All 4 Debates between Victoria Atkins and Mike Amesbury

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Debate between Victoria Atkins and Mike Amesbury
Tuesday 9th May 2023

(10 months, 3 weeks ago)

Commons Chamber
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Mike Amesbury Portrait Mike Amesbury (Weaver Vale) (Lab)
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Why are the Prime Minister and Government Ministers so keen to protect non-dom status while not investing sufficiently in our NHS, as Labour would do?

Victoria Atkins Portrait The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Victoria Atkins)
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I hope the hon. Gentleman knows that we are spending record amounts on the NHS. We are also mindful that non-doms pay some £7.9 billion in UK taxes on their UK earnings and have invested some £6 billion since 2012. So we are mindful of the very real impact that they make on our revenues, but we have managed to tighten the rules around non-dom status, and that is why—

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Debate between Victoria Atkins and Mike Amesbury
Tuesday 20th December 2022

(1 year, 3 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Victoria Atkins Portrait Victoria Atkins
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My right hon. and learned Friend is one of the people who knows most about corporate criminal liability. I would be happy to take his question away and discuss it with him, because it is critical that the justice system addresses not just individuals who have criminal liability, but companies; indeed, I have prosecuted many companies across a range of offences. We understand that they can commit crimes too, so I am very happy to take his question away.

Mike Amesbury Portrait Mike Amesbury (Weaver Vale) (Lab)
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Will Treasury Ministers work with Transport Ministers to give Avanti West Coast’s customers an early Christmas present by removing the contract from it, putting it into public ownership and saving the taxpayer an absolute fortune?

Knife Crime Prevention Orders

Debate between Victoria Atkins and Mike Amesbury
Monday 4th February 2019

(5 years, 1 month ago)

Commons Chamber
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Victoria Atkins Portrait Victoria Atkins
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My hon. Friend makes the point that it is the responsibility of retailers to check the age of the people to whom they sell these knives. That is precisely why we structured the Offensive Weapons Bill as we did, making it absolutely clear to retailers that the onus is on them to conduct these checks—it cannot just be a tick-box exercise—so that they are sure that the person to whom they deliver the item is over 18. That is also why we are requiring people to go to the local post office or to the delivery depot and show ID before they can pick up the item. Again, that means there is an extra check in the system. My hon. Friend is absolutely right that ticking a box simply is not good enough.

Mike Amesbury Portrait Mike Amesbury (Weaver Vale) (Lab)
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As we speak, Live Your Life Drop The Knife is doing some excellent work in schools in the Runcorn part of my constituency. The community could do an even better job if the Government reversed the £56 million of cuts imposed on Cheshire police. When are they going to do that?

Victoria Atkins Portrait Victoria Atkins
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We have the vote tomorrow, and I assume the hon. Gentleman will vote in support of the police settlement grant, which will give £970 million to policing. I hope he will put his money where his mouth is and support the Government.

Rural Crime and Public Services

Debate between Victoria Atkins and Mike Amesbury
Wednesday 6th June 2018

(5 years, 9 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Mike Amesbury Portrait Mike Amesbury (Weaver Vale) (Lab)
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Is trespassing via organised hunts on farmers’ land and people’s private property a rural crime or an urban crime?

Victoria Atkins Portrait Victoria Atkins
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I am not quite sure what the hon. Gentleman is referring to. Is he suggesting there are hunts in central London or in city centres? I do not know, but perhaps I have misunderstood his intervention.