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438 c471-506

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2005-06

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Treasury

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Second reading

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House of Commons chamber

National Insurance Contributions Bill 2005-06. Explanatory notes Bill 53-EN also published.
Tuesday, 11 October 2005
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Proceeding contributions

Ivan Lewis | 438 c504-5 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman can always rely on me to be caring and sensitive, particularly when responding to...

Mark Field | 438 c505 (Link to this contribution) The Prime Minister says all the right, warm words. Indeed, I very much agree with what he and the Ch...

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Philip Dunne | 438 c503 (Link to this contribution) We have just heard for the second time from Ministers a list of the previous mischievous attempts to...

Ivan Lewis | 438 c503 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend the Paymaster General made a clear statement in December 2004. It seems to me t...

Lord Risby | 438 c503-4 (Link to this contribution) The Minister is slightly missing the point. Of course he can make his point in defence of the remark...

Rob Marris | 438 c500 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman referred to HMRC estimates that 21,000 small businesses and perhaps 90,000 self-e...

Lord Risby | 438 c500 (Link to this contribution) I always love the hon. Gentleman’s interventions as he is defending and promoting the interests and ...

Ivan Lewis | 438 c500-1 (Link to this contribution) This has undoubtedly been an interesting debate about an important Bill that is absolutely central t...

Mark Field | 438 c501-2 (Link to this contribution) I think that the Economic Secretary will find that the record shows that I referred to bona fide rem...

Ivan Lewis | 438 c502 (Link to this contribution) I agree entirely with the hon. Gentleman. I shall read out the recent result of a survey. It reads:"...

Mark Field | 438 c502 (Link to this contribution) I will not take any personal credit for London’s great name in this regard. There is an important po...

Ivan Lewis | 438 c502-3 (Link to this contribution) By any international comparison this country is doing well economically. Having said that, we have a...

Stephen Hammond | 438 c496 (Link to this contribution) None the less, if discretionary powers are to be increased overall—[Interruption.] There is obviousl...

Lord Risby | 438 c497-500 (Link to this contribution) Nobody could dispute the important principle that illegitimate tax avoidance must be dealt with, but...

Stephen Hammond | 438 c495-6 (Link to this contribution) I beg to differ—it is the hon. Gentleman who has put the cart before the horse. There are more membe...

Baroness Primarolo | 438 c496 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman’s argument is based on a fundamental misunderstanding. The Bill does not give dis...

Andrew Pelling | 438 c490 (Link to this contribution) I understand why the Paymaster General makes that point, but institutionalising retrospection and ra...

Philip Dunne | 438 c491-2 (Link to this contribution) I share the concerns about the Bill expressed by my hon. Friends the Members for Croydon, Central (M...

Stephen Hammond | 438 c493-5 (Link to this contribution) I have washed this morning, but not with platinum. The Paymaster General left us in no doubt that t...

Rob Marris | 438 c495 (Link to this contribution) : The hon. Gentleman has put the cart before the horse. We have complex tax legislation because ther...

Stephen Hammond | 438 c493 (Link to this contribution) First, I declare an interest. I was one of the gentlemen who worked in the City, although I assure t...

Rob Marris | 438 c493 (Link to this contribution) : What about a platinum sponge?

John Butterfill | 438 c480 (Link to this contribution) Will my hon. Friend also recognise that NICs are not paid by those who are over retirement age? His ...

Mark Field | 438 c480 (Link to this contribution) It is a good attempt from Wolverhampton, but I was simply putting forward a broad idea that we need ...

John Butterfill | 438 c480 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend must also recognise that I represent a rather large number of pensioners in Bournemou...

Mark Field | 438 c480 (Link to this contribution) If I am not incorrect, my hon. Friend is some 63 years old. I was his Whip at one time. I suspect th...

Ivan Lewis | 438 c480 (Link to this contribution) To reinforce the point, the House might want to know that my grandmother lives in Bournemouth. I hav...

Mark Field | 438 c480 (Link to this contribution) I have little doubt that my hon. Friend is younger than the average age of most of his constituents....

