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Debate on bill on Wednesday, 6 May 2009, in the House of Commons, led by Yvette Cooper. The answering member was Lord Hammond of Runnymede.

Finance Bill

Finance Bill. Second reading debate. Agreed to on division (285 votes to 209). Ordered that Clauses 7, 8, 9, 11, 14, 16, 20 and 92 be committed to a Committee of the whole House; that the remainder of the Bill be committed to a Public Bill Committee; that when the provisions of the Bill considered by the Committee of the whole House and the Public Bill Committee have been reported to the House, the Bill be proceeded with as if it had been reported as a whole to the House from the Public Bill Committee. Ordered that the Finance Bill Committee shall have leave to sit twice on the first day on which it meets. [Relevant Document: The Eighth Report from the Treasury Committee, Session 2008-09, on the Budget 2009, HC 438-I]

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Parliamentary proceeding
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492 c178-317 
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2008-09
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Treasury
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Second reading
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House of Commons chamber
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Finance Bill. In two volumes, with explanatory notes.
Thursday, 30 April 2009
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Proceeding contributions
Yvette Cooper | 492 c185-6 (Link to this contribution) Once again, I note that the hon. Gentleman is not prepared to make any commitment, even to any targe...
Greg Hands | 492 c185 (Link to this contribution) The Chief Secretary to the Treasury may want us to meet a target by 2010, but she can do that only b...
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Yvette Cooper | 492 c186 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman will know that the Chancellor has raised concern previously about differential ra...
Alan Reid | 492 c186 (Link to this contribution) The cost of motoring might be lower in real terms, but I can tell the Chief Secretary that on the is...
Yvette Cooper | 492 c185 (Link to this contribution) I shall give way to the hon. Gentleman if he will tell me whether he is prepared to commit to a targ...
Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 492 c186-7 (Link to this contribution) The Chief Secretary mentions clause 93—the naming and shaming clause. Will the Revenue have the powe...
Yvette Cooper | 492 c187 (Link to this contribution) The purpose of this measure is to encourage taxpayers to come clean, to pay up front and to recognis...
Robert Smith | 492 c187 (Link to this contribution) The Chief Secretary has been talking about maximising the income for the Government. One of the majo...
Yvette Cooper | 492 c187 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman conceded that we have taken action to try to support the North sea oil industry, ...
Jeremy Browne | 492 c184 (Link to this contribution) With the tapered withdrawal of the personal allowance, and if national insurance is included in the ...
Yvette Cooper | 492 c184 (Link to this contribution) We are, rightly, increasing the tax allowance. That means that individuals will get an extra £145 co...
Gregory Campbell | 492 c184 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Lady is outlining opportunities in respect of the upper end of the income scale. Will...
Yvette Cooper | 492 c183-4 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right that that is, indeed, an example of a Conservative Government who are pursui...
Yvette Cooper | 492 c185 (Link to this contribution) What a ridiculous question; the hon. Gentleman does not believe in the target in the first place. Ho...
Yvette Cooper | 492 c184-5 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an important point. We are continuing to make progress towards the 2010 target,...
Graham Stuart | 492 c185 (Link to this contribution) Merely making progress towards a target for next year is simply not good enough. It is time that the...
Yvette Cooper | 492 c184 (Link to this contribution) We have made a judgment about what the right measures are in this case. As the hon. Gentleman knows,...
Sally Keeble | 492 c184 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend has talked about people on high incomes. Will she reconfirm the Government's co...
Yvette Cooper | 492 c178 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time. This year's Finance Bill comes as the world...
Stewart Hosie | 492 c178 (Link to this contribution) I agree entirely, as I think that cutting budgets in the teeth of recession is very foolish and that...
Tobias Ellwood | 492 c179 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for the Chief Secretary's generosity in giving way again, but she has been here longer...
Yvette Cooper | 492 c179 (Link to this contribution) I will give way once more to the hon. Gentleman, but only if he will tell me why he opposes a VAT cu...
Yvette Cooper | 492 c179 (Link to this contribution) Of course people will have different views about the right date on which to change the rate. We have...
Yvette Cooper | 492 c179 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman should accept that if he wishes to take part in debates in the House, he needs to...
Tobias Ellwood | 492 c178-9 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Lady will be aware that VAT is due to go back up to 17.5 per cent. on 31 December. I ...
Yvette Cooper | 492 c178 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman knows that that is simply not the case. In fact, we are increasing the Scottish E...
Yvette Cooper | 492 c179 (Link to this contribution) Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs has said that it will continue to discuss with businesses how to e...
Greg Hands | 492 c181 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Lady claimed that her VAT cut was supported throughout the world. Can she give at lea...
Yvette Cooper | 492 c181 (Link to this contribution) I said that the fiscal stimulus was supported by countries throughout the world. Let us be clear whi...
Andrew Love | 492 c181 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend see a contradiction in the fact that Conservative Front Benchers oppose th...
Yvette Cooper | 492 c181-2 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right. In fact, the contradictions between Conservative Back Benchers and Front Be...
Yvette Cooper | 492 c182 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes an extremely important point. He is right that this started with the global...
Lembit Opik | 492 c182 (Link to this contribution) I am very sympathetic to the Chief Secretary's efforts to provide tax reliefs for businesses, but sh...
Yvette Cooper | 492 c183 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is right that credit has been constrained across the market. Some intermediary le...
Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 492 c182-3 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Lady acknowledges that the problem is not only the big banks in the UK, but other ban...
Yvette Cooper | 492 c183 (Link to this contribution) No, I do not; funnily enough, I do not think that that would be a useful way to spend money in the c...
Harry Cohen | 492 c183 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend think that a further inheritance tax cut for multi-millionaires would be a...
Yvette Cooper | 492 c180 (Link to this contribution) Hon. Members need to recognise that the important thing is to provide certainty for businesses so th...
