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Lords Chamber
Non-Domestic Rating Bill
Report stage - Tue 19 Sep 2023
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Earl of Lytton (CB - Excepted Hereditary) In the meantime, it has to be funded, by a loan or an imputed opportunity cost of money for that period - Speech Link
2: None The heart of my Amendment 19—the Amazon amendment—is simply to introduce fairness for high street retailers - Speech Link
3: Baroness Swinburne (CON - Life peer) However, it has been noted that in the similar provision for the separate duty to provide HMRC with a taxpayer - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Flying Schools - Tue 12 Sep 2023
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Tim Loughton (CON - East Worthing and Shoreham) Specifically, it has brought in its finance fairness charter, under which it asks that, as dedicated - Speech Link
2: Ian Paisley (DUP - North Antrim) I remember going around the banks with my son and saying, “Can this young lad get a loan? - Speech Link
3: Chris Law (SNP - Dundee West) We are at a competitive disadvantage because we charge but no other country in Europe is charging. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Energy Bill [HL]
Consideration of Commons amendments - Tue 12 Sep 2023
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Lord Callanan (CON - Life peer) The revised legislation provides a fairer approach to funding hydrogen, placing the charge higher up - Speech Link
2: Baroness Boycott (CB - Life peer) deals for the other homes in our village”.In fairness to the Government, they have acknowledged this - Speech Link
3: Baroness Hayman (CB - Life peer) It is also potentially of benefit to the taxpayer in reducing the huge expense that the Government take - Speech Link
4: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (GRN - Life peer) Proposed new subsection (2) says that this assistance“may be provided … by way of grant, loan, guarantee - Speech Link
5: None in particular may be provided— (a) by way of grant, loan, guarantee or indemnity, (b) by the acquisition - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Lifelong Learning (Higher Education Fee Limits) Bill - Mon 10 Jul 2023
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Lord Johnson of Marylebone (CON - Life peer) Gold-rated and silver-rated providers would today have been able to charge fees of approaching £12,000 - Speech Link
2: Baroness Barran (CON - Life peer) would be allowed to charge for only 20 credits a year for their degrees, instead of 120 credits, which - Speech Link
3: Lord Aberdare (CB - Excepted Hereditary) , even though FE colleges providing very similar courses do not, so there is a fundamental issue of fairness - Speech Link
4: Lord Willetts (CON - Life peer) outcome, which would be the taxpayer simply picking up more of the bill with no increase in the total - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Adult and Further Education - Wed 05 Jul 2023
Scotland Office

Mentions:
1: Robin Walker (CON - Worcester) not necessarily very expensive.In fairness, there are elements of the Minister’s response to the Education - Speech Link
2: Jane Hunt (CON - Loughborough) it doesn’t get much better than being in charge of sport at Loughborough University, let’s put it that - Speech Link
3: Robert Halfon (CON - Harlow) We want to be fair to students and fair to the taxpayer. - Speech Link
4: Robert Halfon (CON - Harlow) We have the lifelong loan entitlement, which I have spoken about briefly. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Finance (No. 2) Bill
Report stage - Tue 20 Jun 2023
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: James Murray (LAB - Ealing North) But when taken together, the air passenger duty changes in the Bill are set to cost the taxpayer an additional - Speech Link
2: Richard Drax (CON - South Dorset) This is money the poor taxpayer is having to pay in the first place and should not be taxed on. - Speech Link
3: James Murray (LAB - Ealing North) When large multinationals do that, it flies in the face of the British sense of fairness, it deprives - Speech Link
4: None If he has a student loan, 9% might be taken off the outstanding balance. - Speech Link
5: None Northern Ireland from the time when the charge to energy (oil and gas) profits levy was imposed (26 - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 09 May 2023
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Robin Millar (CON - Aberconwy) them to their premium lending products instead of the Government’s coronavirus business interruption loan - Speech Link
2: Daniel Zeichner (LAB - Cambridge) What recent steps he has taken to ensure fairness in the application of the tax system. - Speech Link
3: Richard Burgon (LAB - Leeds East) What recent steps he has taken to ensure fairness in the application of the tax system. - Speech Link
4: James Murray (LAB - Ealing North) Tens of thousands of people have been affected by the loan charge, with some having faced well-documented - Speech Link
5: Ashley Dalton (LAB - West Lancashire) has recently found that 2 million UK households missed a key payment for their mortgage, rent, loan or - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Finance (No. 2) Bill
2nd reading - Wed 29 Mar 2023
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Victoria Atkins (CON - Louth and Horncastle) The Bill will also remove the lifetime allowance charge to incentivise our most experienced and productive - Speech Link
2: Ian Murray (LAB - Edinburgh South) The importance of fairness in the tax system applies to individual taxpayers and to businesses too. - Speech Link
3: Stewart Hosie (SNP - Dundee East) In the Budget debate I laid out the huge cost and almost unlimited financial risk to the taxpayer of - Speech Link
4: Richard Fuller (CON - North East Bedfordshire) Gentleman’s concerns about no one being in charge if everyone is in charge, but that was never the intention - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 21 Mar 2023
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Robbie Moore (CON - Keighley) it £41.50 a day as a standing charge and that its unit rate has doubled. - Speech Link
2: John Glen (CON - Salisbury) the Government’s strong commitment to promoting fairness. - Speech Link
3: Andrew Griffith (CON - Arundel and South Downs) We have recently renewed the mortgage guarantee scheme, which helps the availability of high loan to - Speech Link
4: Jeremy Hunt (CON - South West Surrey) fairness to both pensioners and taxpayers. - Speech Link
5: Saqib Bhatti (CON - Meriden) the tech sector was saved from almost certain oblivion, and at no cost to the taxpayer. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation - Mon 20 Mar 2023
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Mentions:
1: Shabana Mahmood (LAB - Birmingham, Ladywood) give that money back to the taxpayer so that we can help families in our countries. - Speech Link
2: Miriam Cates (CON - Penistone and Stocksbridge) gross salary, out of which she has to pay taxation, national insurance, pension contributions, student loan - Speech Link
3: David Linden (SNP - Glasgow East) behoves a Conservative Government who made massive promises to the Scotch whisky industry about the fairness - Speech Link
4: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) wage are now struggling to meet the rising costs of their mortgage, their car payments, their student loan - Speech Link