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Public Bill Committees
Procurement Bill [ Lords ] (Fifth sitting)
Committee stage:s: 5th sitting - Tue 07 Feb 2023
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Florence Eshalomi (LAB - Vauxhall) A number of councils have already highlighted how they are going to increase their council tax, including - Speech Link
2: Alex Burghart (CON - Brentwood and Ongar) For the avoidance of doubt, the use of the made affirmative procedure means that if regulations are not - Speech Link
3: Alex Burghart (CON - Brentwood and Ongar) company, concession contracts or light-touch contracts. - Speech Link
4: Chris Evans (LAB - Islwyn) struggling with the cost of living crisis, we cannot allow the public to feel that their hard-earned tax - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 07 Feb 2023
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Andrew Bridgen (IND - North West Leicestershire) I welcomed the new measures announced in the autumn statement to tackle tax avoidance. - Speech Link
2: James Cartlidge (CON - South Suffolk) This new scheme will enable hospices locked into contracts signed before recent substantial falls in - Speech Link
3: James Cartlidge (CON - South Suffolk) The contracts for difference scheme has been hugely successful in driving the deployment of renewable - Speech Link
4: Andrew Selous (CON - South West Bedfordshire) Businesses that had to renegotiate their energy contracts in the second half of last year did so at the - Speech Link
5: Richard Burgon (LAB - Leeds East) Scrapping the non-dom tax avoidance scheme used by the super-rich would raise more than £3 billion. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Social Security and Pensions - Mon 06 Feb 2023
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Karen Buck (LAB - Westminster North) to the eligible cost limits of two crucial benefits: the childcare element of universal credit and tax - Speech Link
2: Paul Maynard (CON - Blackpool North and Cleveleys) Indeed, it was Milton Friedman no less who said inflation is a tax on the poorest in society. - Speech Link
3: Justin Tomlinson (CON - North Swindon) We spend billions of pounds on work support programmes, but they involve national contracts covering - Speech Link
4: John McDonnell (LAB - Hayes and Harlington) A marginal increase in the efficiency of tackling tax avoidance, an increase in national insurance beyond - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Non-domicile Tax Status - Tue 31 Jan 2023
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Anna McMorrin (LAB - Cardiff North) It is reported today that Infosys, the Indian-based IT firm, which holds several contracts with public - Speech Link
2: James Murray (LAB - Ealing North) Friend for drawing attention to the impact that tax avoidance has on the public purse and on people across - Speech Link
3: Michael Ellis (CON - Northampton North) They have been closing the estimated avoidance tax gap by almost £4 billion. - Speech Link
4: Naz Shah (LAB - Bradford West) avoidance scheme, and the party has a CEO whose firm is allegedly involved in a tax avoidance scheme - Speech Link
5: Justin Madders (LAB - Ellesmere Port and Neston) Far from being an ancient and noble right, it is nothing more than a tax avoidance device. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill
Committee stage: Committee of the whole House - Mon 30 Jan 2023
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mentions:
1: Nigel Evans (CON - Ribble Valley) or the Senedd Cymru.Amendment 97, page 2, line 8, leave out subsection (5) and insert—“(5A) For the avoidance - Speech Link
2: Andy McDonald (LAB - Middlesbrough) of the BBC, a multi-million-pound repayment with His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs or shares in a tax - Speech Link
3: None We have an employment market that is plagued by a race to the bottom: zero-hours contracts, lack of proper - Speech Link
4: Ian Byrne (LAB - Liverpool, West Derby) Members’ tax returns. - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Energy Bill [HL]
Committee stage - Mon 16 Jan 2023
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mentions:
1: Lord Callanan (CON - Life peer) Yes, of course, mitigation avoidance will always come first. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Sheehan (LDEM - Life peer) relief than it has previously paid in tax. - Speech Link
3: None Surely it is reasonable, when government is entering into contracts with firms which expose the taxpayer - Speech Link
4: Lord Callanan (CON - Life peer) Decommissioning relief deeds are private contracts between the Treasury and the relevant company. - Speech Link
5: Lord Callanan (CON - Life peer) As has been said, the Government included onshore wind in the latest contracts for difference round, - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Procurement Bill [Lords]
2nd reading - Mon 09 Jan 2023
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Angela Rayner (LAB - Ashton-under-Lyne) Labour Government would go further by using public procurement to drive up standards of responsible tax - Speech Link
2: Mick Whitley (LAB - Birkenhead) are now awarded to companies with links to tax havens, while the number of SMEs winning Government contracts - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 20 Dec 2022
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Victoria Atkins (CON - Louth and Horncastle) , and we are introducing measures to address tax avoidance and evasion to ensure that people pay the - Speech Link
2: James Murray (LAB - Ealing North) Will the Minister agree that creating a fair tax system must involve challenging tax havens and those - Speech Link
3: Victoria Atkins (CON - Louth and Horncastle) take, the top 10% by way of income paid 36% of all tax in 2020-21. - Speech Link
4: Pat McFadden (LAB - Wolverhampton South East) and times at record highs, trains delayed and cancelled all over the place, billions wasted on dodgy contracts - Speech Link
5: Margaret Hodge (LAB - Barking) system would be far fairer if we had cracked down on our tax havens? - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Seafarers’ Wages Bill [Lords] - Mon 19 Dec 2022
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Gavin Newlands (SNP - Paisley and Renfrewshire North) I am sure that workers who were forced out or who are on inferior contracts at British Airways, British - Speech Link
2: Robert Courts (CON - Witney) We need to expand the training commitment under the tonnage tax and support the work of the Maritime - Speech Link
3: David Linden (SNP - Glasgow East) here, state-sanctioned pay exploitation, highlighting that P&O Ferries pays under £4 per hour on contracts - Speech Link
4: John McDonnell (LAB - Hayes and Harlington) relief from tonnage tax—in fact, they have laughed all the way to the bank. - Speech Link
5: Grahame Morris (LAB - Easington) Others have raised the issues of port-hopping and avoidance techniques. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
BBC: Future Funding (Communications and Digital Committee Report) - Fri 16 Dec 2022
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Baroness Rebuck (LAB - Life peer) BBC’s audience, quality, impact and brand, argued that if a country has a reasonable licence fee and avoidance - Speech Link
2: Lord Lipsey (LAB - Life peer) What about linking payments to council tax? - Speech Link
3: Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay (CON - Life peer) As noble Lords have noted, it is a regressive tax. - Speech Link