National Insurance Contributions (Termination Awards and Sporting Testimonials) Bill

Although he is not here, may I welcome the new Financial Secretary to the Treasury to his post, a...

The best way to describe it is as a stealth tax on people who are going to be unemployed for quit...

My hon. Friend makes a valid point. Assessments of the impact of austerity have found that 86% of...

I am grateful to my hon. Friend for giving way. The arguments that he is making are sound. There ...

That is a very good point, because that is exactly what the Government do time after time. When t...

I am very grateful to the hon. Gentleman. I have enjoyed discussing this Bill with him in Committ...

I am very pleased that a Conservative Member of Parliament admits that he is putting taxes up. He...

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Just a moment. Even if I accept—[Interruption.] I am happy to give way. Even if I accept, which I...

The point is not whether it is going up, but whether it is being done in a stealthy fashion. I ac...

The hon. Gentleman can point that out to me as much as he wants. I admitted, or acknowledged—call...

I thank my hon. Friend for giving way. I made a remark about sneaky tax from a sedentary position...

That is another stealth tax—the television licence. The fundamental point is important. It goes t...

He didn’t say that.

I beg your pardon. So it is a tax-avoidance measure, apparently, without any evidence, as far as ...

I have listened very carefully to my hon. Friend and I totally agree with him. May I concentrate ...

My hon. Friend makes an important point. The Government would have us believe that there is an am...

It is a pleasure to take part in a Report stage where the Government do not have amendments to th...

The hon. Lady will have heard my earlier intervention. It is not uncommon for people to give very...

I thank the hon. Gentleman for his intervention. The liability only arises for testimonials of mo...

I am grateful for the opportunity to respond to the comments and questions posed by the hon. Memb...

I indicated at the time that we would reserve our judgment and see whether the Government came up...

Let me respond to the amendments tabled by the hon. Gentleman and the hon. Member for Aberdeen No...

As the Minister has said, we discussed this in Committee, as well as on Second Reading. As we hav...

As I said in answer to the hon. Lady in Committee, that is not information that HMRC collects. St...

Could the Minister please let us know whether that will be in three years’ time or five years’ ti...

I cannot tell the hon. Lady that at the present time, and for good reason. We do not know at this...

We will push new clause 5, but I beg to ask leave to withdraw new clause 1.

Clause, by leav...

I beg to move, That the Bill be now read the Third time.

I am grateful to all the right hon...

It is a pleasure to speak on behalf of the official Opposition on Third Reading. It is also a ple...

The Bill does not do what the Government set out to do, which is to simplify the tax system. The ...