Nick Palmer | 492 c180 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend agree that my neighbour, the right hon. and learned Member for Rushcliffe ...
Speaker | 492 c180 (Link to this contribution) Order. Hon. Members must let the Chief Secretary speak. That is the nice, polite way of doing things...
Yvette Cooper | 492 c180 (Link to this contribution) I will give way to the hon. Gentleman, but then I must move on.
Yvette Cooper | 492 c180 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right. The VAT cut has put substantial additional investment into the economy at a...
Yvette Cooper | 492 c181 (Link to this contribution) I will give way to the hon. Gentleman if he will explain why he wants to take billions of pounds out...
Yvette Cooper | 492 c181 (Link to this contribution) We have had discussions with representatives of the retail industry and others about the timing of t...
Speaker | 492 c317 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. and learned Gentleman knows that that is not a point of order for the Chair. The Chai...
Speaker | 492 c310 (Link to this contribution) Order. I am sorry to interrupt the right hon. Gentleman. I must appeal to the House: we must end the...
Stephen Timms | 492 c310-1 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker. The Bill underpins our commitment to the short-term support that peop...
Stephen Timms | 492 c310 (Link to this contribution) I need to make a bit of progress, because the Bill—[Interruption.]
Stephen Timms | 492 c311-2 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman may be referring to the requirement on accounting officers to confirm that their ...
David Leslie Taylor | 492 c312 (Link to this contribution) Was the Financial Secretary as disappointed as I was by the serried ranks of Conservative MPs who, i...
Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 492 c311 (Link to this contribution) I am happy to acknowledge the proper consultation that went on in relation to the foreign profits ta...
Viscount Hailsham | 492 c316 (Link to this contribution) On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. You will know that in the debate that we have just conclude...
Stephen Timms | 492 c312-3 (Link to this contribution) Of course, those increases are more than offset by the increases in personal allowances which we int...
Nicholas Winterton | 492 c307 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend has again referred to savings. What have the Government done for those millions of el...
Mark Hoban | 492 c307-8 (Link to this contribution) I wish that my hon. Friend had taken part in the debate to make his point at greater length. This ha...
Mark Hoban | 492 c308-9 (Link to this contribution) I am tempted to go on, so great is the anger of my hon. Friends about this Finance Bill, about the G...
Stephen Timms | 492 c309 (Link to this contribution) We have had an interesting debate and I look forward very much to more lively debates with some of t...
Rob Marris | 492 c309 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. Friend give way?
Rob Marris | 492 c310 (Link to this contribution) I certainly agree that the VAT cut was a good idea and has worked. However, may I urge my right hon....
Stephen Timms | 492 c309-10 (Link to this contribution) I will in just a moment. Let me first comment on the point about the date on which VAT will go back ...
Stephen Timms | 492 c310 (Link to this contribution) I say to my hon. Friend, however, that the key is certainty. Whenever the change were to happen, the...
David Winnick | 492 c302 (Link to this contribution) I would like to congratulate the hon. Gentleman on his honesty. If we heard the same honesty from th...
Christopher Chope | 492 c302-4 (Link to this contribution) I was not here for the earlier part of the debate, but I imagine that the hon. Gentleman asked his o...
Christopher Chope | 492 c301 (Link to this contribution) I cannot predict what reductions in public expenditure will be needed by the time we have an incomin...
Christopher Chope | 492 c301 (Link to this contribution) I am glad that you, Madam Deputy Speaker, are joining in the sense of euphoria accompanying our nost...
Jeremy Browne | 492 c301 (Link to this contribution) I would like the hon. Gentleman to engage with a bit more focus on this particular point. A number o...
Mark Hoban | 492 c306-7 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for reminding me of that very powerful point that he and others made...
William Cash | 492 c305-6 (Link to this contribution) Will my hon. Friend touch on the matters that my right hon. Friend the Member for Wokingham (Mr. Red...
Mark Hoban | 492 c304-5 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Christchurch (Mr. Chope), who correctly sai...
Speaker | 492 c298 (Link to this contribution) Order. Important as what happened at Stafford hospital is, I now need the hon. Gentleman's comments ...
William Cash | 492 c298 (Link to this contribution) I could not agree more, Madam Deputy Speaker. I would simply say that ensuring the sorts of things t...
Christopher Chope | 492 c298-9 (Link to this contribution) It is a great pleasure to participate in this debate, Madam Deputy Speaker. It is great to see my ho...
William Cash | 492 c298 (Link to this contribution) That is very kind of you, Madam Deputy Speaker. The point that I was making is that the amount of mo...
Speaker | 492 c301 (Link to this contribution) I think that we have heard quite enough reminiscing, and quite enough celebrations, for this evening...
Christopher Chope | 492 c299-300 (Link to this contribution) Exactly, Madam Deputy Speaker, you anticipate my every word. Thirty years ago, Margaret Thatcher too...
Speaker | 492 c299 (Link to this contribution) Order. There seems to be an outbreak of reminiscing. Perhaps the hon. Gentleman can make his contrib...
Christopher Chope | 492 c301 (Link to this contribution) I have personally never been in charge of the Treasury, but I was for a time the leader of Wandswort...
Rob Marris | 492 c300 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman clearly speaks with great passion about these issues. He wants measures in the Fi...
William Cash | 492 c296 (Link to this contribution) Yes, indeed. The plain fact is that the application of tax and spend is different in each country, a...
John Hayes | 492 c296 (Link to this contribution) Before my hon. Friend moves, in his terms, from a handful of dust to decline and fall, might he cons...
William Cash | 492 c295-6 (Link to this contribution) I am talking about specific measures in this domestic legislation that are based on overarching Euro...
Jeremy Browne | 492 c295 (Link to this contribution) A repeated theme of Conservative speeches in this debate has been how comparatively uncompetitive th...
