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Grand Committee
Data Protection and Digital Information Bill
Committee stage - Mon 22 Apr 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: None These amendments would remove some of their get-out-of-jail-free cards—some potential excuses that operators - Speech Link
2: Lord Harlech (Con - Excepted Hereditary) I assure the noble Baroness and the noble Lord that the duty is a duty to share information only. - Speech Link
3: None For example, we could link benefits, public sector wages and personal allowances to inflation. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Lister of Burtersett (Lab - Life peer) Of course, the point is partly that it is administered by HMRC, but it has replaced child tax allowances - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Finance (No. 2) Bill
2nd reading - Wed 17 Apr 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Sammy Wilson (DUP - East Antrim) While the changes in the child benefit allowances are important, especially helping parents who want - Speech Link
2: Nigel Huddleston (Con - Mid Worcestershire) That is why we are abolishing multiple dwellings relief, a bulk purchase relief in the stamp duty and - Speech Link
3: James Murray (LAB - Ealing North) We have seen a great deal of chopping and changing in capital allowances in recent years—indeed, this - Speech Link
4: Gavin Newlands (SNP - Paisley and Renfrewshire North) Friend for giving way on the point about VAT-free shopping. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 19 Mar 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Gareth Davies (Con - Grantham and Stamford) tax cut to companies of over £10 billion a year to ensure we have one of the most generous capital allowances - Speech Link
2: Wendy Chamberlain (LD - North East Fife) The industry welcomes the freeze in alcohol duty, but notes that it is only for six months. - Speech Link
3: Gareth Davies (Con - Grantham and Stamford) We have frozen or cut duty for Scottish whisky in fiscal events going back many years. - Speech Link
4: Will Quince (Con - Colchester) The proposed changes to wine duty will add huge costs and complexity to business. - Speech Link
5: Gareth Davies (Con - Grantham and Stamford) We are making it more simple by saying: the stronger the alcohol by volume, the more duty paid. - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Baroness Vere of Norbiton (Con - Life peer) alongside introducing the vaping products duty. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) In 2011, fuel duty was 4.5% of gross receipts. - Speech Link
3: Lord Northbrook (Con - Excepted Hereditary) Of course this is the case with the national insurance reductions, but the freezing of tax allowances - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Animal Welfare (Livestock Exports) Bill
Committee stage - Thu 14 Mar 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Baroness Hayman of Ullock (Lab - Life peer) would include maximum journey times, limits on transportation under high temperatures, increased space allowances - Speech Link
2: Lord Douglas-Miller (Con - Life peer) I have referred to a couple of issues on that.Transporters have a legal duty to protect the welfare of - Speech Link
3: None My final point is slightly off but very relevant: Great Britain is no longer a bluetongue-free area. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Duty Solicitor Scheme - Wed 13 Mar 2024
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Kevin Foster (Con - Torbay) Since 2017, more than 1,400 duty solicitors have left the duty rota system and many schemes have fewer - Speech Link
2: Mike Freer (Con - Finchley and Golders Green) Legal aid is a fundamental pillar of our free and fair justice system. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Budget Resolutions - Tue 12 Mar 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Darren Jones (Lab - Bristol North West) We will increase the levy to the same rate of tax as in Norway, end the windfall tax investment allowances - Speech Link
2: Valerie Vaz (Lab - Walsall South) There is a dearth of duty solicitors. - Speech Link
3: Yvonne Fovargue (Lab - Makerfield) The free advice sector is already overloaded. - Speech Link
4: Jamie Stone (LD - Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross) The problem is that once a wind farm is built, the energy comes almost for free—the wind is free—and - Speech Link
5: Bim Afolami (Con - Hitchin and Harpenden) introduce permanent full expensing, which allows companies to claim, in the first year, 100% capital allowances - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Holly Lynch (Lab - Halifax) I urge Ministers to look again at the Family Rights Group’s call to extend the financial allowances pathfinder - Speech Link
2: Rachel Maclean (Con - Redditch) economy is an economy run by free beings. - Speech Link
3: Steve McCabe (Lab - Birmingham, Selly Oak) They know that the continuing freeze on allowances means that they are paying more. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Budget Resolutions - Wed 06 Mar 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Drew Hendry (SNP - Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey) prescriptions, free university tuition, free school meals, free bus travel for under-22s and free dental - Speech Link
2: Sammy Wilson (DUP - East Antrim) The Government make policy announcements, and talk in the Budget about new capital allowances, but when - Speech Link
3: Kevin Foster (Con - Torbay) The alcohol duty freeze was also welcome. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Financial Statement and Budget Report - Wed 06 Mar 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Jeremy Hunt (Con - South West Surrey) That will be on top of existing ISA allowances and will ensure that British savers can benefit from the - Speech Link
2: Jeremy Hunt (Con - South West Surrey) With higher productivity, we could free the equivalent of 20,000 police officers over a year. - Speech Link
3: Jeremy Hunt (Con - South West Surrey) Labour party, we want to encourage investment in the North sea, so we will retain generous investment allowances - Speech Link