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Westminster Hall
COP10: WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control - Thu 18 Jan 2024
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Andrew Lewer (Con - Northampton South) Every penny of tax that street after street of them pay goes to funding the WHO. - Speech Link
2: David Jones (Con - Clwyd West) Well, of course—that is self-evidently the case. - Speech Link
3: Karin Smyth (Lab - Bristol South) In my constituency, the tobacco industry has historically employed many thousands of people and there - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Nigel Huddleston (Con - Mid Worcestershire) This will apply where that engagement is incorrectly treated as self-employed for tax purposes.It also - Speech Link
2: James Murray (LAB - Ealing North) avoidance and evasion.Although we welcome any measures to tackle tax avoidance and evasion, again there - Speech Link
3: 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


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) The second removes the requirement for the self-employed with annual profits above the income tax personal - Speech Link
2: Baroness Kramer (LD - Life peer) In that, there is new opportunity for the self-employed. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Autumn Statement Resolutions - Mon 27 Nov 2023
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Mel Stride (Con - Central Devon) Friend is right to draw attention to the self-employed and to the national insurance changes that my - Speech Link
2: Ranil Jayawardena (Con - North East Hampshire) It is also important for both groups, whether they are employed or self-employed, that there is fairness - Speech Link
3: Margaret Hodge (Lab - Barking) Our system is ridiculously complex, opening opportunities for aggressive tax avoidance. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Autumn Statement - Wed 22 Nov 2023
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Jeremy Hunt (Con - South West Surrey) we value their work, I am also taking one further step for the self-employed. - Speech Link
2: John Redwood (Con - Wokingham) We have lost about 800,000 self-employed people since February 2020. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill
Report stage - Mon 20 Nov 2023
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Mentions:
1: Damian Collins (Con - Folkestone and Hythe) Google has been investigated by the European Commission over self-preferencing. - Speech Link
2: John Penrose (Con - Weston-super-Mare) As everybody here will understand, a pound taken in tax has the same underlying economic impact on the - Speech Link
3: Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Con - The Cotswolds) Friend engaged in some self-deprecation at the beginning of his speech about the scope of the new clause - Speech Link
4: John Penrose (Con - Weston-super-Mare) In fact, the total number of staff employed by the RPC to do this at the moment is relatively small. - Speech Link
5: Caroline Lucas (Green - Brighton, Pavilion) around the idea of common but differentiated responsibility, but sadly it is more respected in the avoidance - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Economic Growth - Tue 14 Nov 2023
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Priti Patel (Con - Witham) cost burden of business rates, which is having such a corrosive impact.Some 80% of my constituents are employed - Speech Link
2: Stephen Hammond (Con - Wimbledon) clear that since 2010 the UK has had the third-highest growth in the G7 and 3.9 million more people are employed - Speech Link
3: Clive Lewis (Lab - Norwich South) avoidance purposes.Unless we in this country are prepared to tax wealth more, deal with the imperial - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
King’s Speech - Thu 09 Nov 2023
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Lord Touhig (Lab - Life peer) I soon discovered that many local charities, having secured funding and employed staff, had, within a - Speech Link
2: Baroness Gohir (XB - Life peer) For example, the criteria might be the ability to be employed. - Speech Link
3: Lord Carrington (XB - Excepted Hereditary) Tax issues relating to VAT, income tax, capital gains tax and inheritance tax are involved. - Speech Link
4: Lord Shinkwin (Con - Life peer) For the avoidance of doubt, my experience is not a planning dispute. - 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: Lord Londesborough (CB - Excepted Hereditary) Secondly, mindful of the recent cuts in R&D tax credits in this year’s Budget, how will SMEs be incentivised - Speech Link
5: Viscount Waverley (CB - Excepted Hereditary) on the economy, covering up inappropriate trade practices such as dumping, counterfeit or sanctions avoidance - 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) will apply to promoters of tax avoidance schemes who fail to comply with an HMRC legal notice requiring - Speech Link