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Lords Chamber
Economic and Taxation Policies: Jobs, Growth and Prosperity - Thu 13 Nov 2025
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Lord Elliott of Mickle Fell (Con - Life peer) In 1998, Gordon Brown introduced taper relief for capital gains tax. - Speech Link
2: Lord Saatchi (Con - Life peer) Smoking bans, seat belts, abortion, capital punishment, slavery, homosexuality, contraception—I can go - Speech Link
3: Baroness O'Grady of Upper Holloway (Lab - Life peer) controls to prevent short-term capital movements blowing the economy off course. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Noakes (Con - Life peer) We fail on both counts.Thirdly, although we have a competitive system of tax allowances for plant and - Speech Link
5: Lord Wharton of Yarm (Con - Life peer) We have heard many noble Lords talk of the flight of capital, people and talent that is being caused, - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Employment Rights Bill
Report stage part one - Mon 21 Jul 2025
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Baroness Barran (Con - Life peer) If contracts specify that hours, holidays, allowances, pay scales et cetera are set out in a completely - Speech Link
2: Baroness Jones of Whitchurch (Lab - Life peer) parliamentary procedure applicable to regulations made under the power in new Section 84A(2) of the Merchant Shipping - Speech Link
3: None other amendment of this clause, provides that regulations under new section 84A(2) of the Merchant Shipping - Speech Link
4: Lord Monks (Lab - Life peer) We need a new system based not on short-termism but on respect and investment in skills and capital. - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Sustainable Aviation Fuel Bill (First sitting)
Committee stage: 1st sitting - Tue 15 Jul 2025
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Luke Taylor (LD - Sutton and Cheam) that if the desire is to pass the cost on to the passengers, the airlines and the people who are shipping - Speech Link
2: Paul Kohler (LD - Wimbledon) There is a competition for capital, among other things. - Speech Link
3: Lewis Atkinson (Lab - Sunderland Central) They are at a very early stage, using less mature technology, and they are massively capital intense - Speech Link
4: Greg Smith (Con - Mid Buckinghamshire) These allowances basically help airlines to minimise that uplift in terms of the price of SAF. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Planning and Infrastructure Bill
2nd reading - Wed 25 Jun 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Baroness Pidgeon (LD - Life peer) We have some good examples of it here in the capital, such as the stations at Blackfriars and Denmark - Speech Link
2: Baroness Willis of Summertown (XB - Life peer) It is also now widely acknowledged, including by the Treasury, that if these natural capital assets are - Speech Link
3: Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts (Con - Life peer) It is a question not just of buying the food but of shipping it here. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Hodgson of Abinger (Con - Life peer) The CPRE briefing said that existing brownfield sites can deliver 1.2 million houses, but allowances - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Employment Rights Bill
Committee stage - Thu 05 Jun 2025
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: None statement This amendment would make clear that regulations under new section 84A of the Merchant Shipping - Speech Link
2: None I may be wrong, but I attach no significance to the absence of capital letters in the reference to the - Speech Link
3: Lord Moynihan of Chelsea (Con - Life peer) On the one side they are hearing about greedy employers, grasping capital, and the need for trade unions - Speech Link
4: Lord Moynihan of Chelsea (Con - Life peer) people of Birmingham might feel about the striking dustmen or about how the people of this great capital - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Family Businesses - Wed 26 Feb 2025
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Daisy Cooper (LD - St Albans) Family businesses have a strong sense of stewardship of their craft, their capital and their customer - Speech Link
2: Kanishka Narayan (Lab - Vale of Glamorgan) They are the drivers of patient capital decisions, they are the drivers often of conviction in those - Speech Link
3: Kanishka Narayan (Lab - Vale of Glamorgan) Family businesses are now looking at the fact that employment allowances have been doubled. - Speech Link
4: Lewis Cocking (Con - Broxbourne) Gentleman’s party is actually cutting the capital budget for transport. - Speech Link
5: Nick Timothy (Con - West Suffolk) The Hadley shipping group, owned by James Warwick, is one of the last remaining family-run shipping companies - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Great British Energy Bill
Committee stage part one - Tue 03 Dec 2024
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Lord Vaux of Harrowden (XB - Excepted Hereditary) from parties other than the Crown.I can imagine situations where being able to introduce external capital - Speech Link
2: Baroness Noakes (Con - Life peer) in Great British Energy, as opposed to seeking to leverage private capital alongside public investment - Speech Link
3: Earl Russell (LD - Excepted Hereditary) It is about crowding in and not crowding out private capital. Those are clear objectives. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Rural Affairs - Mon 11 Nov 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Desmond Swayne (Con - New Forest West) Gentleman made of the impact on capital investment, which will be reduced as farmers consider the inheritance - Speech Link
2: Victoria Atkins (Con - Louth and Horncastle) seem to know the threshold at which her policy kicks in and whether spouses can transfer their allowances - Speech Link
3: Victoria Atkins (Con - Louth and Horncastle) Swayne) said in his intervention on the Secretary of State, is that farmers are already stopping capital - Speech Link
4: Patrick Spencer (Con - Central Suffolk and North Ipswich) of the Labour party’s tax policies are small farms—family farms—that do not have a huge amount of capital - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Budget Resolutions - Wed 06 Nov 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Danny Kruger (Con - East Wiltshire) We have a broken capital market. - Speech Link
2: Helen Hayes (Lab - Dulwich and West Norwood) I want to make a particular plea for capital funding for King’s College hospital. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Budget Resolutions - Wed 30 Oct 2024
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Rishi Sunak (Con - Richmond and Northallerton) Capital gains tax—up. Inheritance tax—up. Energy taxes —up. Business rates—up. - Speech Link
2: Meg Hillier (LAB - Hackney South and Shoreditch) Also, the capital investment is desperately necessary. - Speech Link
3: Nigel Farage (RUK - Clacton) None of them understands what genuine risk capital is. - Speech Link
4: David Pinto-Duschinsky (Lab - Hendon) Today, Britain has barely half the capital per worker of comparable countries. - Speech Link
5: Sam Carling (Lab - North West Cambridgeshire) Conservative Members have criticised capital gains tax increases, but less than 1% of people pay capital - Speech Link