Stamp Duty (Housing Market)

Is my hon. Friend as concerned as I am about families growing up in cramped environments? What sp...

My hon. Friend has made a typically astute point. The problem has a social impact as well as an e...

I am pleased that my hon. Friend mentions the mansion tax, because there has been much rhetoric a...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right. When the Liberal Democrats originally started discussing a ma...

It is a pleasure to speak under your chairmanship, Mr Betts, and to follow two superb speeches fr...

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Order. Before I call Marcus Jones, I thank him for the indication that he may have to leave this ...

Thank you, Mr Betts, for that latitude.

I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for St Alb...

One of the worst cases that I have heard is of people selling properties with planning permission...

That can also happen.

We need to look at the slab rate again and to consider the distorting...

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Order. I say to the right hon. Member for Wokingham (Mr Redwood) that it is slightly unconvention...

I am grateful, Mr Betts, and I give my apologies to you and to the Chamber, but my constituents a...

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Betts. I congratulate the hon. Member for S...

I thank the hon. Lady for that clarification, although there are serious questions about the amou...

I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his intervention. I have received submissions from variou...

For clarification, before the hon. Lady moved on to her mansion tax, she mentioned the slab struc...

I am grateful to the hon. Lady for her intervention. She is right. I have received representation...

Does the hon. Lady agree with the comments by the deputy Labour leader that the middle classes sh...

I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his intervention. I think the point that the deputy leade...

Does the hon. Lady share my concern about the Help to Buy scheme? It has proved to be a good sche...

I take on board the hon. Lady’s point. She is certainly right about the interplay between the Hel...

Every Government whom I have heard discussing this issue and every party in opposition have promi...

I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his intervention. We have made it clear that that is a ce...

I fail to see how, in a high land value area, any Government can promise to build at expensive ho...

I disagree with the hon. Lady. I think that it is right to set targets and ambitions, and it is r...

I understand the shadow Minister’s caution, but she slated the coalition’s record even though if ...

I make this point about the last Labour Government as well as the current Government. No Governme...

It is a great pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Betts. I congratulate my hon. Friend ...

Will the Minister give way?

I will, of course, deal with stamp duty land tax in a moment if my hon. Friend wants—

My point is about the Help to Buy scheme. Has the Minister done any analysis of the situation in ...

Undoubtedly, the vast majority of those who have made use of the Help to Buy scheme have been at ...

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I recognise that that is not a third of transactions in Hertfordshire, which I suspect is the poi...

On a point of clarification, I should say that my point about a stamp duty holiday concerned a pr...

I am grateful for that clarification. If I maligned the hon. Lady, I will certainly withdraw thos...

Is that work being done by the Treasury? Is the Treasury looking at how one might go about removi...

The Treasury keeps all taxes under review. If we look at the subject historically, there have alw...

I thank the Minister for giving way and for what he has outlined. I hope the Treasury will keep s...

I am grateful to my hon. Friend. As a Government we have a proud record of ensuring the economic ...