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Finance Bill. Committee stage third day. Clause 4 agreed, with one amendment debated and withdrawn. Clause 5 agreed on division (310 to 198) with one amendment debated and negatived on division (196 to 310). Clause 6 agreed, with one amendment debated and withdrawn and one amendment negatived on division (187 to 313). Schedules 3-5 agreed to. Clause 7 and 8 debated and agreed to. Clauses 9-11 agreed to. Bill reported without amendment. Bill to be read a third time tomorrow.

About these Parliamentary proceedings

Reference

513 c1106-87 

Session

2010-12

Department

Treasury

Legislative stage

Committee stage

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber
Finance Bill 2010-12. Explanatory notes also published (Bill 3-EN 2009-10).
Monday, 28 June 2010
Bills
House of Commons
Deposited Paper DEP2010-1510
Tuesday, 20 July 2010
Deposited papers
House of Commons

Proceeding contributions

Angela Eagle | 513 c1147 (Link to this contribution) I certainly appreciate the information that the Minister has put before us, and it helps us to get o...
Jon Trickett | 513 c1147 (Link to this contribution) The new regime comes in in April 2011. If, as the Minister said, the Government will not bring legis...

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Angela Eagle | 513 c1146-7 (Link to this contribution) It is up to the entire electorate to decide what is fair or unfair. I have set out some of the reaso...
Angela Eagle | 513 c1147 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady may wish to deal with some of the points in her reply on the amendment, but I am more ...
Angela Eagle | 513 c1144-5 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend raises an extremely important point and I obviously look forward to the contribution ...
Geraint Davies | 513 c1144 (Link to this contribution) In terms of the public finances, £3.6 billion is a massive amount to be raised in a very tight perio...
Angela Eagle | 513 c1146 (Link to this contribution) I certainly understand that anger, and I suspect that there will be even more anger if the Governmen...
Thomas Docherty | 513 c1145-6 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is probably aware of many people's anger at the size of the pension pots of bankers s...
Justine Greening | 513 c1147 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady is very kind. Given that she raises the issue, perhaps it would be helpful for the res...
Lord Beamish | 513 c1151 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend raises a good point. Clearly the net beneficiaries will not be in the north-east of E...
Thomas Docherty | 513 c1150-1 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is obviously very much in touch with the north-east of England. Would he care to spec...
Lord Beamish | 513 c1150 (Link to this contribution) I entirely agree with the hon. Gentleman. There seems to have been confusion from the Minister in th...
Sammy Wilson | 513 c1150 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman accept that if the amendment, which would require a distributional analysis ...
Lord Beamish | 513 c1149-50 (Link to this contribution) Over the past few weeks since the coalition came into being and the announcement of the Budget, the ...
Angela Eagle | 513 c1148-9 (Link to this contribution) Again, my hon. Friend makes an important point in his characteristically acerbic way. I was going to...
Geraint Davies | 513 c1148 (Link to this contribution) For clarity, does my hon. Friend agree that the Government's proposal consists of a multi-billion-po...
David Gauke | 513 c1134 (Link to this contribution) As I said earlier, the cost of my hon. Friend's amendment to exempt motor insurance from the IPT ris...
Sammy Wilson | 513 c1135-6 (Link to this contribution) I am listening intently to the hon. Gentleman. Would he extend his argument to, for example, househo...
Christopher Chope | 513 c1135 (Link to this contribution) It is my pleasure to respond to an excellent debate and I thank everybody who has participated in it...
Thomas Docherty | 513 c1136 (Link to this contribution) On private health care, does the hon. Gentleman accept that people receive a premium service, and th...
Christopher Chope | 513 c1136 (Link to this contribution) The answer is yes; I would wish to extend my argument. However, I tabled two specific amendments so ...
Mark Hendrick | 513 c1137 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman accept that the private health system is not independent? It is actually dep...
Christopher Chope | 513 c1136 (Link to this contribution) People take out private health insurance, which might be through a scheme in their firm, because the...
