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Lord Flight

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VAT: Evasion

Businesses: Start-ups

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Data Protection Bill [HL]
Monday 20th November 2017

(6 years, 5 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Lord Flight Portrait Lord Flight (Con)
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My Lords, do the Government accept the enormous help provided to entrepreneurship by the Government’s EIS scheme, which I think has raised some £16 billion of risk capital? It is the envy of Europe. I declare my interest as chairman of the Enterprise Investment Scheme Association.

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I welcome what my noble friend has to say and I hope that noble Lords on the other side of the House take note of it.

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