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Commons Chamber
Finance Bill
Committee of the whole House - Wed 10 Jan 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Maggie Throup (Con - Erewash) For example, does it extend to IT equipment? - Speech Link
2: None For example, £5 billion of tax revenue was protected in just five VAT cases with the support of such - Speech Link
3: Mike Penning (Con - Hemel Hempstead) because of dyslexia: there is no VAT on books, but the Treasury apply VAT at 5% to audiobooks. - Speech Link
4: None us see whether they can live up to a tiny amount in the form of a VAT cut for the tourism and hospitality - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Autumn Statement 2023 - Wed 29 Nov 2023
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Baroness Vere of Norbiton (Con - Life peer) The Government are extending the 75% business rate discount for retail, hospitality and leisure businesses - Speech Link
2: Lord Howarth of Newport (Lab - Life peer) VAT at 5% on domestic gas and electricity use, like the freezing of fuel duty and the tax treatment of - Speech Link
3: Baroness Goldie (Con - Life peer) at least seen a lot in life. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Featherstone (LD - Life peer) The Association of Independent Festivals was disappointed that the reduction to 5% VAT on ticket sales - Speech Link
5: Baroness Kramer (LD - Life peer) is the measure, is economic stagnation for at least the next five years. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Autumn Statement Resolutions - Mon 27 Nov 2023
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Eleanor Laing (Con - Epping Forest) at least the next two speeches, and preferably for the majority of the debate. - Speech Link
2: Tobias Ellwood (Con - Bournemouth East) , with a permanent reduction in VAT for tourism. - Speech Link
3: Steve Double (Con - St Austell and Newquay) I encourage him to use his new position to influence the Treasury to look again at cutting VAT for tourism - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Autumn Statement Resolutions - Thu 23 Nov 2023
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Rosie Winterton (Lab - Doncaster Central) debate—and certainly for at least the next two speeches—and, crucially, the importance of returning - Speech Link
2: Kevin Hollinrake (Con - Thirsk and Malton) private sector contributing at least as much again. - Speech Link
3: Peter Grant (SNP - Glenrothes) determined calls from the hospitality industry to reduce or abolish VAT on that sector, even temporarily - Speech Link
4: John McDonnell (Lab - Hayes and Harlington) This is why so many are campaigning for free school meals, to ensure that our children get at least one - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Autumn Statement - Wed 22 Nov 2023
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Jeremy Hunt (Con - South West Surrey) in this House, I have also decided to extend the 75% business rates discount for retail, hospitality - Speech Link
2: Drew Hendry (SNP - Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey) Will he at least rule out the planned increase in the cap in January? - Speech Link
3: Jeremy Hunt (Con - South West Surrey) As for the VAT threshold, many other colleagues have made the same point. - Speech Link
4: Barbara Keeley (Lab - Worsley and Eccles South) At the 2023 Budget, he extended the uplifted rate of relief until March 2024, after which it will taper - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Autumn Statement Resolutions - Wed 22 Nov 2023
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Laura Trott (Con - Sevenoaks) to be more than 5% lower. - Speech Link
2: James Murray (LAB - Ealing North) at the end of the forecast period than the OBR forecast them to be in March. - Speech Link
3: Drew Hendry (SNP - Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey) could have looked at VAT cuts, especially in tourism and hospitality, to boost spending and lower inflation - Speech Link
4: Ian Blackford (SNP - Ross, Skye and Lochaber) living standards since at least the 1950s. - Speech Link
5: Catherine West (Lab - Hornsey and Wood Green) The levy was scrapped by the ex-Chancellor in 2022 and the cap has been delayed until 2024, but I suspect - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Economic Growth - Tue 14 Nov 2023
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Jeremy Hunt (Con - South West Surrey) on a solution since March this year—I started that at the spring Budget—but we want to get the answer - Speech Link
2: Alistair Strathern (Lab - Mid Bedfordshire) For months she had been phoning up at 8 am and waiting until 9 am, only to be told yet again that there - Speech Link
3: Simon Clarke (Con - Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland) the House at least—want to see pro-growth measures, the lowering of the tax burden when possible and - Speech Link
4: Peter Aldous (Con - Waveney) zero-rating of VAT for redevelopment in and around our town centres. - Speech Link
5: Clive Lewis (Lab - Norwich South) At its 18th century height, slave plantations were making £4 billion to £5 billion a year in profit at - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 14 Nov 2023
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Patrick Grady (SNP - Glasgow North) At the very least, can the Chancellor commit to ensuring that the Department for Work and Pensions has - Speech Link
2: Vicky Ford (Con - Chelmsford) Those who live in homes with driveways pay just 5% VAT when they charge their cars from their home electricity - Speech Link
3: Alexander Stafford (Con - Rother Valley) We were promised that the “Greening Finance” road map would come out at the end of 2022. - Speech Link
4: Gareth Davies (Con - Grantham and Stamford) That is why we introduced the energy price guarantee, which will remain in place until March 2024 as - Speech Link
5: Bim Afolami (Con - Hitchin and Harpenden) I thank the shadow Minister for his kind words, at least in relation to me.It is important to recognise - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
King’s Speech - Mon 13 Nov 2023
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Lord Cromwell (XB - Excepted Hereditary) ways to remove space junk or extend the life of items in orbit. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville (LD - Life peer) and gas until well into the future. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Penn (Con - Life peer) Our loan support schemes provided lifelines to 1.6 million businesses, as well as cutting VAT for the - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Building an NHS Fit for the Future - Mon 13 Nov 2023
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Nick Fletcher (Con - Don Valley) Then, just maybe, we can save the NHS some money, or at least save the resources for those who really - Speech Link
2: Wendy Chamberlain (LD - North East Fife) ranking highly for its hospitality and stunning scenery. - Speech Link
3: James Murray (LAB - Ealing North) At the very least, people might have expected the energy crisis to serve as a wake-up call for Ministers - Speech Link
4: Mary Kelly Foy (Lab - City of Durham) Now it is baffling that we did not do it earlier.In the seven minutes I have been speaking for, at least - Speech Link