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Commons Chamber
Greater London Low Emission Zone Charging (Amendment) Bill - Fri 22 Mar 2024
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Ruth Cadbury (Lab - Brentford and Isleworth) Friend, who was a member of the Greater London Council, which was abolished by a Conservative Government - Speech Link
2: Louie French (Con - Old Bexley and Sidcup) in Greater London who are struggling to pay Labour’s tax of £12.50 per day, or £4,500 per year, for going - Speech Link
3: Fleur Anderson (Lab - Putney) Parliament granted the power to make decisions on London-wide road charging schemes to the Mayor. - Speech Link
4: Ruth Cadbury (Lab - Brentford and Isleworth) Parliament granted the power to make decisions on London-wide road charging schemes to the Mayor. - Speech Link
5: Fleur Anderson (Lab - Putney) The first, inner-London ULEZ contributed to a 30% reduction in children being admitted to hospital with - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Local Government Finances - Thu 21 Mar 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Lord Shipley (LD - Life peer) At the same time, council tax is having to carry a bigger burden. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Hamwee (LD - Life peer) , x% less would mean this or that reduction; y% would allow for reduction here and expansion there. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) tax, but the proportion of money that councils get from council tax has risen from 40% in 2009-10 to - Speech Link
4: Baroness Pinnock (LD - Life peer) 2% more on the bills of hard-pressed council tax payers. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Spring Budget 2024 - Mon 18 Mar 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Lord Howell of Guildford (Con - Life peer) I hope that is an opportunity for imaginative schemes to be developed. - Speech Link
2: Lord Lee of Trafford (LD - Life peer) Most public services are in dire need of greater resources. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Noakes (Con - Life peer) The reduction in the capital gains tax rate on residential property is pretty small beer in the overall - Speech Link
4: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) Yet a recent London School of Economics study from a group of leading economists said that the UK should - Speech Link
5: Baroness Kramer (LD - Life peer) dismissed, as people realise that it is just a reduction in a relentless tax rise driven by the freezing - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 14 Mar 2024
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Andrew Rosindell (Con - Romford) national insurance reduction has done nothing for them. - Speech Link
2: Liam Byrne (Lab - Birmingham, Hodge Hill) The greater the scandal, the greater obligation on us to act with speed and clarity to provide remedies - Speech Link
3: Simon Baynes (Con - Clwyd South) That will result in a 122,200 reduction in Welsh livestock numbers, 5,500 lost jobs and a £199 million - Speech Link
4: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) We have done a huge amount to expand access to not just sea cadet schemes but other cadet schemes, by - Speech Link
5: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) I send my congratulations to him and to Harrow Council. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Housing: Young People - Thu 14 Mar 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Baroness Thornhill (LD - Life peer) The reduction in socially rented homes over decades has meant that a secure home to rent and put down - Speech Link
2: Lord Lilley (Con - Life peer) people were moving into London. - Speech Link
3: Lord Jackson of Peterborough (Con - Life peer) We need tax breaks for supported living for older people. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (Lab - Life peer) We need to think very carefully about those schemes. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Budget Resolutions - Tue 12 Mar 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Valerie Vaz (Lab - Walsall South) is forced to raise council tax just to stand still. - Speech Link
2: Richard Drax (Con - South Dorset) Even the small reduction in property capital gains tax and the tiny rise in the VAT registration threshold - Speech Link
3: Yvonne Fovargue (Lab - Makerfield) Where is the much-needed council tax support scheme and a social tariff for energy? - Speech Link
4: Helen Hayes (Lab - Dulwich and West Norwood) Those losses are in no way adequately replaced by the increases in council tax—a regressive tax that - Speech Link
5: Nia Griffith (Lab - Llanelli) Across the UK, people are being asked to pay higher council tax for fewer services. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Budget Resolutions - Mon 11 Mar 2024
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Kirsty Blackman (SNP - Aberdeen North) He would freeze council tax for people. - Speech Link
2: James Davies (Con - Vale of Clwyd) Even so, Denbighshire County Council has found it necessary to hike council tax by 9.34% while cutting - Speech Link
3: Ranil Jayawardena (Con - North East Hampshire) More than a million can be built in London alone on brownfield sites. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 07 Mar 2024
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) March—Consideration of an allocation of time motion, followed by all stages of the National Insurance Contributions (Reduction - Speech Link
2: Lucy Powell (LAB - Manchester Central) over higher tax thresholds. - Speech Link
3: Matthew Offord (Con - Hendon) and the Mayor of London. - Speech Link
4: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) and the Mayor of London. - Speech Link
5: Bob Blackman (Con - Harrow East) safe, and raises the council tax precept by 8.7%. - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Rachel Reeves (Lab - Leeds West) He has ignored not only his own stealth tax rises, with the tax thresholds and council tax, but the rising - Speech Link
2: Peter Grant (SNP - Glenrothes) tax burden and not just be selective about income tax, for example.Let us look at council tax. - Speech Link
3: Grahame Morris (Lab - Easington) council tax would be £5,157.88. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Higher Education - Thu 07 Mar 2024
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Baroness Blackstone (Lab - Life peer) This will provide additional funding for knowledge exchange schemes, bringing together HE, businesses - Speech Link
2: Lord Londesborough (XB - Excepted Hereditary) I was an employer for 30 years, and many of our best long-term hires came from graduate trainee schemes - Speech Link
3: Viscount Chandos (Lab - Life peer) productivity and levelling up, as well as to non-economic benefits, such as health, life expectancy, crime reduction - Speech Link
4: Lord Mountevans (XB - Excepted Hereditary) as a case study.A recent City of London Corporation report shows that London and the UK ranks highest - Speech Link
5: Lord Shipley (LD - Life peer) The council assembled the land and dealt with the planning side. - Speech Link