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Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Wed 03 May 2023
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Mentions:
1: Gary Sambrook (CON - Birmingham, Northfield) avoidance and many other sinister crimes. - Speech Link
2: Keir Starmer (LAB - Holborn and St Pancras) Oh, and before I go, here is a massive council tax increase for your troubles.” - Speech Link
3: Stephen Flynn (SNP - Aberdeen South) For the avoidance of any doubt, the Liberal Democrats do not believe in abolishing tuition fees, the - Speech Link
4: Rishi Sunak (CON - Richmond (Yorks)) That is why the NHS has recently reformed dental contracts to improve access. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Wed 26 Apr 2023
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Chris Stephens (SNP - Glasgow South West) actually pays, by introducing a real living wage and strengthening protection for workers on zero-hours contracts - Speech Link
2: Keir Starmer (LAB - Holborn and St Pancras) How on earth does he think his low-growth, high-tax economy is working for working people? - Speech Link
3: Keir Starmer (LAB - Holborn and St Pancras) avoidance scheme that helps his own finances. - Speech Link
4: Rishi Sunak (CON - Richmond (Yorks)) The facts are these: the very wealthiest pay more tax and the poorest pay less tax today than they did - Speech Link
5: Rishi Sunak (CON - Richmond (Yorks)) That is why we made the decision to tax the windfall profits of energy companies and use that money to - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill
Committee stage - Thu 20 Apr 2023
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Lord Wallace of Saltaire (LDEM - Life peer) It is concerned with tax evasion, which I include as part of economic crime. - Speech Link
2: Lord Wallace of Saltaire (LDEM - Life peer) The best that we can do is to hope to mitigate and minimise.On trusts, secrecy is often an aid to tax - Speech Link
3: Lord Johnson of Lainston (CON - Life peer) noble Lords will know, which means that, among other things, they are able to own assets, enter into contracts - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: None I would be grateful if he could confirm, for the avoidance of doubt, that that is the case. - Speech Link
2: James Cartlidge (CON - South Suffolk) It applies to revenues that generators actually receive, taking account of contracts which might involve - Speech Link
3: James Cartlidge (CON - South Suffolk) Generators have received to date almost £6 billion in price support from the contracts for difference - Speech Link
4: Alistair Carmichael (LDEM - Orkney and Shetland) For the avoidance of doubt, I did let him know that I would be referring to him in the course of my speech - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Energy Bill [HL]
Report stage - Mon 17 Apr 2023
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: None with renewable electricity generators that have entered into contracts for difference. - Speech Link
2: None company that appears to have very close relations with what many people would consider rather unusual tax - Speech Link
3: None with the production of natural gas from our own continental shelf; of course, that disregards all the tax - Speech Link
4: None existing requirement to work through the so-called mitigation hierarchy—that is, to first consider avoidance - Speech Link
5: None to purchase electricity and the number of these that agreed those contracts,(b) the total amount of - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Finance (No. 2) Bill
2nd reading - Wed 29 Mar 2023
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Craig Mackinlay (CON - South Thanet) I stand to be corrected, but over many years Finance Bills have had substantial anti-avoidance legislation - Speech Link
2: Stewart Hosie (SNP - Dundee East) Nowhere was that more obvious, and more starkly demonstrated, than in the next contracts for difference - Speech Link
3: Stephen Timms (LAB - East Ham) avoidance opportunity for a large number of people. - Speech Link
4: Hywel Williams (PC - Arfon) It is clear that the tax system, as it is, is failing both to tax equitably and to tax adequately.The - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Wed 22 Mar 2023
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Rishi Sunak (CON - Richmond (Yorks)) For the avoidance of doubt, at the moment that that happened, there was a full investigation by a very - Speech Link
2: Stephen Flynn (SNP - Aberdeen South) caused by Brexit, the public at home are facing the biggest fall in living standards ever, the highest tax - Speech Link
3: Jerome Mayhew (CON - Broadland) the best way to protect commuters and small businesses from the spread of this unfair, £12.50-a-day tax - Speech Link
4: Ian Mearns (LAB - Gateshead) To many of my constituents, particularly those in low-income households, that seems like a company tax - Speech Link
5: Rishi Sunak (CON - Richmond (Yorks)) Gentleman raised tidal power; I am pleased to tell him that it is now included in the contracts for difference - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 16 Mar 2023
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Florence Eshalomi (LAB - Vauxhall) The Fair Tax Foundation revealed that between 2014 and 2019, one in six public contracts were won by - Speech Link
2: Oliver Dowden (CON - Hertsmere) The most important thing is to crack down on tax avoidance through tax havens, which is what we saw in - Speech Link
3: Gerald Jones (LAB - Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney) Analysis by Spend Network found that big corporations were still winning 90% of contracts deemed suitable - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation - Wed 15 Mar 2023
Scotland Office

Mentions:
1: Stewart Hosie (SNP - Dundee East) The price of those contracts is set according to the Government’s methodology, but if the prices go above - Speech Link
2: Kevin Foster (CON - Torbay) Obviously, an annual allowance prevents it from being a way to commit larger-scale tax avoidance, and - Speech Link
3: Jacob Rees-Mogg (CON - North East Somerset) The best approach to tax policy is low tax rates with few exclusions.The Budget sets up a tax avoidance - Speech Link
4: Gareth Thomas (LAB - Harrow West) the Prime Minister’s watch nearly £30 billion has been lost to fraud, vanity projects and even crony contracts - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
NHS Workforce Expansion - Tue 28 Feb 2023
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Wes Streeting (LAB - Ilford North) than a wealthy few need a tax loophole. - Speech Link
2: Wes Streeting (LAB - Ilford North) than a wealthy few need a tax loophole. - Speech Link
3: Wes Streeting (LAB - Ilford North) I am perfectly fine with having a tax-unregistered scheme. - Speech Link
4: Philippa Whitford (SNP - Central Ayrshire) This system was introduced in 2015, supposedly to deal with tax evasion and avoidance. - Speech Link
5: Aaron Bell (CON - Newcastle-under-Lyme) A previous Health Secretary ranked the worst 10 PFI contracts, and I believe that we were 11th or 12th - Speech Link
6: Simon Lightwood (LAB - Wakefield) It is a plan that will be paid for by scrapping non-dom tax status, an unfair tax rule that gives tax - Speech Link