Finance Bill

Thank you, Mr Speaker. May I echo the Financial Secretary’s comments about the hard work that you...

We now have to introduce a formal time limit of five minutes. Members in the Chamber will be able...

The economic backdrop to this Finance Bill is among the most challenging that this country has ev...

Exactly five minutes; I commend the right hon. Gentleman. I call Alison Thewliss, who, as her par...

I welcome the shadow Chancellor to her role. She is the first woman ever to do the job. I wish he...

The chief medical officer has said that we will have to learn to live with covid-19 for perhaps t...

We are humbled daily by the efforts of the NHS workers and all the other key workers in our count...

We have already heard how the coronavirus crisis has fundamentally changed our economy and is in ...

Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. You missed the historical perspective given by the Minister, but...

It is a real pleasure to be able to connect to you and to the House of Commons today, Madam Deput...

Order. I hope that the right hon. Gentleman is drawing to a close.

I am coming to a close. The trust was not registered. The funds cannot currently be distributed o...

What a pleasure it is to contribute to this debate while in my isolation that I am still under, w...

We meet for this debate about 10 days before the end of the extended period of lockdown, and we w...

The coronavirus pandemic is the greatest crisis that most of us have ever lived through, so the v...

Order. I hesitate to interrupt the hon. Gentleman—I do not know whether he can hear me—but the so...

A decade of austerity and a 40-year period dominated by marketisation, deregulation and privatisa...

Order. To be fair to the hon. Gentleman, I am going to interrupt him, because the House cannot pr...

I have declared my interests in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests.

At the time o...

When the Minister introduced the Bill’s Second Reading, he spoke for everyone in the country when...

It has often been said in this debate that this is the most difficult and unusual backdrop to a F...

I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate the shadow Chancellor, my hon. Friend the M...

Next week is the 10th anniversary of my election to this House. There have been some memorable mo...

“Unprecedented measures for unprecedented times”—that is how my right hon. Friend the Financial S...

Today’s economic crisis is the worst and most alarming of our lifetimes. Never since the second w...

The hon. Member for Leeds East (Richard Burgon) is still having some technical difficulties. Alth...

The coronavirus pandemic is the greatest crisis that most of us have ever lived through, and the ...

It is a pleasure to reopen proceedings. I welcome this Finance Bill and I support the Government ...

As so many of us speak virtually for the first time in a House of Commons debate, it is clear tha...

It is a great pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Oldham East and Saddleworth (Debbie Abrahams...

Like my hon. Friends and many across the House, my primary aim today is to highlight the reality ...

I endorse the comments on the gaps in the financial support but, at the request of several of my ...

It really is a pleasure to be back in this place today. I welcome the bold steps that have been t...

The First Reading of the Finance Bill back in March seems an age away; the country has been throu...

Let me begin by thanking you Madam Deputy Speaker, Mr Speaker and all the staff for all the work ...

The Finance Bill is presented at a time when the UK is fighting a destructive, invisible force, w...

I am sure that all Members agree that the covid-19 crisis is unlike anything we have experienced ...

I refer Members to my declaration in the register, which pertains to some of the remarks that I w...

Thank you very much for calling me, Madam Deputy Speaker. It is a great pleasure to be able to jo...

I have been engaged with Government Budgets for over two decades, either as an economics journali...

We are living in unprecedented times. Since the Prime Minister announced the police-enforced lock...

Order. I am terribly sorry, but we have run out of time there. I call Miriam Cates.

8.42 pm...

May I refer the House to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests?

The cont...

I begin by saying that my thoughts are with the loved ones of those individuals who have sadly di...

I am pleased to be the first Member for Arundel and South Downs to speak in a virtual Parliament....

As others have already highlighted, the economic backdrop to this debate is unrecognisable to tha...

The Financial Secretary, who opened the debate and is my constituency neighbour, made the point t...

Order. To finish at 10 past nine, I call Ian Byrne.

9.5 pm

Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker. At times of crisis, we come together. I have been inspired by the g...

I would like to begin by thanking all the staff who have worked so hard to put arrangements in pl...

It is a privilege to close this debate on behalf of the Government. This is my first opportunity ...

I, too, would like to associate myself with the comments of the shadow Minister in thanking all t...