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Commons Chamber
Delivery of Public Services - Tue 28 Jun 2022
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Simon Clarke (CON - Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland) This will be the first income tax cut for 16 years, and it will be a £5 billion tax cut for 30 million - Speech Link
2: Stewart Hosie (SNP - Dundee East) However, some of the problems are self-evidently self-inflicted. - Speech Link
3: Darren Jones (LAB - Bristol North West) Yet this Government’s disregard for public services is self-evident. - Speech Link
4: Steven Bonnar (SNP - Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill) slanted media reporting we have seen from some commentators across the Brit-Nat media outlets—for the avoidance - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Social Security (Additional Payments) Bill
3rd reading - Mon 27 Jun 2022
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Lister of Burtersett (LAB - Life peer) Another group who are victims of rough justice is low-income self-employed people who do not receive - Speech Link
2: Earl of Clancarty (CB - Excepted Hereditary) My concern is how the Bill will affect those self-employed whose earnings fluctuate from month to month - Speech Link
3: Baroness Sherlock (LAB - Life peer) I would be interested in hearing whether someone who is self-employed, who is simply getting nothing - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Schools Bill [HL]
Committee stage - Wed 22 Jun 2022
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Lord Addington (LDEM - Excepted Hereditary) We have a bureaucratic legal system in which whether you get it often depends on the lawyer you have employed - Speech Link
2: None Amendment 171C is a general anti-avoidance provision. - Speech Link
3: None We think we can save around £1.7 billion by removing tax breaks for private schools. - Speech Link
4: None But I know the purpose of the noble Lord’s amendments—I think the word he used was “anti-avoidance”. - Speech Link
5: Lord Lucas (CON - Excepted Hereditary) It just seems self-defeating. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Cost of Living - Thu 09 Jun 2022
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Lord Sikka (LAB - Life peer) The Government are also soft on the tax-avoidance industry. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Kramer (LDEM - Life peer) deep and significant, if you look at the surveys of young people and their opinions.We are also seeing self-employed - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Achieving Economic Growth - Wed 18 May 2022
Department for Exiting the European Union

Mentions:
1: Geraint Davies (LAB - Swansea West) that there are 500,000 more people on payrolls, but he neglected to say that that does not include self-employed - Speech Link
2: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) It is an act of self-harm supported not only by the Tory idealogues, of course, but now by the Labour - Speech Link
3: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) It is not a recipe for growth: it is a recipe for self-inflicted economic catastrophe.Precious little - Speech Link
4: Mhairi Black (SNP - Paisley and Renfrewshire South) not in work.The Government could start solving this crisis by providing solutions, such as closing tax-avoidance - Speech Link
5: Geraint Davies (LAB - Swansea West) according to the ONS there are 444,000 fewer people in work—the Prime Minister conveniently missed out the self-employed - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Debate on the Address - Tue 10 May 2022
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Ed Davey (LDEM - Kingston and Surbiton) I want a sewage tax. - Speech Link
2: Andrea Leadsom (CON - South Northamptonshire) If I was a betting person, which I am not, I would bet that by 2030 more people will be employed in the - Speech Link
3: Alison McGovern (LAB - Wirral South) We have heard some self-deprecating humour, where we are not taking ourselves too seriously. - Speech Link
4: Toby Perkins (LAB - Chesterfield) when he finally loses his job, which he should have done several months ago, he might be gainfully employed - Speech Link
5: Toby Perkins (LAB - Chesterfield) A Labour Queen’s Speech would have tackled tax avoidance and non-dom status—as it turns out, that was - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Off-Payroll Working (Economic Affairs Committee Report) - Wed 27 Apr 2022
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Baroness Noakes (CON - Life peer) The tax system positively incentivises people to work on a self-employed basis and to seek to convert - Speech Link
2: Lord Desai (Non-affiliated - Life peer) by becoming self-employed. - Speech Link
3: Lord Bridges of Headley (CON - Life peer) Computer Weekly showed that the number of self-employed is falling fast. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Nationality and Borders Bill
Consideration of Commons amendments - Mon 04 Apr 2022
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb (GRN - Life peer) The brilliant Twitter lawyer, David Allen Green, often mocks the use of “for the avoidance of doubt”, - Speech Link
2: Baroness Hamwee (LDEM - Life peer) with the Government’s position.Leaving aside—though I do not leave it aside—the importance of work to self-worth - Speech Link
3: Lord Stewart of Dirleton (CON - Life peer) Government’s intention to establish a national age assessment board with qualified expert social workers employed - Speech Link
4: Lord Harris of Haringey (LAB - Life peer) If, for example, someone employed by the Home Office or some other agency carries out an X-ray or whatever - Speech Link


Grand Committee
International Women’s Day and Protecting the Equality of Women in the UK and Internationally - Thu 17 Mar 2022
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Stedman-Scott (CON - Life peer) We have also introduced tax-free childcare. - Speech Link
2: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LDEM - Life peer) It is also very important that we are self-aware about the damage being done, the moral vacuum being - Speech Link
3: Baroness Armstrong of Hill Top (LAB - Life peer) Government are trying to find ways of getting it going again, even though, of course, all the people employed - Speech Link
4: Lord Farmer (CON - Life peer) Men take pride in self-reliance; women take pride in team accomplishment and focus naturally on empowerment - Speech Link
5: Lord Sikka (LAB - Life peer) Nobody ever considers the social impact of redundancies, wage reduction and tax avoidance. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
National Insurance Contributions Bill - Tue 22 Feb 2022
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Viscount Younger of Leckie (CON - Excepted Hereditary) The Bill also provides an exemption from self-employed NICs for test and trace support payments, which - Speech Link