All 4 Debates between Stephen Kinnock and Mel Stride

Mon 19th Mar 2018
Mon 8th Jan 2018

Budget Resolutions

Debate between Stephen Kinnock and Mel Stride
Thursday 7th March 2024

(8 months, 1 week ago)

Commons Chamber
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Mel Stride Portrait Mel Stride
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I thought I had already covered this point, but the reality is that the tax burden has had to go up to pay for all the support we provided around covid, and because of the inflationary pressures created by a war on European soil. The hon. Lady cannot get away from the fact that through this fiscal event, and the previous one, 27 million hard-working people, employed in businesses up and down the country, will be better off to the extent of £900 per year. Some 2 million self-employed people will be £650 per year better off. She talks about those earning less than £19,000, but those many millions of people who earn above £19,000 will have a lower tax burden than before, when we take into account the interplay of the freezing of thresholds and the cuts in national insurance.

Stephen Kinnock Portrait Stephen Kinnock (Aberavon) (Lab)
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It has been widely reported that the taxpayer is having to pick up the tab for £15,000 of legal costs and damages incurred because of the actions of the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, the right hon. Member for Chippenham (Michelle Donelan), who is rapidly becoming known as the hon. Member for “chipping in”. Will the Minister confirm that the figure of £15,000 is correct? Will he say whether he thinks it is morally right that the taxpayer should be picking up the bill for the outrageous lack of judgment and behaviour of one of his colleagues?

Mel Stride Portrait Mel Stride
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What I think will be absolutely outrageous is the taxpayer having to pick up the bill for a future Labour Government. I have just explained the record of the hon. Gentleman’s party in government.

Leaving the EU: UK Ports (Customs)

Debate between Stephen Kinnock and Mel Stride
Monday 19th March 2018

(6 years, 7 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Mel Stride Portrait Mel Stride
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The good news for the hon. Gentleman is that there will be no circumstance under which this Government, or a British Prime Minister, will negotiate a deal in which we have an effective customs border between Northern Ireland and other parts of the United Kingdom.

Stephen Kinnock Portrait Stephen Kinnock (Aberavon) (Lab)
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Currently, goods that require checks go into a lorry park just off the M20, which apparently has 82 parking spaces, but, never fear, there will be a new lorry park just off the M20. However, it seems that the plans to build it are completely snarled up in a judicial review. Will the Minister please give an update on how the lorry park will save the day, and by when it will be built?

Mel Stride Portrait Mel Stride
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We will ensure that sufficient facilities are available for checks. As is the case at the moment, many of those checks will occur at business premises and storage facilities, including Stop 24, for example.

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Stephen Kinnock and Mel Stride
Tuesday 16th January 2018

(6 years, 10 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Mel Stride Portrait Mel Stride
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I say gently to the hon. Lady that she needs to check her facts, because the current head of Carillion is not an adviser to the Prime Minister. There was an appointment earlier that was terminated some months ago. As to her general points about corporate governance, this country has among the most robust corporate governance in the world, which is something this Government will continue.

Stephen Kinnock Portrait Stephen Kinnock (Aberavon) (Lab)
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14. What assessment his Department has made of the effect of the UK leaving the European economic area on the economy and the service industry.

Taxation (Cross-border Trade) Bill

Debate between Stephen Kinnock and Mel Stride
2nd reading: House of Commons
Monday 8th January 2018

(6 years, 10 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Mel Stride Portrait Mel Stride
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The hon. Gentleman raises the extremely important matter of protecting our UK producers from dumped goods in this country, goods that have been subject to excessive subsidy, and indeed import surges that arise for other reasons. That is why this Bill and the Trade Bill, which will have its Second Reading tomorrow, make provision to set up a Trade Remedies Authority with the ability and powers to investigate appropriately the kinds of issues to which the hon. Gentleman alludes, and to ensure that we are able to take remedial action, in terms of additional duties and so on, to ensure that we properly address those particular threats as and when they occur.

Stephen Kinnock Portrait Stephen Kinnock (Aberavon) (Lab)
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The Financial Secretary of course knows how close we came to the collapse of the British steel industry, thanks to the dumping of Chinese steel, but even though schedules 4 and 5 of the Bill refer to incredibly onerous public interest and economic interest tests, there is absolutely no detail of how so many of the practical aspects will work. Why do the Government seem to be set on leaving our manufacturing sector completely exposed to the dumping of Chinese steel, for example?

Mel Stride Portrait Mel Stride
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I am afraid that I have to disagree with the hon. Gentleman. The Bill takes a balanced approach to the issue of protecting our domestic producers including, very importantly, steel producers. By “balanced approach”, I mean that we should also take into account the interests of consumers of those imported goods and businesses that use them in their processes. If the hon. Gentleman looks closely at the measures—we will do that in Committee—he will see that they provide for compensation where dumping has occurred and for appropriate sanctions to be made.

The economic advantage to the UK is very important, and that means continued UK-EU trade that is as frictionless as possible. It also means avoiding a hard border on the island of Ireland and establishing an independent international trade policy. As we look forward to the next stage of our negotiations with the European Union, we see that the nature of our future customs relationship with the EU, and therefore the legislation that will allow the Government to give effect to any such relationship, become all the more significant.