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

Mentions:
1: Jackie Doyle-Price (Con - Thurrock) To keep our energy prices low and stable, the best measure is to invest in defence at an increased rate.The - Speech Link
2: Rachel Maclean (Con - Redditch) keep them after tax…we should back the workers and not the shirkers…it is not only permissible but praiseworthy - Speech Link
3: Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Con - The Cotswolds) on the furlough scheme or the business loan scheme? - 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: Michael Shanks (Lab - Rutherglen and Hamilton West) “to keep moving us from a low wage, high tax…economy”. - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (CON - The Cotswolds) VAT refunded on purchases on the high streets and at duty-free shops in airports. - Speech Link
2: Nickie Aiken (CON - Cities of London and Westminster) the theatre, so the independent review must look not just at retail but at the possible VAT revenue that - Speech Link
3: Victoria Atkins (CON - Louth and Horncastle) We are focusing on what is actually called the VAT retail export schemeVAT RES for short. - Speech Link
4: Victoria Atkins (CON - Louth and Horncastle) our retailers.As I have said, the VAT retail export scheme is still available to those non-UK visitors - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Baroness Neville-Rolfe (CON - Life peer) know that this will be particularly welcome to our Economic Affairs Committee.We are introducing a VAT-free - Speech Link
2: Lord Bilimoria (CB - Life peer) Hospitality needs a VAT reduction. - Speech Link
3: Lord Razzall (LDEM - Life peer) , therefore depriving us of substantial export revenue? - 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


Grand Committee
Budget Statement - Wed 03 Nov 2021
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Horam (CON - Life peer) that he would have looked askance at the Government’s failure to keep the £20 extra for universal credit - Speech Link
2: 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
3: Lord Shipley (LDEM - Life peer) I am disappointed that the Government will only explore the arguments for and against an online sales - Speech Link
4: 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
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Steve Reed (LAB - Croydon North) and landlords, off the hook, absolutely scot-free? - Speech Link
2: Margaret Hodge (LAB - Barking) Instead, he talked up the discredited R&D tax credit scheme. - Speech Link
3: Royston Smith (CON - Southampton, Itchen) It is the busiest car-export port in the country and the second-busiest container port. - Speech Link
4: Luke Evans (CON - Bosworth) business interruption loan scheme at £29 million. - Speech Link
5: Andrew Bowie (CON - West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine) regional airports in Scotland as they recover from lockdown and the pandemic, though the hon. - 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: 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
3: Gerald Jones (LAB - Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney) The export of coal from the south Wales valleys and elsewhere helped to create the wealth that built - Speech Link
4: Kieran Mullan (CON - Crewe and Nantwich) into work and to keep more of their own money—and to the minimum wage. - Speech Link
5: Ben Lake (PC - Ceredigion) schemes such as the rural duty relief scheme so that those living in rural areas, who, at the moment - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Steve Double (CON - St Austell and Newquay) pandemic, the Government need to look at providing sufficient ongoing support to keep our regional airports - Speech Link
2: Gavin Newlands (SNP - Paisley and Renfrewshire North) world’s stage is at risk, thereby affecting our ability to export and attract foreign direct investments - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Queen’s Speech - Wed 12 May 2021
Department for International Trade

Mentions:
1: Lord Sikka (LAB - Life peer) VAT, council tax and national insurance are examples of regressive taxation and there is no reform in - Speech Link
2: Lord Callanan (CON - Life peer) VAT is a broad-based tax on consumption, and the standard rate of 20% normally applies to most goods - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Covid-19: Economic Recovery - Tue 20 Apr 2021
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Baroness Penn (CON - Life peer) raise the rates of income tax, national insurance or VAT. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Wheatcroft (CB - Life peer) The UK Travel Retail Forum believes that this puts 70,000 jobs at risk. - Speech Link
3: Lord Vaizey of Didcot (CON - Life peer) loan scheme; and taxes forgone, such as the business rates holiday and the reduced VAT rate for tourism - Speech Link
4: Baroness Penn (CON - Life peer) by the noble Baroness, Lady Wheatcroft, and my noble friend Lord Vaizey, outbound duty-free sales have - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Finance (No. 2) Bill
2nd reading - Tue 13 Apr 2021
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Kevin Hollinrake (CON - Thirsk and Malton) at as well—is that direct sales of Amazon are not covered by the digital services tax. - Speech Link
2: Geraint Davies (LAB - Swansea West) , but in fact, after looking at the recovery of taxes from both income tax and sales tax—consumer tax—we - Speech Link
3: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) Added to that, there is the blow of the removal of airside VAT-free shopping at the end of 2020. - Speech Link