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Debate on bills on Wednesday, 2 July 2008, in the House of Commons, led by Jane Kennedy. The answering member was Lord Hammond of Runnymede.
Finance Bill. Report stage second day. New Clause 17 negatived on division (267 votes to 190). New Clause 3 negatived on division (303 votes to 240). New Clause 8 negatived on division (309 votes to 15). New Clause 14 negatived on division (305 votes to 67). Third reading debate. Agreed to on division (266 votes to 184). Bill passed.
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2007-08
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Proceeding contributions
Richard Burden | 478 c905, (corrigendum) 1132;478 c905 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady used the word ““retrospective””. I should like to be clear what she means by that. Is ...
Jeremy Browne | 478 c868 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman agree that his case, which I agree with, is further strengthened by noting t...

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Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 478 c868-9 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is right. He is making a slightly different point about a different part of the t...
Stewart Hosie | 478 c869 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman mentioned that there was clarity by March, but any such clarity over capital gain...
Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 478 c870-3 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is exactly right, but I do not want to pre-empt our debate on the next group of a...
Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 478 c866 (Link to this contribution) New clauses 17 and 18 are what I might describe as specimen clauses, and deal with simplification an...
Jeremy Browne | 478 c866-7 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman update the House on the intention of his Front-Bench team to adopt all the p...
Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 478 c867 (Link to this contribution) If I were to choose a word to describe the report produced by my noble Friend, it would not be ““mad...
Jeremy Browne | 478 c867 (Link to this contribution) I strongly agree with the point that the hon. Gentleman has just made; such an approach would discre...
Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 478 c867-8 (Link to this contribution) If the hon. Gentleman looks carefully at what my hon. Friend the shadow Chancellor has said, he will...
Speaker | 478 c866 (Link to this contribution) With this it will be convenient to discuss new clause 18— Tax simplification— ‘(1) The Treasury sha...
Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 478 c866 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time.
Jeremy Browne | 478 c923-4 (Link to this contribution) That was a helpful intervention. The position of my party is one of greater vehicle excise duty diff...
Mark Harper | 478 c923 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman was talking about the overall impact. Have he and his party reassessed their view...
Jeremy Browne | 478 c923 (Link to this contribution) That is not the position of the right hon. Gentleman's Front Bench, but he has a long record of havi...
John Redwood | 478 c922 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman's comment was clearly not directed at me, because we were debating together yeste...
Jeremy Browne | 478 c922 (Link to this contribution) Honestly, nobody has spent more time in Finance Bill discussions this year than I have, and there ar...
Jeremy Browne | 478 c922 (Link to this contribution) When I have finished this point.
John Redwood | 478 c922 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Jeremy Browne | 478 c922 (Link to this contribution) I have mentioned countries where the price of petrol is higher than it is in the United Kingdom; I c...
Angus Brendan MacNeil | 478 c922 (Link to this contribution) Is the hon. Gentleman aware that fuel is 30p a litre cheaper in the Republic of Ireland, which has a...
Jeremy Browne | 478 c922 (Link to this contribution) I see the Minister nodding; it is an obvious point to nod at. Anyone who can add up will work out th...
Jeremy Browne | 478 c921 (Link to this contribution) I will, shortly. [Interruption.] I will, but let me make some progress. The more charitable explana...
John Redwood | 478 c921 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Jeremy Browne | 478 c921 (Link to this contribution) I will, in a second. SNP Members are considering the issue of oil revenue as though it were in a si...
John Redwood | 478 c921 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Stewart Hosie | 478 c920 (Link to this contribution) We will answer the question of who pays for them when we move the new clauses. Why is the hon. Gentl...
Jeremy Browne | 478 c921 (Link to this contribution) I will in a moment. The Conservative party seems to be facing both ways on the issue; the shadow Cha...
Andrew Selous | 478 c919 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman talks about issues in remote rural areas, but does he agree that even in urban ar...
