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Commons Chamber
Public Procurement - Mon 13 May 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Alex Burghart (Con - Brentwood and Ongar) and long-unreformed system of procurement to which we had been shackled for about 40 years.For the avoidance - Speech Link
2: John Redwood (Con - Wokingham) have lost a lot of the self-employed in recent years for one reason or another, but the issues over tax - Speech Link
3: Dave Doogan (SNP - Angus) The Act fails to mandate sufficient tax transparency for large multinationals bidding for public contracts—a - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill
Committee stage - Mon 29 Apr 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Baroness Finn (Con - Life peer) council abdicates the responsibility to maintain the road and other amenities but not, of course, council tax - Speech Link
2: Baroness Thornhill (LD - Life peer) The amendment would prevent freeholders being charged twice, first through council tax and then through - Speech Link
3: Baroness Scott of Bybrook (Con - Life peer) representation of what the report purports to represent.The amendment also makes it clear, for the avoidance - Speech Link
4: Earl of Lytton (XB - Excepted Hereditary) Contracts between a holding company and one or more of its subsidiaries, or two or more subsidiaries - Speech Link
5: Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb (Green - Life peer) the wider community.These leaseholders are facing a double taxation: they are paying their council tax - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Data Protection and Digital Information Bill
Committee stage - Mon 22 Apr 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Baroness Kidron (XB - Life peer) position or collecting a tax debt. - Speech Link
2: None Without access to their bank accounts, it is hard to know how exactly the money from these contracts - Speech Link
3: Baroness Sherlock (Lab - Life peer) There have been scandals in procurement, of which the infamous PPE contracts are just one example. - Speech Link
4: Viscount Younger of Leckie (Con - Excepted Hereditary) Tax fraud is no different from welfare fraud and should be treated similarly. - Speech Link
5: Lord Sikka (Lab - Life peer) avoidance schemes, has been investigated, fined or prosecuted. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill
Committee stage - Mon 22 Apr 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Baroness Scott of Bybrook (Con - Life peer) schedule, including shared ownership, home finance plans, lease extensions, agricultural tenancies, or contracts - Speech Link
2: Lord Gascoigne (Con - Life peer) current law so that non-litigation costs payable on enfranchisement do not attract stamp duty land tax - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Data Protection and Digital Information Bill
Committee stage - Mon 15 Apr 2024
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Mentions:
1: None Where countries do not meet the threshold, data can be transferred, but only where contracts are in place - Speech Link
2: None While Yandex’s contracts imply data security, Russia lacks a reliable legal pathway for remedies, rendering - Speech Link
3: Baroness Jones of Whitchurch (Lab - Life peer) Nevertheless, for the avoidance of doubt, it is useful to have it in the Bill as a specific obligation - Speech Link
4: None UK tax-funded schools and teachers must not be left with the responsibility for the regulatory compliance - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Chris Stephens (SNP - Glasgow South West) shifts being cancelled and because people are in what I would argue is bogus self-employment—zero-hours contracts - Speech Link
2: 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
3: Chris Stephens (SNP - Glasgow South West) Zero-hours contracts are rampant—people turn up for a shift and they are told the shift has been cancelled - Speech Link
4: Kevin Hollinrake (Con - Thirsk and Malton) For him to trash the reputation of the sector in that way, saying that zero-hours contracts are “rampant - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill
Report stage - Wed 13 Mar 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Lord Bassam of Brighton (Lab - Life peer) as possible, and in a way that is consistent with the quasi-judicial nature of the process.For the avoidance - Speech Link
2: Lord Bassam of Brighton (Lab - Life peer) It would help the House for the avoidance of doubt. - Speech Link
3: Baroness O'Neill of Bengarve (XB - Life peer) My Lords, for the avoidance of doubt, could the Minister clarify whether the proposed restrictions apply - Speech Link
4: None This will enable the Treasury to amend the gift aid rules in the Income Tax Act 2007. - Speech Link
5: Lord Mendoza (Con - Life peer) The point is a very narrow one: according to the Income Tax Act 2007, if a subscription is refundable - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Commonwealth Parliamentary Association and International Committee of the Red Cross (Status) Bill
Committee stage: 1st sitting - Wed 06 Mar 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Maria Miller (Con - Basingstoke) capacities relevant to the operation of an international organisation in the UK include concluding contracts - Speech Link
2: Leo Docherty (Con - Aldershot) Key capacities relevant to the operation of an international organisation in the UK are to conclude contracts - Speech Link
3: Leo Docherty (Con - Aldershot) Key capacities relevant to the operation of an international organisation in the UK are to conclude contracts - Speech Link
4: Leo Docherty (Con - Aldershot) to specific exceptions in accordance with clause 4 of the Bill, while any exemption or relief from a tax - Speech Link
5: Maria Miller (Con - Basingstoke) today.Clause 5 explains that the term “ICRC” means the International Committee of the Red Cross, for the avoidance - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Farming - Mon 04 Mar 2024
Wales Office

Mentions:
1: Bill Wiggin (Con - North Herefordshire) Give us the tax breaks, and we will do the work. - Speech Link
2: Steven Bonnar (SNP - Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill) pushing on behalf of its members for reform in that area, so we welcome legislation to regulate dairy contracts - Speech Link
3: Ben Lake (PC - Ceredigion) support policy, for example, has a big part to play, in addition to the public procurement of food contracts - Speech Link
4: Thérèse Coffey (Con - Suffolk Coastal) can go further in making sure that our funding arrangements are fair for tenant farmers and that the contracts - Speech Link
5: Greg Smith (Con - Buckingham) No prizes are available for guessing how much compensation has been offered, but for the avoidance of - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Finance Bill
2nd reading - Wed 21 Feb 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Lord Sikka (Lab - Life peer) Many people have zero-hours contracts, work part-time or are maybe on a pension. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Vere of Norbiton (Con - Life peer) That is a significant reduction in the amount of tax avoidance. - Speech Link