Debate on bill on Tuesday, 5 July 2011, in the House of Commons, led by David Gauke. The answering member was Chris Leslie.
Finance (No. 3) Bill
Finance (No. 3) Bill. Report stage third day, concluded. Third reading debate agreed to on division (285 votes to 225) and Bill passed.
Secondary information
- Type
- Parliamentary proceeding
- Reference
- 530 c1380-479
- Session
- 2010-12
- Department
- Treasury
- Legislative stage
- Third reading
- Report stage
- Chamber / Committee
- House of Commons chamber
- Related items
-
Finance (No. 3) Bill. As amended in the Committee and in Public Bill Committee. In two volumes.
Thursday, 9 June 2011
Bills
House of Commons
- Proceeding contributions
-
Jonathan Edwards | 530 c1475 (Link to this contribution) I will not take up much of hon. Members' time this evening. I regret to inform the Treasury that we ...
-
Speaker | 530 c1475 (Link to this contribution) I ask the Serjeant at Arms to investigate the delay in the No Lobby.
-
David Gauke | 530 c1464 (Link to this contribution) The amendments will ensure that clauses 34 and 48 operate as intended when companies make retrospect...
-
Chris Leslie | 530 c1465 (Link to this contribution) Again, these Government amendments are sensible. It is important that we tighten loopholes for inves...
-
David Gauke | 530 c1468-71 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That the Bill be now read the Third time. During the course of the debates on this F...
-
Chris Leslie | 530 c1471-2 (Link to this contribution) May I join the Minister in congratulating the Bill team on their hard work and unstinting efforts, e...
-
Speaker | 530 c1464 (Link to this contribution) With this it will be convenient to discuss Government amendments 23 to 29.
-
Stephen Williams | 530 c1474-5 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman will have heard exactly what I heard this morning from the Financial Secretary to...
-
Stephen Williams | 530 c1472-3 (Link to this contribution) I shall make some brief remarks in this Third Reading debate on yet another Finance Bill. Unlike the...
-
Chris Leslie | 530 c1474 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for being so nice about me just a moment ago. The Minister refus...
-
Stephen Williams | 530 c1474 (Link to this contribution) I would be happy to invite the hon. Gentleman, as well as any other hon. Members and my own constitu...
-
David Gauke | 530 c1462 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move amendment 1, page 48, line 16, leave out subsection (4).
-
Justine Greening | 530 c1458-9 (Link to this contribution) I am pleased that the hon. Lady has raised that point, because it gives me the opportunity to be cry...
-
Caroline Lucas | 530 c1458 (Link to this contribution) Does the Minister agree that the carbon price floor effectively constitutes a subsidy for nuclear po...
-
Justine Greening | 530 c1457-8 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a helpful contribution. I am always happy to meet hon. Members. In fact, only l...
-
Gavin Williamson | 530 c1463 (Link to this contribution) I understand that my hon. Friend recently received the very prestigious award of tax personality of ...
-
David Gauke | 530 c1463 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for that intervention. I am trying hard not to let the award go to m...
-
Speaker | 530 c1462 (Link to this contribution) With this it will be convenient to discuss Government amendments 2 to 8.
-
Chris Leslie | 530 c1464 (Link to this contribution) The amendments look reasonably uncontentious. It is sensible to find ways to support mutual assistan...
-
Geraint Davies | 530 c1440 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that this carbon floor pricing will, first, run contrary to the strategy o...
-
Iain Wright | 530 c1440-1 (Link to this contribution) I absolutely agree with my hon. Friend on both points. We are exporting not just jobs but carbon emi...
-
Ian Swales | 530 c1437-9 (Link to this contribution) I thank my—yes—hon. Friend for his intervention. It seems that the issue is becoming more prominent....
-
Iain Wright | 530 c1439-40 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow my north-east neighbour, the hon. Member for Redcar (Ian Swales), and if ...
-
Martin Vickers | 530 c1442 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is making a persuasive case. He and I know the seriousness of the situation from ...
-
Nicholas Dakin | 530 c1442-3 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes a cogent and sensible point. [Interruption.] Indeed, I note that the Econom...
-
Andrew Percy | 530 c1441-2 (Link to this contribution) I will try to avoid further outbursts over the EU, Madam Deputy Speaker—I can never resist the oppor...
-
Nicholas Dakin | 530 c1442 (Link to this contribution) I am pleased to follow my neighbour, the hon. Member for Brigg and Goole (Andrew Percy), and I suppo...
