Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Lord Tyrie and John Bercow

Monday 5th December 2016 Commons Chamber

[Mr Andrew Tyrie (Chichester) (Con)]

Does the Home Secretary agree that students should be removed from the “tens of thousands” target? Does she also agree that as the data are extremely poor, we should strain every sinew to try to get better quality data so that we can form a judgment about whether—and if so, how—we can ensure that exports, which is what foreign students are, are maximised in this country?

[Mr Speaker]

Absolutely hopelessly long. Sorry, but that was really hopeless and we have to do a lot better.

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Lord Tyrie and John Bercow

Tuesday 29th November 2016 Commons Chamber

[Mr Andrew Tyrie (Chichester) (Con)]

Selsey Bill, in my constituency, is a special case, but the best thing that can be done for coastal areas is to secure stronger growth throughout the economy. Mario Draghi has suggested that UK growth would be lower if, as a consequence of Brexit, the UK economy were less open to trade and investment. Does the Chancellor agree that both the UK and the EU benefit from an open economy, and that, if the European Central Bank is worried about a Brexit shock to the eurozone, he can and should be lobbying EU leaders to press for a high degree of mutual market access in the Brexit negotiations?

[Mr Speaker]

Order. We are discussing concern for coastal areas.

Panama Papers

Debate between Lord Tyrie and John Bercow

Monday 11th April 2016 Commons Chamber

[Mr Speaker]

I was going to call the Chair of the Treasury Committee, but he is toddling out of the Chamber.

[Mr Andrew Tyrie (Chichester) (Con)]

Well, if you would like to call me, Mr Speaker—

[Mr Speaker]

Let us hear from Mr Tyrie. Get in there, man.

[Mr Tyrie]

Thank you very much, Mr Speaker. [Interruption.]

[Mr Speaker]

Order. I am sure that it will be worth waiting for.

[Mr Tyrie]

It is very good of you to give me the floor, Mr Speaker.

I do not think that the Prime Minister has done anything wrong, except, possibly, to comment on the Jimmy Carr case. Tax evasion is illegal and should be very vigorously pursued, if necessary with criminal prosecution and imprisonment. Tax avoidance is not illegal. If the Government or Parliament do not like it, there is no point in moralising. Does the Prime Minister agree that to deal with tax avoidance we need reform to close the loopholes, and vigorous tax simplification to ensure that there are fewer of them?

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Lord Tyrie and John Bercow

Tuesday 27th October 2015 Commons Chamber

[Mr Speaker]

I call Naz Shah. She is not here.

[Mr Andrew Tyrie (Chichester) (Con)]

Does the Chancellor agree that whatever our views may be in this House on the tax credit dispute, in overturning the settled will of the elected Chamber, the unelected Lords has exercised the powers of a Chamber of Parliament in the tax area, whereas for at least 100 years it has been well established that it has, and should have, only the legitimacy of a consultative assembly?

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Lord Tyrie and John Bercow

Tuesday 21st July 2015 Commons Chamber

[Mr Speaker]

Chancellor, sit down, man! I told you to sit down, so sit down! Mr Andrew Tyrie.

[Mr Andrew Tyrie (Chichester) (Con)]

I am sorry about that, Mr Speaker. I thought that the Chancellor was just getting into gear.

Growth will, of course, depend partly on what the Bank of England does. Over the past five years, the Chancellor and Parliament have granted the Bank huge new powers over not only monetary but, in particular, financial policy, which directly affect millions of people. Does that not make the reforms of the way in which the Bank runs itself that the Chancellor will propose, along with greater accountability for its new board—for which the Treasury Committee, among others, has been pressing for a long time—all the more essential?