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Westminster Hall
Hair and Beauty Sector: Government Policy - Wed 23 Apr 2025
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Julia Lopez (Con - Hornchurch and Upminster) This avenue of employment is being closed down for too many young people, because hiring apprentices - Speech Link
2: Julia Lopez (Con - Hornchurch and Upminster) At Coal House Cuts, the owners once proudly trained apprentices; now they cannot afford to. - Speech Link
3: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) Apprentices have also declined, as the hon. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Renters’ Rights Bill - Tue 22 Apr 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Lord Fuller (Con - Life peer) we encountered before, and in respect of students—I am bound to say of all students, including apprentices—it - Speech Link
2: Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (Lab - Life peer) Baroness not to move this amendment.Amendment 46 would allow landlords to evict approved English apprentices - Speech Link
3: Lord Bishop of Manchester (Bshp - Bishops) It is a category that is accepted by HMRC, in terms of taxation legislation, as a special form of tenure - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Tobacco and Vapes Bill
Report stage - Wed 26 Mar 2025
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Ashley Dalton (Lab - West Lancashire) underage illicit tobacco and vapes and to boost the trading standards workforce by recruiting 80 new apprentices - Speech Link
2: None prices are kept lower on the budget ones, which undermines the public health objectives of tobacco taxation - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Terms and Conditions of Employment - Tue 25 Mar 2025
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Justin Madders (Lab - Ellesmere Port and Bromborough) The same rise will apply to the apprenticeship minimum wage rate, which applies to apprentices aged under - Speech Link
2: Sally Jameson (LAB - Doncaster Central) For apprentices, the skilled workers of tomorrow, there will be a boost of 18%, so that they can learn - Speech Link
3: Richard Foord (LD - Honiton and Sidmouth) It is not an industry that we should be incentivising through low taxation. - Speech Link
4: Alan Strickland (Lab - Newton Aycliffe and Spennymoor) There is a particularly welcome boost for apprentices, who are the future of our economy. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill
Committee stage part two - Tue 25 Mar 2025
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: None of Public Relations;(z13) Chartered Institution of Railway Operators;(z14) Chartered Institute of Taxation - Speech Link
2: Lord Blencathra (Con - Life peer) Auditors, the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy and the Chartered Institute of Taxation—and - Speech Link
3: Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay (Con - Life peer) important those conventions are, and many more recent arrivals who learned by watching them as apprentices - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Council Tax Reform - Wed 19 Mar 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Jonathan Brash (Lab - Hartlepool) Council Tax is, without doubt, the most unfair, regressive and punitive taxation system in this country - Speech Link
2: Jonathan Brash (Lab - Hartlepool) “No taxation without representation” is the saying, but as council tax bills go up, services are cut. - Speech Link
3: Jim McMahon (LAB - Oldham West, Chadderton and Royton) mentally impaired—a term I would not choose to use, but that is the term used in legislation—and apprentices - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Employment Rights Bill
Report stage (day 2) - Wed 12 Mar 2025
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Liam Byrne (Lab - Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North) The first factory Act passed by this House was the Health and Morals of Apprentices Act 1802. - Speech Link
2: Chris Law (SNP - Dundee Central) devolved.In November, the STUC called on the UK Government to“end the excuses and devolve powers over taxation - Speech Link
3: Chris Law (SNP - Dundee Central) and health spend, free prescriptions, free tuition, a more humane welfare system and a progressive taxation - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Social Security (Contributions) (Rates, Limits and Thresholds Amendments, National Insurance Funds Payments and Extension of Veteran’s Relief) Regulations 2025 - Mon 03 Mar 2025
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Lord Livermore (Lab - Life peer) Those employer NICs reliefs include those for under-21s, under-25 apprentices, veterans and new employees - Speech Link
2: Baroness Kramer (LD - Life peer) again at the fundamentals, accepting that in many ways this has effectively become a variation on taxation - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Family Businesses - Wed 26 Feb 2025
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: James Murray (LAB - Ealing North) other employer national insurance contributions reliefs, including hiring under 21s and under-25 apprentices - Speech Link
2: Carla Lockhart (DUP - Upper Bann) threat around big business and online sales and the fact that they get away in the smoke around taxation - Speech Link
3: Kanishka Narayan (Lab - Vale of Glamorgan) When we make choices on taxation, we are making choices on spending in our public services. - Speech Link
4: Bradley Thomas (Con - Bromsgrove) they“currently are the 2nd biggest provider of electrical apprenticeships in the UK”and“train 700+ apprentices - Speech Link
5: Saqib Bhatti (Con - Meriden and Solihull East) is doing and Putin coming to the fore, the Chancellor cannot commit to not coming back for more taxation - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
National Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) Bill
Report stage part one - Tue 25 Feb 2025
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: None Simplicity of taxation is one of the great principles of taxation set out in Adam Smith’s The Wealth - Speech Link
2: Lord Hogan-Howe (XB - Life peer) support any of the amendments because I think it is for the Commons and the Government to decide on taxation - Speech Link
3: Lord Clarke of Nottingham (Con - Life peer) Taxation should be simple and collected in the most straightforward fashion across the whole economy, - Speech Link
4: Lord Livermore (Lab - Life peer) to benefit from employer national insurance reliefs, including for hiring under-21s and under-25 apprentices - Speech Link