-
Angela C Smith | 530 c1443-5 (Link to this contribution) I want to speak in support of amendment 12 for three reasons. First, the Government's statements on ...
-
Tom Blenkinsop | 530 c1445-6 (Link to this contribution) I should like to speak to amendment 12. It is a great pleasure to talk about places that I know well...
-
Ian Swales | 530 c1446 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman agree that those industries need no further encouragement to reduce their en...
-
Tom Blenkinsop | 530 c1446-8 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for his comment, and I entirely agree with him. The industries are in it ...
-
Ian Lavery | 530 c1448 (Link to this contribution) Is my hon. Friend aware of the double whammy of the European trading scheme and the carbon floor pri...
-
Tom Blenkinsop | 530 c1448 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for his intervention. Yes, I certainly do. To finish, let me say that a revie...
-
Nia Griffith | 530 c1448-9 (Link to this contribution) There have been many excellent contributions, so I shall keep my comments short. As secretary of th...
-
Ian Swales | 530 c1450 (Link to this contribution) I respect the hon. Lady's expertise on these issues. Can she give examples of energy-intensive indus...
-
Caroline Lucas | 530 c1450 (Link to this contribution) What I can say is that I have been in the European Parliament, that representatives of industries ha...
-
Caroline Lucas | 530 c1450-1 (Link to this contribution) I will not give way again, because I want to talk about amendment 12, which I have tabled. I agree ...
-
Lord Whitehead | 530 c1452-4 (Link to this contribution) The Economic Secretary to the Treasury has already suggested that those in favour of a carbon floor ...
-
Tristram Hunt | 530 c1454-5 (Link to this contribution) I wish to speak to amendment 12, and I shall do so both as chair of the all-party group on energy-in...
-
David Mowat | 530 c1452 (Link to this contribution) It may be true that renewables will become more cost-effective over time, but there is an long way t...
-
Caroline Lucas | 530 c1452 (Link to this contribution) I entirely disagree. I wish that the hon. Gentleman had been at a meeting with representatives of th...
-
David Mowat | 530 c1451 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady is making a powerful case against the nuclear industry, but a few moments ago she made...
-
Caroline Lucas | 530 c1451 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman will not be surprised to learn that I do not agree with the tenor of his interven...
-
Justine Greening | 530 c1456-7 (Link to this contribution) The scenarios we looked at as part of the consultation asked stakeholders what carbon price they fel...
-
Andrew Percy | 530 c1457 (Link to this contribution) I particularly welcome my hon. Friend's comments about supporting industry as we move forward. I had...
-
Justine Greening | 530 c1455-6 (Link to this contribution) Clause 78 and schedule 20 amend the climate change levy to introduce a carbon price floor for electr...
-
Lord Whitehead | 530 c1456 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Lady agree that none of the scenarios in the consultation document included the idea t...
-
Mark Hoban | 530 c1419 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend points out some of the behavioural impacts of the tax. A Labour Member pointed out ea...
-
Chuka Umunna | 530 c1419 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Minister for giving way a second time. Does he acknowledge that the toughening ...
-
Mark Hoban | 530 c1417 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman should be patient. I am just warming to my topic. I have much more to say about t...
-
Chuka Umunna | 530 c1417 (Link to this contribution) The Minister is extremely fond of harking back to what the previous Government did, but he is in gov...
-
Mark Hoban | 530 c1417 (Link to this contribution) Let me make my point and then perhaps the hon. Gentleman can explain the position of his party when ...
-
Andrea Leadsom | 530 c1418 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that the unintended consequence of the payroll tax was to push up salaries...
-
Chris Leslie | 530 c1417 (Link to this contribution) It is very gracious of the Minister to give way. On the so-called progress the Minister is making o...
-
Mark Hoban | 530 c1417 (Link to this contribution) I think I am being tempted away from the bank levy, but I happily give way to the hon. Gentleman, wh...
-
Justine Greening | 530 c1431 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps I can just tell the hon. Lady that the Institution of Civil Engineers said that the policy w...
-
Mark Hoban | 530 c1420 (Link to this contribution) Significant studies have been done by both the EU and the IMF on such a tax, how it would work and t...
-
Frank Dobson | 530 c1420 (Link to this contribution) The Minister recently told me that the Government had made no assessment whatever of the money that ...
-
Mark Hoban | 530 c1420-1 (Link to this contribution) I would like to give way to the hon. Gentleman, but I want to try and wind up the debate because the...
