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Public Bill Committees
Finance (No. 2) Bill (Fourth sitting)
Committee stage: 4th sitting - Thu 29 Jan 2026
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: James Wild (Con - North West Norfolk) The tax information and impact note suggests that the Exchequer impact from this measure will peak at - Speech Link
2: Dan Tomlinson (Lab - Chipping Barnet) tax measure on businesses and consumers in the round with the others, at Budgets and in between them - Speech Link
3: Dan Tomlinson (Lab - Chipping Barnet) As is usual practice, a tax information and impact note was published at the Budget, outlining the anticipated - Speech Link
4: Dan Tomlinson (Lab - Chipping Barnet) At the Budget, the Government published a tax information and impact note for this measure, and our approach - Speech Link
5: James Wild (Con - North West Norfolk) At the end of August last year, around 5,000 businesses were registered for the tax, and 38% of plastic - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Budget Resolutions - Tue 02 Dec 2025
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Wes Streeting (Lab - Ilford North) the worst way and at the worst time possible. - Speech Link
2: Wes Streeting (Lab - Ilford North) free at the point of use. - Speech Link
3: Wes Streeting (Lab - Ilford North) free at the point of use. - Speech Link
4: Wes Streeting (Lab - Ilford North) free at the point of use. - Speech Link
5: Adam Dance (LD - Yeovil) farm tax rises; and a 5% reduction in VAT for businesses in the hospitality sector over the next 17 - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: 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
2: James Murray (LAB - Ealing North) range of sources of tax avoidance and the tax gap. - Speech Link
3: Jayne Kirkham (LAB - Truro and Falmouth) I also ask that we look at the loophole between council tax and business rates, and at the registration - Speech Link
4: James Wild (Con - North West Norfolk) prices and fewer jobs help growth and those on the lowest incomes, and will the Chancellor keep her - Speech Link
5: Daisy Cooper (LD - St Albans) Will Ministers look at Liberal Democrat calls to reintroduce the plug-in car grant and equalise VAT for - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Budget Resolutions - Thu 07 Mar 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Rachel Reeves (Lab - Leeds West) tax burden, the highest it has been in 70 years, and the tax burden is rising in each and every year - Speech Link
2: Mel Stride (Con - Central Devon) non-dom status and the windfall tax on oil and gas. - Speech Link
3: Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Con - The Cotswolds) The ordinary working person’s tax burden through national insurance and income tax is extremely low at - Speech Link
4: Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Con - The Cotswolds) VAT RES—the VAT retail export scheme or, colloquially, the tourist tax—could increase GDP by £6 billion - Speech Link
5: Jim McMahon (LAB - Oldham West and Royton) The tax burden is at its highest for over 70 years, since 1948, and the national debt is at its highest - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Tax-free Shopping for International Visitors - Thu 07 Sep 2023
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (CON - The Cotswolds) the House the important subject of tax-free shopping—both VAT reclaim and duty-free shopping—for international - Speech Link
2: Victoria Atkins (CON - Louth and Horncastle) We are focusing on what is actually called the VAT retail export schemeVAT RES for short. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Economy: The Growth Plan 2022 - Mon 10 Oct 2022
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Burns (CB - Life peer) But the reality is that it is difficult to target vulnerable households at short notice, as the tax and - Speech Link
2: Lord Davies of Brixton (LAB - Life peer) , who follow the rules and pay the tax that is due. - Speech Link
3: Lord Howell of Guildford (CON - Life peer) and why they need to be in the state sector at all, was what we tried in the 1970s and later in the - Speech Link
4: Lord Carrington of Fulham (CON - Life peer) If the UK tax and regulatory systems penalise employees and they find that they can keep more of their - Speech Link
5: Lord Vaux of Harrowden (CB - Excepted Hereditary) profits at the cost of both the consumer and the taxpayer. - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Budget Statement - Wed 03 Nov 2021
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Fox (LDEM - Life peer) of it, the Minister and his colleagues are responsible for the highest tax since the 1950s and, as we - Speech Link
2: Lord Lamont of Lerwick (CON - Life peer) of tax and wanted to see the tax burden going down by the end of the Parliament. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Noakes (CON - Life peer) prosper, the tax yield will decline and enterprise and investment will find no incentives in the UK, - Speech Link
4: Lord Davies of Brixton (LAB - Life peer) It is up to the provider and the member of the scheme to arrive at their own provisions.Of course, in - Speech Link
5: Viscount Trenchard (CON - Excepted Hereditary) The bounce-back loan scheme and the furlough scheme have helped businesses across the board to survive - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Budget Resolutions - Mon 01 Nov 2021
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Bob Blackman (CON - Harrow East) increased the tax and carried on with the escalator. - Speech Link
2: Maria Eagle (LAB - Garston and Halewood) So, we have slow growth in incomes and huge increases in tax at the same time as rising inflation caused - Speech Link
3: Stephen Hammond (CON - Wimbledon) With experts at the moment predicting inflation to be 4% at the end of the year and possibly rising to - Speech Link
4: Peter Aldous (CON - Waveney) and the Lowestoft flood defence schemeand East Suffolk Council is busy working out the details of the - Speech Link
5: Siobhain McDonagh (LAB - Mitcham and Morden) The cost of living is rising at its fastest rate for 30 years and the tax bill is £3,000 per household - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Income Tax (Charge) - Thu 28 Oct 2021
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mentions:
1: Edward Miliband (LAB - Doncaster North) and candour—it said:“My Guarantee… We will not raise the rate of income tax, VAT or National Insurance - Speech Link
2: Edward Miliband (LAB - Doncaster North) They rightly say, “Look at the burden on us and look at the burden on tech businesses. - Speech Link
3: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) to apply, because at the moment many lose out to their great loss and frustration; and an online sales - Speech Link
4: Anna McMorrin (LAB - Cardiff North) from the pandemic and struggling to find the staff they need and to keep going. - Speech Link
5: Jamie Stone (LDEM - Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross) If we take a tax-and-spend Budget and add it to the increase in the price of commodities in the world—the - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Regional Airports - Wed 07 Jul 2021
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Esther McVey (CON - Tatton) the debate and that they will be visible at all times, both to one another and to us in the Boothroyd - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) But the fact is that regional airports are at crisis point and need help to get through and out the other - Speech Link
3: Gavin Newlands (SNP - Paisley and Renfrewshire North) Another issue that has hit regional airports a lot harder than the bigger airports was the loss of VAT-free - Speech Link
4: Robert Courts (CON - Witney) airports are a vital part of it, and we are committed to ensuring that they are at the forefront of - Speech Link