Stamp Duty Land Tax (Reduction) Bill

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

At the autumn statement, my r...

Will my hon. Friend allow me?

It is very soon, but because it is my right hon. Friend, I will certainly give way.

My hon. Friend is most generous and kind. Those of us who voted with enthusiasm for the Bill’s Se...

I very much understand why my right hon. Friend raises that point. I know he took a great interes...

On 17 October, the new Chancellor of the Exchequer told this House that this particular element o...

Again, my hon. Friend puts his finger on the point as to the very, very fast-moving economic cond...

rose—

I will take one more intervention, and then make a little progress.

I am very grateful to the Minister. I listened carefully to what she was saying about global econ...

That is an interesting suggestion. At first blush, my mind goes immediately to the complexity of ...

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

The Government’s proposal in ...

I agree fully about areas of high housing pressure where people in local communities cannot buy t...

Yes. Most of our good ideas were somebody else’s first, so there is no harm whatever in looking a...

Order. The shadow Minister may be slightly perplexed as to why I did not call her first, but the ...

Thank you, Sir Roger. It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship this afternoon. I was not pe...

The hon. Lady seems to be obsessed with the issue of second homes. What about the point she made ...

In fact, the statistics quoted by the hon. Member show that the Bill will not help people. It wil...

I think that the Government have made a number of admissions today about the importance of proper...

I rise to speak to new clauses 4 and 6, which I tabled, and to support new clauses 2 and 3, which...

Happy new year, Sir Roger.

In speaking to my amendment (b) to amendment 1 and my new clause...

This is precisely why the Government are so committed to levelling up. Although I know how beauti...

I am grateful to the Minister for that intervention. It comes down to how we define, “levelling u...

It might be very popular in Christchurch, but it would be very unpopular in Wellingborough and it...

This is the challenge, because some people think that this would adversely affect them. When we w...

Hear, hear.

I think it is very sad and embarrassing that His Majesty’s loyal Opposition should be crowing at ...

Just to clarify, I am not remotely crowing. I entirely agree with the hon. Gentleman. This Govern...

I accept that I used the wrong expression in suggesting that the hon. Gentleman was crowing. But ...

When this Bill was previously before the House, on 24 October last year—indeed, on the day we las...

May I place on the record my personal appreciation of the intensive work that my hon. Friend has ...

Nothing would give me more pleasure than to go back and speak with the Minister about these matte...

It is an honour and a delight to follow my hon. Friends the Members for North Devon (Selaine Saxb...

I apologise for intervening on the hon. Gentleman in his good, interesting speech. He said that i...

I thank the hon. Member for that intervention. I must admit I do not know the reasons behind that...

It is political will, I would say.

There may be many reasons.

The capital gains tax regime already distinguishes between homes...

Does my hon. Friend also agree that somebody in Christchurch who is having to buy an average pric...

I thank my hon. Friend for that intervention. He proposed earlier that stamp duty should be based...

It is a pleasure to rise after the stirring final sentence of my hon. Friend the Member for South...

To follow up on that, is it not right to say that people who have second homes pay additional cou...

If I have understood the hon. Gentleman correctly, he has misunderstood the measures in the Bill,...

Before I put the Question, I should just say that I am anticipating three votes: two in Committee...