Liam Byrne | 513 c1137 (Link to this contribution) My ambition this afternoon was simply to tease out from the Government the principle behind the incr...
Christopher Chope | 513 c1137 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman demonstrates his old socialist credentials and his prejudice. I shall not get int...
Christopher Chope | 513 c1137 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman has deployed an old trick. Instead of responding to my challenge, he has pu...
Angela Eagle | 513 c1140-4 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend responds to my mention of instant gratification, but obviously it is in all our inter...
Christopher Chope | 513 c1138 (Link to this contribution) I was not thinking about Bentleys versus Skodas; I was thinking about the student living in Liverpoo...
David Gauke | 513 c1138 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right to return to this point, and I apologise for not responding to it in my earl...
Christopher Chope | 513 c1137-8 (Link to this contribution) I shall not get involved in that debate now, because I want to keep the focus on the narrow issues i...
Liam Byrne | 513 c1137 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is being slightly unfair. We had a very different approach to introducing £19 bil...
Chair of Committees of the Whole House | 513 c1139 (Link to this contribution) With this it will be convenient to discuss clause stand part.
Angela Eagle | 513 c1138-9 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move amendment 60, page 3, line 9, at end add—
Christopher Chope | 513 c1138 (Link to this contribution) On a point of order, Mr Hoyle. It seems as though right hon. and hon. Members in the Opposition did ...
Angela Eagle | 513 c1139-40 (Link to this contribution) The amendment seeks to delay the making of any order under clause 5 until the Treasury has published...
Peter Bone | 513 c1122 (Link to this contribution) I agree entirely with my right hon. Friend's point, but I want to draw a distinction between amendme...
Thomas Docherty | 513 c1124 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that people who have health insurance get fast-tracked, and receive a larg...
Chris Leslie | 513 c1123-4 (Link to this contribution) That particularly pernicious practice merits much closer scrutiny. I do not know whether it is allow...
George Mudie | 513 c1123 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend says that people do not shop around. Does he agree that any process of shopping aroun...
Chris Leslie | 513 c1123 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is entirely correct. It is important that we ensure that all our liabilities are prop...
Gordon Banks | 513 c1123 (Link to this contribution) Some areas of the country, including part of my constituency, face significant flood risk. Does my h...
Chris Leslie | 513 c1123 (Link to this contribution) I am glad that we have had the opportunity to debate these important tax changes. I have the greates...
Peter Bone | 513 c1123 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for the hon. Gentleman's intervention, but I know that I will get into trouble if I re...
Thomas Docherty | 513 c1122 (Link to this contribution) Labour Members do not have a philosophical objection to private health care, but does the hon. Gentl...
Chris Leslie | 513 c1124 (Link to this contribution) Thankfully, Labour has shifted the terms of reference for this debate, and not just in this country,...
Chris Leslie | 513 c1124-5 (Link to this contribution) I have absolutely no idea. As a humble Back Bencher, I simply make my comments and observations. Cle...
John Redwood | 513 c1124 (Link to this contribution) Was the absence of support for amendments 18 and 19 from the Labour Front Benchers a sign that Labou...
Geraint Davies | 513 c1126 (Link to this contribution) Will my hon. Friend give way on that point?
Geraint Davies | 513 c1126 (Link to this contribution) I shall bear that in mind. My hon. Friend will know that I had a previous responsibility for adaptin...
Chair of Committees of the Whole House | 513 c1126 (Link to this contribution) Order. Just before that happens, can we please restrict ourselves to the Bill and the amendments to ...
Chris Leslie | 513 c1126 (Link to this contribution) Absolutely. A lot of people, when they apply for insurance, will be asked what amount they wish to h...
Gordon Banks | 513 c1125 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend talks about house insurance. Has he considered that people might retain insurance, bu...
Chris Leslie | 513 c1126 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for his assistance. On home insurance, the excess is typically £100 or £200. ...
