Ways and Means

I am grateful to the Minister for allowing me to make an early intervention. So that the House ca...

I assure the hon. Lady that the process at the conclusion of this debate will be exactly the same...

Can I ask why?

The hon. Gentleman has brilliantly pre-empted my next comments. If only he were a little more pat...

Is the Minister saying that those proposals will actually come forward? I will address this in my...

The hon. Gentleman is right about the importance of those measures, and they will go forward. The...

Does the Minister have the staff to do the job on addressing tax avoidance?

Our record on addressing tax avoidance speaks for itself. HMRC has raised £160 billion from clamp...

As the Minister knows, HMRC’s landfill tax figures show a £150 million tax gap. Will the future p...

All the measures relating to the motions we are debating will be out there and will be clear. The...

Does my right hon. Friend agree that Labour’s plans to raise corporate and personal taxation will...

My hon. Friend is relatively new to this House but she makes an important and insightful point, w...

On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. I thought this debate was about the Government’s propo...

Order. I thank the hon. Gentleman for his point of order. It is right that we must keep a careful...

It is a set-up—

The hon. Gentleman must not add more from a sedentary position to his point of order, so I will n...

Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. I could not have put that better myself. [Interruption.] And I w...

I wish to make a point about tax avoidance and fraud. When it comes to landfill tax, will that ex...

I will ask the relevant Minister in the relevant Department to get back to the hon. Gentleman on ...

Will the Minister explain how long the Government have been working on this major concession and ...

The answer to the hon. Gentleman’s question is that that is precisely what this Bill will be achi...

Does my right hon. Friend recall, as I do, that for the best part of a decade the Labour party ke...

My hon. Friend is entirely right about that. We currently raise £7 billion a year from non-domici...

I was provoked to my feet by the word “finally”. I am very concerned that a number of the resolut...

The answer to the hon. Lady’s question is that many of these things relate to the fact that this ...

I raise this point because where there is late payment of tax, for whatever reason, be it careles...

I thank the hon. Lady for her further thoughtful point, but I just return to my comments, which a...

As one of the Conservative Members who was gently trying to persuade the Government to take a mor...

I thank my hon. Friend for his kind remarks. By way of mutual appreciation, I thank him for his i...

I noted the Minister’s comment that there is no change in policy. From that statement it is clear...

Will the shadow Minister give the House his view on the points made by his Back-Bench colleague t...

I would not proffer advice to my hon. Friend the Member for North Durham, because he is an expert...

The hon. Gentleman’s former noble friend Lord Sugar, who knows a little about productivity and ru...

I remind the hon. Gentleman that businesses are coming to Labour because of the mess that the Con...

Name them.

I can name them.

None of the measures before the House address the growing black hole in th...

Contrary to what the hon. Gentleman just said, the Government have raised more than £9 billion fr...

The reality is that the Tories support tax dodgers. Full stop.

Several of the measures befo...

My hon. Friend has just touched on how the Minister is going to implement these measures, which i...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right. The proposals for reorganisation will do nothing to help that...

I urge caution on the hon. Gentleman before he throws around wild accusations about the Governmen...

I hope the hon. Lady will be busier in her job.

I find it baffling that, at a time when the...

On business investment relief, it was suggested a moment ago that we should work with the Governm...

My hon. Friend makes a good point; I hope the Government will listen carefully to what he says an...

This is the first time that I have spoken in a debate in which you have been in the Chair, Madam ...

Like the right hon. Lady, I think that the digital movement is an improvement, but has she come a...

The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right. We have agreed that people want more digital interactions...

I congratulate my right hon. Friend on her election as the Chair of the Treasury Committee. Does ...

I thank my hon. Friend very much for that suggestion. What he says has much merit, and it may wel...

Organisations have suggested that Finance Public Bill Committees should be able to hear evidence,...

I might be guided by you on this, Madam Deputy Speaker, but I suspect that that is actually a mat...

I appreciate the chance to take part in this Ways and Mean debate, which is one of the few not to...

On the point about VAT on Police Scotland, does the hon. Lady recognise that the SNP Administrati...

Such a policy was in the Conservative party manifesto for the Scottish Parliament election that y...

I want to build on what my right hon. Friend the Member for Loughborough (Nicky Morgan) said abou...

I begin by welcoming you to the Chair, Madam Deputy Speaker. I know that you were in the Chair be...

