NHS Pensions: Taxation

Debate between Elizabeth Truss and Jeremy Lefroy

Monday 8th July 2019 Commons Chamber

[Elizabeth Truss]

There are specific issues affecting the NHS that the Health Secretary is rightly looking at and is about to conduct the consultation on. As I have said, the Treasury constantly reviews our tax system to make sure that it has the right incentives in it and that it is helping people to save for later years.

[Jeremy Lefroy (Stafford) (Con)]

In addition to the important points made by my right hon. Friend the Member for Wokingham (John Redwood) and my hon. Friend the Member for South Thanet (Craig Mackinlay), would it not be simpler and fairer to restrict pension relief to the basic rate and scrap all annual and lifetime allowances?

[Elizabeth Truss]

I thank my hon. Friend for his policy suggestion. I am afraid that during this urgent question I will be unable to commit to it, but it is certainly an interesting idea.

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Elizabeth Truss and Jeremy Lefroy

Tuesday 2nd July 2019 Commons Chamber

[Elizabeth Truss]

The universal credit policy has been designed to make sure that people who are being supported by the Government are in a similar position to families who have to make their own financial decisions based on the wages they earn every week.

[Jeremy Lefroy (Stafford) (Con)]

The decision by the European Union to suspend the equivalence agreement with Switzerland seems to be very damaging. My right hon. Friend the Chancellor has done a fantastic job over the past few years. Will he confirm whether the United Kingdom was consulted on whether the decision should go ahead?

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Elizabeth Truss and Jeremy Lefroy

Tuesday 9th April 2019 Commons Chamber

[Elizabeth Truss]

I think the hon. Gentleman should speak to his friend the Mayor of London about what he is doing to increase house building in London.

[Jeremy Lefroy (Stafford) (Con)]

What plans are the Government making for a UK investment bank to take over the role of the European Investment Bank in the UK economy?