Christopher Chope | 513 c1132 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend framed his policy in rather negative terms by saying that the Government did not disa...
Thomas Docherty | 513 c1132 (Link to this contribution) The Minister claims that the Government are protecting the NHS. Is he aware that all the health boar...
David Gauke | 513 c1132 (Link to this contribution) Of course health care in Scotland is a devolved matter, and you will not want me to digress on that,...
Liam Byrne | 513 c1131 (Link to this contribution) The Minister is making an argument about choices that are made in order to increase revenue, but I t...
David Gauke | 513 c1131-2 (Link to this contribution) The central point is that the country is in a very difficult position as regards the public finances...
Lord Beamish | 513 c1131 (Link to this contribution) I am not sure whether the hon. Gentleman has renewed his car insurance or household policy recently,...
David Gauke | 513 c1131 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for underlining an earlier point that I made—that it is not nece...
Gordon Banks | 513 c1130 (Link to this contribution) I just want to make a simple point. The Minister is saying that he expects consumers to pay twice—on...
David Gauke | 513 c1131 (Link to this contribution) That is not what I am saying. I am saying that the increase in insurance premium tax, which is payab...
David Gauke | 513 c1130 (Link to this contribution) I am not denying that we expect the increase to be passed on predominantly to consumers; we expect t...
David Gauke | 513 c1133-4 (Link to this contribution) Let us see what happens. I am not sure that the evidence necessarily supports that concern, but I am...
David Gauke | 513 c1134 (Link to this contribution) It is always a pleasure to hear from my hon. Friend.
David Gauke | 513 c1132-3 (Link to this contribution) If I may, I will provide a little more information breaking down the numbers in a moment or so, and ...
David Gauke | 513 c1133 (Link to this contribution) We do not believe the rise will have a noticeable effect on the number of people taking out insuranc...
Mark Hendrick | 513 c1133 (Link to this contribution) The Exchequer Secretary says that the rise will not be a deterrent, but it will certainly provide an...
David Gauke | 513 c1132 (Link to this contribution) As a Government—I am sure that this is a principle that my hon. Friend would support—we believe in g...
Chris Leslie | 513 c1132 (Link to this contribution) Specifically in terms of the contribution to fiscal consolidation, how much of the yield from the in...
Chris Leslie | 513 c1127 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes a reasonable point, and he is right that at that level the disincentive mig...
Lord Beamish | 513 c1128 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that the measure will also have an effect on the wider economy? For exampl...
Chris Leslie | 513 c1127 (Link to this contribution) Absolutely. My right hon. Friend the shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury made that point very for...
Sammy Wilson | 513 c1127 (Link to this contribution) I appreciate the hon. Gentleman's point about a 1% rise being regressive, but, on his earlier point ...
Chris Leslie | 513 c1128 (Link to this contribution) There will be consequences if, because of the extra cost of a family holiday, our constituents are d...
Peter Bone | 513 c1128 (Link to this contribution) I am being won over by the hon. Gentleman's speech. He argues very strongly against tax rises, and h...
Chris Leslie | 513 c1126 (Link to this contribution) Those who require insurance, on which the amendments would seek a report from the Treasury in order ...
Geraint Davies | 513 c1127 (Link to this contribution) On that specific point about the incidence of such insurance deals, the reality is that, as climate ...
Chair of Committees of the Whole House | 513 c1126 (Link to this contribution) Order. That is much wider than what we are discussing today.
Geraint Davies | 513 c1129 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend mentioned the issue of compulsion and rates. Does he agree that there is a case to be...
Chris Leslie | 513 c1129 (Link to this contribution) I hear what my hon. Friend says, but I am reluctant to extend compulsion in that regard. We should c...
David Gauke | 513 c1129-30 (Link to this contribution) We have had a wide-ranging debate on clause 4 and the amendments tabled to it; I am sure, Mr Evans, ...
Christopher Chope | 513 c1130 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend mean that if there was an opportunity for somebody to pay £8,000 for long-term i...
David Gauke | 513 c1130 (Link to this contribution) What I can say is that given how IPT is currently structured and where it is levied, it does not app...
