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Finance Bill

Debate on bills on Tuesday, 26 June 2007, in the House of Commons, led by Stephen Timms. The answering member was Theresa Villiers.
Finance Bill. Report stage second day. Amendments made to the Bill, other amendments debated and withdrawn. Amendments debated and negatived on division. Third reading debate. Agreed to on division (262 to 197) and Bill passed.
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Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
462 c184-297 
Session
2006-07
Department
Treasury
Legislative stage
Third reading and Report stage
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Related items
Finance Bill. As amended in the Committee and in Public Bill Committee. (vote)
Thursday, 7 June 2007
Bills
House of Commons
Proceeding contributions
Stewart Hosie | 462 c293-4 (Link to this contribution) I will not take any interventions. It is very late and, with the greatest respect, the hon. Gentlema...
Jim Devine | 462 c293 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

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Stephen Timms | 462 c288 (Link to this contribution) I will not give way. The Budget targeted fairness as well. Changes—[Interruption.]
Mark Hoban | 462 c283 (Link to this contribution) The Government are out of step with people who want to have choice in their lives, who do not want t...
Stephen Timms | 462 c287-8 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That the Bill be now read the Third time. It is a pleasure to begin by thanking all ...
Philip Dunne | 462 c288 (Link to this contribution) Will the Chief Secretary give way?
Stephen Timms | 462 c288 (Link to this contribution) Changes announced this year, which will be legislated for next year, include a big simplification of...
Speaker | 462 c283 (Link to this contribution) Order. The House must come to order.
Speaker | 462 c283 (Link to this contribution) That is not a point of order for me. However, following this debate there will be a debate on Third ...
Theresa Villiers | 462 c290-1 (Link to this contribution) Significant restrictions are being introduced on ASPs a matter of months after their introduction on...
Julia Goldsworthy | 462 c291-2 (Link to this contribution) Another year, another Finance Bill. It has been a great shame not to see the Paymaster General here,...
Speaker | 462 c292 (Link to this contribution) Order. The House is again becoming restive.
Stewart Hosie | 462 c293 (Link to this contribution) The Chief Secretary said that the Budget, the Bill and future legislation would lift people out of p...
Stephen Timms | 462 c288 (Link to this contribution) No, I will not give way. The Bill rises to that challenge with targeted and economically efficient ...
Speaker | 462 c288 (Link to this contribution) Order. We cannot have conversations taking place across the Chamber.
Stephen Timms | 462 c288-9 (Link to this contribution) Clause 16 implements the legislative framework that will enable greater use of auctioning to allocat...
Theresa Villiers | 462 c289-90 (Link to this contribution) The Opposition will vote against the Bill tonight, because it is flawed in a number of fundamental r...
Ed Balls | 462 c279-80 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. As my right hon. Friend the Chief Secretary to the Treasury made c...
Stewart Hosie | 462 c280 (Link to this contribution) How much of that £16 billion goes towards tax incentives for those saving on alternatively secured p...
Ed Balls | 462 c279 (Link to this contribution) I think that he was quite busy at the time, but I cannot remember exactly why. I think that he is qu...
Speaker | 462 c279 (Link to this contribution) Order. The Economic Secretary should respond to the debate.
Ed Balls | 462 c279 (Link to this contribution) Before I turn to alternatively secured pensions, I shall speak briefly about Government amendment No...
Ed Balls | 462 c279 (Link to this contribution) I listened carefully to the hon. Member for Fareham (Mr. Hoban), and will try to deal with the point...
Mark Hoban | 462 c279 (Link to this contribution) Compulsion to take out annuities is increasingly regarded as a barrier to saving for retirement, so ...
Ed Balls | 462 c280 (Link to this contribution) I cannot give the hon. Gentleman a detailed answer. I would say that, in Finance Bill terms, it woul...
Ed Balls | 462 c281 (Link to this contribution) I will therefore hesitate to attempt to give the hon. Gentleman a definition either of progressive c...
Philip Dunne | 462 c281 (Link to this contribution) Will the Economic Secretary kindly enlighten us on another matter? When talking about the way in whi...
Ed Balls | 462 c281-2 (Link to this contribution) If I can make some progress, I will explain why the approach we are taking to ASPs is right and why ...
Lord Soames of Fletching | 462 c282-3 (Link to this contribution) On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. You refused to allow the Economic Secretary to define a p...
Ed Balls | 462 c281 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry to disturb the hon. Gentleman. I see that he has sprung back into life. I am happy to tak...
