Support for Self-employed and Freelance Workers

I thank the hon. Gentleman for his intervention. I absolutely agree. The people we are talking ab...

How is Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs meant to know where the dividend income comes from, beca...

A whole range of practical proposals has been set out by the Treasury Committee, ExcludedUK and m...

When I raised this very issue with the Treasury Minister, I highlighted the fact that the records...

I thank the hon. Lady for making that point. She is of course absolutely right, and it would be a...

Would these things not be able to be thrashed out one to one in the meeting that still has not ta...

The hon. Lady is exactly right. Just a first step will be for the Government to acknowledge that ...

The hon. Member is absolutely right that people furloughed generally are not allowed to work. But...

If they do not have any money, they cannot save their business, can they? That seems an odd inter...

There is a four-minute limit.

3.30 pm

What a powerful start to this debate we have just heard from the hon. Member for Brighton, Pavili...

Will my hon. Friend allow me to assert the fact that some people who are self-employed have been ...

My hon. Friend is precisely right. That is one of the three issues the Government really need to ...

I congratulate the hon. Member for Brighton, Pavilion (Caroline Lucas) on securing this debate an...

Businesses up and down our country face pressures they never expected, challenges they never pred...

Like my hon. Friend, I represent a coastal community, and many of the people she has mentioned I ...

I agree with my hon. Friend. Numerous freelancers did not have a financial buffer and, unlike emp...

I thank those Members who have been championing the self-employed for the past six months. In Nor...

The hon. Lady is very passionate in what she is saying, and I totally agree with her. One of the ...

Of course. The hon. Member will know that community arts also feed into our professional workforc...

It is a pleasure to support freelancers and self-employed people in my constituency who have fall...

I commend the hon. Lady for what she has said. It is so important to foster talent, and if we do ...

The hon. Member is absolutely right—it is about not just these people’s talent, but the next gene...

Gary Thomson is a taxi driver in Edinburgh—one of many in the city. He has been driving for years...

For the sake of transparency, I refer hon. Members to my declaration in the Register of Members’ ...

The hon. Member for Buckingham (Greg Smith) made an excellent speech, and I hope the Minister lis...

I thank the Backbench Business Committee for securing this debate on an important topic. It is a ...

I can see that several people are hoping to speak. We are running out of time, so I am afraid tha...

You are very kind, Madam Deputy Speaker. I assure you that I have had more shocking things to dea...

I congratulate the hon. Member for Brighton, Pavilion (Caroline Lucas) on securing this debate on...

I thank the hon. Member for Brighton, Pavilion (Caroline Lucas) for securing the debate, and the ...

Back in March, at the beginning of lockdown, when announcing some financial support, the Chancell...

Following the powerful debate on the coronavirus job retention scheme that has just taken place, ...

I join others in congratulating my hon. Friend the Member for Brighton, Pavilion (Caroline Lucas)...

Time is of the essence, so I am going to cut to the chase and give a couple of examples from cons...

I congratulate the hon. Member for Brighton, Pavilion (Caroline Lucas), as other Members have, on...

I begin by congratulating a stellar cast of cross-party MPs, led by the hon. Member for Brighton,...

Many of those excluded from the schemes are in the creative industries, which contribute £111.7 b...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right. She is second to none in championing that issue on behalf of ...

Although many groups are affected, I want to highlight those people on repeated short-term contra...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right. There are practical ways through this. We do not pretend that...

Does the hon. Member agree that many freelancers, particularly in the creative industries, where ...

That is absolutely true. One of the things I find most worrying about the trends we have seen is ...

I congratulate the hon. Member for Brighton, Pavilion (Caroline Lucas) on securing the debate and...

Will the hon. Lady give way?

I am afraid that I do not have enough time. I am sorry I am not taking interventions.

It is...

I thank all Members who have contributed to this debate and many others who I know wanted to do s...