Finance (No. 2) Bill

New clause 6 stands in the name of my right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition and those of...

One of the issues that my hon. Friend has not mentioned—although I am sure that she will come to ...

My hon. Friend is right: I will indeed come to that issue.

As we approach Christmas, I ask ...

Nonsense.

It is not nonsense. I challenge the Minister to sit in one of my surgeries and hear that it is no...

My hon. Friend is making an interesting point. I am sure she agrees that, given that this Governm...

Absolutely. My hon. Friend makes a powerful statement, and it points to the crux of the new claus...

I rise to speak in support of new clauses 6 and 7, moved by my hon. Friend the Member for Brent C...

A good example of the burden being been put on women is through tax adjustments. In the last Gove...

That is the biggest frustration. We need the Government to audit all their policies and start to ...

I rise to make my case to the five Conservative MPs on the Government Benches today. Inequality i...

Eight.

Goodness! The Minister says eight, but I can assure him that we have a good many more than eight ...

As my hon. Friend the Member for Brent Central (Dawn Butler), Labour's shadow Minister for Women ...

Does my hon. Friend agree that the limit on child benefit now increases poverty? Does she recall ...

Absolutely. We are seeing lots of inadequacies in the universal credit system, which completely s...

My hon. Friend is making an excellent point. There are very good FE colleges all over the north-e...

It is heartbreaking. Of course we want to keep as many of those brilliant young people in my cons...

I rise to respond to some of the points that have been made by Opposition Members. I shall start ...

Sorry, but is this a debate or a questions session?

I shall continue.

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Order. Is the hon. Member for Hitchin and Harpenden (Bim Afolami) referring to me, because he is ...

I give way to the hon. Member for North West Durham.

In my speech I was talking about precarious work. In debates on universal credit, Government Memb...

Whether it is in respect of the Bill, the new clause or what we are discussing now, the important...

If that is the aim, what data are the Government collecting to be sure that they are achieving it...

I do indeed understand that. There is currently so much data, much of which has already been talk...

I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his generosity in taking interventions. We need to hear a...

If the hon. Lady will permit me, I will make a bit of progress and then I will respond to her rem...

When Government Members talk about, and celebrate, the fact that people are being taken out of in...

I am afraid that the hon. Gentleman is mistaken. It is not celebrating low pay to say that people...

The hon. Gentleman is being very generous with his time. I think he may have missed one of the po...

I believe that all policy in this area, or, frankly, in any area, should be set to make sure that...

Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

If I may, I would like to make a bit of progress.

As the evidence has shown, cutting corpor...

I have a very simple question for the hon. Gentleman, although I appreciate that he is getting so...

I do not have the data now to be able to respond to the hon. Lady. What I do know is that Conserv...

The hon. Gentleman is celebrating two female Prime Ministers somehow drastically pulling every si...

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Before the hon. Gentleman responds, will he give way again?

I shall.

I am sure that the hon. Members around the hon. Gentleman are trying to get him to stop talking, ...

Order. Too much “you”. The hon. Lady is an experienced Member of the House and she should set an ...

My apologies, Mr Owen. I am getting carried away in my enthusiasm to try to educate the hon. Memb...

Order. That was a very long intervention with too many “yous”. Let us get used to the parliamenta...

I will conclude my remarks by saying that it is important when we talk about these issues—in this...

Well, well, well. When it comes to naivety, there is a very fine line; it can often be endearing ...

We have discovered a new phenomenon: it is called trickle-down gendernomics. It is going to be th...

That is a fair point.

Obviously, having had two women Prime Ministers, that is quite enough women earning a serious lev...

I think that where the hon. Gentleman was trying to get to—I will be generous—was that these thin...

Will the hon. Gentleman confirm that it is also important that it was women politicians and women...

That is absolutely right, but let us be honest: the Government are not in listening mode. They do...

The reason we want the equality impact assessment is not handouts; we are looking for a level pla...

That is absolutely right. This is really odd from my point of view, because I have come from loca...

Specifically on Remploy, yes, there were some great practices there, but the Government made that...

How dare the hon. Gentleman suggest that the 114 people working in that factory in Oldham were no...

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I absolutely give way to the hon. Gentleman if he can justify that.

Would the hon. Gentleman welcome anything at all in the Government’s recently announced industria...

I am going to give the hon. Gentleman a real answer on this point and not just grandstand, becaus...

My hon. Friend is making a powerful case. Whether Members on either side of the House agree with ...

I believe it comes down to priorities. If the Government were determined to do something about th...

I would like to start by correcting an omission that I made yesterday. I should have said that ou...

Does my hon. Friend agree it is a scandal that many children will be getting food and presents th...

I absolutely agree. This year—in 2017—my office has referred 35 people to food banks, and we have...

Is it not a bit rich for some Government Members to try to shout down my hon. Friend, complaining...

Absolutely. If Government Members cared about what they were doing to disabled people, they would...

This Government are committed to equality. That is not to say that no further steps need to be ta...

I am grateful to the Minister for giving way, but I am afraid he has to stop talking absolute guf...

It applies to a large number of people and there is the national minimum wage as well. My point i...

I thank the Minister for giving way and I am listening to the case he is making. If he is so conf...

I ask the hon. Lady to be a little bit patient, because I am coming to those very points shortly....

It is extraordinary that the Minister does not understand the concept of doing both individual an...

The hon. Lady is right: there are many ways it can be done, and the Government are indeed doing i...

The Minister referred to distributional analyses. The distributional analysis carried out by the ...

I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time.

It will not have escaped Members’ att...

I congratulate my hon. Friend on the first part of her speech. Some three or four years ago, the ...

I am grateful to my hon. Friend. The calculations made by economists and accountants, such as Mr ...

Does my hon. Friend agree that low wages mask inefficiency? One of the big problems with the econ...

I agree with my hon. Friend. In fact, a problem that underlines our productivity gap is the worry...

Does my hon. Friend agree it is disgraceful that some of those named in the Paradise papers are n...

I absolutely agree with my hon. Friend on that. There is a particular onus on the Government to b...

I welcome this Finance Bill, because it does three things so far as taxation is concerned: first,...

Does the hon. Gentleman recognise that that 6% does not take into account profit shifting? It com...

Absolutely not. It is an internationally recognised statistic that shows that this country bears ...

Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

No, because I am going to conclude.

All that I have described shows the UK’s commitment to ...

Does my hon. Friend agree that above all else, this is about persistent, detailed work over time ...

As always, my right hon. and learned Friend hits the nail on the head. There is no substitute for...

I shall speak briefly. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Oxford East (Anneliese Dodds)...

The discussion that we had earlier on today and that we are having now in relation to tax avoidan...

The hon. Lady suggested that there is a confusion in the tax codes. It is only in recent days tha...

It is not actually a raft of new tax bands. As far as I know, it is one more band in the tax syst...

I thank the hon. Lady for indulging me. She says that 70% of Scottish taxpayers will pay less tax...

The Scottish Government’s new starter rate of 19%, rather than 20%, for the first £2,000 that peo...

If Conservative Members wish to debate the progressive taxation system introduced by the Scottish...

I thank my hon. Friend for his comments. I do, however, want to say one more thing on the Scottis...

This Government are committed to bearing down on tax avoidance, evasion and non-compliance like n...

The Minister mentioned HMRC. One of the things the Government have done over many years now is to...

The hon. Gentleman may know that, in the last Budget, £155 million was set aside to be invested i...

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

First, let me respond to the ...