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

Mentions:
1: Lord Truscott (Non-affiliated - Life peer) Landlords will potentially be changing tax brackets every quarter and chasing tax refunds at the end - Speech Link
2: Earl of Lytton (XB - Excepted Hereditary) suggest that highly geared buy-to-let investors are put off by poor returns due to higher interest rates - Speech Link
3: Baroness Swinburne (Con - Life peer) about the affordability of housing; others expressed their concern about being able to charge market rates—I - 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) Those rates are set separately from those in clause 3, as the income tax rates for non-savings and non-dividend - Speech Link
2: None As Members will know, income tax rates for non-saving, non-dividend income in Scotland and Wales are - 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) It is incredibly important that we develop—or, rather, further develop—our own domestic defence industrial - Speech Link
2: John Spellar (Lab - Warley) must recognise that we need that industrial base.As the allies showed in world war two, we can shift domestic - Speech Link
3: 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
4: Maria Eagle (Lab - Garston and Halewood) every year, so the Government have not even been able to recruit the numbers they want, and retention rates - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Child Poverty - Mon 29 Apr 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Earl of Effingham (Con - Excepted Hereditary) Using tax-free allowances, it is feasible to turn £10 per week into £160,000, using a medium rate of - Speech Link
2: Baroness Janke (LD - Life peer) The Government guide to a healthy diet would cost a family on benefit around 70% of its non-housing income.Children - Speech Link
3: Lord Sikka (Lab - Life peer) At the moment, the rich get tax relief at 40% and 45%. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) costs.Many in this House if asked to define a successful economy would use that hoary old chestnut, gross domestic - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Rosie Winterton (Lab - Doncaster Central) a case where subsection (5) above applies, to the addition of the appropriate amount in respect of rates - Speech Link
2: Paul Blomfield (Lab - Sheffield Central) There are mixed households of students and non-students, particularly where groups of friends form and - Speech Link
3: Jacob Young (Con - Redcar) It provides stronger protections in cases of antisocial behaviour and repeated non-payment of rent, and - Speech Link
4: None Act 2001, in section 490(3)(b) (assured tenancy allowances), omit “(but not an assured shorthold tenancy - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Household Energy Debt - Tue 23 Apr 2024
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Kenny MacAskill (Alba - East Lothian) financially squeezed and are cutting back on essentials, yet pensioners in Scotland have the highest rates - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Baroness Kidron (XB - Life peer) position or collecting a tax debt. - Speech Link
2: None For example, we could link benefits, public sector wages and personal allowances to inflation. - Speech Link
3: Lord Clement-Jones (LD - Life peer) reprimanded by the ICO for data leaks so serious that they were reported to risk the lives of survivors of domestic - Speech Link
4: Baroness Sherlock (Lab - Life peer) thresholds or rates can be enough to make someone entirely ineligible overnight, even if nothing changes - Speech Link
5: 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


Westminster Hall
Flood Recovery Framework - Wed 17 Apr 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Philip Dunne (Con - Ludlow) They include the community recovery grant, council tax reductions, the business recovery grant and business - Speech Link
2: Philip Dunne (Con - Ludlow) creating a partnership involving all the local authorities in the area, the Environment Agency and the non-governmental - Speech Link
3: Alex Sobel (LAB - Leeds North West) partnerships can help prevent future flooding and also come together when a flooding event happens to ensure domestic - Speech Link
4: Rachael Maskell (LAB - York Central) Thirdly, can the suspension of council tax payments and business rates for the owners of flooded properties - Speech Link
5: Philip Dunne (Con - Ludlow) The staffing allowances being offered to local authorities that undertake the work will also be helpful.I - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: James Murray (LAB - Ealing North) He may scoff at what we say about the non-dom tax loopholes, but we are talking about £1 billion in the - Speech Link
2: James Murray (LAB - Ealing North) Although the basic and higher rates of income tax are unchanged by this Bill at 20% and 40%, the tax - Speech Link
3: Richard Fuller (Con - North East Bedfordshire) Member mentioned growth rates, fraud and the record tax burden. - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Baroness Vere of Norbiton (Con - Life peer) That is why the Government will abolish the current complicated tax system for non-doms, getting rid - Speech Link
2: Lord Skidelsky (XB - Life peer) rates and growth rates. - 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