National Insurance Contributions (Reduction in Rates) Bill

I think by my count none, which is unfortunate and I think speaks to their lack of the commitment...

I thank the Minister, and the Government, for what they are bringing forward. The cut in national...

I thank the hon. Gentleman for the opportunity to talk about this, because it is important. Taxes...

Whatever the Chancellor said last week and whatever the Chief Secretary to the Treasury said toda...

Does the hon. Gentleman recognise the context in which the autumn statement was made? Was he not ...

The context in which the autumn statement was made was 13 years of Conservative economic failure....

Perhaps the answer to the question of the shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury is that the inco...

The hon. Gentleman promoted me inadvertently, as I am the shadow Financial Secretary to the Treas...

I call the Chair of the Treasury Committee.

12.14 pm

I am not sure that I have ever heard a more grudging shadow Front Bench speech on measures that t...

I call the SNP spokesperson.

12.19 pm

We have heard an awful lot about choices at the start of this debate. What is abundantly clear fo...

It is a pleasure to speak, very briefly, in this debate.

My starting point is the concern I...

It is a pleasure to join this debate, albeit one attended by literally zero Back Benchers of His ...

I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Gloucester (Richard Graham) on his remarks. He provi...

My right hon. Friend is making a brilliant speech. I totally agree with her on the NICs paid by e...

My right hon. Friend is right about that; his observation is spot-on. He will recall that, as I s...

rose—

Order. The hon. Gentleman was quite late in and did not hear the beginning of the right hon. Lady...

Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker.

As has been mentioned, the alignment with the tax-free thr...

I call the shadow Minister.

12.54 pm

Before I start, I want to say that we have heard during the debate that former Labour Chancellor ...

On behalf of the Government, I join the hon. Member for Hampstead and Kilburn (Tulip Siddiq)

The Minister is talking about apprenticeships, opportunities and skills, and in Gillingham and Ra...

I could not agree with my hon. Friend more. He has given me the opportunity to leap swathes of my...

Order. The Minister did not mean to say “untruths”, did he?

I take back that comment, Madam Deputy Speaker. There were some presumed facts that require chall...

I join the two Front Benchers in saying how deeply sad it is to hear the news that Alistair Darli...