Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: HM Treasury

Oral Answers to Questions

Andrew Lewer Excerpts
Tuesday 27th February 2018

(6 years, 9 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Elizabeth Truss Portrait Elizabeth Truss
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The hon. Lady should acknowledge that the NHS has been rated as the best healthcare system in the world. We recognise that there are extra demands on the health system and that is why we put in an extra £6.3 billion of funding at the Budget.

Andrew Lewer Portrait Andrew Lewer (Northampton South) (Con)
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T6. What progress has been made in reducing the level of corporation tax evasion?

Mel Stride Portrait Mel Stride
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I am delighted to inform the House that considerable progress has been made in reducing the level of tax evasion, avoidance and non-compliance in the corporate sector. We have been at the forefront of initiatives launched with the OECD—the base erosion and profit shifting initiative, the profit diversion tax we brought in in 2015—and, as a consequence of clamping down in this area, we have brought in £53 billion from big business since 2010.