Jeremy Browne | 478 c919 (Link to this contribution) They would have to be remote and they would have to be rural. The new clause deals precisely with th...
Jeremy Browne | 478 c919-20 (Link to this contribution) I have a lot of sympathy with my hon. Friend's point; he knows that part of the country better than ...
Alistair Carmichael | 478 c919 (Link to this contribution) In an area such as the west side of Shetland, which by anyone's definition is remote, rural and very...
Jeremy Browne | 478 c919 (Link to this contribution) I agree up to a point. I accept that many people use their cars in their everyday lives to take thei...
Alan Simpson | 478 c918 (Link to this contribution) Let me try to help the hon. Gentleman and other hon. Members out of the cul-de-sac. Is not the great...
Jeremy Browne | 478 c918 (Link to this contribution) We are in danger of going into a cul-de-sac. Everyone says that they are in favour of differential V...
Justine Greening | 478 c917 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman seems to have completely missed my point. The tax is not having an impact on emis...
Jeremy Browne | 478 c916-7 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for that question, but I do not want to be distracted, as I do not believ...
David Chaytor | 478 c917 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes a plea for greater differentials for new vehicles, but is that not exactly ...
Jeremy Browne | 478 c917 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady is right, of course. That is why we agree with the Conservative party. It has wisely c...
David Chaytor | 478 c918 (Link to this contribution) May I, as a member of the Environmental Audit Committee, correct the hon. Gentleman on that point? O...
Jeremy Browne | 478 c917-8 (Link to this contribution) That is what the Government are doing, but our view and that of the Environmental Audit Committee, w...
David Chaytor | 478 c918 (Link to this contribution) The Environmental Audit Committee did not recommend any size of differential; it gave an indicative ...
Jeremy Browne | 478 c918 (Link to this contribution) I will give way again if the hon. Gentleman can answer this question: did the Government introduce d...
Russell Brown | 478 c916 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for giving way again. Does he think that the Office of Fair Trading might...
Jeremy Browne | 478 c916 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for that intervention. I should declare an interest, in that my car has a diesel engin...
Stewart Hosie | 478 c929 (Link to this contribution) I will give way once more, but then I want to make some progress.
Russell Brown | 478 c929 (Link to this contribution) I agree that a fair degree of urgency is required; the hauliers made that abundantly clear today. Ho...
Stewart Hosie | 478 c929 (Link to this contribution) We deal with the realities as we find them and we table amending provisions when we can. I think tha...
Stewart Hosie | 478 c928 (Link to this contribution) I wish to speak to new clauses 8 and 9. First, I should like to provide some background to new claus...
Tobias Ellwood | 478 c928 (Link to this contribution) I visited Scotland recently and visited some farmers who operate combine harvesters. They used to pa...
Stewart Hosie | 478 c928 (Link to this contribution) I agree entirely. I think there is an immediacy about this issue. When I met the hauliers who were l...
Stewart Hosie | 478 c929 (Link to this contribution) I will give way to my hon. Friend, but then I am really going to make some progress.
Angus Brendan MacNeil | 478 c929 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend may recall that when we last visited this issue on 28 April, I pointed out that diese...
Jeremy Browne | 478 c927 (Link to this contribution) I would be grateful if the hon. Gentleman could say whether he supports my amendment No. 7, on the b...
Mark Fisher | 478 c927 (Link to this contribution) I very seldom disagree with my hon. Friend and I have a great deal of time for him, but he is comple...
Mark Fisher | 478 c927 (Link to this contribution) Yes, I was interested that the hon. Gentleman did not speak to his amendment very much—indeed, I do ...
Andrew Smith | 478 c927 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a powerful point about how bad it would be to use a statutory instrument for th...
Mark Fisher | 478 c927 (Link to this contribution) I have to confess that I have not read the hon. Gentleman's amendment, so I am at a loss.
