Coronavirus: Job-Support Schemes

I thank my hon. Friend for his intervention and I think he is entirely right. It is simply the ca...

As was announced at the beginning of the estimates debate, the time limit on Back-Bench contribut...

I thank the right hon. Member for Central Devon (Mel Stride) and his Committee for their work on ...

Several constituents have said to me, “I will be quite honest with you; I did not need the help. ...

The hon. Gentleman raises an interesting point. One of the issues that I have been looking at in ...

I begin by referring Members to my declared shareholding in Glint Pay. I thank HMRC for what it h...

My hon. Friend is making an extremely important point. These are just the main estimates, not the...

Yes. I hope that the Minister will give us a detailed explanation of how these figures break down...

Yes.

I am grateful to the hon. Lady for agreeing. There are real issues of justice and equity at stake...

The coronavirus pandemic has ushered in an economic emergency of gargantuan proportions. The esti...

I want to go back to the point about people who had to use personal service company set-ups in or...

I absolutely agree. This crisis has forced us to look at how our labour market works, and we need...

I remind the hon. Lady that she stood at the Dispatch Box 10 years ago accusing us of being Hoove...

Clearly somebody in the Conservative party has moved on, but when we look at the difference betwe...

A few months ago, the Chancellor spoke directly to those who had lost their livelihoods overnight...

In this debate on the HMRC estimates, I will focus on the potential economic effect of local lock...

Thank you for taking only three minutes, because that is where we are now going in order to get a...

The Government’s action to save jobs through the job retention scheme was welcome, but there is a...

This morning, almost a quarter of all MPs—about 150 of us—joined a Zoom call for the first meetin...

It is a pleasure to take part in this debate, and I join Members across the House in representing...

I want to start by acknowledging the scale of the intervention from the Government with regard to...

I begin by thanking the Government for the steps that they took at the outset of this pandemic. T...

The Treasury has done a magnificent job, but ultimately Martin Lewis has summed it up: a number o...

I thank my hon. Friend for her intervention. She is absolutely right. That will be reflected in a...

I want to start with two quotes:

“Everyone in this country has benefited one way or another...

I am delighted to be taking part in this debate on behalf of the Opposition Front-Bench team, wit...

We were shocked in the Public Accounts Committee to discover that, despite planning for a pandemi...

I thank my hon. Friend for that intervention. She is absolutely right that far too little prepara...

I thank my right hon. Friend the Member for Central Devon (Mel Stride), who chairs the Treasury C...

It was an achievement, but although there was a planning exercise—there have been many planning e...

I have not gone into the arrangements for pandemic that the Treasury had in 2016, at the time the...

It is not that we wish the Minister to support people in the way that they want. He has to recogn...

I will be coming to some of the points that the hon. Member raises later in my remarks. We are fo...

I will be brief, Madam Deputy Speaker, because I realise that there is another debate to follow. ...