-
Kerry McCarthy | 530 c1428 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move amendment 12, page 45, line 5, at end insert—
-
Chris Leslie | 530 c1421-2 (Link to this contribution) I repeat my congratulations to my hon. Friend the Member for Hayes and Harlington (John McDonnell) o...
-
Kerry McCarthy | 530 c1428-31 (Link to this contribution) Let me start by confirming that Labour Members support the principle of a carbon floor price. We bel...
-
Speaker | 530 c1428 (Link to this contribution) With this it will be convenient to discuss amendment 21, page 45, line 5, at end insert—
-
Mark Hoban | 530 c1419-20 (Link to this contribution) At times, I wonder what Opposition Members read; we were clear from the outset that we wanted to tou...
-
Speaker | 530 c1433 (Link to this contribution) Order. Perhaps we can stick to this debate. If the hon. Gentleman wants to know the answer to his qu...
-
Kerry McCarthy | 530 c1433 (Link to this contribution) The Whip is telling me that we do not have time to reply to that point. It is a bit rich of the Econ...
-
Justine Greening | 530 c1433 (Link to this contribution) Is the hon. Lady aware that one of the main reasons why the UK's contribution to the EU budget is go...
-
Kerry McCarthy | 530 c1432-3 (Link to this contribution) I am not sure where to start in responding to the hon. Gentleman. My opening line was that we suppor...
-
David Mowat | 530 c1432 (Link to this contribution) I have listened carefully to the hon. Lady's remarks on behalf of the Labour party. Can she make it ...
-
Kerry McCarthy | 530 c1432 (Link to this contribution) As I said, we are calling for a full-scale review. I am not convinced that the Government's impact a...
-
Justine Greening | 530 c1432 (Link to this contribution) As we will no doubt debate later, we carried out an extensive impact assessment on this policy. Inde...
-
Kerry McCarthy | 530 c1431 (Link to this contribution) As I will go on to explain, there are concerns about future stability, as we have seen with the Nort...
-
Ian Swales | 530 c1436-7 (Link to this contribution) I am not aware of Airbus's activity in detail, but I will support the hon. Gentleman's point later b...
-
David TC Davies | 530 c1437 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend—I suppose I should call him that—for giving way on that point. Does ...
-
Kerry McCarthy | 530 c1436 (Link to this contribution) No, because I am just reaching the end of my speech. The hon. Gentleman will have an opportunity to ...
-
Geraint Davies | 530 c1436 (Link to this contribution) I agree with that point. Is the hon. Gentleman aware that Airbus, whose wing production is based in ...
-
Ian Swales | 530 c1436 (Link to this contribution) I wish to speak to amendment 21, in my name and that of my hon. Friend the Member for Westmorland an...
-
Kerry McCarthy | 530 c1433-4 (Link to this contribution) I have touched on the fact that there needs to be greater Government engagement in Europe to try to ...
-
Kerry McCarthy | 530 c1434-5 (Link to this contribution) That is an important point. Although there is concern about the carbon emissions of energy-intensive...
-
Geraint Davies | 530 c1434 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that the problem with having a unilateral carbon price in the UK is not ju...
-
Chris Williamson | 530 c1413 (Link to this contribution) May I begin by entirely agreeing with what my hon. Friend the Member for Sefton Central (Bill Esters...
-
Alison Seabeck | 530 c1413 (Link to this contribution) May I, first, draw the House's attention to my entry in the Register of Members' Financial Interests...
-
Frank Dobson | 530 c1411-3 (Link to this contribution) I should begin by saying that I support the Robin Hood tax, and it therefore follows that I am oppos...
-
Chris Williamson | 530 c1415 (Link to this contribution) I certainly do not support the Budget. Although I acknowledge that Rolls-Royce does some excellent w...
-
Speaker | 530 c1415 (Link to this contribution) Order. I know that the hon. Gentleman was tempted down this line of argument by the intervention, bu...
-
Chris Williamson | 530 c1413-5 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an apposite point and she has done some excellent work to highlight the plight ...
-
Mark Hoban | 530 c1416-7 (Link to this contribution) The Finance Bill introduces the bank levy, a permanent tax on banks' balance sheets that will raise ...
-
Chris Williamson | 530 c1415-6 (Link to this contribution) Thank you for your guidance, Madam Deputy Speaker. The point I am trying to make is that the resourc...
-
David Rutley | 530 c1408 (Link to this contribution) And football.
-
David Mowat | 530 c1408 (Link to this contribution) Indeed. Does she think that higher salaries in all those professions should be taxed more? If that i...