William Cash | 492 c297 (Link to this contribution) I think that if Members reread my speech tomorrow—I am sure that they will not, and I would not blam...
Jeremy Browne | 492 c296-7 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is letting the Government off the hook. The current Prime Minister, when he was C...
William Cash | 492 c297 (Link to this contribution) I am delighted to hear that. However, I do have a little uncertainty—I hesitate to use the word "cr...
Speaker | 492 c297 (Link to this contribution) Order. The hon. Gentleman has taken me on a tour down memory lane. I appreciate his comments, but I ...
Andrew Love | 492 c254 (Link to this contribution) I acknowledge the hon. Gentleman's consistency, because that theme runs through his period as a Trea...
Andrew Love | 492 c254 (Link to this contribution) I certainly share the concerns about increased complexity and, albeit in a different way, the likely...
Lord Jackson of Peterborough | 492 c254 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for giving way. He has been very generous, and I know that, as a member o...
Andrew Love | 492 c255 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the scheme, because there is a great feeling outside the House that the Government have do...
Peter Luff | 492 c254 (Link to this contribution) Technically, the scheme is not in the Finance Bill, so that is why I did not raise it. however, I am...
Andrew Love | 492 c255 (Link to this contribution) I am the only one stupid enough.
Tobias Ellwood | 492 c255 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Edmonton (Mr. Love). I did not agree with everything ...
Tobias Ellwood | 492 c255-6 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is now on the record as having said that, and that plays into my argument. Where ...
Brooks Newmark | 492 c288-9 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend makes an excellent observation. It is a sad reflection on the Government that t...
Brian Binley | 492 c289 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend has touched on a very important point, which is the impact on our rural society. Ther...
Brooks Newmark | 492 c289-90 (Link to this contribution) Yes. On top of the demise of our post offices, which the Government have gone about destroying by ta...
Jacqui Lait | 492 c290-1 (Link to this contribution) It is indeed an honour and a pleasure to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Braintree (Mr. Newmark...
Brian Binley | 492 c287 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is making a powerful case, to which I hope the Minister is listening. I wish to retur...
Brooks Newmark | 492 c287-8 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a vital point about the importance of confidence in trying to rebuild the econo...
Lord Redwood | 492 c288 (Link to this contribution) I do not recall on previous occasions of the Second Reading of the Finance Bill having no Labour Bac...
Brooks Newmark | 492 c286-7 (Link to this contribution) Again, my right hon. Friend demonstrates his knowledge. Perhaps the Minister might like to reflect o...
Brooks Newmark | 492 c286 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a very important point, which has to do with the health of the country's financ...
Brooks Newmark | 492 c285-6 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an important point. As my right hon. Friend the Member for Wokingham said, the ...
William Cash | 492 c286 (Link to this contribution) I am sure my hon. Friend is aware of the ONS statistics—many of us have been studying them—that demo...
Brooks Newmark | 492 c284-5 (Link to this contribution) I am delighted to follow my right hon. Friend the Member for Wokingham (Mr. Redwood). When it comes ...
Jacqui Lait | 492 c285 (Link to this contribution) I do not want to interrupt my hon. Friend's flow, but I wish to ask what his view is of the reports ...
Lord Redwood | 492 c284 (Link to this contribution) I think that the answer to my hon. Friend's first question is "Yes, he is absolutely right", while t...
Brian Binley | 492 c283-4 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend touches on a point of confidence, which seems not to be understood by members o...
Jacqui Lait | 492 c293-4 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to you, Madam Deputy Speaker, but the scheme does interact with vehicle excise duty, w...
William Cash | 492 c294-5 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for the opportunity to say a few words about this very important Bill. One has only to...
Speaker | 492 c293 (Link to this contribution) Order. The hon. Lady pointed out herself that the scrappage scheme is not in the Bill. Therefore, it...
Graham Stuart | 492 c291 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that those who will pay the highest price for the Labour Government's fail...
Jacqui Lait | 492 c291 (Link to this contribution) I agree with the general thrust of my hon. Friend's comments. It is absolutely crucial that the prin...
John Hayes | 492 c292 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend will understand that as an economy advances it becomes more complex, which is further...
Jacqui Lait | 492 c292-3 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend. I will not reiterate the point, as the Minister has heard it. It is...
Speaker | 492 c291 (Link to this contribution) Order. Will the hon. Lady relate her comments to the principles of taxation in the Finance Bill?
Jacqui Lait | 492 c291-2 (Link to this contribution) Of course I will, Madam Deputy Speaker, but I just point out that taxation is, of course, related to...
Philip Dunne | 492 c265-6 (Link to this contribution) I think that timing comes into play. Such action cannot be taken overnight. If the present Governmen...
Philip Dunne | 492 c267-8 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a powerful point. It is the most significant and rapid collapse in the public f...
Lord Jackson of Peterborough | 492 c267 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is making very good points. He will know that had the 5 March announcement of an incr...
Philip Dunne | 492 c268-72 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right, and I shall go on to talk about the problems created by the Chie...
Peter Luff | 492 c268 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend notice any inconsistency with the Chief Secretary's position in her opening rema...
Philip Dunne | 492 c266-7 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for that intervention, as it takes me nicely on to the issue of the magnitude of the p...
Brooks Newmark | 492 c266 (Link to this contribution) Might we not add this as a third problem with the Government: they do not recognise the magnitude of...
Philip Dunne | 492 c267 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is a considerable expert on raising funds through the bond markets and speaks with so...
Brooks Newmark | 492 c267 (Link to this contribution) The problem is that this leads to a vicious cycle and we may even see another failed gilt auction. I...
Jeremy Browne | 492 c265 (Link to this contribution) I share many of the hon. Gentleman's reservations about marginal tax rates, but my difficulty is in ...
