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Westminster Hall
Large-scale Solar Farms - Thu 18 Apr 2024
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Caroline Johnson (Con - Sleaford and North Hykeham) National self-sufficiency in food has fallen from 74% to 61% since the mid-1980s. - Speech Link
2: Rachel Maclean (Con - Redditch) It is a complex and lengthy subject, but for the avoidance of doubt, I oppose the proposals in my constituency - Speech Link
3: Greg Smith (Con - Buckingham) However, beyond that, it is not just the farmers, the tenants or those employed on the farms who are - Speech Link
4: David Davis (Con - Haltemprice and Howden) relief—basically, inheritance tax relief. - Speech Link
5: Thérèse Coffey (Con - Suffolk Coastal) I think the policy on tax relief is a sensible one. - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Nigel Huddleston (Con - Mid Worcestershire) cut of £900 a year and 2 million self-employed people will get a tax cut averaging £700 a year, all - Speech Link
2: Nigel Huddleston (Con - Mid Worcestershire) engage with the tax system and closing loopholes that could be used for avoidance. - Speech Link
3: Richard Fuller (Con - North East Bedfordshire) Many who will be looking to fill in their self-assessment forms will be surprised that they cannot download - Speech Link


General Committees
Draft National Minimum Wage (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2024 - Mon 18 Mar 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Justin Madders (Lab - Ellesmere Port and Neston) likely to be in insecure jobs.It is noted in the Low Pay Commission’s report that those insecurely employed - Speech Link
2: Desmond Swayne (Con - New Forest West) Gentleman makes a fair point, but—I have employed young people myself—is it not right to allow employers - Speech Link
3: Chris Stephens (SNP - Glasgow South West) in this country through shifts being cancelled and because people are in what I would argue is bogus self-employment—zero-hours - Speech Link
4: Desmond Swayne (Con - New Forest West) the Work and Pensions Committee, Frank Field, was right in his assumption that universal credit, like tax - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Chris Stephens (SNP - Glasgow South West) We had the announcement of a Budget last week that has £46 billion of unfunded tax cuts, which is £46 - Speech Link
2: Patricia Gibson (SNP - North Ayrshire and Arran) There must be no more obfuscation, avoidance or excuses. - Speech Link
3: Paul Maynard (Con - Blackpool North and Cleveleys) they want through their retirement.The new state pension improves outcomes for many women, carers and self-employed - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Farming - Mon 04 Mar 2024
Wales Office

Mentions:
1: Richard Drax (Con - South Dorset) and hand responsibility back to Ministers, where it originally was, because the agencies that are now employed - Speech Link
2: Bill Wiggin (Con - North Herefordshire) Grants are very limited; tax breaks are a much more efficient way of getting farmers to cut their costs - Speech Link
3: Greg Smith (Con - Buckingham) No prizes are available for guessing how much compensation has been offered, but for the avoidance of - Speech Link
4: Richard Drax (Con - South Dorset) Others are experiencing problems with land agents employed by landlords. - 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: Baroness Vere of Norbiton (Con - Life peer) That is a significant reduction in the amount of tax avoidance. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Offshore Petroleum Licensing Bill
Committee of the whole House - Tue 20 Feb 2024
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Rosie Winterton (Lab - Doncaster Central) , or engaged through day-rate or self-employed contract models.”Amendment 18, page 3, line 23, insert - Speech Link
2: None transition and deliver our net zero targets, there is a need for both consistency of message and the avoidance - Speech Link
3: Caroline Lucas (Green - Brighton, Pavilion) , self employed, which is vital with the heavy casualisation in the oil and gas workforce.Indeed, a report - Speech Link
4: Barry Gardiner (Lab - Brent North) It ignores the 30,000 hard-working people directly employed in today’s oil and gas industry, and the - Speech Link
5: Richard Foord (LD - Tiverton and Honiton) UK-produced oil that would have mitigated those price rises, but UK-based renewable energy and demand avoidance - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Workers (Economic Affairs Committee Report) - Thu 08 Feb 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Lord Layard (Lab - Life peer) well as people who suffer from personality disorders that either make them anti-social or make them self-harm - Speech Link
2: Lord Willetts (Con - Life peer) At least the proposal is to link the tax relief—the tax benefits—to pension age minus 10, but I think - Speech Link
3: Lord Sikka (Lab - Life peer) Nearly a quarter are engaged in what is called “tax planning”, which is really a euphemism for tax dodging—there - Speech Link
4: Viscount Younger of Leckie (Con - Excepted Hereditary) For the avoidance of doubt, and for the benefit of the noble Viscount, I say that we certainly get the - Speech Link
5: Lord Bridges of Headley (Con - Life peer) (or not employed at all), is fiscally highly advantageous. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Ukraine - Fri 26 Jan 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Neville-Jones (Con - Life peer) But that means taking measures that will allow us success on the one hand and the avoidance of war on - Speech Link
2: Baroness Goudie (Lab - Life peer) It is really difficult to bring in employment for those who have to be trained before they can be employed - Speech Link
3: Lord Houghton of Richmond (XB - Life peer) The limitation on the means employed needs further explanation.The calibration of NATO support for Ukraine - Speech Link
4: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LD - Life peer) repeat that, from our perspective, there is an extremely strong case to look with urgency at a windfall tax - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Loan Charge - Thu 18 Jan 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Sammy Wilson (DUP - East Antrim) As far as they were concerned, they were employed by a contractor and their tax was being deducted, and - Speech Link
2: Paul Scully (Con - Sutton and Cheam) passed a few years ago; and the fact that it should not be going after contractors, consultants and self-employed - Speech Link
3: Neale Hanvey (Alba - Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath) As a self- employed person, he would lose his business, because he would be bankrupt. - Speech Link
4: Nigel Huddleston (Con - Mid Worcestershire) avoidance schemes after HMRC has issued a stop notice under the promoters of tax avoidance schemes rules - Speech Link