Lord Soames of Fletching | 462 c281 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman does not have to apologise at all. He is boring us all sideways as it is. Just fo...
Speaker | 462 c281 (Link to this contribution) Order. I do not see that in any of the amendments. Perhaps the Minister will continue.
Mark Hoban | 462 c280 (Link to this contribution) Given the consensus that the Economic Secretary mentioned and the way he warmly commended the conclu...
Julia Goldsworthy | 462 c206 (Link to this contribution) The Economic Secretary mentioned that properties connected to the gas mains may be eligible to quali...
Ed Balls | 462 c205-6 (Link to this contribution) I certainly think that we need to work closely with local government to meet those objectives, so I ...
Julia Goldsworthy | 462 c204-5 (Link to this contribution) The Minister has said a great deal about what Government Departments can do to help to raise standar...
John Redwood | 462 c202 (Link to this contribution) I was speaking to amendment No. 7, the purport of which is to provide that regulations under the cla...
Ed Balls | 462 c202-4 (Link to this contribution) I did say that I would respond in detail to the contributions of Opposition Members, including the r...
Speaker | 462 c202 (Link to this contribution) Order. Perhaps the hon. Member for Chipping Barnet (Mrs Villiers) will hear my ruling before she dec...
Ed Balls | 462 c202 (Link to this contribution) With your permission, then, Mr. Deputy Speaker, I will happily return to clause 19.
Ed Balls | 462 c202 (Link to this contribution) Mr. Deputy Speaker, I fear that I am being lured down a path that may cause you some displeasure, bu...
Ed Balls | 462 c206-8 (Link to this contribution) On one reading of the draft regulations that we published, those parts of the country that do have g...
Lord Goodman of Wycombe | 462 c211 (Link to this contribution) I would not advise the hon. Gentleman to intervene, because the last time he did so he succeeded in ...
Speaker | 462 c212 (Link to this contribution) With this it will be convenient to discuss the following amendments: No. 34, page 15, line 17, at e...
Lord Goodman of Wycombe | 462 c212-4 (Link to this contribution) In the course of saying farewell to the Economic Secretary before he is elevated onwards and upwards...
Stewart Hosie | 462 c209 (Link to this contribution) I did in fact take part in the debate in Committee, where I asked a question about definition and va...
Ed Balls | 462 c209-10 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is right that we need to strike this balance carefully. The two areas in which I ...
Lord Goodman of Wycombe | 462 c211 (Link to this contribution) I want to begin by referring back to an observation made by the hon. Member for Falmouth and Camborn...
Lord Goodman of Wycombe | 462 c214 (Link to this contribution) Yes, my hon. Friend is entirely right. If the Government expect the scheme to be effective, as they ...
Brooks Newmark | 462 c214 (Link to this contribution) Photovoltaic solar panels cost £11,000 to install in a house, with payback in some 25 or even 30 yea...
Alan Simpson | 462 c215-6 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the two preceding speakers for referring to the amendment’s point of origin in an a...
Jeremy Corbyn | 462 c216 (Link to this contribution) I know that my hon. Friend has studied those matters carefully, and I applaud him for it and for his...
Lord Goodman of Wycombe | 462 c214 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is making the central case for the amendments. It is all very well for other Departme...
Julia Goldsworthy | 462 c214-5 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Member for Wycombe (Mr. Goodman) talked about the need for an annual report on top of whate...
Alan Simpson | 462 c217 (Link to this contribution) My decision was based on both factors that the hon. Gentleman mentioned. I felt that there was no po...
Philip Dunne | 462 c217 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman commendably puts his money where his mouth is in his domestic power generation. W...
Alan Simpson | 462 c216 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that we would not breach the law because we make the law. I suspect that a Parliament and ...
Brooks Newmark | 462 c216 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes an excellent point and I support his personal initiative in using photovolt...
Alan Simpson | 462 c218-9 (Link to this contribution) It would not have deterred me because I had a different starting point. However, if asked to determi...
Speaker | 462 c219 (Link to this contribution) Order. The hon. Gentleman is straying a little wide of the amendments before us. Perhaps he could ad...
Alan Simpson | 462 c219 (Link to this contribution) The point that I was making, Madam Deputy Speaker, was that microgeneration is at the core of energy...
John Redwood | 462 c219-20 (Link to this contribution) I rise to support the amendments, because I share the impatience of the Conservatives and the Libera...
