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

Mentions:
1: Greg Smith (Con - Buckingham) Food inflation will only get worse if our self-sufficiency in food production drops. - Speech Link
2: Marco Longhi (Con - Dudley North) With 800,000 fewer self-employed in the economy post covid and post IR35, does the Chancellor agree that - Speech Link
3: Rachel Reeves (Lab - Leeds West) Will the Chancellor update the House on the latest estimates of taxpayers’ money lost to fraud from the - Speech Link
4: Jeremy Hunt (Con - South West Surrey) First, we have no quarter with any incidence of fraud. - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: John Redwood (Con - Wokingham) It is of great concern to me, as it should be to many other Members, that we have 800,000 fewer self-employed - Speech Link
2: Mary Robinson (Con - Cheadle) pleased that the Government are taking action to deal with that, because we know that public sector fraud - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill
Consideration of Commons amendments - Wed 18 Oct 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) start by discussing Motion A, which seeks to reinsert the SME exemption for the failure to prevent fraud - Speech Link
2: None ): small organisations (1) For the purposes of section (Failure to prevent fraud)(1) a relevant body - Speech Link
3: Lord Garnier (Con - Life peer) , he is wrong about that, quite apart from being offensive, because I have run my own business as a self-employed - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Ukraine - Thu 21 Sep 2023
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Lord Stirrup (CB - Life peer) It has employed methodical violence against large numbers of Ukrainian non-combatants. - Speech Link
2: Lord Robertson of Port Ellen (LAB - Life peer) spectacularly unsuccessful, wasteful and humiliating.The rebellion by Yevgeny Prigozhin showed the fraud - Speech Link
3: Baroness Falkner of Margravine (CB - Life peer) That was a signal of a tale foretold: the invasion of a sovereign state, not as an act of self-defence - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Online Safety Bill
Consideration of Lords amendments - Tue 12 Sep 2023
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Mentions:
1: None work of Ofcom, because of how fast it has been scaling up and because of the incredible people it has employed - Speech Link
2: Siobhan Baillie (CON - Stroud) traced if details are not held.That is before we get to how visible verification can help to tackle fraud - Speech Link
3: Paul Scully (CON - Sutton and Cheam) With regard to online fraud or other illegal activity, mandatory user verification and visibility of - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Hormone Pregnancy Tests - Thu 07 Sep 2023
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Yasmin Qureshi (LAB - Bolton South East) This was once referred to as the worst medical fraud of the 20th century, and I believe that to be true - Speech Link
2: Jacob Rees-Mogg (CON - North East Somerset) It is so clear and self-evident that harm has been caused, and therefore responsibility must be laid - Speech Link
3: Mike Penning (CON - Hemel Hempstead) This was in an NHS surgery, with a GP who was self-employed, as they mostly are, but paid for by the - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 05 Sep 2023
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Barry Sheerman (LAB - Huddersfield) my flight.When the Chancellor’s predecessor, now the Prime Minister, was Chancellor there was huge fraud - Speech Link
2: Jeremy Hunt (CON - South West Surrey) We are always ferociously determined to recover money obtained through fraud, but because of those bounce - Speech Link
3: James Sunderland (CON - Bracknell) I have recently been contacted by several self-employed constituents expressing concern about heavy fines - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Advanced Artificial Intelligence - Mon 24 Jul 2023
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Mentions:
1: Lord Bishop of Oxford (Bishops - Bishops) Humanity is rightly afraid that technology can become the means and instrument for self-destruction and - Speech Link
2: Lord Anderson of Ipswich (CB - Life peer) UKIC has for many years employed machine learning automation techniques such as image-to-text conversion - Speech Link
3: Lord Rees of Ludlow (CB - Life peer) The vast but self-contained volumes of legal literature can all be digested by a machine. - Speech Link
4: Viscount Waverley (CB - Excepted Hereditary) AI also has great value in the prevention and detection of crime, especially fraud. - Speech Link
5: Viscount Camrose (CON - Excepted Hereditary) However, they also bring serious challenges, such as the threat of fraud and disinformation created by - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Universal Credit Deductions - Wed 19 Jul 2023
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Chris Stephens (SNP - Glasgow South West) maximum deduction of 10% of Scottish Benefit Entitlement will be applied unless the overpayment is due to Fraud - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) However, self-employed people have different work weeks, and the flexibility that universal credit was - Speech Link


Written Statements
Finance Bill: Draft Legislation and Tax Documents - Tue 18 Jul 2023
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Victoria Atkins (CON - Louth and Horncastle) framework supports the modernisation of the relief at source (RAS).Doubling maximum sentences for tax fraud - Speech Link