Finance (No. 2) Bill

I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for raising that issue. I understand his concerns, and ...

Does the Minister accept that, as a result of corporation tax increases, the amount of money take...

I encourage the right hon. Gentleman to look carefully at the small profits rate clauses in the B...

Many measures in the Bill will be warmly welcomed by businesses and households in West Worcesters...

I thank my hon. Friend the work that she and her Committee have done on the issue of simplificati...

Can the Minister confirm whether the Government have made any assessment of the number of doctors...

The hon. Lady must not confine herself merely to the medical profession. I think the chair of the...

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Just give me a moment—I am galloping up to the jump. He said it would be a game changer in terms ...

The Minister appears to have anticipated my intervention. One aspect of VAT that could not apply ...

I am extremely grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for his question, which I interpret to be abo...

On that point, will the Minister give way?

Crikey—if the right hon. Gentleman asks me to list my favourite Scotch whisky, we could be here s...

I am well up for that challenge. We know that the Secretary of State for Scotland argued against ...

As the right hon. Gentleman knows, I am bound by collective responsibility, so I can neither conf...

Can the Minister tell the House how many countries have signed up to this mad, mad move?

I am sensing from my hon. Friend that perhaps I have to convince him. I can tell him that 135 cou...

In enumerating all those countries, the Minister has covered approximately 20% of the global 100 ...

I regret that I cannot undertake to do so. As my hon. Friend will know, we have had to scorecard ...

The Minister is being generous in giving way. Does it not seem odd to her that at a time when we ...

The way in which the agreement works means that the tax liability falls due in a country that has...

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I will give way once more, if I may, but then I must make some progress.

The Minister will know that the main motivation for this change is to stop the use of tax havens....

I know my hon. Friend understands that I must not reveal conversations that may have happened wit...

Will the Minister give way?

I am so sorry, but I must make progress; I am sensing your yawn coming on, Mr Deputy Speaker.

The Minister began by paying a tribute to Betty Boothroyd. She was my first Speaker, 31 years ago...

I beg to move,

That this House declines to give the Finance (No. 2) Bill a second reading b...

I fear that the hon. Gentleman may know what I am about to say. Is he aware that, according to th...

Just two weeks ago, we were promised a Budget for growth. Let us now look at the data that was pu...

Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

No, I am going to finish what I am saying before I give way again.

That data confirms that ...

My hon. Friend is making an excellent point. Does he agree that the pressures that are, as he rig...

My hon. Friend is a real champion for small businesses in his constituency and beyond. We meet sm...

Does the hon. Gentleman agree that the Government’s proposal will have a differential effect geog...

I thank the hon. Gentleman for his comment. The geographical impact of policies should always be ...

The hon. Gentleman has talked about certainty and stability, and they are qualities that I would ...

As we have said several times, we will set out our plans in our own time. But let us be clear, if...

Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

I am going to make some progress. I will give way to the hon. Gentleman in a moment.

Rather...

The hon. Member is a very thoughtful man. I think one of the reasons that he might be hearing som...

It is always nice to have an intervention from the hon. Gentleman. We very much miss his being in...

I will start with a depressing fact. We have talked about the Office of Tax Simplification, and I...

I thank my hon. Friend for his interesting speech.

Don’t worry; there is a lot more yet.

I am sure there is, and I might intervene later.

My hon. Friend makes an interesting point ...

My hon. Friend speaks a truism that should not need to be spoken from the Conservative Benches, a...

Raising corporation tax from 19% to 25% is a 31% increase. That figure is not often used.

My hon. Friend makes a very good point. This 6 percentage point increase is actually very big in ...

I do not want to disagree with my hon. Friend, but we on these Benches must stop being grateful w...

I do not think that was a criticism from my hon. Friend, but I was trying to be kind and find som...

I draw attention to my entry in the register. My hon. Friend is making a powerful point and is ri...

My right hon. Friend makes a powerful point on the lower threshold for where 19% goes into the hi...

Standard Life.

I thank my right hon. Friend for the prompt.

Let us suppose the Standard Life shares had be...

Again, I draw attention to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests. Does my hon....

My right hon. Friend highlights the problem that different countries could indeed game the system...

I notice that my two predecessors in the Chair this afternoon have paid tribute to Baroness Booth...

That was a fascinating and wide-ranging speech from the hon. Member for South Thanet (Craig Macki...

On investment in renewables, does my right hon. Friend feel, as I do, that the Government are mis...

This is absolutely the opportunity to invest properly, to deliver the just transition that we all...

It is a pleasure to follow the right hon. Member for Dundee East (Stewart Hosie). I will start wh...

My hon. Friend is making some excellent points about the problems of having sector-specific lifet...

I agree with my hon. Friend. I remember the anger when I was first elected about people working i...

My hon. Friend points to an argument that, I have to confess, has perplexed me. People say that r...

My right hon. Friend makes a fair point. I guess there is an attraction in that 25% is an easy ca...

I am very pleased to follow the hon. Member for Amber Valley (Nigel Mills), whose pensions expert...

Order. A significant number of right hon. and hon. Members still wish to take part in the debate....

Every time my late father—bless him—heard me speak, all he said was, “Too long, Richard,” so on t...

The test of any Finance Bill should be this: will it improve living standards now and into the fu...

It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Arfon (Hywel Williams). I am obviously not as fami...

The Chancellor heralded these proposals two weeks ago as “a Budget for growth”, and thank goodnes...

I thank the hon. Lady for allowing me to intervene. I am getting a few cases now of people who ar...

I thank the right hon. Gentleman for raising his concern. That is just one of a number of complex...

Is it not something of a contradiction to appear to benefit nurseries over childminders when, in ...

I think there are many contradictions in the Government proposals, and I am attempting to set the...

It is an honour to follow the hon. Member for Newcastle upon Tyne North (Catherine McKinnell), be...

Small businesses in my constituency are complaining hugely about the fact that they will have to ...

My right hon. Friend is absolutely right, and that brings me to a point that I hope the Minister ...

Over the past few weeks, Government Members have described the Opposition’s objections to this Bi...

I wanted to start by saying a few words about the late Baroness Betty Boothroyd, because I think ...

I entirely endorse what the hon. Lady says. A lot of nurseries in my constituency are coming to m...

I completely agree with the right hon. Gentleman. I am sure that, like me, he gets emails from pa...

Order. There are still four Members waiting patiently to speak. We hope to start the winding-up s...

Households across the country are under immense financial pressure. Mortgage bills are up, the co...

It is an honour to follow my constituency neighbour, the hon. Member for Richmond Park (Sarah Oln...

I rise to speak in support of the reasoned amendment tabled in the name of the Leader of the Oppo...

Thank you for the chance to speak in this debate, Madam Deputy Speaker. I was quite taken by the ...

I call the shadow Minister.

5.46 pm

Let me begin by paying tribute to Betty Boothroyd, who was a great female trailblazer. We should ...

I join the hon. Member for Erith and Thamesmead (Abena Oppong-Asare) in paying tribute to Betty B...

It is interesting that the hon. Gentleman speaks with such passion about moving fast to help thes...

The hon. Lady knows why we need a staggered implementation, and I will return to that point.