Philip Dunne | 492 c265 (Link to this contribution) What the hon. Gentleman needs to consider is what happens to the admittedly small number of people w...
David Leslie Taylor | 492 c264-5 (Link to this contribution) The strength, passion and emotion of the hon. Gentleman's speech, allied to that of the intervention...
Lord Jackson of Peterborough | 492 c264 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that the 50p tax increase is emblematic of a party whose record shows that...
Philip Dunne | 492 c264 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an extremely important point. There is no evidence in what we have heard from L...
Ben Wallace | 492 c264 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that the retrograde step in the totem or red herring of the 50p tax rate w...
Philip Dunne | 492 c263-4 (Link to this contribution) That would have been good advice for the Chief Secretary, so perhaps my hon. Friend should have prof...
Jeremy Browne | 492 c278 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman said that this was a "tax trap". I do not understand this concept of a trap...
Jacqui Lait | 492 c279 (Link to this contribution) I am paying careful attention to my right hon. Friend's argument. I wonder whether he would like to ...
Lord Redwood | 492 c278-9 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that the hon. Gentleman does. He is a better politician than he is giving us to believe wi...
Lord Redwood | 492 c279 (Link to this contribution) It could well be. As hon. Members will know, the drinks industry in particular is extremely unhappy ...
Lord Redwood | 492 c280-2 (Link to this contribution) That is absolutely right. Just as there is a contradiction between the Government's tax policy on th...
Brooks Newmark | 492 c280 (Link to this contribution) Another point that my right hon. Friend might want to address is the fact that the increases are reg...
Lord Redwood | 492 c282-3 (Link to this contribution) That is a very helpful idea. Jaguar is another example of the conflicting attitudes in the Budget do...
Robert Syms | 492 c282 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend is right; there might be a reduction in dividends from banks, which is why manu...
William Cash | 492 c283 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend and others—I see in his place my hon. Friend the Member for Braintree (Mr. Newm...
Stephen Hammond | 492 c274 (Link to this contribution) Although my right hon. Friend describes those taxes as political taxes, their impact on our economy ...
Lord Redwood | 492 c272-4 (Link to this contribution) I am a director of one company and a director and a shareholder of another company, and have declare...
Brooks Newmark | 492 c276 (Link to this contribution) There is a third lesson in what my right hon. Friend is talking about. The Laffer curve shows that w...
Lord Redwood | 492 c275-6 (Link to this contribution) That is exactly right. The tripartite mechanism was a dreadful failure, and it is the background to ...
Philip Dunne | 492 c275 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend is making a powerful point. Does he agree that at the time, voices such as that...
Lord Redwood | 492 c274-5 (Link to this contribution) I entirely agree, and I said that I would argue that I do not like some tax measures in the Budget, ...
Lord Redwood | 492 c278 (Link to this contribution) That is absolutely right. The Treasury Committee has come to a very sensible view and asked the righ...
Stephen Hammond | 492 c277-8 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend is making a very powerful point, and I understand his asking Treasury Ministers...
Lord Redwood | 492 c276-7 (Link to this contribution) That is an extremely important and powerful point, which brings me to my next case study—the Republi...
Lord Jackson of Peterborough | 492 c256 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that it is fundamentally dishonest for a party to put in its election mani...
Tobias Ellwood | 492 c256-7 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend raises two fundamental issues that will be at the forefront at the next general elect...
Jeremy Browne | 492 c256 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving way. If I were inclined towards childishness, I would...
Tobias Ellwood | 492 c256 (Link to this contribution) I can tell from the look on your face, Mr. Deputy Speaker, that I am dangerously close to falling fo...
Tobias Ellwood | 492 c256 (Link to this contribution) He is not waving, just grumbling—or sulking.
Tobias Ellwood | 492 c258 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for that intervention and agree with the last part. It is not for me to decide that, a...
Tobias Ellwood | 492 c258 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a very important point. The words "boom and bust" are not mentioned many times ...
Lord Swire | 492 c257 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend's charge sheet against the Government is long and justified, but does he agree that t...
David Leslie Taylor | 492 c261 (Link to this contribution) I am treasurer of the all-party save the pub group. Although licensees could do without the proposed...
Tobias Ellwood | 492 c261 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman invites me to say something about the consequences for society of the changes in ...
Tobias Ellwood | 492 c261 (Link to this contribution) I could not agree with my hon. Friend more. Traditional pubs foster responsible drinking because the...
Tobias Ellwood | 492 c261-2 (Link to this contribution) Again, I could not agree more with my right hon. Friend. I hope that the Government are listening to...
Greg Knight | 492 c261 (Link to this contribution) There is another point in the argument about pub closures that my hon. Friend has not touched on: th...
Brooks Newmark | 492 c263 (Link to this contribution) Is not the expression, "If you are digging a hole, simply stop digging"?
Philip Dunne | 492 c263 (Link to this contribution) It is a great pleasure to follow that passionate speech by my hon. Friend the Member for Bournemouth...
Tobias Ellwood | 492 c262-3 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend puts his finger exactly on the bunker mentality involved in the Treasury introducing ...
Speaker | 492 c258 (Link to this contribution) Order. The hon. Gentleman may have been led astray—that is a very unusual thing for a member of the ...
Tobias Ellwood | 492 c259 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to you for bringing me back on track, Mr. Deputy Speaker.
Lord Jackson of Peterborough | 492 c259 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is being very generous. Would not even the most basic analysis by an A-level economic...
Tobias Ellwood | 492 c259-60 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend again makes a valid point. To benefit from the temporary change in VAT, people would ...
Greg Knight | 492 c260 (Link to this contribution) Is the effect not wider than that? Many bingo clubs feature live music as part of their entertainmen...
Baroness Browning | 492 c260 (Link to this contribution) I share my hon. Friend's concern about the closure of local pubs. In many parts of the country, they...
