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Lords Chamber
Renters (Reform) Bill
2nd reading - Wed 15 May 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Baroness Swinburne (Con - Life peer) abolishing Section 21, we will make sure that tenants still have certainty that a homelessness prevention duty - Speech Link
2: Lord Bishop of Chelmsford (Bshp - Bishops) often presented as being in opposition but, in reality, the vast majority of landlords demonstrate a duty - Speech Link
3: Baroness Lister of Burtersett (Lab - Life peer) and indeed there are some welcome provisions, including the expansion of the homelessness prevention duty - Speech Link
4: Baroness Thornhill (LD - Life peer) Likewise, extending the homeless duty on councils sounds admirable, but some councils are barely coping - Speech Link
5: Baroness Swinburne (Con - Life peer) The Government are investing £1.2 billion in restoring local housing allowances, and raising them, and - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Miners and Mining Communities - Thu 09 May 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Conor McGinn (Ind - St Helens North) , feel uncomfortable, but the people I represent would want and expect me to say them, and it is my duty - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Finance (No. 2) Bill
Committee of the whole House - Wed 08 May 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Nigel Huddleston (Con - Mid Worcestershire) According to the OECD, the UK has some of the most generous starting allowances for income tax and social - Speech Link
2: None stages to introduce the idea that a person acting as the customer of a self-employed contractor has a duty - Speech Link
3: Christopher Chope (Con - Christchurch) He praised our system of complicated allowances against corporation tax. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Defence - Tue 07 May 2024
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Grant Shapps (Con - Welwyn Hatfield) When the threat picture changes, the first duty of Government is to respond, which is why this Government - Speech Link
2: John Healey (Lab - Wentworth and Dearne) The Defence Secretary now thinks he has the answer to every problem—a magic wand, a get-out-of-jail-free - Speech Link
3: Derek Twigg (Lab - Halton) We need to reinforce the central tenets of free speech, liberty and the rule of law, as opposed to the - Speech Link
4: Richard Foord (LD - Tiverton and Honiton) The plan talks about an annual spend of some £500 per recruit in training allowances per year for the - Speech Link
5: Jack Lopresti (Con - Filton and Bradley Stoke) As our Ukrainian friends say, we must build the arsenal of the free world together. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Renters (Reform) Bill
Report stage - Wed 24 Apr 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Jacob Young (Con - Redcar) The prevention duty will apply where the date specified in the notice is within 56 days and the duty - Speech Link
2: Anthony Mangnall (Con - Totnes) This was one of the pioneering policies of Thatcher, bringing in the idea of the free market in property - Speech Link
3: None Act 2001, in section 490(3)(b) (assured tenancy allowances), omit “(but not an assured shorthold tenancy - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
International Freedom of Religion or Belief Bill
Committee stage - Wed 24 Apr 2024
No Department present

Mentions:
1: None the Minister considers necessary for the carrying out of the special envoy’s functions;(b) may pay allowances - Speech Link
2: Fiona Bruce (Con - Congleton) the Minister considers necessary for the carrying out of the special envoy’s functions;(b) may pay allowances - Speech Link
3: Andrew Selous (Con - South West Bedfordshire) freedom to practise our faith or not practise any faith, as we enjoy in this country, have an absolute duty - Speech Link
4: Mary Glindon (Lab - North Tyneside) that our country feels that, in the world we live in today, the expression of freedom of religion and free - Speech Link
5: Nusrat Ghani (Con - Wealden) to the special envoy; the duty is delegated to a Minister of the Crown. - Speech Link


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