The hon. Gentleman is making a valuable contribution. I want to emphasise a point he made at the ...

The problem is not only that the hon. Gentleman’s constituents have to live next door to those il...

Does my hon. Friend agree that local authorities and the Local Government Association could play ...

Yes, I do, but the problem is that local authority budgets are under tremendous pressure, so they...

Declare your interest.

I think even the best plastic surgeon would struggle with me.

The question is whether VAT i...

It is a pleasure to follow my hon. Friend the Member for North Durham (Mr Jones), who gave a very...

Does my hon. Friend also think that there is a mindset in some parts of the Government—perhaps no...

I strongly agree with my hon. Friend. This idea of trickle-down economics must surely be discredi...

Will my hon. Friend contrast that clamp-down on non-doms and the tax reduction policies with the ...

My hon. Friend makes a powerful point. She will already have seen in her casework as a new Member...

Does my hon. Friend share my concern that wealthy individuals are found wanting when, as usually ...

I wholeheartedly agree with my hon. Friend. We should be putting an end to sweetheart deals. We c...

I agree with my hon. Friend. Does he think that part of the problem is the operation of HMRC and ...

I certainly feel that HMRC is insufficiently accountable to taxpayers and citizens, and I think t...

My hon. Friend raises a good point about staff. The problem we have had in all Departments during...

I wholeheartedly agree with my hon. Friend. The irony of some of the swingeing cuts of the past s...

Does my hon. Friend also remember that not only did George Osborne’s first Budget in 2010 help cr...

That was one of my greatest frustrations as a Labour party member, looking in on debates in the H...

Does my hon. Friend also agree that not only did what he describe happen, but if we had followed ...

I wholeheartedly agree. I am proud of the contribution that UK financial services make—not just t...

Manchester.

And Manchester, as my hon. Friend says.

Glasgow.

Of course, we cannot forget Glasgow. We have several powerful financial centres in the UK. They c...

The hon. Gentleman is being generous with his time. He mentioned powerful financial centres, incl...

I certainly agree with the hon. Gentleman. I shall come to his point, in the context of the motio...

rose—

I give way to my hon. Friend.

Order. Before the hon. Gentleman gives way again, I must tell him that I have been paying careful...

Of course, Madam Deputy Speaker, my entire speech relates directly to the ways and means motions,...

The Finance Bill proposes to extend the reliefs available to people with non-domiciled tax status...

I wholeheartedly agree with my hon. Friend. Let me make two points about what she has said. In th...

Does my hon. Friend agree that there is something archaic in people being able to pass down their...

I wholeheartedly agree with my hon. Friend, and I am proud to be a member of the Labour party, be...

Does my hon. Friend agree that the privileged individuals are also the ones who will have choices...

My hon. Friend’s critique is absolutely right once again. I hope the Minister will respond in det...

Does my hon. Friend agree that the Government’s fixation with corporation tax being as low as pos...

I wholeheartedly agree—again—with my hon. Friend. It is almost as if he wrote my speech. I only w...

Does my hon. Friend agree that this is perhaps a return to the nasty party, in the sense that thi...

Absolutely. I welcome my hon. Friend to the Chamber. I am unsure whether it is a return to the na...

Many workers are obviously losing their jobs as a result of the continued austerity programme. Do...

I am grateful to my hon. Friend, who brings to the House enormous expertise and experience from h...

More!

Order. We cannot have such expressions from around the Chamber. The hon. Gentleman has only spoke...

Madam Deputy Speaker, I can assure you and hon. Members on both sides of the House that my intent...

There aren’t any.

There is no one here—even Conservative Members have given up defending the Government’s Ways and ...

On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. Following the point of order made by the right hon. Me...

I appreciate the point that the hon. Lady is making. In her position as the Chair of one of the s...

I pay tribute to the remarks made by the two preceding speakers, my hon. Friends the Members for ...

Although any attempts to clamp down on tax avoidance schemes are welcome, I do not feel that the ...

I am grateful for the opportunity to make a brief contribution to this debate.

I cannot hel...

Sadly, today’s debate on the Ways and Means resolutions has confirmed in the field of taxation so...

The debate has been engaging and I thank all Members for their contributions. I will touch briefl...

Will the Minister give way?

I will not on this occasion, as I have very little time—I apologise.

The hon. Gentleman men...

I am delighted to have such an audience for the presentation of a petition.

I rise on behal...