Tobias Ellwood | 492 c260 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend makes a valid point. Bingo halls are more than just places where the numbers on...
Lord Jackson of Peterborough | 492 c261 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is making many compelling points in connection with his tourism portfolio, but does h...
Tobias Ellwood | 492 c260 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an important point. We have heard nothing from the Government that will help ou...
Jeremy Browne | 492 c216 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. My point is that we cannot afford to live beyond our means indefini...
Speaker | 492 c216 (Link to this contribution) Order. I think that the hon. Gentleman has been reminded on one or two occasions already this aftern...
Jeremy Browne | 492 c215-6 (Link to this contribution) No, because I have been asked not to speak about the report that the right hon. Gentleman authored. ...
Lord Redwood | 492 c215 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Jeremy Browne | 492 c216 (Link to this contribution) Very well, but I remind the House what the Conservative shadow Chancellor was saying in 2001. The es...
Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 492 c216 (Link to this contribution) I do not know what the hon. Gentleman is going to say.
Jeremy Browne | 492 c215 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for your guidance, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I will not dwell on the report, and I will drop...
Speaker | 492 c215 (Link to this contribution) Order. Perhaps the hon. Gentleman did not hear my earlier remarks. If he did, I ask him to bear them...
Jeremy Browne | 492 c215 (Link to this contribution) I will, Mr. Deputy Speaker, and thank you. We will get back to the grown-up suggestions made by my p...
Speaker | 492 c215 (Link to this contribution) Order. The hon. Gentleman is in danger of making the Chair rather exasperated. He is trying to make ...
Jeremy Browne | 492 c213-4 (Link to this contribution) I completely agree. That is the point I was trying to make. I am pleased that there are members of ...
Lord Field of Birkenhead | 492 c213 (Link to this contribution) May I remind the House of the figures that I gave earlier? The Government think that we will be back...
Jeremy Browne | 492 c214 (Link to this contribution) The orange book for the party of the chocolate orange—an extraordinary political mismatch.
Jeremy Browne | 492 c212 (Link to this contribution) The Scottish Nationalist Member tells me to keep it short when coming up with ways to try to balance...
Jeremy Browne | 492 c212-3 (Link to this contribution) I am not telling my colleagues in the Scottish Parliament anything. We have a system of devolution, ...
Stewart Hosie | 492 c212 (Link to this contribution) When I said, "Keep it short," I meant the hon. Gentleman's speech. I look forward to hearing the exp...
Jeremy Browne | 492 c213 (Link to this contribution) There is both the cyclical deficit and the structural deficit. In time, the automatic stabilisers th...
Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 492 c213 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has just accused the Opposition of talking the economy down, but he keeps going o...
Jeremy Browne | 492 c215 (Link to this contribution) I observe only that the Conservative party says one thing to one group and another thing to another ...
Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 492 c215 (Link to this contribution) I am not sure what that was all about, but the hon. Gentleman knows that the document to which he ha...
Tobias Ellwood | 492 c214 (Link to this contribution) On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I seek your guidance, but we have moved on to the Conservat...
Jeremy Browne | 492 c214 (Link to this contribution) On that precise point, I have been reading the Conservatives' "Quality of Life" report, commissioned...
Graham Stuart | 492 c214 (Link to this contribution) I did not think it possible, but the hon. Gentleman is giving the Chief Secretary to the Treasury a ...
Jeremy Browne | 492 c214 (Link to this contribution) I will give way to someone who is less close to the leader of the Conservative party but who has bee...
Jeremy Browne | 492 c214 (Link to this contribution) I will, Mr. Deputy Speaker, but I was half way through a quote that is directly relevant to the deba...
Speaker | 492 c214 (Link to this contribution) We are debating the Second Reading of the Finance Bill. I am sure that the hon. Member for Taunton (...
Brooks Newmark | 492 c232 (Link to this contribution) To flesh out that point with real numbers, is the hon. Gentleman aware that the previous two fuel du...
Stewart Hosie | 492 c231-2 (Link to this contribution) That is absolutely right, but even on a more vulgar analysis, a 1 per cent. shortfall in growth prob...
Rob Marris | 492 c233 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman share my disappointment at the fact that the duty on beer also went up in th...
Stewart Hosie | 492 c232-3 (Link to this contribution) That is absolutely right. Returning to last year's Budget and the Finance Bill that followed, I thin...
Stewart Hosie | 492 c233-4 (Link to this contribution) My example is "Frosty Jack's" cider, which costs £3.39 and has 7.5 per cent. alcohol. A bottle holds...
Stewart Hosie | 492 c234 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman, a Parliamentary Private Secretary from the Labour Benches, is chuntering. Perhap...
Brooks Newmark | 492 c231 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman share my concern, which I raised with my hon. Friend the Member for Runnymed...
Stewart Hosie | 492 c230-1 (Link to this contribution) It is instructive to go back to the debate on the Finance Bill last year. At that point we had the f...
Brooks Newmark | 492 c227 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend might also add that it was also built on a mountain of debt, both off and on-balance ...
Lord Tyrie | 492 c227 (Link to this contribution) The then Chancellor invited people to assess how well he was going to do in years to come—I am parap...
Speaker | 492 c227 (Link to this contribution) Order. I have already allowed the hon. Gentleman some leeway, and I hope now that he will not quote ...
Brooks Newmark | 492 c229 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is probably reflecting the point I was going to make. I appreciate that we are not al...
Lord Tyrie | 492 c229 (Link to this contribution) That is a very interesting point. I had no idea that my hon. Friend was going to raise it, but if he...
Brooks Newmark | 492 c229 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend share my concern that these real cuts, about which in many ways the Government s...
Lord Tyrie | 492 c227-9 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend has been absolutely right to investigate in depth something that also interested me s...
Lord Tyrie | 492 c227 (Link to this contribution) I would be grateful for the opportunity to give one more quotation, Madam Deputy Speaker. I hope tha...
