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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


General Committees
Draft Child Support (Management of Payments and arrears and fees) (Amendment) Regulations 2023 - Tue 16 Jan 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Lloyd Russell-Moyle (LAB - Brighton, Kemptown) When the parent who should be paying is self-employed, or employed via a company that their new partner - Speech Link
2: Paul Maynard (Con - Blackpool North and Cleveleys) Where there is evidence of fraud, the FIU will seek to prosecute, or forward the case to HMRC for action.In - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill (Second sitting)
Committee stage: 2nd sitting - Tue 16 Jan 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Matthew Pennycook (Lab - Greenwich and Woolwich) I am leaving it to you to self-police.Karolina Zoltaniecka: The Bill is very welcome. - Speech Link
2: Andy Carter (Con - Warrington South) digitally to ensure that they are the person registered as the proprietor to avoid seller impersonation fraud - Speech Link
3: None I am employed by University College London Consultants to train Treasury civil servants. - Speech Link
4: Richard Fuller (Con - North East Bedfordshire) I overpaid last year—and in other ways it does so implicitly.For example, as somebody who has been employed - Speech Link
5: Richard Fuller (Con - North East Bedfordshire) I am happy to believe that if we were in the Department and I was employed, you could sway my belief - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 19 Dec 2023
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Laura Trott (Con - Sevenoaks) The Department of Health and Social Care continues to seek to recover fraud losses to ensure that public - Speech Link
2: Laura Trott (Con - Sevenoaks) We have set up initiatives to recoup money from fraudulent activity including the Public Sector Fraud - Speech Link
3: Harriett Baldwin (Con - West Worcestershire) Between now and the next Treasury questions, millions of our constituents will be required to file a self-assessment - Speech Link
4: Nigel Huddleston (Con - Mid Worcestershire) Two thirds of calls to the self-assessment line could be resolved online, through other channels—I highly - Speech Link
5: David Davis (Con - Haltemprice and Howden) trying to do is move the guidelines by coercing Ms Adams and using her as an example to intimidate other self-employed - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Arbitration Bill [HL]
Second reading committee - Tue 19 Dec 2023
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Lord Verdirame (Non-affiliated - Life peer) jurisdiction of the arbitral tribunals being subject to effective controls that go well beyond the self-policing - Speech Link
2: Lord Faulks (Non-affiliated - Life peer) He found that documents had been obtained by fraud and in breach of professional obligations, that deliberate - Speech Link
3: Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd (XB - Life peer) are essential.My noble friend Lord Faulks raised concerns about arbitration in London in relation to fraud - Speech Link
4: Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede (Lab - Life peer) However, I have employed a lot of lawyers in my time and my business experience in employing them was - Speech Link
5: Lord Bellamy (Con - Life peer) First, in a sense, it established that London is capable of dealing with this kind of fraud, because - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Mon 18 Dec 2023
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Greg Smith (Con - Buckingham) construction skills, including a construction skills certification scheme card, plus support to reach self-employment - Speech Link
2: Nigel Mills (Con - Amber Valley) What steps his Department is taking to reduce levels of fraud and error in the welfare system. - Speech Link
3: Mel Stride (Con - Central Devon) In 2022-23, fraud and error fell by 10%. - Speech Link
4: Nigel Mills (Con - Amber Valley) look for fraudulent transactions, can he confirm that the Government will seek to use them only where fraud - Speech Link
5: Mims Davies (Con - Mid Sussex) As someone who was self-employed for not far off 15 years, I understand where he is coming from. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Finance Bill
2nd reading - Wed 13 Dec 2023
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Nigel Huddleston (Con - Mid Worcestershire) We will also reduce the scope for tax fraud in the construction industry by amending the construction - Speech Link
2: David Simmonds (Con - Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner) much faster.Let me turn to some of the measures designed to support our small businesspeople and the self-employed - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill
2nd reading - Tue 12 Dec 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Yvette Cooper (Lab - Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford) sent, under a scheme that Home Office officials have described as unenforceable and at high risk of fraud - Speech Link
2: Geoffrey Cox (Con - Torridge and West Devon) In this country we have a dualist jurisdiction where treaties are not self-executing, but in Rwanda the - Speech Link
3: Chris Bryant (Lab - Rhondda) But if Rwanda is not now or in the future safe, that provision is self-evidently wrong in fact and therefore - Speech Link
4: Alistair Carmichael (LD - Orkney and Shetland) Anyone who ever had any doubt about the depth and scale of Tory self-entitlement can see it laid bare - Speech Link
5: Matt Warman (Con - Boston and Skegness) They cannot simply say, “We will employ more people to do it”, because the Government have already employed - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
National Insurance Contributions (Reduction in Rates) Bill
2nd reading - Tue 12 Dec 2023
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Baroness Vere of Norbiton (Con - Life peer) Of course, to be self-employed you need to be organised, efficient and responsible, and the Government - Speech Link
2: Baroness Kramer (LD - Life peer) In that, there is new opportunity for the self-employed. - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Criminal Justice Bill (First sitting) - Tue 12 Dec 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Alex Norris (LAB - Nottingham North) this Bill to strengthen, in particular, the role of chief constables to have a say in who should be employed - Speech Link
2: Alex Norris (LAB - Nottingham North) Graeme Biggar, clauses 1 to 8 relate to serious crime, theft or fraud. - Speech Link
3: Flick Drummond (Con - Meon Valley) Two thirds of online fraud and purchase scams are done through social media platforms. - Speech Link
4: Alex Cunningham (Lab - Stockton North) Could I refer you to clauses 11 and 12 on assisting serious self-harm? - Speech Link