Liam Byrne | 513 c1130 (Link to this contribution) Will the Minister remind the Committee of something? On the two or three previous occasions when IPT...
Chris Leslie | 513 c1128 (Link to this contribution) Mr Evans, I felt an obligation to help the hon. Gentleman and hoped that, with that short interjecti...
Chris Leslie | 513 c1128 (Link to this contribution) I would like to make some progress, but yes, I shall give way.
Chair of Committees of the Whole House | 513 c1151 (Link to this contribution) Order. I hope that before the hon. Gentleman responds, he will reflect on the fact that the point th...
Angela Eagle | 513 c1151 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that neither partner in the coalition Government went into the general ele...
Lord Beamish | 513 c1151 (Link to this contribution) Let us not forget that one. However, the proposal in clause 5 will leave a big black hole in the def...
Geraint Davies | 513 c1152 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right. The status quo proposal of getting the £3.6 billion from the top 2% was bas...
Lord Beamish | 513 c1152 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend also agree that the 2% of taxpayers who will get the £3.6 billion cash give-away...
Geraint Davies | 513 c1152 (Link to this contribution) It is a great pleasure to follow my hon. Friend the Member for North Durham (Mr Jones), who puts his...
Lord Beamish | 513 c1151-2 (Link to this contribution) I would not want to go against your judgment, Mr Amess, but may I say that my hon. Friend's point is...
Justine Greening | 513 c1152 (Link to this contribution) May I confirm that I have understood what the hon. Gentleman prefers? Would he rather have tax relie...
Geraint Davies | 513 c1152-3 (Link to this contribution) The Economy Secretary knows that the distributional impact of the proposals is, as I have said, to s...
Chris Leslie | 513 c1153 (Link to this contribution) Again, the Labour party was trying to close the loopholes for the very richest and to reduce some of...
Geraint Davies | 513 c1153 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right. Only yesterday, he lucidly pointed out that, when we went into the election...
Sammy Wilson | 513 c1155-6 (Link to this contribution) I have only a few points to make. The Conservative party's fortunes or misfortunes do not really aff...
Geraint Davies | 513 c1154-5 (Link to this contribution) I certainly do not think that the Government can be trusted but, more importantly, do the industry, ...
Justine Greening | 513 c1157 (Link to this contribution) May I start by saying what a pleasure it is to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Amess? We have had...
Justine Greening | 513 c1157-8 (Link to this contribution) Let me make some progress. That will benefit 11 million pensioners across the country. Through clau...
Chris Leslie | 513 c1153 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is making several important points. The clause appears to reinstate an enormous tax r...
Angela Eagle | 513 c1158 (Link to this contribution) On that point, does the Minister also agree with the IFS analysis of the Budget, which pointed out t...
Matt Hancock | 513 c1161 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend remember a distributional table ever being placed in a Budget under the Labour G...
Justine Greening | 513 c1161 (Link to this contribution) I would have thought that the hon. Gentleman was so intelligent that he could do the maths himself. ...
Chris Leslie | 513 c1161 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady is talking to us as though we were schoolchildren, but she will not publish her propos...
Justine Greening | 513 c1160-1 (Link to this contribution) A whole range of analyses and impact statements will come out with the legislation. I suspect that, ...
Angela Eagle | 513 c1160 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister for giving way on this important point. Will she undertake to provide a distrib...
Justine Greening | 513 c1159-60 (Link to this contribution) I was just about to come to that. One thing that we know right now about the existing plans is that ...
Angela Eagle | 513 c1158-9 (Link to this contribution) There are hints in the Red Book about the annual allowance taking the strain, so will the Minister t...
Justine Greening | 513 c1158 (Link to this contribution) We are proposing a different approach, which would address that very measure. The decision for the h...
Justine Greening | 513 c1158 (Link to this contribution) Many people on the minimum wage will not view it as progressive for someone who can afford to pay up...
