Finance Bill

During the autumn statement, I raised the point about High Speed 2 with the Chancellor, and I als...

I am grateful to my hon. Friend and will of course check with the Chief Secretary’s office; my of...

I thank the Minister for outlining the detail on the energy profits levy. Does he agree that the ...

My hon. Friend is extremely astute: he has noted the significant contribution these taxes will ma...

The Government are absolutely right on this point. The objective of giving taxpayers’ money to co...

I am grateful to my hon. Friend. Of course, he was in the Department and has a business backgroun...

It was indeed welcome to hear the Chancellor talking in the autumn statement about additional mon...

I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman. In raising education, I hope he will have noted and strongly...

Colleges?

The hon. Gentleman is right to raise further education. We also announced in the statement that t...

What consideration have the Government given to taxation of those who benefited during covid? The...

The hon. Gentleman makes an interesting point. I, for one, would never resent the fact that someo...

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I will finish this point; the hon. Gentleman is welcome to come back at me on it. He will recall ...

I absolutely agree with everything that the Minister just said, but the truth is that the money p...

By any objective assessment, that enormous support helped our country through one of the toughest...

Will the Minister give way?

Will the Minister give way?

If the hon. Member for Eltham (Clive Efford) will forgive me, we have some interest from another ...

I am grateful to the Minister. I welcome the announcement in the Bill that reduces the additional...

The hon. Gentleman makes an interesting suggestion. He will not be surprised to hear that I do no...

Any Government would have given the support that the Government gave at that time, so I accept ev...

The furlough scheme, on its own, protected 11.5 million jobs. Does the hon. Gentleman seriously t...

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I have already given way to both my hon. Friends, but I will go to Bedfordshire.

That is certainly the best place the Minister can go. He is always welcome in North East Bedfords...

As a Conservative who wants taxes to be lower, I do not stand here with any relish in putting for...

I thank the Minister for giving way. It is a good job I can remember what I was about to say.

My hon. Friend is an absolute champion of small businesses and of businesses of all sizes in his ...

I call the shadow Minister.

5.47 pm

I beg to move an amendment, to leave out from “That” to the end of the Question and add:

“t...

Will the hon. Gentleman please check his facts? If he looks at the period from 2010 to just befor...

I seem to be engaging more with the hon. Gentleman now that he is on the Back Benches than when h...

I agree with many of the hon. Gentleman’s points. Much of the narrative around the autumn stateme...

Later in my speech I will talk about our plan for growth, which will involve fixing the holes in ...

My hon. Friend is making an excellent speech, in stark contrast to what we have heard from the Co...

I thank my hon. Friend for her contribution. She is a great advocate for investment in skills tra...

Order. The hon. Gentleman knows that he should not refer to existing colleagues by name.

I apologise, Madam Deputy Speaker. All we have to show from those three former Conservative Prime...

It is a pleasure to speak so early in the debate. It is also a great pleasure to have a Finance B...

I call the SNP spokesperson.

6.14 pm

It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Amber Valley (Nigel Mills), who gave a characteris...

Thank you for calling me so early in this debate, Madam Deputy Speaker—presumably the answer is t...

Contrary to what we have heard, the Bill is not about growth. It goes nowhere near what is needed...

It is a pleasure to be called so early in the debate. At the outset, I want to put on record Darl...

It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Darlington (Peter Gibson).

We have heard a g...

The Government have made some tough but fair decisions to restore economic stability and tackle i...

Does my hon. Friend agree that every pound invested in the private sector in research and develop...

I could not agree more with my hon. Friend. Indeed, it goes to the point made by the hon. Member ...

We have Schrödinger’s Finance Bill. For a while, there was no Finance Bill. Then yes, there was g...

On the point that has just been made that those of us on the Conservative Benches have some kind ...

I was struck by a quote I read a while back of the head of the Institute for Public Policy Resear...

My hon. Friend is making an excellent speech. Is he, like me, thinking about all the people who w...

My hon. Friend’s intervention speaks for itself and I absolutely agree; that is an example of whe...

I could say so much about what we are debating today that I do not know if I can contain myself. ...

It is a pleasure to speak at the back end of the debate following so many fascinating contributio...

It is important to have research and development. It is also important that those companies can d...

Absolutely. Many companies in my constituency and publicly funded institutes are doing research o...

As a dutiful Back Bencher, I answered the call of the Whips and wrote about an hour’s worth of sp...

Following the last Back-Bench contribution, we will go straight to the wind-ups. I call Peter Ald...

For a moment, I thought that you had forgotten me, Mr Deputy Speaker, but that is greatly appreci...

We now come to the wind-ups.

8.17 pm

May I put on the record my thanks to the emergency services for their work following the tragic d...

Let me start by echoing the condolences expressed by the hon. Member for Erith and Thamesmead (Ab...

Will the Minister give way?

I will in a moment.

My hon. Friend the Member for Darlington (Peter Gibson) emphasised the ...