Growth and Infrastructure Bill

Will my noble friend assure the House that no advice should be given to an employee by the law fi...

My noble friend makes an excellent point. That is absolutely true. I can confirm that if any lega...

I should inform the House that if Amendment A1 is agreed to, I shall not be able to call Amendmen...

Moved by

Lord Pannick

As an amendment to Motion A, leave out from “House” to end and ...

My Lords, I am very pleased that the Government have proposed the amendment in lieu in order to i...

I am most grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Pannick, particularly for all his efforts in relation ...

I would anticipate that when the employee is given advice, one of the terms and effects of the ag...

My Lords, I pay tribute to my noble friend Lord Younger and to the Chancellor of the Exchequer. W...

My Lords, I also agree that substantial concessions have been made, which have been spelt out by ...

I appreciate that the Government have made several concessions in trying their best, as has been ...

My Lords, I disagree with one of the comments made by the noble Lord, Lord Bilimoria. I think thi...

I defer to the noble Lord’s expertise in tax avoidance and the ways of investment bankers and inv...

The question is whether we give credit to the noble Lord’s noble friend or to your Lordships’ Hou...

I wonder why, when he was in government, his Government did not introduce a general anti-avoidanc...

I welcome the general avoidance rule, which of course is not the matter that we are discussing. E...

My Lords, I was going to leave the issue of tax loopholes until the end of my contribution, but g...

I support the noble Lord, Lord Pannick. Although they have moved, with this Bill the Government h...

My Lords, the Minister ended our previous discussions on this matter by saying that, depending on...

My Lords, my noble friend Lord King has summed up the position extremely well. It is of interest ...

Will the noble Lord, Lord Flight, at least acknowledge that the OBR has also expressed serious do...

I thought that what the OBR was effectively saying was that if capital gains tax on these arrange...

With all due respect to my noble friend, the tax provisions within the Bill provide for the taxab...

I had indeed understood that that was the point, but if an individual chooses to invest in a fair...

Hear, hear!

I shall close by repeating the point made by my noble friend Lord King. It is a great credit to t...

My Lords, I sense the mood of the House, and I will be very brief. One thing needs to be reiterat...

My Lords, I shall be very brief, but there is one point on which I should like confirmation from ...

My Lords, I said at the outset of our debates on this shares-for-rights scheme that it makes the ...

Once again, I thank all noble Lords who have spoken. I can only reiterate that the Government wou...

The noble Viscount has been very coy about what “reasonable” means. I sought to demonstrate that ...

I believe that I have spelt out the comprehensive and extensive advice that will be on offer to e...

Who is to determine the result if there is a dispute about the costs involved?

There is deliberately no determining factor. This is a matter which has to be part of a discussio...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for all his considerable efforts in securing the comprehensive ame...

Moved by

Lord Lea of Crondall

As an amendment to Motion A, at end insert—

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My Lords, the reason for this Motion is because there is one point which has been made repeatedly...

My Lords, I support the Motion in the name of my noble friend Lord Lea of Crondall. My support is...

I thank the noble Lords, Lord Morris and Lord Lea, for their interventions. As I made clear in my...

I thank the Minister for his reply. Perhaps I should first mention my thanks to my noble friend L...

My Lords, after completion of proceedings on the growth Bill, in the Division on the Procedure Co...