Jeremy Browne | 478 c927 (Link to this contribution) I should have spoken for longer.
Mark Fisher | 478 c928 (Link to this contribution) I will not give way. We have had a very good debate, and I am sure that other people want to get in....
Mark Fisher | 478 c928 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend is right. He used the word ““expect””, but I think that there is an element of ...
David Chaytor | 478 c924 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Mark Fisher | 478 c924 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Jeremy Browne | 478 c924 (Link to this contribution) I am bringing my remarks to a close. We support amendment no. 7, which stands in my name. If new cl...
Speaker | 478 c924 (Link to this contribution) Order. Several hon. Members are hoping to catch my eye, but apart from this important group of amend...
Ronnie Campbell | 478 c924-5 (Link to this contribution) The debate has been pretty good up until now, and the retrospective bit is interesting. It is a good...
Angus Brendan MacNeil | 478 c925 (Link to this contribution) The purchase is not usually based on the model, but on the cost of the car to the purchasers at that...
Ronnie Campbell | 478 c925 (Link to this contribution) I accept that point. However, let us get down to the nitty-gritty. The decision is similar to that o...
Mark Fisher | 478 c926 (Link to this contribution) I hope that not a single Member of the House would dispute the need to increase vehicle excise duty ...
David Chaytor | 478 c927 (Link to this contribution) When this or any previous Government have changed the rate of stamp duty, for example, which happens...
Russell Brown | 478 c916 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for giving way. I have written to two major supermarket chains and three ...
Anne Main | 478 c912 (Link to this contribution) To the public, this is semantics. Someone who bought a car seven years ago based their decision on h...
Richard Burden | 478 c912-4 (Link to this contribution) No. Obviously, I am not making myself clear, because I am arguing that this is not a retrospective c...
Jeremy Browne | 478 c914-5 (Link to this contribution) I shall take the opportunity to discuss the full string of amendments and new clauses that all come ...
David TC Davies | 478 c915 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is making a genuinely interesting point, but surely he is aware of what Ministers...
Jeremy Browne | 478 c915-6 (Link to this contribution) We will have to agree to disagree on that. It is very hard to increase production capacity dramatica...
Richard Burden | 478 c912 (Link to this contribution) I have some issues with the proposed scheme, but although the hon. Lady is right in that the public ...
David Chaytor | 478 c912 (Link to this contribution) Is it not the case that in every previous move towards variable emissions-based road tax, the change...
Richard Burden | 478 c912 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right, and that is why the hon. Lady was being very selective when she chose to re...
Angus Brendan MacNeil | 478 c912 (Link to this contribution) Is this tax a retrospective decision or not?
Richard Burden | 478 c912 (Link to this contribution) What the hon. Lady says about the introduction of that new band is absolutely true, but that does no...
Justine Greening | 478 c911-2 (Link to this contribution) When the Government introduced new band G, they did so only for cars registered from the given date ...
Justine Greening | 478 c911 (Link to this contribution) I understand what the hon. Gentleman has said. I tabled new clause 3 because I felt that it was bett...
Justine Greening | 478 c910 (Link to this contribution) I have given way enough to the hon. Gentleman. I am asking Labour Members to do the right thing. Wh...
Mark Fisher | 478 c910-1 (Link to this contribution) I agree with the hon. Lady's criticism that a retrospective tax would be both unfair and ineffective...
Justine Greening | 478 c909 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes a very fair point, and the Treasury has admitted that this proposal will ha...
Justine Greening | 478 c909 (Link to this contribution) A number of Members are expressing their concerns. My hon. Friend is absolutely right that it is una...
Adam Price | 478 c909 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Lady agree that even from an environmental perspective, this retrospective policy make...
Justine Greening | 478 c908 (Link to this contribution) Like my right hon. Friend, I have received many representations. People up and down the country are,...
John Redwood | 478 c908 (Link to this contribution) Has my hon. Friend, like me, received many representations from people who simply cannot believe tha...
