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Lords Chamber
Data Protection and Digital Information Bill
2nd reading - Tue 19 Dec 2023
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Mentions:
1: Lord Knight of Weymouth (Lab - Life peer) If not, why go after benefit fraud but not tax fraud? - Speech Link
2: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) I note that this happens to be the week that, in a Frankfurt court, the former global head of tax at - Speech Link
3: Lord Clement-Jones (LD - Life peer) There is also the avoidance of creating a new offence of identity theft. - Speech Link
4: Lord Bassam of Brighton (Lab - Life peer) This includes those involved in tax fraud or dodgy PPE contracts. - Speech Link
5: Viscount Camrose (Con - Excepted Hereditary) If this failed, the appeal would be referred to the First-tier Tax Tribunal, as currently is used in - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Nigel Huddleston (Con - Mid Worcestershire) system to combat tax avoidance. - 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) Friend the Member for Amber Valley (Nigel Mills) about tax avoidance stop notices. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
National Insurance Contributions (Reduction in Rates) Bill
2nd reading - Tue 12 Dec 2023
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Lord Sikka (Lab - Life peer) tax yield is expected to be around £57 billion in 2027-28. - Speech Link
2: Lord Livermore (Lab - Life peer) and making this the biggest tax-raising Parliament ever, with an average tax rise of £1,200 per household - Speech Link
3: Lord Sikka (Lab - Life peer) will know, since 2010, between £450 billion and £1,500 billion of taxes have not been collected due to avoidance - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Investigatory Powers (Amendment) Bill [HL]
Committee stage - Mon 11 Dec 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Hope of Craighead (XB - Life peer) there as one of the circumstances, but it is probably happier to include it expressly, just for the avoidance - Speech Link
2: Lord West of Spithead (Lab - Life peer) particular, the change is focused on improving the position of certain public authorities responsible for tax - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Beneficial Ownership Registers: Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies - Thu 07 Dec 2023
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Margaret Hodge (Lab - Barking) The epidemic of tax avoidance, tax evasion and economic crime flourishes in an environment of secrecy - Speech Link
2: Margaret Hodge (Lab - Barking) Their role in facilitating economic crime and tax avoidance is indisputable, and their protestations - Speech Link
3: Marie Rimmer (Lab - St Helens South and Whiston) levels of aggressive tax avoidance and evasion that we know take place. - Speech Link
4: Meg Hillier (LAB - Hackney South and Shoreditch) take; it is an absolute opportunity for tax avoidance and tax evasion, in particular, and it is key - Speech Link
5: Richard Thomson (SNP - Gordon) evasion and tax avoidance. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Immigration and Nationality (Fees) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2023 - Mon 04 Dec 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord German (LD - Life peer) of billions of pounds extra that businesses will have to pay the Government—is essentially another tax - Speech Link
2: Lord Coaker (Lab - Life peer) Can the Minister clarify, for the avoidance of doubt, another question that has been asked: how much - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Windsor Framework (Retail Movement Scheme: Public Health, Marketing and Organic Product Standards and Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 2023 - Mon 04 Dec 2023
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Lord Bew (XB - Life peer) of Ireland is a sovereign state, fully part of the European Union but also one the world’s largest tax - Speech Link
2: None We have said it before but for the avoidance of doubt, this is not a wholehearted endorsement of what - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Data Protection and Digital Information Bill
Report stage - Wed 29 Nov 2023
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: John Whittingdale (Con - Maldon) In doing that, the identification and the avoidance of fraud will save the taxpayer a considerable amount - Speech Link
2: Chris Bryant (Lab - Rhondda) anyone in the UK in receipt, or having been in receipt, of state pension, universal credit, working tax - Speech Link
3: Patrick Grady (SNP - Glasgow North) Incidentally, there should also be action to tackle tax evasion and tax fraud. - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Margaret Hodge (Lab - Barking) They avoided £1.5 billion in UK tax. - Speech Link
2: Nigel Mills (Con - Amber Valley) about whether we need all those rules, or whether we could sweep them away and just have some anti-avoidance - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
32. Promoters of tax avoidance (orders disqualifying company directors etc) - Mon 27 Nov 2023
No Department present

Mentions:
1: None Disqualification Act 1986 in connection with the promotion of schemes and other arrangements involving tax - Speech Link