John Redwood | 462 c220-1 (Link to this contribution) Tomorrow the progressive consensus takes over at No. 10 Downing street. We hope that the obstacle ha...
Brooks Newmark | 462 c221 (Link to this contribution) In achieving the consensus, does my right hon. Friend see a day when the new Prime Minister might in...
John Redwood | 462 c221 (Link to this contribution) We shall probably not see that any time soon, even with the change of tenant at No. 10 Downing stree...
Jeremy Corbyn | 462 c221 (Link to this contribution) The Leader of the Opposition and his individualistic wind turbine sum up Tory policies—they are comp...
Stephen Timms | 462 c225 (Link to this contribution) We are considering a variety of ways, in particular through the renewables obligation. It is a power...
David Drew | 462 c225 (Link to this contribution) I hear what the Chief Secretary says, but surely the policy would be more credible if we were trying...
Stephen Timms | 462 c225 (Link to this contribution) We have had an interesting debate, marked by passion and commitment across the House. We have had de...
Philip Dunne | 462 c224 (Link to this contribution) The point of my illustration, Madam Deputy Speaker, was to show that far from easing microgeneration...
Philip Dunne | 462 c224 (Link to this contribution) I wish to speak briefly in support of the amendments, which are to clauses that I recall describing ...
Brooks Newmark | 462 c222-4 (Link to this contribution) I turn first to amendments Nos. 3, 4 and 5. I have no need to rehearse the careful arguments advance...
Jeremy Corbyn | 462 c221-2 (Link to this contribution) Absolutely. Some collectivism is still alive and well on the Labour Benches, too. I support the pro...
Speaker | 462 c228 (Link to this contribution) Order. The level of conversation in the Chamber is rising. Members who have been present throughout ...
Lord Goodman of Wycombe | 462 c228 (Link to this contribution) As an indication of the Treasury’s willingness to report, will the Chief Secretary now answer the qu...
Stephen Timms | 462 c228 (Link to this contribution) Of course the decisions of the Treasury have a wide impact on a broad range of issues, but it would ...
Stephen Timms | 462 c228 (Link to this contribution) As I said earlier, the Climate Change and Sustainable Energy Act 2006 requires that the Government c...
Stephen Timms | 462 c226-7 (Link to this contribution) The renewables obligation is proving to be an effective lever for raising the proportion of electric...
Jeremy Corbyn | 462 c228 (Link to this contribution) I am delighted to hear that the Treasury is firmly engaged in this process, and that is good news, b...
Stephen Timms | 462 c227-8 (Link to this contribution) The test is based on intention. Most householders are not installing microgeneration systems that su...
Alan Simpson | 462 c225-6 (Link to this contribution) Will the Chief Secretary reconsider his point about huge costs? As I understand it, according to the...
Stewart Hosie | 462 c237-8 (Link to this contribution) Hon. Members have made incredibly valid points. The hon. Member for Stroud (Mr. Drew) mentioned the ...
Peter Atkinson | 462 c236-7 (Link to this contribution) I agree entirely with my hon. Friend the Member for South-East Cambridgeshire (Mr. Paice). The chang...
James Paice | 462 c236 (Link to this contribution) I want to address the way in which the agricultural buildings allowance affects tenant farmers. I am...
Lord Goodman of Wycombe | 462 c229 (Link to this contribution) This has been an interesting debate and it has formed itself around an observation by the hon. Membe...
Stephen Timms | 462 c228 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to you, Madam Deputy Speaker. I am about to draw my remarks to a conclusion—[Hon. Memb...
David Drew | 462 c235 (Link to this contribution) I rise to support what the hon. Lady has said. I have a farmer in my constituency, Rob Warren of Mor...
Julia Goldsworthy | 462 c233-5 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move amendment No. 39, page 27, line 2, leave out clause 35. The intention behind the amen...
Lord Goodman of Wycombe | 462 c229 (Link to this contribution) The Chief Secretary has simply argued that it would be duplication for the Treasury to produce a rep...
John Bercow | 462 c229 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend will agree that the Chief Secretary is a prodigiously intelligent fellow, but althoug...
Stephen Timms | 462 c240-2 (Link to this contribution) Let me start by outlining the purpose of clause 35 and how it fits into the wider package of busines...
Mark Hoban | 462 c238-9 (Link to this contribution) I do not wish to go over all the ground of tonight’s debate and the quite extensive debate in Commit...
Stephen Timms | 462 c239 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman clarify that point? I do not think that there was support for the current sy...
