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Lords Chamber
Employment Rights Bill
Committee stage part two - Mon 19 May 2025
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb (Green - Life peer) seeks to make express provision for court discretion to void non-disclosure clauses in employment contracts - Speech Link
2: Baroness Chakrabarti (Lab - Life peer) commend Amendment 281 because it aspires to some simplicity, some versatility, some breadth and the avoidance - Speech Link
3: Lord Cromwell (XB - Excepted Hereditary) British statement—and HMRC and the CMA already give modest payments for information on, for example, tax - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill
2nd reading - Thu 15 May 2025
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent (Lab - Life peer) That includes: fraud against our public services, including those who abuse the tax system; fraud by - Speech Link
2: Baroness Kramer (LD - Life peer) Bill, at least to my eyes, has some serious flaws.Part 1 focuses on investigation of fraud outside the tax - Speech Link
3: Lord Palmer of Childs Hill (LD - Life peer) The problem is that the fine line between tax avoidance and tax evasion is sometimes a grey line. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Data (Use and Access) Bill [Lords] - Wed 07 May 2025
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Mentions:
1: Chris Bryant (Lab - Rhondda and Ogmore) will remain as it is today and copyright law in the UK will be robust and clear.For the absolute avoidance - Speech Link
2: Chi Onwurah (Lab - Newcastle upon Tyne Central and West) in the recent report by The Sunday Times that Chelsea football club claims research and development tax - Speech Link
3: Iain Duncan Smith (Con - Chingford and Woodford Green) Those contracts create the illusion of protection, but in reality the data transfer is unsafe, either - Speech Link
4: Alex Sobel (LAB - Leeds Central and Headingley) Under current rules, companies often rely on a set of contracts—international data transfer agreements—as - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Employment Rights Bill
Committee stage part one - Tue 29 Apr 2025
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Lord Wolfson of Aspley Guise (Con - Life peer) abusive zero-hours contracts and eliminating the flexibility that legitimate part-time contracts provide - Speech Link
2: Baroness Lawlor (Con - Life peer) Of them, 1.3 million are on zero-hours contracts. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Jones of Whitchurch (Lab - Life peer) This could lead to avoidance behaviour, whereby employers move workers from open-ended zero-hours contracts - Speech Link
4: Lord Leong (Lab - Life peer) , other short-term contracts and all that. - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Baroness Scott of Bybrook (Con - Life peer) It is vital that we resolve this as soon as possible.Fixed-term contracts provide students with clear - Speech Link
2: Lord Shipley (LD - Life peer) It occurred to me that it may be possible to use non-liability for paying council tax as the basis for - Speech Link
3: None How will the Government ensure that student accommodation can continue using fixed-term contracts by - Speech Link
4: Lord Moynihan (Con - Excepted Hereditary) They include professional rugby union players, many of whom are on contracts that run, in effect, from - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Fly-tipping: West Midlands - Tue 08 Apr 2025
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Wendy Morton (Con - Aldridge-Brownhills) It is worth remembering that when that happens, Walsall council tax payers are left footing the Bill.At - Speech Link
2: Laurence Turner (Lab - Birmingham Northfield) For the avoidance of doubt, I am a member of Unite. - Speech Link
3: Laurence Turner (Lab - Birmingham Northfield) We need to modernise the service.Council tax is a burden on all our constituents. - Speech Link
4: Robbie Moore (Con - Keighley and Ilkley) If you are a resident in Birmingham paying your council tax, you want action. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 08 Apr 2025
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Paul Waugh (LAB - Rochdale) What steps she is taking to help tackle tax evasion. - Speech Link
2: James Murray (LAB - Ealing North) Closing the tax gap and ensuring that everyone is paying the tax they owe is one of the Government’s - Speech Link
3: Paul Waugh (LAB - Rochdale) I welcome the Treasury’s crackdown on tax avoidance. Does my hon. - Speech Link
4: James Murray (LAB - Ealing North) avoidance and the tax gap. - Speech Link
5: James Murray (LAB - Ealing North) the furnished holiday lets tax regime. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Water Bill
2nd reading - Fri 28 Mar 2025
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Neil Coyle (Lab - Bermondsey and Old Southwark) We cannot force or compel McDonald’s to retain people on zero-hours contracts, which, thankfully, the - Speech Link
2: Jeremy Corbyn (Ind - Islington North) It is in tax havens all over the world. - Speech Link
3: Dawn Butler (Lab - Brent East) I am really pleased that this Government are also tackling tax avoidance schemes, because that is vital.Infrastructure - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Spring Statement - Thu 27 Mar 2025
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: None avoidance, and setting out plans to increase the number of tax fraudsters charged every year by 20%. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Kramer (LD - Life peer) gains loopholes and increase the digital services tax? - Speech Link
3: Lord Evans of Rainow (Con - Life peer) of other tax incentives that are taken directly out of the UK economy. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Spring Statement - Wed 26 Mar 2025
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Rachel Reeves (Lab - Leeds West and Pudsey) avoidance, and setting out plans to increase the number of tax fraudsters charged every year by 20%. - Speech Link
2: Mel Stride (Con - Central Devon) year, buckling under the burden of tax that will rise to the highest tax burden—on her watch—in the - Speech Link
3: Dave Doogan (SNP - Angus and Perthshire Glens) She could impose a 1% tax on assets over £10 million— a wealth tax, as the hon. - Speech Link
4: Rachel Reeves (Lab - Leeds West and Pudsey) capital gains tax, put VAT on private schools and tightened the rules around inheritance tax. - Speech Link
5: Graham Stuart (Con - Beverley and Holderness) She promised that there would be no tax rises, but next week’s jobs tax will put tax rises on ordinary - Speech Link