Chair of Committees of the Whole House | 513 c1170 (Link to this contribution) With this it will be convenient to discuss amendment 17, in schedule 3, page 19, line 38, leave out ...
Stewart Hosie | 513 c1170 (Link to this contribution) I do not intend to delay the Committee. By and large, I am very supportive of clause 6. The two-year...
Thomas Docherty | 513 c1161 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Minister for helping us to understand how much the Chancellor can afford to put...
Justine Greening | 513 c1161 (Link to this contribution) It seems that I'm damned if I give information and damned if I don't. I was asked to provide some fa...
Angela Eagle | 513 c1162 (Link to this contribution) We have had a long discussion, so I will be brief. I appreciate the information, such as it was, tha...
Justine Greening | 513 c1161-2 (Link to this contribution) I was asked for some figures and what the impact would be on the very richest. We can probably find ...
Justine Greening | 513 c1161 (Link to this contribution) I have no recollection of that, but I will not take up more of the time of the Committee. The last f...
Justine Greening | 513 c1171-2 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Member for Dundee East (Stewart Hosie) for his questions, and it is probab...
Mike Weir | 513 c1172 (Link to this contribution) I understand the Economic Secretary's point and I am closely following her argument. Does she accept...
Mike Weir | 513 c1170 (Link to this contribution) Indeed it was a constituent of mine who brought the matter to our attention. Does my hon. Friend thi...
Stewart Hosie | 513 c1171 (Link to this contribution) It may have got round the problem. That is one of the questions that I shall put to the Minister. I...
Angela Eagle | 513 c1173-4 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move amendment 61, page 3, line 12, at end add—
Robert Flello | 513 c1174 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend also find it a little strange that there is such a short consultation period whe...
Justine Greening | 513 c1173 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for that intervention. I will set out our overall approach to the issue t...
Stewart Hosie | 513 c1173 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Economic Secretary for her response. Clearly, the way forward for people reaching 75 is ...
Angela Eagle | 513 c1174-5 (Link to this contribution) I too wanted to ask the Minister this: what on earth is the rush about? One thing about annuitising ...
Bill Esterson | 513 c1175 (Link to this contribution) At a time when we need to encourage more people to make pension provision, does my hon. Friend think...
Angela Eagle | 513 c1175-6 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend raises a reasonable point. Changes in this area have to be made very carefully to avo...
John Redwood | 513 c1176 (Link to this contribution) Can the hon. Lady remind the House how many private sector final salary pension schemes actually clo...
Angela Eagle | 513 c1176 (Link to this contribution) We would have to have a long debate about a range of issues to answer that, but I am happy to defend...
John Redwood | 513 c1176 (Link to this contribution) I will be brief, Mr Evans, because I believe that some Members have other things to do later on. I a...
Angela Eagle | 513 c1176 (Link to this contribution) It is in the Government document.
John Redwood | 513 c1176 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady is protesting. I know it is in the Government document, but I am suggesting that the G...
Graham Stuart | 513 c1176 (Link to this contribution) It did a really good job stopping them.
John Redwood | 513 c1176-7 (Link to this contribution) Indeed, it tried to stop them on many occasions. If we do too much of that, however, we have a poore...
Bill Esterson | 513 c1177 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman mentioned the record of the last Labour Government on pensions, but what ab...
Angela Eagle | 513 c1178 (Link to this contribution) I am not really that satisfied with the answers that the hon. Lady has given, as she will not be sur...
Angela Eagle | 513 c1177 (Link to this contribution) I looked at the written ministerial statement at about quarter to 11 this morning, and it said that ...
Justine Greening | 513 c1177-8 (Link to this contribution) We are getting into the same sort of argument that we had in the previous debate, where if we had pu...
John Redwood | 513 c1177 (Link to this contribution) I would love to deal with that point, but I shall take your advice, Mr Evans. The real sin was the t...
Justine Greening | 513 c1177 (Link to this contribution) I thank my right hon. Friend for his kind words. This provision is a step forward. As he said, it mi...