Lord Tyrie | 492 c229-30 (Link to this contribution) The truth is that all the tough stuff is not in this Finance Bill; it has all been put by until afte...
Andrew Love | 492 c226 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman believe that publishing the salaries of senior quango officials is an adequa...
Lord Tyrie | 492 c224-6 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Member for Wolverhampton, South-West (Rob Marris) made a very thoughtful speech, even if I ...
Speaker | 492 c227 (Link to this contribution) Order. I wonder whether the hon. Gentleman would perhaps make his remarks more germane to the Financ...
Lord Tyrie | 492 c226-7 (Link to this contribution) I do not intend to linger on the Conservatives' plans, not least because of earlier exchanges with t...
Stewart Hosie | 492 c224 (Link to this contribution) The balance of trade deficit for the last two years was £46 billion and £44 billion, so it was basic...
Rob Marris | 492 c224 (Link to this contribution) I am not as expert on the trade deficit as the hon. Gentleman; he takes a greater interest in financ...
Rob Marris | 492 c224 (Link to this contribution) I will not go down this track much further, because if I did we would stray far from the Second Read...
Lord Tyrie | 492 c227 (Link to this contribution) If I can have your indulgence for a moment, Madam Deputy Speaker, I think you will see the close con...
Speaker | 492 c227 (Link to this contribution) Order. The hon. Gentleman has quoted quite a bit from the book, but I wonder whether he might bring ...
Rob Marris | 492 c221 (Link to this contribution) I am a Labour Member of Parliament. I am not in a position to estimate the size of what I believe ar...
Jeremy Browne | 492 c220 (Link to this contribution) I think that the hon. Gentleman is making an entirely legitimate point. Public borrowing is £175 bil...
Rob Marris | 492 c219-20 (Link to this contribution) I am not sure that we would get progressive politics from a Liberal Democrat party that seems intent...
Jeremy Browne | 492 c218-9 (Link to this contribution) No, I have already given way to the hon. Gentleman several times as well. Shall we all move on? [Hon...
Jeremy Browne | 492 c218 (Link to this contribution) I will not give way, because the hon. Gentleman spoke for over an hour. He keeps leaping up to try t...
Stewart Hosie | 492 c223 (Link to this contribution) As always, what the hon. Gentleman is saying is very thoughtful. He is focusing on the national debt...
Jeremy Browne | 492 c221 (Link to this contribution) The situation is even worse than that. Where the Conservatives are in opposition at council level, t...
Rob Marris | 492 c222-3 (Link to this contribution) I agree. I am somewhat surprised to agree with a Liberal Democrat about council spending. I can tell...
Lord Swire | 492 c251-2 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman take this opportunity to rubbish the National Institute of Economic and Soci...
Andrew Love | 492 c252 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for that question. I was going to raise the issue with the hon. Member fo...
Speaker | 492 c252 (Link to this contribution) Order. May I gently remind the hon. Gentleman that he has been using the word "you" quite a lot, thu...
Andrew Love | 492 c252 (Link to this contribution) I apologise, Mr. Deputy Speaker; when I begin to enjoy myself, I get somewhat carried away. I hope t...
Lord Swire | 492 c252 (Link to this contribution) In an earlier response to me, the hon. Gentleman said that the NIESR was interested in a second fisc...
Andrew Love | 492 c252-3 (Link to this contribution) I am not sure why the hon. Gentleman is pressing this. I accept that there are dramatic implications...
Brooks Newmark | 492 c253 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman keeps criticising the Opposition for coming up with suggestions, but the billions...
Andrew Love | 492 c253 (Link to this contribution) In the next few months, when the Opposition have had a chance to look carefully at all the implicati...
Brooks Newmark | 492 c253;492 c253-4 (Link to this contribution) I know the hon. Gentleman is not stupid. I sat with him on the Treasury Committee, and he knows full...
Peter Luff | 492 c244-9 (Link to this contribution) In a rather nice yellow envelope, as I recall, for the birthday card. My godson wrote to me saying "...
Tobias Ellwood | 492 c249-50 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman says that he believes that forecasts for up to two or three years should perhaps ...
Andrew Love | 492 c250 (Link to this contribution) It is interesting that the hon. Gentleman should say that. I want to come on to the forecasts made i...
Andrew Love | 492 c249 (Link to this contribution) Much—indeed, almost all—of the comment in the press at the time of the Budget, and much of this deba...
Philip Dunne | 492 c250 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is making a reasonable stab at arguing that arithmetic averages are likely to pra...
Tobias Ellwood | 492 c250 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman says that the forecasts are reasonable considering the times. However, it was two...
Andrew Love | 492 c250 (Link to this contribution) I am very pleased that the hon. Gentleman has mentioned the IMF, because that is the comparison that...
Andrew Love | 492 c250-1 (Link to this contribution) If the hon. Gentleman will be kind enough to give me a few seconds to develop my argument, I will co...
Robert Syms | 492 c237-9 (Link to this contribution) We have to have a fair system that affects everybody. The priority in our current economic difficult...
Peter Luff | 492 c239-40 (Link to this contribution) May I begin with an apology, Madam Deputy Speaker? I missed some of the speeches that followed the o...
Angus Brendan MacNeil | 492 c240-1 (Link to this contribution) I hear what the hon. Gentleman is saying about the debt burden. To put that into perspective, in thr...
Peter Luff | 492 c243-4 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for my hon. Friend's suggestion, but I do not aspire to that office—certainly not in t...
Peter Luff | 492 c241-2 (Link to this contribution) I will not be led into debating the merits or otherwise of devolution; I am not going to do the SNP'...
Andrew Love | 492 c242 (Link to this contribution) As we heard earlier this afternoon, when we were not putting enough away during those times when the...
