Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Alex Chalk and Nigel Mills

Tuesday 20th February 2024 Commons Chamber

[Alex Chalk]

It is important to note that reoffending is down compared with under the last Labour Government. The hon. Lady shakes her head, but one can dispute opinions in this House, but not facts. The reoffending rate in 2010 was around 31%; it is 25% now. That means fewer people falling victim to crime.

The hon. Lady refers to accommodation, and she is right to do so. What she did not advert to is this Government’s decision to provide 12 weeks’ guaranteed accommodation, which did not happen under a Labour Government. When I went to Luton and Dunstable, I spoke to a probation officer who has done the job for 30 years, and do you know what he said? It is the single most effective measure to drive down reoffending. Who did that? Not the Labour party, but us.

[Nigel Mills (Amber Valley) (Con)]

2. What steps he is taking to increase sentences for dangerous offenders.

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Alex Chalk and Nigel Mills

Tuesday 17th April 2018 Commons Chamber

[Alex Chalk (Cheltenham) (Con)]

1. What progress has been made on reducing tax avoidance and evasion.

[Nigel Mills (Amber Valley) (Con)]

8. What progress has been made on reducing tax avoidance and evasion.

[The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr Philip Hammond)]

Since 2010, Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs has secured more than £175 billion that would have gone unpaid and introduced more than 100 new measures to crack down on tax avoidance, tax evasion and other forms of non-compliance, so that the tax gap is now at a record low, and one of the lowest in the world, at 6%.