Anne Main | 478 c909 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend know whether the Government have done any calculations of the amount of value th...
Justine Greening | 478 c906 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right. The result of this change will be more dramatic for taxpayers than the resu...
Greg Knight | 478 c906-7 (Link to this contribution) On the issue of fairness, has my hon. Friend seen the report by Professor David Newbery of Cambridge...
Justine Greening | 478 c907 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend makes an interesting point. If we are to reduce motor vehicle emissions, we cle...
Viscount Thurso | 478 c907-8 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Lady agree that the primary objective of a truly green tax should be to change behavio...
Justine Greening | 478 c908 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is right. This goes to the heart of new clause 3. In spite of the fact that the L...
Angus Brendan MacNeil | 478 c908 (Link to this contribution) Of course, one point of the vehicle excise duty is to change people's behaviour, but as the hon. Mem...
Justine Greening | 478 c908 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman raises an interesting point. What I am trying to do—I hope he will be pleased—is ...
Peter Atkinson | 478 c906 (Link to this contribution) May I give the House a practical illustration of the unfairness of the proposal? Many of my constitu...
David Leslie Taylor | 478 c906 (Link to this contribution) I should like to correct the hon. Lady. The early-day motion to which she referred does not say that...
Justine Greening | 478 c906 (Link to this contribution) I endorse what nearly 50 Labour Members have done, which is to sign an early-day motion saying that ...
Nigel Griffiths | 478 c906 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady makes an excellent point, and it is reinforced by the latest report from the Environme...
Justine Greening | 478 c905 (Link to this contribution) What I am saying is that the hon. Gentleman's Government should take the same approach that they too...
Justine Greening | 478 c905 (Link to this contribution) I will not be withdrawing my new clause, because it is the best insurance policy we all have to ensu...
Baroness Hoey | 478 c904-5;478 c904 (Link to this contribution) I very much support what the hon. Lady is saying about the retrospective taxation of people who boug...
Jeremy Browne | 478 c987-8 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, for calling me to make a few closing remarks at the end of what has b...
Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 478 c985-7 (Link to this contribution) May I say how disappointed we Conservatives are, not only because the Chief Secretary did not have t...
Mark Hoban | 478 c974 (Link to this contribution) That is the spirit in which the Financial Secretary has approached our proceedings throughout. The ...
Jane Kennedy | 478 c975-9 (Link to this contribution) Since the pre-Budget report and throughout our proceedings on the Finance Bill, we have engaged acti...
Mark Hoban | 478 c979-80 (Link to this contribution) I am pleased that the Financial Secretary has welcomed the initiative taken by the Institute of Char...
Kitty Ussher | 478 c983 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for those remarks. I am obviously sorry that we were not able to introduc...
Mark Hoban | 478 c983 (Link to this contribution) Will the Minister clarify the interaction between the returns that insurance special purpose vehicle...
Kitty Ussher | 478 c983-4 (Link to this contribution) I can clarify that. That particular class of special purpose vehicles does not have to make returns ...
Mark Hoban | 478 c983 (Link to this contribution) I was just concerned about the flavour of the explanatory notes regarding the interaction between th...
Jane Kennedy | 478 c984-5 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That the Bill be now read the Third time. Will you pass on my thanks, Madam Deputy S...
Stewart Hosie | 478 c933 (Link to this contribution) I agree, and I used the figures from the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform d...
Nigel Griffiths | 478 c933-5 (Link to this contribution) I rise to oppose new clause 3. I am afraid to say that it is all too typical of the unprincipled pol...
Peter Atkinson | 478 c935 (Link to this contribution) Over the years that I have been in the House, I have always known that the hon. Member for Edinburgh...
Angus Brendan MacNeil | 478 c935 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman agree that the vehicle excise duty is Labour's poll tax on wheels? It is an ...