Peter Luff | 492 c242-3 (Link to this contribution) I have to say that my recollection is somewhat different. I cannot remember in which Budget the now ...
Stewart Hosie | 492 c234 (Link to this contribution) This is a really important point. We cannot have the Chief Secretary to the Treasury in her opening ...
Rob Marris | 492 c234 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his generosity. To try to preserve at least some of those 9,...
Speaker | 492 c234 (Link to this contribution) Order. The hon. Member for Glasgow, North-West (John Robertson) knows how to conduct himself in a de...
Harry Cohen | 492 c237 (Link to this contribution) I am interested in the hon. Gentleman's position. Is he saying that if there were to be tax reductio...
Colin Breed | 492 c236 (Link to this contribution) Is the hon. Gentleman aware that Treasury officials gave evidence to the Treasury Committee indicati...
Robert Syms | 492 c236-7 (Link to this contribution) It is a very sad thing; 20 or 30 years ago our tax rates were so high that people spent an awful lot...
Robert Syms | 492 c235-6 (Link to this contribution) I declare my interest in the Register of Members' Interests as a director of a family business. We ...
Stewart Hosie | 492 c234 (Link to this contribution) I am not sure that taking more money out of people's pockets would be particularly sensible at this ...
Jeremy Browne | 492 c218 (Link to this contribution) Of course there would be costs attached to that measure, but my party has identified how it would pa...
Stewart Hosie | 492 c218 (Link to this contribution) If the starting point for the basic rate of tax went up to £10,000, what would the net cost and reve...
Jeremy Browne | 492 c217-8 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to you, Madam Deputy Speaker. As I understand it, the Government have introduced the n...
Jeremy Browne | 492 c216-7 (Link to this contribution) No, because I keep being told that I am meant to be talking about the Bill. I do not think that we ...
Rob Marris | 492 c217 (Link to this contribution) On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. Will you clarify whether the official Opposition's amendm...
Speaker | 492 c217 (Link to this contribution) Mr. Speaker did not select the Opposition's amendment for debate.
Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 492 c217 (Link to this contribution) On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. One of the weaknesses of our scrutiny of taxation and exp...
Speaker | 492 c217 (Link to this contribution) I hope that it will be helpful if I say to the hon. Member for Taunton (Mr. Browne) that this debate...
Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 492 c188 (Link to this contribution) The Chief Secretary has talked a great deal about tax increases for people on high incomes. One migh...
Yvette Cooper | 492 c188 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps the hon. Gentleman ought to mention that to the right hon. Member for Witney (Mr. Cameron), ...
Sally Keeble | 492 c188 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend agree that the Conservatives are keen to knock back taxes because they wan...
Yvette Cooper | 492 c188 (Link to this contribution) If that is the case, why is the Conservative party's only manifesto commitment to cut tax on inherit...
Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 492 c188 (Link to this contribution) I was inviting the Chief Secretary to give way so that I did not have to raise a point of order. I j...
Yvette Cooper | 492 c187 (Link to this contribution) I will give way to the hon. Gentleman if he can tell me where on earth he would get that money from....
Yvette Cooper | 492 c188-9 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right. The fact is that the Conservatives want to cut spending right now in the mi...
Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 492 c189-90 (Link to this contribution) Well, that was quite a rant. The Chief Secretary has obviously decided that if she cannot defend her...
Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 492 c191-2 (Link to this contribution) They do not. In the course of the debate on this Bill—in the Committee of the whole House and in the...
Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 492 c192-3 (Link to this contribution) Let me deal first with the public sector investment. The right hon. Lady did not take the opportunit...
Yvette Cooper | 492 c192 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman refers to public sector investment. As he will be aware, the level set out in the...
Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 492 c193 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a good point. The Government have clearly already sought to close one of the mo...
Robert Syms | 492 c193 (Link to this contribution) Is not the logical conclusion that the range of measures to increase the top rate of tax means that ...
Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 492 c193-4 (Link to this contribution) I shall come to that point in a moment, but the simple answer to my hon. Friend's question is no, I ...
Brooks Newmark | 492 c193 (Link to this contribution) On the subject of ending boom and bust and cycles, does my hon. Friend believe there is any credibil...
Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 492 c194-7 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is exactly right: it is a distraction Budget. What his constituents do not know, howe...
Graham Stuart | 492 c194 (Link to this contribution) My constituents, particularly those who live in rural areas of Holderness, many of them perhaps hist...
Brooks Newmark | 492 c197 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend not share the concern that I felt when I read in an Institute for Fiscal Studies...
Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 492 c190-1 (Link to this contribution) I promise the right hon. Gentleman that I shall look carefully at his proposals. In disappointing co...
Lord Field of Birkenhead | 492 c190 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry that the hon. Gentleman does not know what is happening. We have made it plain on the Ord...
Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 492 c190 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for his intervention and interested to hear that he is sti...
Lord Field of Birkenhead | 492 c190 (Link to this contribution) I thought that the hon. Gentleman would spend a little more time on the 10p issue. When Labour Membe...
Nick Palmer | 492 c191 (Link to this contribution) Is the shadow Chief Secretary saying that if a Conservative Government were elected next year, they ...
Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 492 c191 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right, and as I made clear earlier in my intervention on the Chief Secretary, when...
Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 492 c191 (Link to this contribution) Sadly, I can make no such commitment. We do not know what the state of the public finances will be n...
James Plaskitt | 492 c191 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has referred several times to what he describes as the difficult fiscal circumsta...
Andrew Love | 492 c206 (Link to this contribution) This morning, along with some Opposition Members, I went to the Debt Management Office, where we saw...
Lord Field of Birkenhead | 492 c206 (Link to this contribution) Of course the office would say yes to that question, because if they said no, then whatever we call ...
Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 492 c202-4 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend articulates the case passionately, and many Members from all parts of the House look ...
