Stamp Duty Land Tax

I am, frankly, stunned. I am not entirely sure what is meant to happen in the House of Commons wh...

On a point of order, Mr Speaker. As far as I can see, no Minister is present. [Interruption.] I m...

Let me say to the hon. Gentleman, on the strength of having been in the House for 17 years, that ...

On a point of order, Mr Speaker. I just want to clarify something. If the Minister eventually man...

The point about being here at the start relates to statements. I hope that the hon. Gentleman doe...

Not at all.

I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his rather adroit piece of time-wasting.

On a point of order, Mr Speaker. This is indeed a day on which we are witnessing parliamentary ev...

The hon. Gentleman is not only dexterous in parliamentary terms, but he is, in my experience, an ...

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I will take a point of order from the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, but then we must ...

On a point of order, Mr Speaker. May I, on behalf of the Government, unreservedly apologise to yo...

I am very grateful to the Secretary of State. We will see whether the Treasury Minister turns up,...

Thank you, Mr Speaker. I am not sure that I can respond to an opening speech that I have not hear...

Yes, the hon. Lady is welcome to take guidance from me, and it is this: the hon. Lady’s responsib...

On a point of order, Mr Speaker. Yesterday we heard from the Chancellor of the Exchequer about a ...

It would be. It would be perfectly orderly, and it is good of the hon. and learned Gentleman to o...

Thank you, Mr Speaker, and forgive me for seeking clarification on just one further point: I wond...

The answer is that the hon. Lady would need the leave of the House to proceed in that way, but my...

Good afternoon!

Mr Docherty, calm yourself. You are aspiring to be a statesman, but you have got some distance to...

Inadvertent though it may have been, may I begin by apologising to you, Mr Speaker, and to the Ho...

The Minister will be aware that in north Hertfordshire house prices are challenging for first-tim...

I thank my hon. and learned Friend for his thoughtful and timely intervention. He raises an impor...

I am delighted that the Treasury has been persuaded of the argument I have been making for some t...

I am keen that this does not become a Hertfordshire-dominated debate, but let me thank my hon. Fr...

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In an attempt not to keep this debate restricted to Hertfordshire MPs, let me give way to my hon....

I stand to speak on behalf of my constituents of Gloucester, providing the geographical diversity...

My hon. Friend raises an interesting and important point, and we could provide information on the...

Will the Minister confirm that, under the Labour party’s mansion tax proposals, it would take mor...

The point I would make, as the hon. Gentleman draws me into that issue, is that it is better to c...

My hon. Friend talks about Opposition Members, but they are not here in the Chamber. The hon. Mem...

Again, my hon. and learned Friend makes a valuable point. Just on percentages, in Birmingham, mor...

The other point that the hon. Gentleman fails to realise is that the mansion tax that Labour prop...

As my hon. Friend has raised that point, I will make this observation. Labour says that more mone...

This policy was hugely welcomed in my constituency—Newark and Bingham, two of the fastest-growing...

We have set out the rates as they stand. If there is to be any uprating, it will be a matter for ...

With the leave of the House, I wish to respond to the Minister’s speech. I thank him for eventual...

The hon. Lady seems to have forgotten about the great recession that her party visited on this co...

I find it interesting that Government Members are happy to plead global circumstances to explain ...

If we are supposed to have recovered from the recession, why is house building now at its lowest ...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right. The Government said in their autumn statement that everything...

I should like to ask the hon. Lady a practical question about her policy of excluding from the ma...

Order. We need to be a bit careful here. We should not really be discussing the policies of the O...

Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker. I would be happy to discuss those technical details with the Minist...

I am delighted to speak in this debate and am pleased that the Treasury has been persuaded of the...

I share the hon. Lady’s sentiment that this seems to be a very progressive measure, but is she no...

I think that house prices will even out. If there are more transactions and people put house pric...

It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for St Albans (Mrs Main), who has set a superb example...

The hon. Gentleman rightly said that labour mobility would increase. People have told me that the...

The hon. Lady is absolutely right, and that requirement comes when people are most capital-constr...

It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Rochester and Strood (Mark Reckless), who made som...

May I put on the record a correction in relation to figures that were mentioned earlier in the de...

I thank the hon. Gentleman for that clarification. It is not something that I have examined close...

I warmly welcome the motion. I congratulate the Financial Secretary to the Treasury and the Chanc...

One of the most persuasive points that we were able to make to the Chancellor when we lobbied him...

I agree. Some of the people in that position will probably have enough equity now to move on and ...

Does my hon. Friend agree that one of the other aspects was that some property prices were pitche...

Again, I agree. The old system created nothing but distortion in the property market. What will h...

As I understood it yesterday, if contracts have already been exchanged, the purchaser can choose ...

My hon. Friend is right and that was the fair thing to do. We must have sympathy, though, for peo...

It is a pleasure, as always, to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Nuneaton (Mr Jones), who mad...

I pay tribute to my hon. Friend, who along with me secured the stamp duty debate in September and...

My hon. Friend, as usual, makes her point powerfully. As is so often the case, the real democrati...

It is a pleasure to reply to this debate. I am grateful for the warm support for this measure. I ...

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And one of those factors, I suppose, could be the selection of an unfortunate party, but I will g...

Was the Minister citing his own view just now, or merely regurgitating that of the OBR, because t...

The hon. Gentleman brings me to his points about the OBR assessment. I was interested to hear wha...