"My Lords, I put on record my registered interest as the director of the Global Warming Policy Foundation.
Let me restate what Labour’s manifesto said. It promised to get power bills down by £300. The latest price cap is £294 higher than in those lofty days of July 2024, and …..." Lord Mackinlay of Richborough - View Speech
"My Lords, it must be noted that the Government are enjoying and using many of the Brexit dividends that were given to them: that is zero tariffs on anything they please; that is using subsidy—not a mechanism I particularly promote—in various places, notably, in the exchange here this afternoon, on …..." Lord Mackinlay of Richborough - View Speech
"My Lords, I start with compliments and thanks to all those who have given their maiden speeches today; I look forward to hearing much more from them. I put on record my registered interest that I am the director of the Global Warming Policy Foundation.
"My Lords, last week I was not singing the praises of the RMT when I was walking with two prosthetic legs between here and Victoria, and I probably speak for many disabled people who rely on the Tube to get to work. But I speak in this place for the …..." Lord Mackinlay of Richborough - View Speech
"My Lords, as ever with many big government ideas, there is a solution that is yet to find a problem.
I am yet to hear a ministerial Statement on the very serious data events that happened at Companies House over the last week. I have not heard a Statement from …..." Lord Mackinlay of Richborough - View Speech
"This is an important point in many ways. The Minister will be aware that within an owner-managed director business, the director has absolute discretion about how he or she may take their overall package, whether that is dividends, usual PAYE employment or, quite normally, the company making a pension contribution. …..." Lord Mackinlay of Richborough - View Speech
"My Lords, I am pleased to support my noble friend Lord Fuller, who has similarly reciprocated his enthusiasm for one of my amendments. Quite a few things come to mind in the amendment from my noble friend. One is the normality across other parts of the tax system. It is …..." Lord Mackinlay of Richborough - View Speech
"My Lords, I declare my directorship of the Global Warming Policy Foundation. When I was the MP for South Thanet, we had a proposal for one of these battery farms—let us call them that—in the constituency. I wrote to Kent Fire and Rescue Service with my concerns, and it wrote …..." Lord Mackinlay of Richborough - View Speech
"My Lords, let me make my declaration. I am a chartered accountant and chartered tax adviser, so such legislation is the thing I live for on a daily basis.
My noble friend Lady Neville-Rolfe has laid out the ambitions of pensions. Unfortunately, in the first 18 months of this new …..." Lord Mackinlay of Richborough - View Speech