Lembit Opik | 478 c933 (Link to this contribution) The inelasticity can be explained for rural areas because there is no other way to travel. Does the ...
Stewart Hosie | 478 c931-2 (Link to this contribution) I know that the long-term objective of the haulage industry is for there to be a Europe-wide profess...
Russell Brown | 478 c933 (Link to this contribution) Further to the point made by the hon. Member for Montgomeryshire (Lembit Öpik), households generally...
Stewart Hosie | 478 c933 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is right and his comments mirror those of his colleague in the Scottish Parliamen...
Alistair Carmichael | 478 c931 (Link to this contribution) The briefing I received from the Road Haulage Association this afternoon makes it clear that it sees...
Stewart Hosie | 478 c929-31 (Link to this contribution) That is absolutely right. Part of the intention behind the new clauses is precisely to help fragile ...
Rob Marris | 478 c942-4 (Link to this contribution) Given the time constraints, I shall confine my remarks to new clause 3 on vehicle excise duty. The ...
Viscount Thurso | 478 c940 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right on both counts: about the point that he has made and the fact that I would h...
Danny Alexander | 478 c940 (Link to this contribution) I support what my hon. Friend is saying and his new clause. Does he accept that the issue is not onl...
Viscount Thurso | 478 c940-1 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a good point and saves me the trouble of making it myself; I shall move on. In...
Stewart Hosie | 478 c941 (Link to this contribution) In previous, similar debates, we have had a bit of fun on the issue of definitions, not least with t...
Viscount Thurso | 478 c941-2 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for making that point, and for clearly having read the paper tha...
Gregory Campbell | 478 c942 (Link to this contribution) I hope that the hon. Gentleman remembers that Northern Ireland is also part of the United Kingdom.
Viscount Thurso | 478 c942 (Link to this contribution) Indeed I most certainly do, but the advice that I had when framing this was not to include Northern ...
Russell Brown | 478 c942 (Link to this contribution) If there is any disappointment on my part, it is that I have not managed to see the hon. Gentleman's...
Roger Williams | 478 c939-40 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that my hon. Friend will make this point, but the issue is not only the increase in fuel p...
Viscount Thurso | 478 c939 (Link to this contribution) I rise to speak to new clause 14, which stands in my name and that of several of my hon. Friends. Th...
David Chaytor | 478 c939 (Link to this contribution) I am looking at what the Government propose and reading from the chart in the Red Book. It is absolu...
David Chaytor | 478 c936-8 (Link to this contribution) We are all aware of the seriousness of the oil price crisis, which affects every individual, househo...
James Paice | 478 c938 (Link to this contribution) I am very interested to hear the hon. Gentleman refer to changing behaviour, but what will he say to...
Peter Atkinson | 478 c936 (Link to this contribution) Absolutely. I agree entirely. It is not only regressive, but like all regressive taxation, it partic...
David Chaytor | 478 c938 (Link to this contribution) Fifty per cent. I stand corrected. That issue needs to be considered. Had the Treasury looked at th...
Justine Greening | 478 c938-9 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman seems to be almost unaware of what his Government are proposing. First, the rises...
David Chaytor | 478 c938 (Link to this contribution) People might look at the figures that the Government have published in the Red Book, which tell them...
Mark Hoban | 478 c966-72 (Link to this contribution) We spent some time in the Public Bill Committee—virtually all of two sittings—discussing schedule 7,...
Angela Eagle | 478 c952-3 (Link to this contribution) There may well not be a VAT windfall, because when people spend more money on one good or service, t...
Justine Greening | 478 c953 (Link to this contribution) We have had an interesting debate. The hon. Member for Stoke-on-Trent, Central (Mark Fisher) talked ...
Mark Hoban | 478 c964 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move amendment No. 13, page 156, line 35, leave out 'must be' and insert"'will be deemed to...
Angela Eagle | 478 c948-51 (Link to this contribution) We have had a fascinating debate with many interesting and thoughtful contributions, for which I com...
