Finance Bill

It is a great pleasure to speak on the Government measures in this group. I will say at the begin...

Please—[Interruption.] No, do not sit down. I was about to say that if the Minister had not made ...

Thank you, Mrs Laing. I am grateful for those remarks.

The measures I will outline ensure t...

Has the Minister considered whether this measure will have a disproportionate impact on rural com...

I will say a little more about clause 14, but I believe that this is a matter of fairness. For th...

I understand the Minister’s argument, but this measure will offer a disincentive to many people w...

I understand where the hon. Gentleman is coming from but I do not share his concerns. It does not...

We understand the argument the Government are making against a review, but given that the Ministe...

No, I do not think the Government will be persuaded by that. Were that to be the case, it would s...

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Roger.

I will follow what the Minist...

I rise to speak to amendment 180 and new clause 1, and to indicate our support for the Opposition...

Given the reduction in the number of people employed by HMRC, and the level of satisfaction with ...

I entirely agree with the hon. Gentleman, but the smallest enterprises—those employing perhaps th...

Does the hon. Gentleman agree with UCATT, which says that such workers should be directly employe...

I agree with the hon. Gentleman that it would be better for some in this community to achieve tra...

I rise to speak briefly on these amendments and new clauses. The hon. Member for Kirkcaldy and Co...

I have considerable sympathy with my hon. Friend on organisations such as agencies that deal with...

In the public sector, not everything that was in the past was bad. Some people say that we cannot...

I must say to my hon. Friend that I am quite in favour of a world of active social democracy. I a...

My hon. Friend suggests that my proposal is Stalinist, but we are talking about a world in which ...

I shall be brief, as I know nobody wants a lengthy debate tonight. I have a couple of specific po...

Some of those lower-paid workers may be working for umbrella companies, and a difference between ...

Absolutely we do. When we talk about “intermediaries” and “different types of worker”, we mean al...

I am grateful for the various points made in this debate. I will not repeat everything I said in ...

I would not have missed it for the world.

The lengths people will go to in order to avoid attending a parliamentary Labour party meeting ar...

There may be a bit of to-ing and fro-ing on this for clarification, and this may well be due to m...

No, it is not talking about that. I hope that provides some clarity.

On clause 8, we were a...

I think I have asked this before, and the Minister may not have the figure to hand, but can he gi...

If I may, I will write to the hon. Gentleman and provide him with those details.

On clause ...

Maybe I missed it, and I apologise in advance if I did, but when the Minister referred to stuff g...

I understand why the hon. Gentleman raises that point, but no vehicles would currently be caught ...

rose—

I will give way, although I am keen to make progress as a number of points have been made.

The Minister says that no vehicles would be caught. My understanding of what he means by that is ...

I appreciate that that is the intention of the amendments, and of course the hon. Gentleman would...

There is a proposal to build a railway line that would take 5 million lorry journeys off our road...

This Government are committed to a very substantial investment in our railways—the biggest rail b...

The only time in my life I had to operate through an umbrella company and would have been caught ...

The Government have done considerable work in recent years to ensure that Departments do not enga...

With this it will be convenient to discuss clauses 133 and 134 stand part.

Amendment 183.