Stephen Timms | 462 c243 (Link to this contribution) The point that I want to underline is that farm businesses that have invested in the past and that c...
James Paice | 462 c242-3 (Link to this contribution) The Minister implies that a farmer who has already invested in a new building in the past few years ...
Stephen Timms | 462 c242 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman may well be correct that it is right that there should be geographically targeted...
Stewart Hosie | 462 c242 (Link to this contribution) That is the same argument that the Chief Secretary to the Treasury made on the previous occasion. No...
Stephen Timms | 462 c249-51 (Link to this contribution) Clause 70 is one of two clauses in this year’s Finance Bill that we have introduced to tackle stamp ...
Theresa Villiers | 462 c249 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Lady for that intervention; she has made a useful point. There might well ...
Theresa Villiers | 462 c253-60 (Link to this contribution) Throughout the debate on schedule 3 and managed service companies, the Opposition have recognised th...
Speaker | 462 c252-3 (Link to this contribution) With this it will be convenient to discuss the following amendments: No. 9, page 92, line 23, leave...
Theresa Villiers | 462 c252 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move amendment No. 8, page 92, line 21, leave out from ‘person’ to first ‘the’ in line 22 a...
Julia Goldsworthy | 462 c251 (Link to this contribution) As I said at the outset, the amendment is intended to be probing, so that we can understand why that...
Stewart Hosie | 462 c263-5 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Member for Chipping Barnet (Mrs. Villiers) for going through the amendments in cons...
Speaker | 462 c265 (Link to this contribution) I call Mrs. Villiers to reply. [Interruption.] I call the Minister to reply.
Rob Marris | 462 c260-2 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that the whole House will be just as pleased as me that the hon. Member for Chipping Barne...
David Drew | 462 c243 (Link to this contribution) May I make two observations? First, farming is different, as many farm buildings are specialised. Wi...
Stephen Timms | 462 c243 (Link to this contribution) The point that I would make to my hon. Friend and to the House is that the new annual investment all...
Julia Goldsworthy | 462 c245 (Link to this contribution) The Chief Secretary continually referred to the package of measures as a whole and the positive impa...
Stephen Timms | 462 c243-5 (Link to this contribution) I should like to make a little more progress, as I know that there is concern that we should be expe...
Julia Goldsworthy | 462 c245-7 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move amendment No. 37, page 47, line 21, leave out lines 21 to 25. Amendment No. 37 relate...
Rob Marris | 462 c247 (Link to this contribution) I have been listening to the hon. Lady’s remarks and cannot square them with the amendment, which as...
Julia Goldsworthy | 462 c247 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is right to say that the amendment applies to that specific part of the Bill. My ...
Theresa Villiers | 462 c247-9 (Link to this contribution) I should like to deal first with the substance of amendment No. 37. I welcome the opportunity to loo...
Julia Goldsworthy | 462 c249 (Link to this contribution) I agree with the hon. Lady that discussions in the press about private equity tend to lock on to som...
Speaker | 462 c276-7 (Link to this contribution) With this it will be convenient to discuss the following amendments: No. 47, page 226, line 9, at en...
Mark Hoban | 462 c276 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move amendment No. 44, page 226, line 8, leave out from ‘least’ to end of line 9 and insert...
Speaker | 462 c275 (Link to this contribution) Order. I have a great deal of affection for the hon. Gentleman, but he is going too far. We are disc...
Lord Soames of Fletching | 462 c275 (Link to this contribution) I rise only to ask the hon. Gentleman if he will note with care the very powerful strictures to the ...
Ed Balls | 462 c275 (Link to this contribution) We will continue to consult the industry and will introduce the regulations at the earliest opportun...
Mark Hoban | 462 c274-5 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Minister for spending some time discussing the amendments, although on several ...
Ed Balls | 462 c274 (Link to this contribution) I think that I might move on and get back to the substance rather than ““jokes””—I think that that i...
Mark Hoban | 462 c277-9 (Link to this contribution) The amendments would amend schedule 19, which introduces a minimum draw-down from alternatively secu...
George Osborne | 462 c279 (Link to this contribution) Indeed! Once he gets his peerage, the Economic Secretary will agree with us.
Speaker | 462 c268 (Link to this contribution) Order. I ask the Serjeant at Arms to investigate the delay in the Aye Lobby. The House having divid...
Theresa Villiers | 462 c268 (Link to this contribution) The Financial Secretary has not reassured me. He has not added anything to his remarks in Committee,...
