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

Mentions:
1: Baroness Vere of Norbiton (Con - Life peer) rate of employee national insurance will be cut by another 2p, from 10% to 8%, and the main rate of self-employed - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Ranil Jayawardena (Con - North East Hampshire) We are cutting taxes for the self-employed and for SMEs by making sure that NI is cut for the self-employed - Speech Link
2: Peter Gibson (Con - Darlington) We also saw a welcome cut in national insurance for the self-employed, which I have long campaigned for - Speech Link
3: John Hayes (Con - South Holland and The Deepings) rather than glamorising faceless global conglomerates, we must back British business, particularly the self-employed - Speech Link
4: George Freeman (Con - Mid Norfolk) the alcohol duty freeze, the national insurance cut worth £800 for the average worker—including the self-employed—the - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Baroness Vere of Norbiton (Con - Life peer) Yet, globally, women continue to be excluded from any level of the labour market, and when they are employed - Speech Link
2: Baroness Lampard (Con - Life peer) I learned that it was only in 1869 that women were, for the first time, employed by the British Government - Speech Link
3: Baroness Uddin (Non-affiliated - Life peer) throughout the nations, among thousands of ordinary men and women who understand the differences between self-defence - Speech Link
4: Baroness Donaghy (Lab - Life peer) There is a reported increase in coerced debt and fraud, and of survivors’ online accounts and devices - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Mel Stride (Con - Central Devon) Some 2 million self-employed people will be £650 per year better off. - Speech Link
2: Rachel Maclean (Con - Redditch) especially the cut in national insurance, which will save the average worker £900, and the average self-employed - Speech Link
3: Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Con - The Cotswolds) That, combined with the number of our constituents who are self-employed—a particularly important and - Speech Link
4: Sally-Ann Hart (Con - Hastings and Rye) Cutting class 4 national insurance contributions from 9% to 6% will help self-employed people in my constituency - Speech Link
5: Nigel Huddleston (Con - Mid Worcestershire) Self-employed national insurance will be cut further too, to 6%; 2 million self-employed will also get - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: John Stevenson (Con - Carlisle) It is the equivalent, as has been said, of £900 per annum, and there is the help for the self-employed - Speech Link
2: David Davis (Con - Haltemprice and Howden) billion out of national insurance, at about £900 a head for 27 million people and for another 2 million self-employed - Speech Link
3: Nigel Mills (Con - Amber Valley) Are we trying to give a self-employed person a median income after incurred costs but without their being - Speech Link
4: Natalie Elphicke (Con - Dover) and the self-employed; progress on tackling inflation, which makes such a difference to everyday living - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill
Report stage - Tue 27 Feb 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Rosie Winterton (Lab - Doncaster Central) That prescribed amount would be the maximum amount that freeholders and managing agents employed by them - Speech Link
2: None That is quite a complex situation, in which I suspect fraud may also be involved, but there are other - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Child Maintenance Service - Tue 27 Feb 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Stephen Timms (Lab - East Ham) In response, the Department said that it used risk profiling and threat scanning to target fraud in the - Speech Link
2: Caroline Nokes (Con - Romsey and Southampton North) We know that the DWP has the powers to look at HMRC records and that it can see where someone is employed - Speech Link
3: Munira Wilson (LD - Twickenham) Members have seen in our surgeries involve the paying parent concealing income because they are self-employed - Speech Link
4: Peter Grant (SNP - Glenrothes) In some of the queries to HMRC, when people are assessed on self-assessment, they could go online, and - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Finance Bill
2nd reading - Wed 21 Feb 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Baroness Vere of Norbiton (Con - Life peer) This will apply where that engagement was incorrectly treated as self-employed for tax purposes.Of course - Speech Link
2: Lord Sikka (Lab - Life peer) Civil investigations opened by the offshore, corporate and wealthy unit, part of HMRC’s fraud investigation - Speech Link
3: Baroness Kramer (LD - Life peer) future, has not been adjusted by a single penny for inflation, which surely is a recipe for economic self-harm.We - Speech Link
4: Baroness Vere of Norbiton (Con - Life peer) because they have no employment or they have an occupational private pension, and they are not already a self-assessment - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill
Committee stage - Wed 07 Feb 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: None sent around a loop of never-ending call centre offices, this is not the customer service experience employed - Speech Link
2: Lord Holmes of Richmond (Con - Life peer) It is a truism, self-evident and barely in need of stating, that artificial intelligence is already impacting - Speech Link
3: Lord Leong (Lab - Life peer) forward is further legislation focused on this market”.The Government are leaving it to the industry to self-regulate - Speech Link
4: None Run the economics, Minister: it is clear that big-time scalping is part of the self-regulated market - Speech Link
5: Lord Lucas (Con - Excepted Hereditary) was under a certain value.HMRC eventually dealt with that, but now there is monstrous and recurring fraud - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill
Committee stage - Wed 24 Jan 2024
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Mentions:
1: Lord Faulks (Non-affiliated - Life peer) As I indicated when I was talking about self-defence, the whole problem with proportionality is that - Speech Link
2: Lord Clement-Jones (LD - Life peer) still patchy across major marketplaces.Building on voluntary commitments made in the recent Online Fraud - Speech Link
3: Lord Fox (LD - Life peer) We just heard an example of how similar measures can be employed. - Speech Link
4: Lord Tyrie (Non-affiliated - Life peer) We must try to find ways of enabling consumers to have greater self-reliance, to have mechanisms to achieve - Speech Link