Finance (No. 2) Bill

My hon. Friend is making a powerful case. Whipps Cross University Hospital also serves my constit...

My hon. Friend—my next-door neighbour MP—pre-empts my argument. My amendments relate specifically...

I will keep my comments focused on the bank levy, PFI and tax evasion. Results speak far more tha...

I think that I was as surprised as you were, Madam Deputy Speaker, by the brevity of the speech b...

It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Aberdeen North (Kirsty Blackman) and the other con...

When I have made statements and I have been wrong, I do not mind people bringing that to my atten...

I am not making an accusation at all. I apologise if I have misrepresented the hon. Gentleman. I ...

My hon. Friend is making an important point. Conservative Members do not just obsess about some p...

My hon. Friend is right. The spectre of the Laffer curve raises its head yet again, but it is a f...

Will the hon. Lady give way?

I am sorry, but I cannot take any more interventions, because time is short.

I hope that, w...

There must be an objective assessment, given the strength of the economic risk that we face from ...

I can see that Madam Deputy Speaker is quite cross that we have moved off the point, so I return ...

It is an honour to follow the hon. Member for Redditch (Rachel Maclean), and I shall speak in sup...

I call Peter Dowd.

Very little that I have heard from the other side in this debate has convinced me that we should ...

Order. I beg the hon. Gentleman’s pardon. I have made a mistake, in that I thought the Minister h...

There was a ripple of dissatisfaction when you failed to call me to speak, Madam Deputy Speaker, ...

I am grateful to the Minister for that explanation, but as we have said before, when we take both...

That is not the case. I will explain some of the figures in a moment, but there are other element...

We have just looked at the projections up to 2022-23. For the current year, we see £3 billion com...

Taking into account the respective changes, we will raise £4.6 billion over the forecast period a...

rose—

Perhaps we can get into the nitty-gritty of this offline.

The average revenue from the bank...

Does the Minister accept that the transparency that is being sought is down to the public demandi...

I just do not accept that. This goes back to my point about the balance of measures that we are t...

At the same time as corporation tax is being reduced overall—I accept the point about the bank su...

As my hon. Friend the Member for Croydon South (Chris Philp) pointed out, as we have reduced the ...

That response from the Minister had complacency running through it like a line through a stick of...

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

With this it will be convenient to discuss the following:

New clause 8—Annual report on rel...

With permission, Madam Deputy Speaker, I will speak briefly to the SNP’s new clause 10 and to ame...

Has the hon. Lady spotted that house prices are now falling, notwithstanding the change?

I do not believe that that is uniform across the country. Of course there would be implications i...

It is difficult for first-time buyers in my area to afford a deposit and they welcome the help th...

In practice, most of the commentary that I have seen from experts and those working in the housin...

The hon. Lady gave us a tour de force in the Public Bill Committee, but on the narrow point about...

I am aware of what Mr Johnson said, but I think he has fallen into the trap of looking only at th...

The evidence suggests that house prices are not increasing—in fact, the Royal Institution of Char...

I am sure the hon. Lady is well versed in the subject, but when it comes to the cost for first-ti...

I am struggling with the concept that a price that is available to a first-time buyer differs fro...

I am always delighted to hear from the right hon. Gentleman. It might be instructive for us to lo...

My hon. Friend the Member for Faversham and Mid Kent (Helen Whately) talked about constraints on ...

I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for mentioning that. For some time, Labour has proposed...

Housing stress is a major driver of homelessness, the causes of which are very complex. Does the ...

I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for that intervention. I will come later to some of the other...

Will the hon. Lady acknowledge that the fall in home ownership began under Labour in 2003?

I would accept that there have been changes from year to year in the overall level of home owners...

rose—

No, I will not give way, because I think I have answered the point. As I say, it is very clear; t...

Order.

If I can end—

Ah, I was about to draw to the hon. Lady’s attention the fact that we only have an hour for this ...

Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. I do beg your pardon.

Let me end by quoting, very briefly,...

The autumn Budget was a triumph for Scotland, and a vindication of the constructive approach of t...

Whatever argument the hon. Gentleman may present about what happened in the past, is he saying th...

That is exactly what we are doing, and, as the hon. Gentleman well knows, that is exactly what th...

If this was all the work of the Scottish Tory MPs, why is it that, when I have asked parliamentar...

I am afraid that there is photographic evidence, which my good friends Twittered at the time—not ...

Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

No. The hon. Gentleman has had his go.

The nationalists made a conscious decision. They wer...

Amendments 10, 11 and 12 stand in my name and those of a number of Members on both sides of the H...

Order. Can I just try to be helpful? I want to get as many speakers in as possible, and I also ne...

I am pleased to speak in favour of the reforms to stamp duty for first-time buyers and to speak a...

I am pleased to hear what the hon. Gentleman says, but why are so many of the housing measures, i...

I am afraid that I am not entirely sure what the hon. Gentleman is driving at, and I am conscious...

I rise to discuss new clause 10, tabled in my name and those of my SNP colleagues. Given that we ...

Like other parties, the Liberal Democrats supported the SNP’s call for an exemption from VAT for ...

Order. Time is short, and Members should not be taking advantage. I want to get the leader of the...

I am actually going to talk about why we should be given the rebate and why what happened makes s...

I rise to speak to new clause 7. There has been a failure of successive Governments to tackle the...

I rise to speak to new clause 2 in my name and in the name of my right hon. Friend the Member for...

Given the limited time remaining, I intend to focus most of my remarks on the amendments and new ...

I wonder whether I might make a suggestion on the amendments to which my right hon. Friend just r...

Order. Sit, please. In fairness to the Minister, he has a very short time in which to speak. By a...

Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker. In response to my hon. Friend—

Will my right hon. Friend give way?

I will give way very quickly to my hon. Friend.

On behalf of 1,000 skilled workers at the London Electric Vehicle plant in my constituency, will ...

If we look at bringing forward this exemption, the important thing is that we should look solely ...

We have no time left, so I will press new clause 7 to a Division.

Question put, That the cl...

Consideration being completed, I will now suspend the House briefly in order to make a decision a...

I can now inform the House that I have completed certification of the Bill, as required by the St...

indicated assent.

The House forthwith resolved itself into the Legislative Grand Committee ...

I remind Members that if there is a Division, only Members representing constituencies in England...

I beg to move, That the Bill be now read the Third time.

The Bill makes a number of vital c...

The only thing I agree with the Minister about is that I too thank everyone who has taken part in...