Corporation Tax (Northern Ireland) Bill

Careful consideration has been given to the devolution settlements across the United Kingdom. The...

Has any assessment been carried out about the level at which Northern Ireland should set its new ...

The principle of the Bill is that that becomes a matter for the Northern Ireland Assembly and the...

Is my right hon. Friend aware of the data which suggest that almost twice as much will be raised ...

I emphasise that the new system is designed to deal with artificial avoidance. A number of measur...

I take on board the issue raised by the hon. Member for Amber Valley (Nigel Mills). Does the righ...

As the hon. Lady will hear when I get further into my remarks, the approach in the Bill is to foc...

rose—

And, I believe, on the hon. Lady’s constituency.

Does the Secretary of State agree that, as regards potential visits and potential locations for f...

I know that the Northern Ireland Executive are committed to doing all they can to ensure that the...

The Secretary of State alludes to the need to get the legislation on to the statute book, and I h...

I agree that if the benefits of a reduced corporation tax rate for Northern Ireland are to be rea...

Will the Secretary of State explain at what point the Opposition ever said they would oppose the ...

I seem to remember that when I reported to the House on the Stormont House agreement just a few w...

On his visit to Belfast last week, my right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition spoke of the...

I am happy that the Labour party is supporting the UK Government’s proposal to devolve corporatio...

We believe that Northern Ireland has special circumstances—a land border with the Republic of Ire...

I welcome this measure for Northern Ireland, and I think that it will inevitably come to Scotland...

The hon. Gentleman’s party has long advocated the devolution of corporation taxes in Scotland, bu...

I was never quite sure that we would see this day. I heartily congratulate my successor as Secret...

I pay tribute to the right hon. Gentleman for all the work he did in Northern Ireland as Secretar...

I thank the hon. Gentleman for his kind comments.

I would like to stress that this has ulti...

I pay tribute to the right hon. Gentleman for the work that he did in Northern Ireland. People ha...

I have cited the figure that state spending in Northern Ireland is £23 billion, which is a signif...

I trust that I will do what the shadow Secretary of State did and give a balanced view, from a No...

And you would never have done that.

I seem to have hit a sore spot or at least the tender parts of the body politic among those parti...

Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

I will, because I know that the hon. Lady is feeling sore from some of my remarks.

I assure the hon. Gentleman that I am not feeling sore in any way. He is avoiding the reality to ...

If the hon. Lady is not feeling sore from some of my remarks, she is more brazen than I thought s...

I very much welcome the hon. Gentleman’s remarks. It is important to bear in mind that certain ac...

That was exactly the point I was going to make. Having said that there are exceptions to this, th...

I agree entirely with the hon. Gentleman. On the reduction in the block grant, however, we do not...

Given the comments from the hon. Gentleman’s party and the Labour party, I suspect the grant will...

I agree that public finances will continue to be under pressure and that therefore we need to gro...

That is one of the reasons, of course, that some people say the public sector accounts for as muc...

I said that the Northern Ireland parties should make an announcement now about what they intend t...

On the last point, given that the ongoing cost is not known yet, there remain some issues to reso...

It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for East Antrim (Sammy Wilson), who drew on his experi...

Does the hon. Gentleman not accept that, first, budgetary planning must be put in place to deal w...

The hon. Gentleman makes a very reasonable point, which I suppose goes back to the point made by ...

I join fellow Northern Ireland Members in acknowledging not just the enthusiastic contribution fr...

Given that the hon. Gentleman’s party holds the environment portfolio in the Executive, does he a...

I think that is a very unfair criticism of previous Ministers of the Environment who presided ove...

I congratulate the right hon. Member for North Shropshire (Mr Paterson) and the Secretary of Stat...

I am pleased to be able to speak in support of the Bill. Much has already been said and I do not ...

It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Belfast East (Naomi Long). I should like to begin ...

Does the hon. Gentleman agree that the sort of business decisions we are talking about are long-t...

The hon. Gentleman is right. That is why we should look ahead and see what our tax system should ...

I thank the Government for keeping their part of the bargain in trying to push the Bill through t...

We were promised an economic bonanza after 1998. Whatever people’s interpretation of the Belfast ...

My hon. Friend is correct. This is an opportunity for Northern Ireland to deliver that economic b...

Like other right hon. and hon. Members, I broadly welcome the devolution of the power to vary the...

It is a pleasure to speak in this debate, and I thank the Government for bringing the Bill before...

It is a pleasure to wind up this debate on behalf of the Opposition. We have had an interesting a...

Earlier in the debate, I asked the Secretary of State if she had taken any advice or guidance abo...

I am afraid that on this occasion I must give the hon. Gentleman a similar answer to that from th...

We have had a helpful and wide-ranging debate on a Bill that will allow the Northern Ireland Asse...

I hesitate, Madam Deputy Speaker, to stray too far from the terms of the Bill, but the Financial ...

The sense of direction in increasing corporation tax would be a mistake. I will not detain the Ho...

On the subject of HMRC capacity, I know the Minister is talking mainly about its powers and where...

The important issue here—it was also a point raised by my hon. Friend the Member for Redcar—is en...