Stewart Hosie | 478 c951-2 (Link to this contribution) Although it is right that the duty is constant, I am sure the hon. Lady will concede that the VAT re...
Robert Smith | 478 c947-8 (Link to this contribution) I echo what the hon. Member for Carmarthen, East and Dinefwr (Adam Price) said about the importance ...
Russell Brown | 478 c946 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman and his colleagues have undoubtedly talked in the past about the fuel duty regula...
Adam Price | 478 c946-7 (Link to this contribution) I am not familiar with the detail of the history of the French fuel regulator. Fuel regulators exist...
Alan Reid | 478 c946 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is talking about stability, so could he say by how much the regulator would bring...
Adam Price | 478 c946 (Link to this contribution) To be honest, I would have to pass on the detail of the hon. Gentleman's question, but the principle...
Rob Marris | 478 c944-5 (Link to this contribution) Again, I would have more sympathy with that critique if there had been an average attendance of Cons...
Adam Price | 478 c945-6 (Link to this contribution) I shall concentrate on new clauses 8 and 9, which Scottish National party and Plaid Cymru Members ta...
Rob Marris | 478 c944 (Link to this contribution) I am quite confident that the Government will have a majority because the wording of new clause 3 do...
Anne Main | 478 c944 (Link to this contribution) May I draw the hon. Gentleman's attention to the fact that some Members—from all parties—do not sign...
Justine Greening | 478 c944 (Link to this contribution) We will see how many Conservative and Labour Members go through on our side compared to his.
Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 478 c877-80 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is right. I am sure that we could find hundreds, if not thousands, more examples ...
Jeremy Browne | 478 c880-1 (Link to this contribution) It is a privilege to follow what felt like a Reithian lecture, certainly in its length and to some e...
Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 478 c876-7 (Link to this contribution) They are quite close—[Interruption.] They are on the same side of the country at least. The hon. Gen...
Stewart Hosie | 478 c877 (Link to this contribution) May I give the hon. Gentleman a better example? The 10p tax change may have implications for the 10p...
Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 478 c874-6 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right. He may have been involved in similar discussions to those that I...
Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 478 c876 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes a good point and he prompts me to draw that distinction. I did say earlier ...
Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 478 c876 (Link to this contribution) I hope that the hon. Gentleman does not intend to make some petty party political point.
Jeremy Browne | 478 c876 (Link to this contribution) I never make petty party political points—only wise observations. I agree with the hon. Gentleman's ...
Justine Greening | 478 c904 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has asked an interesting question. The answer is that we do not have a problem wi...
Nigel Griffiths | 478 c904 (Link to this contribution) If the policy is so unfair, why have five Conservative MPs on the Environmental Audit Committee stre...
Justine Greening | 478 c902 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time.
Speaker | 478 c902-4 (Link to this contribution) With this it will be convenient to discuss the following: New clause 7— Vehicle mileage costs— ‘Th...
Kitty Ussher | 478 c897-8 (Link to this contribution) There are wider benefits than simply being able to have a different capital gains tax requirement, s...
Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 478 c898 (Link to this contribution) I am afraid that the Economic Secretary has not dealt with the issues that amendments Nos. 89, 90 an...
Kitty Ussher | 478 c896-7 (Link to this contribution) The disposal referred to in the Bill is the associated disposal, and the definition that the hon. Ge...
Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 478 c897 (Link to this contribution) We have heard the Economic Secretary reaffirm the Government's 100 per cent. commitment to the enter...
Kitty Ussher | 478 c895-6 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to hon. Members for tabling amendments in these technically complicated areas. It is i...
Speaker | 478 c888-9 (Link to this contribution) With this it will be convenient to discuss the following amendments: No. 90, in schedule 3, page 127...
Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 478 c889-93 (Link to this contribution) This is a technical but important group of amendments relating to the detail of entrepreneurs' relie...
