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Lords Chamber
Autumn Statement 2023 - Wed 29 Nov 2023
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Lord Dobbs (Con - Life peer) know it is not like me; I think I must still be suffering from frozen thresholds.Let me try to raise spirits - Speech Link
2: Lord Sikka (Lab - Life peer) enough purchasing power, and the Government have starved the public sector of investment, which then fuels - Speech Link
3: Viscount Hanworth (Lab - Excepted Hereditary) by the private sector alone.Their response has been to imagine that instead we can rely on so-called renewable - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Finance (No. 2) Bill
Committee of the whole House (day 2) - Wed 19 Apr 2023
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Caroline Lucas (GRN - Brighton, Pavilion) Surely the Chancellor and Treasury team can see that, when we need to urgently get off fossil fuels to - Speech Link
2: Alistair Carmichael (LDEM - Orkney and Shetland) Spirits are also an important part of the on trade. - Speech Link
3: James Cartlidge (CON - South Suffolk) There are spirits that will benefit from the differential—not spirits served from what I think are called - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation - Tue 21 Mar 2023
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Edward Miliband (LAB - Doncaster North) We know that wind and solar are many times cheaper than fossil fuels, but the problem is that we have - Speech Link
2: Alan Brown (SNP - Kilmarnock and Loudoun) now tax to the UK Exchequer, or that draught beer, wine and cider are to be subsidised while 99% of spirits - Speech Link
3: Ben Lake (PC - Ceredigion) energy bills support scheme and guaranteeing off-grid homes an additional round of the alternative fuels - Speech Link
4: Margaret Ferrier (IND - Rutherglen and Hamilton West) This is an enormous blow for the spirits industry, significantly reducing its already tight profit margins - Speech Link
5: Gavin Newlands (SNP - Paisley and Renfrewshire North) Despite the potential of fuels such as green hydrogen and tidal to reduce our dependence on fossil fuels - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Non-domestic Energy Support - Mon 09 Jan 2023
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: James Cartlidge (CON - South Suffolk) lowest real-terms level for 30 years, having been cut or frozen in nine of the last 10 Budgets, and spirits - Speech Link
2: Liz Saville Roberts (PC - Dwyfor Meirionnydd) that what he desperately needs is Government support with investment in energy efficiency measures and renewable - Speech Link
3: James Cartlidge (CON - South Suffolk) To give one example, because of freezes or cuts to the duty on whisky and spirits, that duty is now at - Speech Link
4: Stephen Farry (Alliance - North Down) As he knows, we have a distinct energy market with a different profile in the use of fuels, including - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Energy (oil and gas) profits levy - Tue 22 Nov 2022
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Tulip Siddiq (LAB - Hampstead and Kilburn) billions of pounds on the table by giving a tax break to companies drilling for new polluting fossil fuels - Speech Link
2: Drew Hendry (SNP - Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey) —windfall tax on renewable energy producers than they have on oil and gas. - Speech Link
3: Bim Afolami (CON - Hitchin and Harpenden) Members on both sides of the House agree that we need more renewable investment—more nuclear, more wind - Speech Link
4: Bim Afolami (CON - Hitchin and Harpenden) I would just say that we must start to take seriously the issues of delivering much more renewable energy - Speech Link
5: Pat McFadden (LAB - Wolverhampton South East) Labour and the Conservatives is that they believe that growth comes only from unleashing the animal spirits - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Economy: The Growth Plan 2022 - Mon 10 Oct 2022
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Neville-Rolfe (CON - Life peer) tax cut for nearly a million businesses.Planned increases in the duty rates for beer, cider, wine and spirits - Speech Link
2: Baroness Hayman (CB - Life peer) natural environments.As the Treasury concluded in its net zero review, the cost competitiveness of renewable - Speech Link
3: Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb (GRN - Life peer) coalition, and possibly the anti-science coalition.What we should see is growth in all sorts of ways—in renewable - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
The Growth Plan - Fri 23 Sep 2022
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Kwasi Kwarteng (CON - Spelthorne) line with RPI, so I can announce that the planned increases in duty rates for beer, cider, wine and spirits - Speech Link
2: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) Scotland’s renewable sector is booming, but in off-gas grid rural Scotland, surround by the wind turbines - Speech Link
3: Ben Lake (PC - Ceredigion) Some 74% of properties in Ceredigion depend on alternative fuels that will not be subject to the measures - Speech Link
4: Caroline Lucas (GRN - Brighton, Pavilion) offers the only viable way out of the current crisis, as well as reducing our dependence on fossil fuels - Speech Link
5: Kwasi Kwarteng (CON - Spelthorne) electricity price is openly discussed, but a lot of our electricity generation is based not on fossil fuels - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 17 May 2022
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Jacob Young (CON - Redcar) Chancellor join me in welcoming the latest investment announced in Teesside’s freeport, a £150 million renewable - Speech Link
2: Helen Whately (CON - Faversham and Mid Kent) She has already made the argument very strongly—when I recently met the wine and spirits all-party group - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Budget Resolutions - Mon 01 Nov 2021
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Ed Davey (LDEM - Kingston and Surbiton) Instead, he offered tax cuts for people using fossil fuels, not least on short-haul flights. - Speech Link
2: Ed Davey (LDEM - Kingston and Surbiton) We nearly quadrupled renewable energy. - Speech Link
3: Peter Grant (SNP - Glenrothes) Gentleman accept that the SNP policy is that spirits should be fairly taxed regardless of how they are - Speech Link
4: Douglas Ross (CON - Moray) projects where the Scottish Government have failed.Finally, I want to comment on the duty freeze on spirits - Speech Link
5: Andrew Bowie (CON - West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine) Member for Glasgow East (David Linden)—of the spirits duty freeze, which will support the Scotch whisky - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Budget Resolutions - Wed 27 Oct 2021
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Ian Blackford (SNP - Ross, Skye and Lochaber) Secretary of State for hee haw.It is not only on carbon capture where this Government are holding back our renewable - Speech Link
2: Chris Grayling (CON - Epsom and Ewell) I want to see more support provided for the creation of proper sources of renewable energy in the developing - Speech Link
3: Sammy Wilson (DUP - East Antrim) One reason for higher energy bills is the fact that we are turning our back on cheaper fuels and expecting - Speech Link
4: John Redwood (CON - Wokingham) We are going to be mightily dependent on the good spirits, good will and enthusiasm of all those who - Speech Link