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Debate on bill on Wednesday, 2 February 2011, in the House of Lords, led by Lord Sassoon. The answering member was Lord McKenzie of Luton.

National Insurance Contributions Bill

National Insurance Contributions Bill. Lords second reading debate. Agreed on question and Bill committed to a grand committee.

Secondary information

Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
724 c1412-33 
Session
2010-12
Department
Treasury
Legislative stage
Second reading
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
Related items
National Insurance
Tuesday, 15 March 2011
Written questions
House of Lords
Proceeding contributions
Lord Sassoon | 724 c1412-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am pleased to open this debate on the Bill before us today, which has two purposes. The...
Lord McKenzie of Luton | 724 c1414-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank the Minister for his explanation of the Bill, which, he will have gathered from pr...
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Lord Newby | 724 c1417-9 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister for the clear way in which he introduced the Bill, which we support. This is no...
Lord Myners | 724 c1423-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is always a pleasure to speak after the noble Lord, Lord Bilimoria. I have a tendency a...
Lord Martin of Springburn | 724 c1426 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I have been very interested in what every noble Lord has had to say, including the Ministe...
Lord Newton of Braintree | 724 c1426 (Link to this contribution) I had not intended to intervene—this is a bit of an overcrowded gap, and I apologise for not having ...
Lord Sentamu | 724 c1425 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I, too, should like to pose to the Minister the questions that the noble Lord, Lord Myners...
Lord Sassoon | 724 c1428-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, this has been an interesting and high-quality debate, as is usual for this House, even if ...
Lord Davies of Oldham | 724 c1426-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, this has been a most interesting debate. As the House will recognise, the Opposition’s cas...
Lord Sassoon | 724 c1431 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, we are talking about the estimates here of the effect of the national insurance holiday. T...
Lord Sentamu | 724 c1430 (Link to this contribution) Will the Minister assure us that he has done some research that tells him that Tower Hamlets and Hac...
Lord Sassoon | 724 c1430 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I will look to see how many non-trading charities have been created in past periods. Howev...
Lord Sassoon | 724 c1430-1 (Link to this contribution) As I have tried to explain, the issue here is that we have to take broad areas of the country to mak...
Lord Barnett | 724 c1429 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the noble Lord gave a definition of ““trade”” as ““trading””. However, Clause 5(6)(a) refe...
Lord Myners | 724 c1429 (Link to this contribution) The Minister said that the Government estimate very few non-trading charities will be established du...
Lord Sassoon | 724 c1429 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I think it is a wider definition, so if a charity in those areas was carrying on activitie...
Lord Sassoon | 724 c1433 (Link to this contribution) I was trying to keep my responses within the time limit and to matters relevant to this Bill but, if...
Lord Myners | 724 c1432 (Link to this contribution) There was one final point which I raised about anti-avoidance in the larger corporate sector, throug...
Lord Sassoon | 724 c1432 (Link to this contribution) Indeed, I think that in 2011-12 the sum for adult apprenticeships will be over £600 million. That ac...
Lord Martin of Springburn | 724 c1432 (Link to this contribution) I welcome any help and initiative that is given to employing apprentices. On the remark about adult ...
Lord Sassoon | 724 c1432 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the scheme can be sensibly judged only when we get the full package of data on a national ...
Lord Myners | 724 c1432 (Link to this contribution) Surely, the Minister will have data because applications have to be made and therefore will already ...
Lord Sassoon | 724 c1431 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I really think that it is too early yet to have reliable data of the sort that I have indi...
Lord Davies of Oldham | 724 c1431 (Link to this contribution) Of course, the House will be reassured by the points that the Minister has just made, but does he ha...
Lord Myners | 724 c1431 (Link to this contribution) I have to intervene at this point. As the Minister knows full well, it was the Chancellor of the Exc...
Lord Sassoon | 724 c1412 (Link to this contribution) That the Bill be read a second time. That the Bill be read a second time.
Lord Bilimoria | 724 c1419-23 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, not only is 2011 the centenary of the Parliament Act, it is also the centenary of national...
Subjects
Employees' contributions Employers' contributions National insurance National insurance contributions Tax allowances Tax thresholds
Legislation
National Insurance Contributions Bill 2010-12
Link
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