Speaker | 462 c272 (Link to this contribution) With this it will be convenient to discuss Government amendments Nos. 20 to 32.
Ed Balls | 462 c272 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move amendment No. 19, page 148, line 33, at end insert—
John Healey | 462 c265-6 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I would hate to miss the opportunity to respond to the debate. The hon. Mem...
Theresa Villiers | 462 c266 (Link to this contribution) I did not have in mind people being laid off by MSC providers. I was concerned about the contractors...
Ed Balls | 462 c272-3 (Link to this contribution) Schedule 9 includes a range of measures designed to simplify and clarify the tax law for transfers o...
Lord Soames of Fletching | 462 c273 (Link to this contribution) It is clear from the pace at which the hon. Gentleman is dealing with these matters that he is not o...
Ed Balls | 462 c273 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for that intervention. I did not know that he was an expert on the Europe...
Julia Goldsworthy | 462 c184 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move amendment No. 38, page 3, line 15, leave out clause 4. I raise the matter again becau...
Theresa Villiers | 462 c184 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady is clearly concerned about thresholds, but I am slightly puzzled about why she is seek...
Lord Goodman of Wycombe | 462 c191 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move amendment No. 6, page 14, line 9, leave out sub-paragraph (a).
Speaker | 462 c191 (Link to this contribution) With this it will be convenient to discuss the following: Amendment No. 7, page 14, line 35, at end...
Lord Goodman of Wycombe | 462 c191-3 (Link to this contribution) First, we welcome Government amendment No. 1, on the regulations referred to in the clause. The Econ...
Stephen Timms | 462 c188-9 (Link to this contribution) I drew the Committee’s attention to the fact that inheritance duties on large estates have existed i...
Julia Goldsworthy | 462 c189 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Chief Secretary for the way in which he is dealing with the issue. Surely the b...
Stephen Timms | 462 c189-90 (Link to this contribution) Again, if the hon. Lady has proposals that might address that, I would be happy to consider them. Ho...
Julia Goldsworthy | 462 c190-1 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the opportunity to discuss this issue, and we have had a constructive debate. The hon. Mem...
Stephen Timms | 462 c185 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Lady say a little more about what change she is proposing to the seven-year rule? Is s...
Julia Goldsworthy | 462 c185-6 (Link to this contribution) I am coming to that point. I was asking the Chief Secretary to consider whether the Government are p...
Theresa Villiers | 462 c186-8 (Link to this contribution) Like the hon. Member for Falmouth and Camborne (Julia Goldsworthy), the Opposition recognise the con...
Brooks Newmark | 462 c201 (Link to this contribution) I appreciate the Economic Secretary’s comments on a housing shortage, but the Government have had 10...
Speaker | 462 c201 (Link to this contribution) Order. The debate was broadening rather, so I was poised to intervene, and then the Economic Secreta...
Ed Balls | 462 c201 (Link to this contribution) I certainly cannot claim that there has been no such occurrence. The interesting thing is how consis...
Lord Goodman of Wycombe | 462 c200 (Link to this contribution) Can the Economic Secretary confirm for the record that no Government Minister has ever publicly oppo...
Ed Balls | 462 c200 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an important point, which is indicative of a wider problem facing Conservative ...
Mark Tami | 462 c200 (Link to this contribution) If we are to meet the target of 200,000 new homes, what are my hon. Friend’s views on the Conservati...
Ed Balls | 462 c201 (Link to this contribution) Two million more people have mortgages today than did in 1997, and it was the Conservative Governmen...
Ed Balls | 462 c201 (Link to this contribution) Unfortunately, I do not have with me the quotes to demonstrate that the Government have been trying ...
Theresa Villiers | 462 c201 (Link to this contribution) Is it not true that the last Conservative Government built houses at a faster rate than the present ...
Ed Balls | 462 c199 (Link to this contribution) I am happy to dwell on this point if hon. Members really want me to do so. There are two fixed point...
Ed Balls | 462 c198-9 (Link to this contribution) I fear that the hon. Gentleman wants to repeat the debate that we had in Committee. I set out the po...
Lord Goodman of Wycombe | 462 c198 (Link to this contribution) The Economic Secretary has not at any point claimed that my hon. Friend the Member for Braintree (Mr...
Ed Balls | 462 c199 (Link to this contribution) I am anxious to get on to the substance of the amendments because I have some detail to give the Hou...
Stewart Hosie | 462 c199-200 (Link to this contribution) I quite enjoyed this debate in Committee because I did not take part in it. No design exists for a c...
