Official portrait of George Howarth

George Howarth

United Kingdom · Official source

Memberships

  • Labour · Commons · present
  • · Commons · 13 November 1986 – 30 May 2024
Bill· Private Members' Bill (under the Ten Minute Rule)Bill 3362open

Employee Share Ownership (Reform) Bill

United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 8 November 2022

A Bill to make provision for a new employee share ownership scheme allowing preferential access for lower income workers; to reduce the Share Incentive Plan holding period from five to three years; to require companies to include declarations in annual reports about the type of employee sharer ownership plans that are operated and the level of employee take up; and for connected purposes.

Motion· Early Day MotionEDM 627open

ROYAL MAIL AND THE UNIVERSAL SERVICE OBLIGATION

United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 15 December 2014

That this House notes with gratitude the work Royal Mail carries out all year round and particularly during the period leading up to Christmas; further notes that Royal Mail's competitors are unregulated and, consequently, free to choose what, when and where to deliver; expresses strong concern that companies such as Whistl, formerly TNT Post, regularly fail to deliver hundreds of items on a daily basis in each constituency because they are cherry picking which addresses they find convenient; further notes that this results in additional costs per item as undelivered items of mail are returned to Royal Mail to deliver; further notes that these practices put additional and unfair pressure on Royal Mail revenues, thereby undermining Royal Mail's ability to provide a six day per week service to every household in the UK, the Universal Service obligation; further expresses concern that Royal Mail's competitors frequently pay staff below the living wage and use disreputable employment practices such as zero hours contracts; and calls on Ofcom urgently to investigate this unacceptable situation and take appropriate action to enable Royal Mail to meet its Universal Service obligation.

Bill· Private Members' Bill (under the Ten Minute Rule)Bill 344open

Health and Safety (Education and Training) Bill

United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 22 October 2008

To make requirements about the integration of health and safety issues in education and vocational training; and for connected purposes