Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Richard Bacon and Lindsay Hoyle

Wednesday 29th April 2020 Commons Chamber

[Mr Speaker]

Order. Unfortunately, we have no sound, so we will go over to Richard Bacon.

[Mr Bacon [V]]

I welcome the Secretary of State’s Gavi announcement. Does she agree that the long-term outlook for DFID’s joint funding of vaccine research projects—with, for example, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation—will be more secure with a separate international aid department than if DFID were merged into the Foreign Office?

Planning for the Future

Debate between Richard Bacon and Lindsay Hoyle

Thursday 12th March 2020 Commons Chamber

[Mr Speaker]

Order. I am going to let this run until about 12.10 pm.

[Mr Richard Bacon (South Norfolk) (Con)]

Even if the shadow Secretary of State does not, may I warmly welcome the new money for affordable housing? I ask the Secretary of State to make sure that some of it finds its way to innovators such as the National Community Land Trust Network and the Right to Build Task Force, because the new ideas that will help us to change our whole approach to how we do housing are coming from them.

Future Free Trade Agreements

Debate between Richard Bacon and Lindsay Hoyle

Thursday 21st February 2019 Commons Chamber

[Mr Richard Bacon (South Norfolk) (Con)]

I want to point out that my hon. Friend is not the only one left on the Government Benches, although I really came to listen—

[Mr Deputy Speaker]

Order. May I just say that there are no more Government Members on my list, which includes people who were here at the beginning, but we will have interventions.

[Mr Bacon]

I really came to listen to my hon. Friend, because it is such a privilege to listen to a genuine expert on this subject. He has forgotten more about it than most people know. I am just wondering how he accounts for the fact that we have had palpably inaccurate statements from Ministers. Is it possibly because our esteemed Under-Secretary of State for International Trade, my hon. Friend the Member for Beverley and Holderness (Graham Stuart), was not involved in making those statements?

Tax Avoidance and Multinational Companies

Debate between Richard Bacon and Lindsay Hoyle

Wednesday 3rd February 2016 Commons Chamber

[Mr Bacon]

The Public Accounts Committee found that HMRC as a whole had only 65 specialists in transfer pricing, which was about the same as each of the big four accounting firms. Does the hon. Gentleman welcome this Government’s introduction of more transfer pricing specialists in HMRC?

[Mr Deputy Speaker (Mr Lindsay Hoyle)]

Order. May I say to hon. Members who wish to speak but are now making interventions that I assume they will not mind if they go to the bottom of the list because they have almost used up their time?