Robert Flello | 513 c1183 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend said that schedule 4 was broadly neutral in terms of income tax. Has he noted p...
Chair of Committees of the Whole House | 513 c1182 (Link to this contribution) Order. Far too many conversations are taking place in the Chamber. Will those who are leaving please...
Stephen Timms | 513 c1182-3 (Link to this contribution) I appreciate that the arrangements will broadly have the effect of maintaining the tax treatment tha...
Stephen Timms | 513 c1185-6 (Link to this contribution) Clause 8 and schedule 5 amend the corporation tax rules on loan relationships and derivative contrac...
Chair of Committees of the Whole House | 513 c1186 (Link to this contribution) Order. I think that the right hon. Gentleman is going much wider than the provision before us. Will ...
Stephen Timms | 513 c1186 (Link to this contribution) Of course I will, Mr Evans. I accept that there will always be areas in which there is legitimate u...
David Gauke | 513 c1186-7 (Link to this contribution) I thank the shadow Minister for his words of support. It would be somewhat surprising if he did not ...
Stephen Williams | 513 c1183 (Link to this contribution) To be helpful, a loan is not subject to income tax whereas if the loan was interest free the differe...
Stephen Timms | 513 c1183-4 (Link to this contribution) I know that the hon. Gentleman is a chartered tax specialist, as was acknowledged at a reception las...
Justine Greening | 513 c1184-5 (Link to this contribution) I shall briefly talk about what we seek to achieve with clause 7 and schedule 4, and then try to ans...
John Redwood | 513 c1113-4 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend the Member for Christchurch (Mr Chope) has highlighted the two very important and dif...
Claire O'Neill | 513 c1114 (Link to this contribution) In trying to square the circle of how we can raise taxes when there is no money, it is interesting t...
Chair of Committees of the Whole House | 513 c1114 (Link to this contribution) Order. We are not referring to taxes that are not proposed in the Bill. We are talking specifically ...
John Redwood | 513 c1114-5 (Link to this contribution) How wise you are, Mr Evans. I was making the point that the Minister, in responding to this debate ...
Baroness Burt of Solihull | 513 c1115 (Link to this contribution) A number of speakers today have singled out specific kinds of insurance, but as I understand it, the...
John Redwood | 513 c1115 (Link to this contribution) That is what I am trying to explain, while remaining in order on this narrow amendment. The bottom l...
Liam Byrne | 513 c1115 (Link to this contribution) I am following the right hon. Gentleman's argument with some care. He said that motorists get only a...
John Redwood | 513 c1115-7 (Link to this contribution) No, I do not. I am sufficiently in tune with Treasury thinking to know that all Treasuries under any...
Liam Byrne | 513 c1117 (Link to this contribution) It is an enormous pleasure to follow the hon. Members for Christchurch (Mr Chope) and for Dundee Eas...
Liam Byrne | 513 c1117-8 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman raises an important question. The answer is that I do not know. It is a mystery. ...
Christopher Chope | 513 c1117 (Link to this contribution) Does the right hon. Gentleman know what proportion of the £400 million yield from IPT proposals is a...
Peter Bone | 513 c1119 (Link to this contribution) Is the shadow Minister saying now that he would support the private Member's Transparent Taxation (R...
Liam Byrne | 513 c1119-21 (Link to this contribution) I have not studied the Bill, so I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for drawing it to my attention. ...
Chris Leslie | 513 c1118-9 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend is making an incredibly important point. Many pensioners in my constituency wil...
Liam Byrne | 513 c1119 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend raises an extremely significant point. I am sorry that his amendment was not selected...
Greg Knight | 513 c1122 (Link to this contribution) Is not the encapsulation of my hon. Friend's argument that this is a tax on responsible behaviour? I...
Chair of Committees of the Whole House | 513 c1121 (Link to this contribution) Order. It may be of interest to the Committee to know that I shall not be allowing a debate on claus...
Peter Bone | 513 c1121-2 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr Evans. I am very grateful to have been called. It is a great pleasure to serve under y...
Baroness Burt of Solihull | 513 c1109 (Link to this contribution) I am following the hon. Gentlemen's argument, but when he says that the cost of insurance for young ...
