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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 20 Apr 2021
Finance (No. 2) Bill

"It is a pleasure to speak on this part of the Finance Bill, and I want to start by saying thank you to the Treasury for listening to people’s suggestions relating to the stamp duty land tax holiday and for listening to the voice of the industry, which called for …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 09 Mar 2021
Oral Answers to Questions

"  Treasury Ministers are no doubt aware of my support for a brand-new university for Milton Keynes, focused on science, technology, engineering and mathematics and digital skills, so vital for our future economy. I wonder, though, whether they are aware that we are already home to the Open University, which …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 23 Feb 2021
Government's Management of the Economy

"It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Angus (Dave Doogan), because he gave us SNP bingo, with “Brexit”, “Thatcher” and of course ending with “independence”. However, that is not quite why I rise to speak, as flabbergasted as I am.

I am very, very flabbergasted: flabber, gasted, …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 25 Nov 2020
Spending Review 2020 and OBR Forecast

"I am sure the Chancellor shares my vision that Milton Keynes and the wider Thames valley can be the silicon valley of Europe. We know that 88% of UK companies are currently experiencing a lack of digital skills, and that this is costing our economy £63 billion a year. May …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Fri 11 Sep 2020
Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies (Environmentally Sustainable Investment) Bill

"This is in the spirit of my hon. Friend’s interventions on the hon. Member for Cardiff North (Anna McMorrin). Does my hon. Friend agree that green gilts and green bonds are a much more precise way of targeting the interventions that are so clearly the intention behind the hon. Lady’s …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Fri 11 Sep 2020
Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies (Environmentally Sustainable Investment) Bill

"Perhaps my hon. Friend will agree with me—I think she will, given what she might be implying here—that co-operatives are an absolutely fantastic addition to the corporate landscape of the UK, but that is so because they are part of a diverse landscape of corporate structures. We must recognise that …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Fri 11 Sep 2020
Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies (Environmentally Sustainable Investment) Bill

"I wish just to underline the point my hon. Friend is making about shareholder activism. Does he agree that the mechanism in respect of the demutualisation of any funds, should it be subject to shareholder activism, is dangerous in this context?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Fri 11 Sep 2020
Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies (Environmentally Sustainable Investment) Bill

"The House recognises, of course, that risk needs to be carefully considered and avoided, but as my hon. Friend has so eloquently pointed out in what I think today is a home game for him, risk often has potential upsides and benefits, not only for investors but for wider society...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Fri 11 Sep 2020
Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies (Environmentally Sustainable Investment) Bill

"I wonder whether my hon. Friend is aware that the birth of the futures market—one of the most important financial parts of our economy—was the inadvertent result of a co-op of French nuns putting together the sale of a harvest that had not yet been sown...."
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Written Question
Eat Out to Help Out Scheme
Tuesday 21st July 2020

Asked by: Ben Everitt (Conservative - Milton Keynes North)

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether eat in food business that are restricted to providing take away services due to covid-19 social distancing guidance are eligible for the Eat Out to Help Out scheme.

Answered by Jesse Norman - Shadow Leader of the House of Commons

Eat Out to Help Out is designed to encourage people to return to eating out to support restaurants, pub, cafes and other dine-in establishments, which have been severely affected by COVID-19 due to closures and the impact of social distancing. In doing so, it will help support 1.8 million jobs disproportionately occupied by young, female, part-time workers, in the bottom half of incomes.

Hot takeaway food and drinks will benefit from the temporary VAT reduced rate for hospitality from 15 July 2020 to 12 January 2021.