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Commons Chamber
National Insurance Contributions (Reduction in Rates) (No.2) Bill
2nd reading - Wed 13 Mar 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: James Murray (LAB - Ealing North) of income tax would mean rates of income tax going up by 6.5%. - Speech Link
2: David Simmonds (Con - Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner) That Labour Government required every single local authority to make massive efficiency savings every - Speech Link
3: Robin Millar (Con - Aberconwy) It is a matter of some interest and pleasure for me to listen to the likes of my right hon. - Speech Link
4: Drew Hendry (SNP - Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey) Opening letters, emails and apps shows the sharp interest they are paying for energy costs. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Budget Resolutions - Tue 12 Mar 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Valerie Vaz (Lab - Walsall South) We have not even started on the personal protective equipment fiasco! - Speech Link
2: Stephen Doughty (LAB - Cardiff South and Penarth) We have seen debt up, taxes up, interest rates up and inflation up, yet we have seen the economy stagnating - Speech Link
3: Jamie Stone (LD - Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross) I wish to start my contribution with something of a personal anecdote. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
State Pension Changes: Women - Tue 12 Mar 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) Many have had to work longer than expected, rely on benefits or use their savings to cope with the gap - Speech Link
2: Mick Whitley (Lab - Birkenhead) I also declare an interest: my wife is one of the 3.8 million who were affected by the changes to the - Speech Link
3: Patricia Gibson (SNP - North Ayrshire and Arran) rates and higher mortgage payments. - Speech Link
4: Gill Furniss (Lab - Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough) I have to declare an interest because I too am a WASPI woman in my 50s. - Speech Link
5: Paul Maynard (Con - Blackpool North and Cleveleys) Participation rates for women are catching up with those for men. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Budget Resolutions - Mon 11 Mar 2024
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Philip Dunne (Con - Ludlow) of personal taxation in the UK. - Speech Link
2: Damian Green (Con - Ashford) The inflation rate will come down to reasonable levels, and interest rates should fall. - Speech Link
3: John Hayes (Con - South Holland and The Deepings) rates, or even loan sharks. - Speech Link
4: John Hayes (Con - South Holland and The Deepings) Far too much of the savings generated by hard-working British people are invested abroad or go towards - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
International Women’s Day - Fri 08 Mar 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Baroness Gohir (XB - Life peer) These women have higher unemployment rates. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Moyo (Con - Life peer) rates on credit cards—an extra 0.8%—and are less likely to be pre-approved for credit than men. - Speech Link
3: Baroness O'Grady of Upper Holloway (Lab - Life peer) Women and men, black and white, young and old, share a common interest. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Taylor of Bolton (Lab - Life peer) Its research shows that, looking forward and taking into account private pensions, savings and everything - Speech Link
5: Baroness Barran (Con - Life peer) Pension participation rates among eligible women in the private sector have risen from 40% in 2012 to - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Local Regeneration: Industrial Areas - Thu 07 Mar 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Baroness Chapman of Darlington (Lab - Life peer) After decades of industrial decline, unemployment rates on Teesside are among the highest in the country - Speech Link
2: Lord Bishop of Norwich (Bshp - Bishops) grant-making trusts—and a local couple who one day knocked on the vicarage door with £1,000 of their savings - Speech Link
3: Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (Lab - Life peer) I have spoken before in this Chamber of my personal pain at having our local growth plans stalled, as - Speech Link
4: Baroness Swinburne (Con - Life peer) The towns fund, one of our flagship local growth funds, is on track to be spent by 2026, and the rates - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Keir Starmer (Lab - Holborn and St Pancras) They sent interest rates through the roof, and they made working people pay. - Speech Link
2: Harriett Baldwin (Con - West Worcestershire) It is expecting and has noted the sharper fall in the interest rates that we all pay on the national - Speech Link
3: John Stevenson (Con - Carlisle) It will probably be well below 2% by the summer, which will allow interest rates to start to fall. - Speech Link
4: Robert Syms (Con - Poole) If we sell bonds when interest rates are falling, we get better bond prices, and if we sell when interest - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Jeremy Hunt (Con - South West Surrey) Of course, interest rates remain high as we bring down inflation, but because of the progress we have - Speech Link
2: Jeremy Hunt (Con - South West Surrey) It means higher interest rates and a period of lower growth, so we have given the average household £3,400 - Speech Link
3: Jeremy Hunt (Con - South West Surrey) That means that the average earner in the UK now has the lowest effective personal tax rate since 1975 - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Alternative Investment Fund Designation Bill [HL]
2nd reading - Fri 01 Mar 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Baroness Altmann (Con - Life peer) The FCA has suggested that such investments are savings products. - Speech Link
2: Lord Macpherson of Earl's Court (XB - Life peer) Looking back over their history, they have always been at the respectable end of the savings industry - Speech Link
3: Baroness McIntosh of Pickering (Con - Life peer) From my personal experience of serving as a Member of the European Parliament, I know of the abattoir - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Funding for Youth Services - Wed 28 Feb 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Alex Cunningham (Lab - Stockton North) parents made some of the most difficult changes in response to cost of living pressures had higher rates - Speech Link
2: Paula Barker (Lab - Liverpool, Wavertree) off against another, but those numbers betray the fact that this Government have no regard for and no interest - Speech Link
3: Tim Farron (LD - Westmorland and Lonsdale) I am sure somebody has tried, but it is hard to put a price on the financial savings for the criminal - Speech Link
4: Lilian Greenwood (Lab - Nottingham South) The small savings that may be made initially will always be outweighed by the loss of facilities, damage - Speech Link