James Duddridge | 462 c193 (Link to this contribution) Given my hon. Friend’s comments, does he believe that the proposal is simply a publicity stunt? If t...
John Redwood | 462 c194-5 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend made a powerful case about the lacunae and missing elements in the Government’s propo...
Lord Goodman of Wycombe | 462 c193-4 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend makes a vital point about the stability and certainty that any such scheme coul...
John Redwood | 462 c193 (Link to this contribution) The Government are vague in their legislation, as they point out that it may not relieve all the tax...
Lord Goodman of Wycombe | 462 c193 (Link to this contribution) Certainly, the interest groups, whether house builders or green groups, have on the whole been prett...
Julia Goldsworthy | 462 c197 (Link to this contribution) How can we assess how many zero-carbon homes exist when we do not know how they are defined?
Brooks Newmark | 462 c197-8 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady’s question makes my very point: the problem is that the Government do not create any d...
Julia Goldsworthy | 462 c195-6 (Link to this contribution) The most difficult part of the proposal is that it is likely to increase demand rather than deal spe...
Brooks Newmark | 462 c196 (Link to this contribution) I rise to speak briefly in support of amendment No. 7, which would introduce a requirement that the ...
Ed Balls | 462 c198 (Link to this contribution) I hope that I will be able to give some reassurance while speaking about the Government amendment an...
Lord Goodman of Wycombe | 462 c211 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move amendment No. 3, page 15, line 10, leave out sub-paragraph (b).
Speaker | 462 c224 (Link to this contribution) Order. The hon. Gentleman is going rather wide of the amendments.
Lord Soames of Fletching | 462 c273 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman clearly does not know a lot, as Opposition Members are aware. We did think that i...
John Healey | 462 c266-8 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady caught me in mid-sentence. Perhaps I should not have been so generous or ready to give...
Julia Goldsworthy | 462 c185 (Link to this contribution) The amendment is intended to allow an opportunity for debate on the Floor of the House—a debate that...
John Bercow | 462 c214 (Link to this contribution) I well recall last year’s amendment tabled by the hon. Member for Nottingham, South (Alan Simpson) t...
Brooks Newmark | 462 c199 (Link to this contribution) I remain confused. The Economic Secretary made the strong statement that the estimate for 2012 is £1...
Ed Balls | 462 c200 (Link to this contribution) I think that I will be able to answer the hon. Gentleman’s serious question when I finally begin my ...
Philip Dunne | 462 c288 (Link to this contribution) Will the Chief Secretary give way?
Speaker | 462 c288 (Link to this contribution) Order. The House must come to order.
Mark Hoban | 462 c283 (Link to this contribution) The reality is that in the Finance Act 2004 the Government let the genii out of the bottle. They int...
John Bercow | 462 c220 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend is forging a progressive consensus with the hon. Member for Nottingham, South (...
John Redwood | 462 c227 (Link to this contribution) What would happen if a family of five put in generation equipment that was suitable for their requir...
Colin Breed | 462 c262-3 (Link to this contribution) It is fairly obvious that, even after extensive debate in Committee and the speeches made tonight, c...
Ed Balls | 462 c201 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for your guidance, Mr. Deputy Speaker. A few moments ago, I suggested that you would n...
Ed Balls | 462 c199 (Link to this contribution) If the hon. Gentleman really wants us to repeat our debate in Committee, I am happy to give way.
Julia Goldsworthy | 462 c292-3 (Link to this contribution) There has been significant movement on the powers that HMRC officials can take up when they believe ...
Ed Balls | 462 c280 (Link to this contribution) As I said, we are looking to forge a progressive consensus and I look forward to doing so. It should...
Mark Hoban | 462 c239-40 (Link to this contribution) Let me read the quotation again:"““There was general support for a commercial buildings allowance, i...
Subjects
Conditions of employment
Companies
Agriculture
Age
Conservation
Combined heat and power
Annuities
Buildings
Capital allowances
Housing
Investment
Energy
Electricity generation
Insurance companies
Industry
Grants
Inheritance tax
Personal income
Pensions
Property
Pension funds
Sales
Small businesses
Tax allowances
Renewable energy
Tax avoidance
Taxation
Technology
Tax rates and bands
Self-employed
Solar power
Carbon emissions
Stamp duty land tax
Alternatively secured pensions
Managed service companies
Legislation
Finance Bill 2006-07
Contains statistics
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