Robert Flello | 438 c481-2 (Link to this contribution) We are debating what could be described as one side of the Treasury coin, the other side being the F...

Mark Field | 438 c481 (Link to this contribution) The Economic Secretary knows that it is not a specific proposal. I was floating an idea, which is pa...

Robert Flello | 438 c482 (Link to this contribution) That is a good point, but what we are talking about is legislation that some members of the wider ...

David Leslie Taylor | 438 c482 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that, while the Bill is commendable in seeking to reduce avoidance, it is ...

Lord Risby | 438 c482 (Link to this contribution) In the last seven or eight years, there has been a huge increase in the number of people at the lowe...

Vincent Cable | 438 c483-6 (Link to this contribution) As the hon. Member for Cities of London and Westminster (Mr. Field) acknowledged, we are dealing w...

Robert Flello | 438 c482-3 (Link to this contribution) I shall stop smiling at that one now. There was a scheme involving fur coats, and another involving ...

Rob Marris | 438 c482 (Link to this contribution) The aim of the Bill is to get rid of schemes involving gold bullion and so forth. Might not such sch...

Robert Flello | 438 c482 (Link to this contribution) In the 1980s, a huge number of my constituents were no longer required to pay tax or national insura...

Baroness Primarolo | 438 c490 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

Baroness Primarolo | 438 c490 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman should also quote the Minister who responded to me at that time with an explanati...

Mark Field | 438 c471 (Link to this contribution) Does the Paymaster General accept that one of the problems is the complication of the tax system sin...

Baroness Primarolo | 438 c472 (Link to this contribution) My advice is that they are all contrived schemes of the same convoluted nature as their predecessors...

Baroness Primarolo | 438 c471 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time. At the time of the pre-Budget report on 2 D...

Mark Field | 438 c475-7 (Link to this contribution) It is self-evident that there are few subjects of debate more likely to empty the Chamber than natio...

Baroness Primarolo | 438 c472-5 (Link to this contribution) Indeed, it is not an insignificant amount of money and it should have been paid. The vast majority o...

Rob Marris | 438 c472 (Link to this contribution) Am I right that we are not discussing peanuts? Without the Bill, the schemes would cost Her Majesty’...

Rob Marris | 438 c480 (Link to this contribution) Again, I am following the hon. Gentleman’s comments closely. He was taking about the risk of stiflin...

Rob Marris | 438 c478 (Link to this contribution) I am following the hon. Gentleman’s remarks closely. First, perhaps he can explain how the retrospec...

Mark Field | 438 c478 (Link to this contribution) I am intrigued by the tense the Paymaster General uses. She refers to legislation that the House ““h...

Baroness Primarolo | 438 c477-8 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving way again. To pick him up on maximising the tax paid,...

Mark Field | 438 c477 (Link to this contribution) Let me answer the second point first, if I may. On the certainty issue, in any one year we do not ...

Baroness Primarolo | 438 c477 (Link to this contribution) First, does the hon. Gentleman agree that if the legislation’s effect is to deter people from even b...

Baroness Primarolo | 438 c472 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman may know the answer from discussions during the proceedings on the Finance Act ...

Ivan Lewis | 438 c505-6 (Link to this contribution) We politicians have just watched from a distance the political crisis in Germany, much of which is c...

Andrew Pelling | 438 c490 (Link to this contribution) Certainly, if the Paymaster General wants to correct me.

Andrew Pelling | 438 c489-90 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Member for Hartlepool (Mr. Wright) said that he did not begrudge the fantastic bonuses earn...

Iain Wright | 438 c487-9 (Link to this contribution) I begin by declaring an interest: I am a chartered accountant and before my time in the House I was ...

Mark Field | 438 c472 (Link to this contribution) The Paymaster General has made a good case for dealing with some contrived schemes that operated for...

Mark Field | 438 c478-80 (Link to this contribution) Unfortunately, my constituency contains the City of London, where gold bullion, fine wine and all th...

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