National Insurance Contributions Bill

My Lords, on 7 September, as president of the CBI, I spoke of the Government’s plan for social ca...

My Lords, this Bill hangs on the failed concept of free ports, which are effectively a state with...

My Lords, this may have been a short debate but, my goodness, it has been a full one. I feel rath...

My Lords, this has been a short but interesting debate. There has been a heavy focus on the Gover...

My Lords, this debate was initially down to have at least a dozen speakers. I am sorry to say tha...

The Minister just said that we do not charge national insurance because unearned income is not th...

I would be more than happy to do that. The noble Lord takes a slightly cynical view of this. We n...

The Minister may not have the answer to this but I want to repeat the question. As I say, port op...

I was not aware of the first part of the noble Baroness’s question but I will certainly look into...

Will that response come in time for us to take account of it as the Bill goes through?

I asked about that, so I will say yes; we want to get a response as soon as we can. I do not yet ...

Before the Minister concludes, does he have a reply on the salary sacrifice point? I will be happ...

Absolutely; I will look at Hansard to check on all the questions raised. I suspect that there wer...