-
Alison McGovern | 530 c1408 (Link to this contribution) As I said earlier, I think we all agree that inequality is a problem. We have tabled an amendment th...
-
David Mowat | 530 c1408 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Lady give way again?
-
Alison McGovern | 530 c1408 (Link to this contribution) Many people wish to speak, so perhaps it would be better if I did not take any more interventions. I...
-
Kate Green | 530 c1409 (Link to this contribution) I agree with every word that my hon. Friend says. Does she agree that one crucial value of the futur...
-
Bill Esterson | 530 c1409-11 (Link to this contribution) Let me draw Members' attention to the proposals of the Opposition Front-Bench team. Amendment 13 sta...
-
Alison McGovern | 530 c1409 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for her intervention. Having grown up on Merseyside in the 1980s, I know it w...
-
Bill Esterson | 530 c1411 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right: a virtuous circle is created by investment, and especially investment in co...
-
Alison Seabeck | 530 c1411 (Link to this contribution) One of the benefits of this tax is that a considerable sum would be put into building 25,000 new hom...
-
Alison McGovern | 530 c1401 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that one moment in history when the British Government did not act in that...
-
Geoffrey Robinson | 530 c1401-3 (Link to this contribution) That is right, and I supported that entirely. I support any large manufacturing company with a base ...
-
Frank Dobson | 530 c1400 (Link to this contribution) They're collecting their bonuses.
-
Geoffrey Robinson | 530 c1400-1 (Link to this contribution) They are hoping to collect them, I imagine, when they lose the next election. What I do not underst...
-
Geoffrey Robinson | 530 c1398-400 (Link to this contribution) It is interesting—if not more than that—to follow the hon. Member for Bristol West (Stephen Williams...
-
David Mowat | 530 c1408 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady is making a case for the higher taxation of banking bonuses and salaries. Does she thi...
-
Alison McGovern | 530 c1407 (Link to this contribution) That is probably the easiest intervention that I will ever get. In so far as I believe in the needs ...
-
Stephen Williams | 530 c1407 (Link to this contribution) I am quite proud to call myself a free-market liberal, but just to make it clear and to differentiat...
-
Alison McGovern | 530 c1406 (Link to this contribution) I want to say a few words in addition to those made so far about amendment 13. The amendment is cruc...
-
Stephen Timms | 530 c1403-6 (Link to this contribution) I very much welcome the telling case made by my hon. Friend the Member for Hayes and Harlington (Joh...
-
Chris Williamson | 530 c1395 (Link to this contribution) Of course we all celebrate the fact that some young people are getting apprenticeships. We obviously...
-
Frank Dobson | 530 c1396 (Link to this contribution) I cannot help myself, in these very unusual circumstances, leaping to the defence of Lord Mandelson....
-
Stephen Williams | 530 c1395-6 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for his rather long intervention. As well as the Work programme and inves...
-
Bill Esterson | 530 c1396 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman called himself a free market liberal. Another Member of the House who described h...
-
Stephen Williams | 530 c1396 (Link to this contribution) I was not aware of the continuation of that quote. However—[Hon. Members: ““Withdraw!””] Rather than...
-
Stephen Williams | 530 c1396-8 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for his intervention, but I have already stated clearly for the record th...
-
John McDonnell | 530 c1398 (Link to this contribution) I was encouraged by the hon. Gentleman's earlier statements, but I was waiting for the ““but”” and i...
-
Stephen Williams | 530 c1398 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes a reasonable point, and I am sure that the Minister will tell us what work ...
-
Stephen Williams | 530 c1398 (Link to this contribution) I have not said, and I hope that the hon. Gentleman does not think, that I do not support what he is...
-
Alison McGovern | 530 c1392 (Link to this contribution) On the argument that my hon. Friend has just made about whether or not people would leave as a resul...
-
Nigel Adams | 530 c1391 (Link to this contribution) The idea of a Robin Hood tax is noble, but does the hon. Gentleman not agree that without internatio...
-
John McDonnell | 530 c1391-2 (Link to this contribution) No. If that was the case, we would not have introduced a stamp tax on transactions. It brings in £5 ...
-
Andrew Gwynne | 530 c1391 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is setting out his case very well. In recent years, there has been an ever-speedier m...
-
John McDonnell | 530 c1391 (Link to this contribution) Yes, and when the various groups lobbied us last month it was interesting to note how the debate had...
-
Chris Leslie | 530 c1388-9 (Link to this contribution) There are serious issues about the balance of power between management and ownership. Many sharehold...
