National Insurance Contributions (Rate Ceilings) Bill

To be very clear, this is a cap, not a freeze. I am grateful to my right hon. Friend for allowing...

As we have heard, this Bill enacts the Conservatives’ manifesto pledge not to increase NICs in th...

I thought that the previous Labour Government enacted legislation to bring down the budget defici...

The right hon. Gentleman makes an important point, but I am citing what the current Chancellor ha...

If the European Union Bill was undersubscribed, this is even more so. Is it such an important Bil...

I welcomed the manifesto pledge and am very pleased that we know that for five years there will b...

The right hon. Gentleman would be right in normal circumstances, but we now have the fiscal chart...

I think that we would make a judgment at the time, but fortunately we do not have to make that ju...

With the leave of the House, Madam Deputy Speaker, I want to respond to the points raised by righ...

Has the Treasury Minister forgotten that the North sea oil revenues go to HM Treasury and that th...

The proposition of the independence movement was much more optimistic about receipts than the OBR...

I will not be tempted by the Minister, however generally he put it, other than to say that he was...

Let us be clear that the OBR’s projections for oil prices—those are the ones that the Government ...