Health and Social Care Levy Bill

We need to give credit where it is due, and the Government are absolutely right to try to grasp t...

My hon. Friend, and good friend, has raised two connected points. The first was dealt with earlie...

Does the Secretary of State agree that in principle hypothecation is to be avoided, and that what...

There is a precedent in the form of what the hon. Gentleman’s party did in 2002-03. I do not thin...

I have a great deal of sympathy with what my right hon. Friend is saying, and I think the Governm...

As a former Chief Whip, my right hon. Friend knows better than most that it is for the House to d...

Will my right hon. Friend give way?

I will make a little progress. I have taken a number of interventions, including one from my righ...

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I am sure that the hon. Lady rises to welcome the progressive nature of that measure.

Does the Secretary of State accept that, if 40% of businesses or employers are not affected, the ...

It is not just that the first 40% will not pay anything, as my right hon. Friend the Chancellor m...

In my experience of being a Minister at the Department of Health—with my right hon. Friend, indee...

I could probably go slightly further—Chief Secretaries do not like to spend, not necessarily just...

Will the Minister give way?

I will give way once more.

The Minister has made the point that we see the impact in our constituencies. Yes, we do, but we ...

First, in order to meet the quantum of spend, one needs a broad-based tax. That is a point that m...

What analysis has been undertaken of the long-term sustainability of this policy, which targets w...

Again, this is why, as is standard practice, my right hon. Friend the Financial Secretary to the ...

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I want to make some progress, and I have already given way once to the hon. Member for Swansea We...

Could the right hon. Gentleman explain to people up and down the country who are either in receip...

In a number of ways. First, this fiscal support is not in isolation. There is £33.9 billion of ad...

Given that we need to progress on to Committee, I shall just point out that this is a permanent n...

With money tight, did the Treasury support the appointment of, I think, 43 new executives on £270...

I think one needs to see whether these are roles that are driving efficiency and creating savings...

It seems to me that we are spending this money twice, so can the Minister tell the House specific...

Of the £36 billion, £5.4 billion is going to adult social care, with the rest going into the NHS ...

Does my right hon. Friend think that the Government could consider different bands for frontline ...

In the public sector pay agreement that we reached, we accepted the recommendations of the indepe...

Before I call the shadow Minister, I should say that there will be a six-minute limit on Back-Ben...

I beg to move an amendment, to leave out from “That” to the end of the Question and add:

“t...

Does my hon. Friend agree that these problems began in 2010? The NHS’s satisfaction rate in 2009 ...

My hon. Friend makes an important point about the Conservative Government’s impact on the nationa...

On the basis of those two tests, which tax would the hon. Gentleman increase to pay for social ca...

We are clear that taxes will have to rise to pay for social care, but we are also clear that this...

I was going to pose this question to the Minister, but he would not take my intervention. Last we...

My hon. Friend makes us think about what we have read recently about what the hon. Member for Yeo...

The hon. Gentleman has been speaking for some time, but he has not said what taxes he would raise...

The right hon. Gentleman speaks about a tax rise 20 years ago, following a decade of wage growth,...

My comments have been misreported. The origins of the Labour movement and the Liberal movement ar...

As the hon. Gentleman is on our side, I look forward to him joining us in the Lobby this evening....

The hon. Gentleman is talking about a two-tier system. Is he saying that the millions of people i...

Order. The hon. Gentleman is experienced enough to know that he should not speak directly to anot...

The hon. Member for South Thanet (Craig Mackinlay) knows full well that his question is not relev...

What would the hon. Gentleman do about the backlog of 5 million people, as a result of covid, wai...

The right hon. Lady raises points about the backlog in the NHS. We have had 10 years of a Conserv...

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Perhaps the hon. Gentleman would like to intervene to answer that question.

I am just wondering whether the hon. Gentleman’s tax primer in low corporate taxes has enlightene...

We have been absolutely clear that when it comes to funding the NHS and social care, those with t...

Select Committee Chairs have to hold the Government to account, but just occasionally they also h...

Will my right hon. Friend use his position on the Select Committee and his vast experience to scr...

As it happens, we are currently conducting an inquiry into how to deal with the covid backlog, so...

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I will give way and then make some progress.

I have heard what the former Secretary of State has said about the record on social care, but can...

First, we passed the Care Act 2014, which put in place the legislative foundations for the propos...

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I will make some progress, if I may.

The second trap is that we must not inadvertently slee...

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I am going to make some progress, if I may.

Finally, let me say this. We, as Conservatives,...

To start where the right hon. Member for South West Surrey (Jeremy Hunt) left off, in the Bill be...

Can the hon. Lady explain how Scottish taxpayers, of which I am one, are paying for this levy? I ...

The point is that we do not know what we will get out of this. We do not know because it is not c...

In order to try to get everybody in, I will reduce the time limit to five minutes, and I have bee...

I will not speak for long now because I want to speak at the Committee stage later on.

We a...

Does my hon. Friend share my surprise that the Treasury can be precise in saying that it needs £1...

My right hon. Friend makes a good point. Yes, it would have been great to have had more detailed ...

I hope that the hon. Member for Yeovil (Mr Fysh) will join the Opposition in the Lobby tonight gi...

Does my right hon. Friend agree that it is completely unfair that a graduate nurse who works a ni...

My hon. Friend makes the point very powerfully. I was going to illustrate it more generally by sa...

Obviously we have had one or two interventions along the way, so after the next speaker I shall r...

I refer the House to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests. As a member of the...

I draw the attention of the House to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests.