Tax Avoidance

Debate between Shabana Mahmood and Baroness Primarolo

Wednesday 11th February 2015 Commons Chamber

[Madam Deputy Speaker (Dame Dawn Primarolo)]

I agree with the hon. Gentleman. If the hon. Lady wishes to intervene, she should rise to the Dispatch Box and not shout across the Chamber.

[Shabana Mahmood]

I am sorry, Madam Deputy Speaker, you are quite right to admonish me. The policy of having a publicly available register of beneficial ownership is a policy of the hon. Gentleman’s own Prime Minister. Does the hon. Gentleman disagree with that policy?

Local Government Finance

Debate between Shabana Mahmood and Baroness Primarolo

Wednesday 19th December 2012 Commons Chamber

[Madam Deputy Speaker (Dawn Primarolo)]

Order. Secretary of State, I know that you have an encyclopaedic knowledge of this subject, but we would be grateful if you did not share all of it with us this afternoon. May we have slightly shorter answers please, otherwise Members who want to put a question to you will be disappointed?

[Shabana Mahmood (Birmingham, Ladywood) (Lab)]

May I remind the Secretary of State that Birmingham’s finances became a mess under a coalition of Conservatives and Liberal Democrats, and that it is a Labour administration that, since May, has been trying to put that right? However, Birmingham is facing some of the biggest cuts in local government history, with a reduction in income of £149 per person, which is more than double the national average. Will he meet me and a delegation of Members of Parliament from Birmingham to discuss the pressures that Birmingham is facing and to see whether we can find a way to mitigate the situation?