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Lords Chamber
Sentencing Bill
Committee stage: Part 1 - Mon 01 Dec 2025
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Baroness Hamwee (LD - Life peer) I declare an interest as a trustee of Safer London, a charity which works with young Londoners affected - Speech Link
2: Baroness Neville-Rolfe (Con - Life peer) The Prison Service has told him there will be an average reduction of some 25% of provision, but some - Speech Link
3: None What if we get, for example, an 8% reduction? - Speech Link
4: None We have effectively seen a stealth tax on the hospitality sector. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Budget Resolutions - Thu 27 Nov 2025
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Daisy Cooper (LD - St Albans) Turning to the so-called mansion tax, we in this House all know that council tax is broken, but adding - Speech Link
2: Monica Harding (LD - Esher and Walton) , including business rates, stamp duty and council tax. - Speech Link
3: Sarah Olney (LD - Richmond Park) What is really needed here is wholesale reform to council tax and stamp duty, so we can look again at - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 27 Nov 2025
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Lisa Nandy (Lab - Wigan) We invest around £600 million every year via Arts Council England, and earlier this year, I was delighted - Speech Link
2: Louie French (Con - Old Bexley and Sidcup) After Labour’s short-sighted £1 billion tax raid yesterday, which will fuel the illegal black market, - Speech Link
3: Polly Billington (Lab - East Thanet) Friend and, indeed, the Chancellor on making the decision to tax online gambling in particular. - Speech Link
4: Nigel Huddleston (Con - Droitwich and Evesham) When did they start planning for this tax? - Speech Link
5: Nigel Huddleston (Con - Droitwich and Evesham) The Government introduced a new tax on tourism and whacked up taxes on the gambling industry. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Budget Resolutions - Wed 26 Nov 2025
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Daniel Zeichner (Lab - Cambridge) I particularly welcome the long overdue measures around council tax on more valuable properties. - Speech Link
2: Catherine McKinnell (Lab - Newcastle upon Tyne North) If I asked my constituents, “Who should pay more council tax?” - Speech Link
3: Bernard Jenkin (Con - Harwich and North Essex) It is not about lots of little schemes—the £400 million extra being raised from council tax does not - Speech Link
4: John Lamont (Con - Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk) I wonder about her views on the council tax surcharge. - Speech Link
5: Ben Spencer (Con - Runnymede and Weybridge) We also need to look at cliff edges in relation to housing allowance and council tax. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill
Report stage (day 2) - Tue 25 Nov 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: None area and placed under what was called Greater London. - Speech Link
2: Andrew Rosindell (Con - Romford) That is why fundamental reform of the Greater London Authority and the Mayor of London needs to take - Speech Link
3: Andrew Rosindell (Con - Romford) tax payers of the Greater London area. - Speech Link
4: None the Greater London Authority. - Speech Link
5: None the Greater London Authority. - Speech Link
6: Caroline Nokes (Con - Romsey and Southampton North) the Greater London Authority. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill
Report stage (day 1) - Mon 24 Nov 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Nusrat Ghani (Con - Sussex Weald) London Authority: decision-making—“(1) The Greater London Authority Act 1999 is amended in accordance - Speech Link
2: Tessa Munt (LD - Wells and Mendip Hills) Council tax was frozen for six years, way in excess of what the Government had anticipated, leaving council - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Sustainable Aviation Fuel Bill
2nd reading - Thu 20 Nov 2025
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Lord Hendy of Richmond Hill (Lab - Life peer) Like similar schemes in the low-carbon electricity sector, this will help to provide greater certainty - Speech Link
2: Earl Russell (LD - Excepted Hereditary) From 2040, the obligation will remain at 22% unless there is greater certainty of supply. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb (Green - Life peer) The go-ahead for the expansion of London City Airport, Luton, Gatwick and Stansted means an extra 51 - Speech Link
4: Lord Hendy of Richmond Hill (Lab - Life peer) Of course, we can explore many of the issues in greater detail in Committee. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Crime and Policing Bill
Committee stage part one - Wed 19 Nov 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Doocey (LD - Life peer) He proposed revisiting the tax levy on imported knives to ensure that potential weapons brought into - Speech Link
2: None under the Value Added Tax Act 1994, or(ii) registered as a company under the Companies Act 2006.(8) - Speech Link
3: Lord Brady of Altrincham (Con - Life peer) I declare an interest as honorary president of the British Shooting Sports Council. - Speech Link
4: Lord Blencathra (Con - Life peer) What is happening on the streets of London and elsewhere in England today is bizarre. - Speech Link
5: Baroness Doocey (LD - Life peer) It is in an area of London that is very safe. So that is really worrying. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Planning and Infrastructure Bill
Consideration of Lords amendments - Thu 13 Nov 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Edward Leigh (Con - Gainsborough) It is the appalling stamp duty that everybody acknowledges is the worst tax. - Speech Link
2: Matthew Pennycook (Lab - Greenwich and Woolwich) ranging more widely, as he tempts me to do.The amendments we tabled in the summer package provided greater - Speech Link
3: David Simmonds (Con - Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner) They did not anticipate a 20% reduction in completions of new homes. - Speech Link
4: David Simmonds (Con - Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner) Application of council tax at different stages of delivery is another. - Speech Link
5: Jeremy Corbyn (Ind - Islington North) Since he has an enormous knowledge of London, does he not think that London would be so much improved - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Baroness Noakes (Con - Life peer) Low corporate tax rates both encourage investment and increase tax yields. - Speech Link
2: Lord Marks of Hale (Con - Life peer) In short, rising NI is not just a tax on jobs; it is a tax on opportunity. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Meyer (Con - Life peer) If you tax success, you kill aspiration. Tax wealth and the wealth leaves. - Speech Link