-
John McDonnell | 530 c1389-90 (Link to this contribution) Amendment 31, which stands in my name, proposes a report reviewing the possibility of incorporating ...
-
Chris Leslie | 530 c1387-8 (Link to this contribution) Indeed. That is precisely why the bonus payroll levy arrangements that we advocated excluded bonuses...
-
Geoffrey Robinson | 530 c1388 (Link to this contribution) Does it occur to my hon. Friend, as it does to me from time to time, to ask what sort of activity th...
-
Alison McGovern | 530 c1387 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is pointing out some of the excesses at the top of the financial services sector, but...
-
Bill Esterson | 530 c1394 (Link to this contribution) I am glad the hon. Gentleman has given way, because I cannot believe he has the nerve to say what he...
-
Stephen Williams | 530 c1395 (Link to this contribution) I have spoken on platforms with Alison Wolf, and indeed launched a book with her during the last Par...
-
Chris Williamson | 530 c1395 (Link to this contribution) But does the hon. Gentleman at least acknowledge that as a result of the measures brought in by the ...
-
Stephen Williams | 530 c1395 (Link to this contribution) As I understand it, the future jobs fund was a temporary measure and it has now stopped. It is being...
-
John McDonnell | 530 c1392-3 (Link to this contribution) Yes, I had forgotten that example. It is a good example of how unilateral action can raise the stand...
-
Bill Esterson | 530 c1393 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend just mentioned avoidance and the problems that it causes. Does he agree that if avoid...
-
John McDonnell | 530 c1393-4 (Link to this contribution) The main argument on the Tobin tax involved the inability mechanically to identify the transactions ...
-
Stephen Williams | 530 c1394 (Link to this contribution) I want to make some brief remarks on the amendments. The hon. Member for Nottingham East (Chris Lesl...
-
John McDonnell | 530 c1392 (Link to this contribution) There is a spell, is there not—[Interruption.] The new sequel film is coming out soon, so we will se...
-
Andrew Gwynne | 530 c1392 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend rightly talks about taking the lead. Are we not hearing exactly the same arguments as...
-
Stephen Williams | 530 c1384 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for giving way three times on the same point. My recollection of the Comm...
-
Frank Dobson | 530 c1384 (Link to this contribution) They ““might”” benefit?
-
Frank Dobson | 530 c1383 (Link to this contribution) Will my hon. Friend confirm that in order to pay for the corporation tax reduction, which has greatl...
-
Chris Leslie | 530 c1383 (Link to this contribution) Indeed, they have imposed stealth tax after stealth tax on ordinary working people and small—and lar...
-
Chris Leslie | 530 c1384 (Link to this contribution) It is a shame that the leadership we need—not just at the G20, but at the European level and elsewhe...
-
Chris Leslie | 530 c1384 (Link to this contribution) I agree with my right hon. Friend—they definitely will benefit from the reduction. I am not sure tha...
-
Alison McGovern | 530 c1384 (Link to this contribution) That is a crucial point, because moving ahead on this suggestion will take leadership from the very ...
-
Jonathan Edwards | 530 c1383 (Link to this contribution) I agree with the thrust of the hon. Gentleman's argument—the bankers are getting off far too lightly...
-
Chris Leslie | 530 c1383 (Link to this contribution) We discussed in Committee how the bank levy might be altered, and I will come in a moment to my own ...
-
Chris Leslie | 530 c1383 (Link to this contribution) Indeed. Sometimes Government Members protest too much. The Opposition simply want a review of what t...
-
Geoffrey Robinson | 530 c1385 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that the Government's bank levy was watered down as part of an agreement i...
-
Chris Leslie | 530 c1385-6 (Link to this contribution) It is difficult to see how the Government thought that that would be the moment of catharsis—the mom...
-
Bill Esterson | 530 c1386 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend remember hon. Members talking in Committee about the large-scale donations that ...
-
Chris Leslie | 530 c1387 (Link to this contribution) I cannot answer for the motivations of Ministers. It is difficult to know what motivates them. Is th...
-
Frank Dobson | 530 c1387 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that the Orwellian use of the term ““compensation”” in relation to working...
-
Chris Leslie | 530 c1387 (Link to this contribution) It is very easy to find oneself tied into the lexicon used by the financial services sector. My righ...
-
David Rutley | 530 c1385 (Link to this contribution) Might not the Government's position have something to do with the fact that the International Moneta...
