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Lords Chamber
National Insurance Contributions: Hospitality Sector - Thu 13 Feb 2025
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Lord Livermore (Lab - Life peer) will set out a comprehensive plan to ensure that small businesses have access to the right skills, finance - Speech Link
2: Baroness Neville-Rolfe (Con - Life peer) that the Chancellor’s Budget has unnecessarily worsened the position of hospitality, charities, hospices - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Employer National Insurance Contributions: Police Forces - Tue 11 Feb 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Esther McVey (Con - Tatton) we all remember the immediate outcry that we heard from GPs, charities, social care providers and hospices - Speech Link
2: Ben Maguire (LD - North Cornwall) The Liberal Democrats opposed the hike from the beginning, calling for GPs, firefighters, hospices, care - Speech Link
3: Diana Johnson (Lab - Kingston upon Hull North and Cottingham) That is why we will continue to engage closely with forces and finance leads to ensure policing has the - Speech Link


Grand Committee
National Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) Bill
Committee stage - Wed 29 Jan 2025
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) Research from 400 charities by the Charity Finance Group shows that 87% are concerned about being able - Speech Link
2: None Charity Finance Group, which represents over 1,450 charities, has also voiced its concerns. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Neville-Rolfe (Con - Life peer) I know that the Treasury has its own rules and does not like to be held to account on finance matters - Speech Link
4: Baroness Noakes (Con - Life peer) Businesses, charities and hospices are all telling us that this is a major disaster. - Speech Link
5: Lord Livermore (Lab - Life peer) At the Budget and as part of the recent provisional local government finance settlement, the Government - Speech Link


Grand Committee
National Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) Bill
Committee stage - Tue 21 Jan 2025
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Lord Scriven (LD - Life peer) Some hospices will need to raise as much as an extra £200,000 each year. - Speech Link
2: Lord Forsyth of Drumlean (Con - Life peer) , whereby the Government would match the funding raised by the hospices. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Neville-Rolfe (Con - Life peer) The Minister says that hospices will have extra money, but they will also have to pay a lot extra in - Speech Link
4: Lord Livermore (Lab - Life peer) All charities can claim, including hospices. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Non-Domestic Rating (Multipliers and Private Schools) Bill
Report stage - Wed 15 Jan 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Vikki Slade (LD - Mid Dorset and North Poole) national insurance increase—which, as we repeat over and over again, is impacting small businesses, hospices - Speech Link
2: Jim McMahon (LAB - Oldham West, Chadderton and Royton) wide-ranging powers for discretionary rate relief as set out in section 47 of the Local Government Finance - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Wed 08 Jan 2025
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Mentions:
1: Polly Billington (Lab - East Thanet) However, visual artists earn far below the minimum wage, and rely on copyright royalties to finance their - Speech Link
2: Keir Starmer (Lab - Holborn and St Pancras) why we invested £25.6 billion over two years in the NHS, including additional funding for GPs and hospices - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
National Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) Bill
2nd reading - Mon 06 Jan 2025
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Baroness Kramer (LD - Life peer) Hospices, which face a £30 million bill, have warned that they may have to withdraw beds. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Neville-Rolfe (Con - Life peer) A good example is our wonderful hospices, as we heard during the PNQ. - Speech Link
3: Lord Scriven (LD - Life peer) Research has highlighted that the additional costs of the NIC hike will force hospices to scale back - Speech Link
4: Lord Livermore (Lab - Life peer) We are supporting the hospice sector with a £100 million boost for adult and children’s hospices, to - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 19 Dec 2024
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Jesse Norman (Con - Hereford and South Herefordshire) Mr Speaker, may I associate myself very strongly with the remarks you have just made about hospices? - Speech Link
2: Marie Goldman (LD - Chelmsford) Local government finances are in a desperate state, and yesterday’s finance settlement announcement does - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Rural Economy - Thu 19 Dec 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Baroness McIntosh of Pickering (Con - Life peer) impacted by the employers’ national insurance contribution increase—doctor’s surgeries, care homes, hospices - Speech Link
2: Lord Carrington (XB - Excepted Hereditary) main policy rationale for BPR and APR is to prevent the sale or break up of businesses or farms to finance - Speech Link
3: Lord Roborough (Con - Excepted Hereditary) rural services delivery grant has been repurposed away from rural areas in the draft local government finance - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
National Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) Bill
Committee of the whole House - Tue 17 Dec 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Edward Leigh (Con - Gainsborough) One compromise that the Government could make is to take hospices out of this tax. - Speech Link
2: Aphra Brandreth (Con - Chester South and Eddisbury) We know about the funding challenges that such hospices already face. - Speech Link
3: None Social care and hospices are also feeling the strain of the policy. - Speech Link
4: Graham Stuart (Con - Beverley and Holderness) They could move £3 billion or £4 billion over to social care, hospices, GPs and the like. - Speech Link