Finance (No. 2) Bill

My Lords, this is the fifth and last time that we are going to discuss a Finance Bill and all tha...

Before the noble Lord sits down, he raised the interesting question of the expenditure tax. He wi...

Basically, I would be much more radical than even Lord Kaldor. It is because you are trying to ta...

My Lords, I shall make two or three small but important points and one large and general point. I...

My Lords, we live in a strangely surreal world with regard to this Finance Bill. My noble friends...

I am most grateful to the noble Lord. If this is such a bad Bill, which parts of it would he reve...

Not a great deal. I am not arguing that it is such a bad Bill but that it is such an irrelevant B...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have spoken in this debate. I shall come back to the matter...

As to my noble friend Lord Davies’s speech, the reason why so many people were on the government ...

A nice try.

As my noble friend said, a nice try. The big theme of several speakers related to productivity, a...

Does the noble Lord recall the figures of the projected cuts in the further education budget for ...

Given the policy of the noble Lord’s party on further education, and given that if you talk to an...

I agree with the noble Lord’s general point, but I ask him to do one thing before the House proro...

I will do that very readily. Finally, the noble Lord, Lord Davies of Oldham, described this as a ...

Is the noble Lord aware that the figure I used for productivity per person comes from the Institu...