John Redwood | 478 c893-5 (Link to this contribution) I remind the House that I have included in the Register of Members' Interests the fact that I am a d...
Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 478 c883 (Link to this contribution) The theory sounds credible, but the announcement about non-doms, for example, was made as a set of f...
Kitty Ussher | 478 c883-4 (Link to this contribution) We shall deal with the non-doms issue later, and my right hon. Friend the Financial Secretary to the...
Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 478 c884-5 (Link to this contribution) I have listened to the Economic Secretary, and I am afraid that I will disappoint her. She says that...
Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 478 c888 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move amendment No. 89, in schedule 3, page 127, line 5, leave out 'B,'.
Jeremy Browne | 478 c881-2 (Link to this contribution) I take the hon. Gentleman's point, and I was not preoccupied with VAT in 1979, mercifully. Oddly, he...
Kitty Ussher | 478 c882-3 (Link to this contribution) This has been a wide-ranging and useful debate. I congratulate the hon. Member for Runnymede and Wey...
Peter Bone | 478 c988 (Link to this contribution) I will not detain the House for long, but it would be wrong for me not to speak, as it was the first...
Peter Bone | 478 c989 (Link to this contribution) Indeed, except for one. My abiding memory was the important debate about air passenger duty, and di...
Jeremy Browne | 478 c974-5 (Link to this contribution) I had resolved not to take any interventions during my brief speech, but sadly all those hon. Member...
John Baron | 478 c873-4 (Link to this contribution) May I suggest to my hon. Friend that the threat in respect of corporate tax rates comes not only fro...
Jeremy Browne | 478 c920-1 (Link to this contribution) I simply do not know what provoked that intervention. I did not mention an election. In fact, far fr...
Speaker | 478 c983 (Link to this contribution) With this it will be convenient to discuss the following: Government amendments Nos. 31 to 33
Viscount Thurso | 478 c942 (Link to this contribution) I am delighted to tell the hon. Gentleman that according to the colourful map that I possess, parts ...
Mark Hoban | 478 c972-4 (Link to this contribution) Indeed. I sometimes suspect that the Government found the draft rather than the final idea, but we w...
Speaker | 478 c964-6 (Link to this contribution) With this it will be convenient to discuss the following: Amendment No. 14, page 156, line 42, at en...
Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 478 c896 (Link to this contribution) The Economic Secretary said that the guidance might be unclear. The guidance is very clear. I wonder...
Russell Brown | 478 c919 (Link to this contribution) New clause 14(5)(b) says, ““define 'remote rural areas'””. I appreciate that the hon. Member for Cai...
Alan Reid | 478 c925-6 (Link to this contribution) I apologise to hon. Members for rushing off after my brief speech, but I have an Adjournment debate ...
Richard Burden | 478 c911 (Link to this contribution) I believe that the Government do have some thinking to do in relation to VED, and I will explain som...
Justine Greening | 478 c904 (Link to this contribution) Today's debate on the cost of motoring relates to issues that have relevance to the lives of million...
Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 478 c881 (Link to this contribution) I must defend my noble Friend Lord Howe. I do not know how old the hon. Gentleman was back in 1979, ...
Jeremy Browne | 478 c918-9 (Link to this contribution) That was an extremely widely worded contribution. I do not disagree with it, but I fear that I would...
Justine Greening | 478 c906 (Link to this contribution) The spirit in which the hon. Gentleman and I both believe that it is unfair to tax people because of...
Subjects
Accountancy
Capital gains tax
Business
Corporation tax
Competition
Budgets
Income tax
Insurance companies
Excise duties
Fuels
Double taxation
Domicil
Economic situation
Motor vehicles
Parliamentary scrutiny
Public participation
Prices
Small businesses
Tax allowances
Taxation
VAT
Shareholders
Revenue and Customs
Carbon emissions
Legislation
Finance Bill 2007-08
Contains statistics
Yes
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