-
Chris Leslie | 530 c1385 (Link to this contribution) I know that the Government have such a close relationship with the IMF that they take their policy l...
-
Chuka Umunna | 530 c1385 (Link to this contribution) I think the Minister was seeking to raise the IMF earlier, but the IMF has argued—I am sure that my ...
-
Chris Leslie | 530 c1385 (Link to this contribution) Indeed, and there are ways the bank levy could be improved. It might be appropriate at this point to...
-
David Rutley | 530 c1382 (Link to this contribution) Is the hon. Gentleman not aware that this Government's banking levy raises £2.5 billion, compared wi...
-
Chris Leslie | 530 c1381-2 (Link to this contribution) An excellent statistic from my hon. Friend. We are often told that the reason why we cannot take any...
-
Chuka Umunna | 530 c1381 (Link to this contribution) One of the objections that has been raised to reintroducing the bank bonus tax is that it would lead...
-
Chris Leslie | 530 c1380-1 (Link to this contribution) We now come to our general debate on taxation in respect of the Finance Bill. Clearly, one of the ma...
-
Speaker | 530 c1380 (Link to this contribution) With this it will be convenient to discuss the following:
-
Chris Leslie | 530 c1380 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move amendment 13, page 42, line 30, at end insert—
-
Chris Leslie | 530 c1382 (Link to this contribution) The problem is that we should have not either/or, but both. The bank levy and the banker bonus tax w...
-
Mark Hoban | 530 c1382 (Link to this contribution) May I just remind the hon. Gentleman what the Labour party said on the bank levy when it was in gove...
-
Chris Leslie | 530 c1382 (Link to this contribution) The question the Minister must answer is this: why is he taking no action at all on banker bonuses, ...
-
Bill Esterson | 530 c1383 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right. Does he agree that the Government's arguments on the levy would be more cre...
-
Chris Leslie | 530 c1383 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry that the Minister repeats the point he made earlier. Of course, if the previous Governmen...
-
Mark Hoban | 530 c1382 (Link to this contribution) I will make my remarks in my own time, but I remind the hon. Gentleman that he and his colleagues st...
-
Chris Leslie | 530 c1382 (Link to this contribution) Will the Minister say why he disagrees with the bank bonus tax?
-
Chris Leslie | 530 c1382 (Link to this contribution) Let us assume that the Minister is mistaken in his understanding of the Labour manifesto; I certainl...
-
David Gauke | 530 c1462-3 (Link to this contribution) Clause 87 and schedule 25 give effect to the new mutual assistance recovery directive, which comes i...
-
David Gauke | 530 c1464 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move amendment 22, page 166, leave out line 18 and insert"'day specified in the election as...
-
Caroline Lucas | 530 c1449-50 (Link to this contribution) I am pleased to speak in support of amendment 12, because the House needs much more detail from the ...
-
Mark Hoban | 530 c1418 (Link to this contribution) We have one of the most transparent disclosure regimes for banking salaries anywhere in the world. T...
-
Andrew Percy | 530 c1433 (Link to this contribution) I am encouraged by what I think I am hearing about the European Union. My policy would be simply to ...
-
Ben Wallace | 530 c1415 (Link to this contribution) I have listened carefully to the hon. Gentleman's points about apprenticeships and youth unemploymen...
-
Mark Durkan | 530 c1398 (Link to this contribution) Does amendment 31 not afford the Government the possibility of coming up with such a figure? They co...
-
Chris Leslie | 530 c1473-4 (Link to this contribution) I hope the hon. Gentleman will allow me to put on record something that he admits has been conspicuo...
-
David Mowat | 530 c1435 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Lady give way?
- Subjects
- Accountancy Companies Costs Corporation tax Banks EU countries Environment protection Energy Electricity generation Industry International cooperation Investment trusts Pay Money Young people Tax collection Taxation Unemployment Carbon emissions Bank levy
- Legislation
- Finance (No. 3) Bill 2010-12
- Link
- View this Parliamentary proceeding on www.publications.parliament.uk
Show all contributions (181)
Librarians' tools
- Timestamp
- 2024-02-08 19:26:15 +0000
- URI
- http://data.parliament.uk/pimsdata/hansard/PROCEEDING_93905
- In Indexing
- http://indexing.parliament.uk/Content/Edit/1?uri=http://data.parliament.uk/pimsdata/hansard/PROCEEDING_93905
- In Solr
- https://search.parliament.uk/claw/solr/?id=http://data.parliament.uk/pimsdata/hansard/PROCEEDING_93905