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Commons Chamber
High Speed 2 Compensation - Thu 18 Jan 2024
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Theo Clarke (Con - Stafford) There is a fundamental lack of transparency and fairness in this entire process, and I believe it is - Speech Link
2: Andrew Bridgen (Ind - North West Leicestershire) There has been a great deal of cost and a great deal of injury, especially for the taxpayer. - Speech Link
3: Huw Merriman (Con - Bexhill and Battle) delivering value for money to the taxpayer. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Loan Charge - Thu 18 Jan 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Sammy Wilson (DUP - East Antrim) We have heard time and again in evidence to the loan charge and taxpayer fairness all-party parliamentary - Speech Link
2: Greg Smith (Con - Buckingham) the loan charge and taxpayer fairness. - Speech Link
3: Neale Hanvey (Alba - Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath) the loan charge and taxpayer fairness. - Speech Link
4: Greg Smith (Con - Buckingham) the loan charge and taxpayer fairness. - Speech Link
5: John McNally (SNP - Falkirk) the loan charge and taxpayer fairness. - Speech Link
6: Wera Hobhouse (LD - Bath) the loan charge and taxpayer fairness. - Speech Link
7: Gerald Jones (Lab - Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney) the loan charge and taxpayer fairness. - Speech Link
8: Darren Jones (Lab - Bristol North West) the loan charge and taxpayer fairness. - Speech Link
9: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) the loan charge and taxpayer fairness. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Finance Bill
Committee of the whole House - Wed 10 Jan 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: None Those who defraud the taxpayer are stealing from the country and it weakens our public services. - Speech Link
2: Richard Fuller (Con - North East Bedfordshire) charge to a conclusion. - Speech Link
3: Gareth Davies (Con - Grantham and Stamford) He asked about the loan charge; I do not believe that is in scope for this debate, but the Financial - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Data Protection and Digital Information Bill
2nd reading - Tue 19 Dec 2023
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Mentions:
1: Lord Knight of Weymouth (Lab - Life peer) generate revenue back to the taxpayer. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Young of Old Scone (Lab - Life peer) We have heard about job hiring and loan applications; this is, “The computer says no”, but on speed. - Speech Link
3: Lord Kirkhope of Harrogate (Con - Life peer) steadfastly adhere to the bedrock GDPR principles of lawfulness, fairness, transparency, purpose limitation - Speech Link
4: Viscount Camrose (Con - Excepted Hereditary) principles set out in the UK GDPR—as my noble friend Lord Kirkhope pointed out, they include lawfulness, fairness - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Data Protection and Digital Information Bill
Report stage - Wed 29 Nov 2023
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: John Whittingdale (Con - Maldon) In doing that, the identification and the avoidance of fraud will save the taxpayer a considerable amount - Speech Link
2: None the CPS, which would speed up the criminal justice process and reduce the burden on the taxpayer—a stated - Speech Link
3: John Whittingdale (Con - Maldon) Those protections include lawfulness, fairness, transparency and accountability. - Speech Link
4: None and, as a result, will save the taxpayer a significant amount of money. - Speech Link
5: None actual or contingent financial assistance (such as, for example, a grant, loan, guarantee or indemnity - Speech Link
6: None actual or contingent financial assistance (such as, for example, a grant, loan, guarantee or indemnity - Speech Link
7: Roger Gale (Con - North Thanet) actual or contingent financial assistance (such as, for example, a grant, loan, guarantee or indemnity - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Economic Growth - Tue 14 Nov 2023
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Stella Creasy (LAB - Walthamstow) Our constituents will face a £43-a-time charge on anything imported into the UK. - Speech Link
2: Gavin Newlands (SNP - Paisley and Renfrewshire North) Clearly there is a lot more to do, but instead of pushing value for the taxpayer by gouging passengers - Speech Link
3: Clive Lewis (Lab - Norwich South) in this place are to live up to our stated rhetoric of equality, fairness and justice, we need to understand - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 14 Nov 2023
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Nigel Huddleston (Con - Mid Worcestershire) The Government’s approach to delivering fiscal sustainability is underpinned by fairness, with those - Speech Link
2: Vicky Ford (Con - Chelmsford) , but those who live in terraced houses have to pay 20% VAT to charge commercially. - Speech Link
3: Laurence Robertson (Con - Tewkesbury) have made matters much more difficult for graduates, who cannot afford to both pay off their student loan - Speech Link
4: Alex Cunningham (Lab - Stockton North) I welcome the fact that the taxpayer has spent hundreds of millions of pounds on remediation work at - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Breaking Down Barriers to Opportunity - Wed 08 Nov 2023
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Gillian Keegan (Con - Chichester) We have reformed the school system, putting teachers and experts—not politicians—in charge of schools - Speech Link
2: Gillian Keegan (Con - Chichester) That is bad for students, the taxpayer and the reputation of our universities, many of which are truly - Speech Link
3: Stephen Timms (Lab - East Ham) the Thatcher Government were in charge. - Speech Link
4: Kerry McCarthy (Lab - Bristol East) Could it be the oil and gas companies, making record profits, which are handed billions in taxpayer subsidies - Speech Link
5: Bridget Phillipson (Lab - Houghton and Sunderland South) And we will reform student finance to bring fairness to a system that punishes new graduates, young workers - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Debate on the Address - Tue 07 Nov 2023
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Robert Goodwill (Con - Scarborough and Whitby) Fairness is part of what it means to be British, and we must ensure that the dynamic between freeholders - Speech Link
2: Rishi Sunak (Con - Richmond (Yorks)) The right hon. and learned Gentleman is prone to changing his position, but in fairness his speech did - Speech Link
3: Peter Bottomley (Con - Worthing West) those in charge of the project should get together with Baroness Deech, me and Anita Lasker-Wallfisch - Speech Link
4: Mary Robinson (Con - Cheadle) -19 business loans were to their firm, but, having struggled to do the right thing and pay back the loan - Speech Link
5: Simon Hoare (Con - North Dorset) that it has such huge costs to public health and to the taxpayer, what Government would not act to improve - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Non-Domestic Rating Bill
Report stage - Tue 19 Sep 2023
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Earl of Lytton (CB - Excepted Hereditary) In the meantime, it has to be funded, by a loan or an imputed opportunity cost of money for that period - Speech Link
2: None The heart of my Amendment 19—the Amazon amendment—is simply to introduce fairness for high street retailers - Speech Link
3: Baroness Swinburne (CON - Life peer) However, it has been noted that in the similar provision for the separate duty to provide HMRC with a taxpayer - Speech Link