Yvette Cooper | 492 c204 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman think it fair for the top 1.5 per cent. of earners to get 24 per cent. of th...
Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 492 c204-5 (Link to this contribution) I have recognised that the Government had a legitimate motive for moving to limit tax relief on top ...
Lord Field of Birkenhead | 492 c205-6 (Link to this contribution) I want to address an assumption about the Budget which is shared not only by all those on the Treasu...
Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 492 c202 (Link to this contribution) Here is one of them. I hope that the Exchequer Secretary, since she is present, might also take thi...
Tobias Ellwood | 492 c202 (Link to this contribution) I am very grateful to my hon. Friend for allowing me to intervene on this important subject. Some 8....
Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 492 c201-2 (Link to this contribution) It was not a disastrous proposal last year and it is not a disastrous proposal this year. It is a lo...
Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 492 c200-1 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes half the point. The date could have been left as 1 December, as the origina...
Rob Marris | 492 c201 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his usual generosity. What I find amusing is this kind of gr...
Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 492 c198-9 (Link to this contribution) As the hon. Gentleman well knows, we are not making any commitment to repeal any of the tax increase...
Jeremy Browne | 492 c199 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes a fair point, to which I hope the Treasury Minister will respond, but there...
Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 492 c198 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an important point. I am scratching to the bottom of my memory; I seem to recal...
Rob Marris | 492 c198 (Link to this contribution) I wonder whether the hon. Gentleman could clarify a matter for me. I understand that he decries the ...
Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 492 c197-8 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend raises an important point. The view of some independent experts is that the new top r...
Philip Dunne | 492 c198 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is making an extremely powerful point. Does he acknowledge that the types of people w...
Jeremy Browne | 492 c211 (Link to this contribution) I have no doubt that the people in the Treasury feel that they are carrying out their work with a de...
Graham Stuart | 492 c211 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman, who is being most generous in giving way. I would point to the ...
Jeremy Browne | 492 c211-2 (Link to this contribution) Absolutely. Let us not get too hung up on this issue, but I take the hon. Gentleman's point. There a...
Lord Redwood | 492 c212 (Link to this contribution) I agree that the Budget is too big, but which major items of spending would the hon. Gentleman like ...
Jeremy Browne | 492 c212 (Link to this contribution) I will come to that point and give the House the benefit of some of the thinking that we have put be...
Jeremy Browne | 492 c210 (Link to this contribution) I give way to somebody who has aspirations in that regard.
Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 492 c210 (Link to this contribution) I suspect that I know where the hon. Gentleman is heading, but has not he made the case for some for...
Jeremy Browne | 492 c211 (Link to this contribution) I am all in favour of reliable official data, which are the backdrop against which we have to make a...
Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 492 c211 (Link to this contribution) Let me reassure the hon. Gentleman that the only obstacle in the way of the Chancellor of the day wo...
Lord Field of Birkenhead | 492 c208-9 (Link to this contribution) Absolutely, and of course that will be a start, but important though our budget is to taxpayers at t...
Jeremy Browne | 492 c209 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, for giving me an opportunity to contribute to our deliberations this ...
Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 492 c208 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman himself suggested that schemes needed to be closed to new members.
Graham Stuart | 492 c210 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has just moved on to the point that I wished to make, which is that the assumptio...
Jeremy Browne | 492 c210 (Link to this contribution) I agree with the hon. Gentleman's point, because the predictions are both bleak and optimistic at th...
Lord Field of Birkenhead | 492 c206-8 (Link to this contribution) My point is to draw attention to the scenario—not to wish that it would occur, but to suggest that i...
Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 492 c208 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman mentioned the public sector, "including us". Will he acknowledge that we ha...
Lord Field of Birkenhead | 492 c206 (Link to this contribution) I will give way, but I do not want to take too long.
Graham Stuart | 492 c206 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman will be aware that over many years our banks moved from depending on deposi...
Peter Luff | 492 c180 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Chief Secretary. I hope to explain in detail later—if I am lucky enough to catc...
Lord Redwood | 492 c283 (Link to this contribution) I agree with my hon. Friend. In providing the background to my comments I stated why I believed this...
Philip Dunne | 492 c264 (Link to this contribution) I think that my hon. Friend is being a little unfair on the Labour party in opposition. I think that...
David Leslie Taylor | 492 c258 (Link to this contribution) I did not agree with the hon. Gentleman's earlier comments about this morning's debate in Westminste...
Philip Dunne | 492 c262 (Link to this contribution) I should like to encourage my hon. Friend in his exposition to the Government of the importance of p...
Robert Syms | 492 c243 (Link to this contribution) Did my hon. Friend want to be Chancellor?
Stewart Hosie | 492 c235 (Link to this contribution) Automatic stabilisers have an important role to play. Obviously the UK Government are not required t...
Lord Tyrie | 492 c235 (Link to this contribution) Is the hon. Gentleman aware that the examples that he cited are from federal countries, which have a...
Lord Field of Birkenhead | 492 c208 (Link to this contribution) Closing schemes to us will be the easiest bit. The difficult bit will be closing them to other peopl...
Rob Marris | 492 c183 (Link to this contribution) May I remind my right hon. Friend that Canada recently cut the goods and services tax—its equivalent...
Brooks Newmark | 492 c191 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend not share my concern that the vast majority of tax increases brought in by this ...
Lord Redwood | 492 c286 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is making a very important point. The Government issued a Treasury paper some time ag...
Subjects
Children Alcoholic drinks Business Corporation tax Credit Bingo Borrowing Finance Income tax Excise duties Fuels Gaming Government assistance Economic growth Forecasts Personal savings Poverty Pensions Public expenditure Scotland Tax allowances Tax avoidance Taxation VAT Trusts Tax rates and bands Tax evasion North Sea oil Trade competitiveness Marginal tax rates
Legislation
Finance Bill 2008-09
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