Christopher Chope | 513 c1108-9 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend asks a pertinent question. I would prefer the tax to be much lower—indeed, perh...
Peter Bone | 513 c1106-7 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is making a powerful speech, and I am grateful to him for giving way. Does he support...
Christopher Chope | 513 c1106 (Link to this contribution) The amendments aim to tease out from the coalition Government and, in particular, the Exchequer Secr...
John Redwood | 513 c1108 (Link to this contribution) I am delighted by the case that my hon. Friend is making. As he is suggesting, people who insure for...
Christopher Chope | 513 c1107-8 (Link to this contribution) Almost every contribution I make in the House is designed to try to help the Government and often to...
Chair of Committees of the Whole House | 513 c1106 (Link to this contribution) With this it will be convenient to discuss the following: Amendment 19, page 2, line 23, leave out '...
Christopher Chope | 513 c1106 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move amendment 18, page 2, line 23, leave out '““6 per cent””' and insert '““5 per cent in ...
Christopher Chope | 513 c1109 (Link to this contribution) Well, 1% is 1%. I am sorry that the hon. Lady seems to be rather unsympathetic to the plight of peop...
Stewart Hosie | 513 c1111-2 (Link to this contribution) I rise to speak to amendment 15 in my name and that of my friends. At face value, the increase in in...
Christopher Chope | 513 c1111 (Link to this contribution) Absolutely. I make no apology for declaring my own view, which is that if it could be afforded, it w...
Peter Bone | 513 c1111 (Link to this contribution) Before my hon. Friend concludes his opening remarks, will he clarify this? I assume that the amendme...
Christopher Chope | 513 c1111 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend has particular expertise and knowledge about that particular end of the market....
Greg Knight | 513 c1111 (Link to this contribution) I do not think my hon. Friend should gloss over this point too quickly. As he has said, this is a pe...
Christopher Chope | 513 c1110-1 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend is absolutely right. What he and others are identifying in this debate is an el...
Greg Knight | 513 c1110 (Link to this contribution) This tax will hit not only young people, but people of all ages. Does he agree that those arguing th...
Christopher Chope | 513 c1109-10 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right. What he said is no great revelation for young people when th...
Chris Leslie | 513 c1109 (Link to this contribution) As I hope to be able to say in my contribution later, I agree with the hon. Gentleman on this point....
David Rutley | 513 c1112 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes an important point about underinsurance, as have other Members. Does he agr...
Stewart Hosie | 513 c1112-3 (Link to this contribution) I am a great supporter of innovative product design, marketing and pricing strategies, and I hope th...
Justine Greening | 513 c1146 (Link to this contribution) I can see that the hon. Lady and other Opposition Members are following a particular train of inquir...
Angela Eagle | 513 c1147-8 (Link to this contribution) There are issues of process on which I would appreciate the hon. Lady's enlightenment in her respons...
Christopher Chope | 513 c1134 (Link to this contribution) Will my hon. Friend spell out the yield from IPT on motor insurance and health insurance, which amen...
Thomas Docherty | 513 c1133 (Link to this contribution) Has the Treasury done any work to enable it to hazard a guess as to how many people will not now tak...
Thomas Docherty | 513 c1156-7 (Link to this contribution) I shall be relatively brief. It is perhaps worth noting that since my hon. Friend the Member for Nor...
Stephen Timms | 513 c1182 (Link to this contribution) Schedule 4 provides for the exemption from income tax of expenses paid or reimbursed to MPs, followi...
Chris Leslie | 513 c1128 (Link to this contribution) That is a reasonable point, but I should not want to stray beyond the terms of the amendment, suffic...
Stewart Hosie | 513 c1170 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move amendment 16, page 3, line 12, leave out '22 June 2010' and insert 'a date set by the ...
Chris Leslie | 513 c1161 (Link to this contribution) On a point of order, Mr Amess. Is it in order for the Minister to withhold information to which she ...
Stephen Timms | 513 c1183 (Link to this contribution) I confess that when I read the legislation that point did not strike me, but it has been raised and ...
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