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Commons Chamber
Adult and Further Education - Wed 05 Jul 2023
Scotland Office

Mentions:
1: Munira Wilson (LDEM - Twickenham) Britain’s hospitality sector is crying out for more recruits, at a time when the Government are desperate - Speech Link
2: Munira Wilson (LDEM - Twickenham) They are now back in the same boat as schools, so will the Treasury extend to them the VAT relief that - Speech Link
3: Lia Nici (CON - Great Grimsby) teaching job if it did not start at £55,000 a year at least. - Speech Link
4: Jane Hunt (CON - Loughborough) at the VAT, but there is such fantastic resource within FE colleges. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Finance (No. 2) Bill
Report stage - Tue 20 Jun 2023
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Rosie Winterton (LAB - Doncaster Central) at least two years and has a minimum employee count of 10 at the start of the observation period; and - Speech Link
2: None He tells the story that the negotiations were going nowhere until the US representatives at the negotiations - Speech Link
3: None made by subsections (5) and (6) have effect in relation to expenditure incurred on or after 26 May 2022 - Speech Link
4: Stewart Hosie (SNP - Dundee East) We can only hope—although it is hope over expectation—that the Bill at least delivers some of the growth - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Non-Domestic Rating Bill
2nd reading - Mon 19 Jun 2023
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Lord Shipley (LDEM - Life peer) For the time being at least, it is important that it stays, because it seems to be the preference of - Speech Link
2: Lord Etherton (CB - Life peer) revaluations, we should at least go for two-yearly revaluations in the interim. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Thornhill (LDEM - Life peer) More than 5% of retail staff lost their jobs last year, and hospitality suffered a similar fate. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Pinnock (LDEM - Life peer) I reckon that, for at least 35 years, there has been no fundamental reform of the non-domestic rating - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Small and Medium-sized Enterprises: Great Yarmouth - Wed 07 Jun 2023
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Brandon Lewis (CON - Great Yarmouth) If not, they are at the very least locally owned or locally run. - Speech Link
2: Kevin Hollinrake (CON - Thirsk and Malton) for the future, not least in green energy. - Speech Link
3: Kevin Hollinrake (CON - Thirsk and Malton) The Norfolk broadband programme was awarded £5 million through the local growth fund to extend superfast - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Cost of Living - Tue 16 May 2023
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Ian Murray (LAB - Edinburgh South) and gas giants, something repeatedly opposed by the leader of the SNP at Westminster until the polls - Speech Link
2: Douglas Ross (CON - Moray) , which looked at the differential from 2017-18 to 2022-23. - Speech Link
3: Owen Thompson (SNP - Midlothian) The Westminster Government could restore the lower rate of VAT, which ended last March, for tourism and - Speech Link
4: Dave Doogan (SNP - Angus) in band 5 in Scotland tops out at £37,664, which is probably why the health spend per person is £3,490 - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
UK’s Exit from the European Union - Mon 24 Apr 2023
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Martyn Day (SNP - Linlithgow and East Falkirk) I align with the opinion of the petitioners that it will continue to be so at least until the facts are - Speech Link
2: Wera Hobhouse (LDEM - Bath) VAT, plus a deposit of 30% to 40% of the value of the items. - Speech Link
3: Fleur Anderson (LAB - Putney) The Centre for European Reform said that by the end of last year the economy was 5%, or £31 billion, - Speech Link
4: Hywel Williams (PC - Arfon) The Government face at least two ways on this. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Finance (No. 2) Bill
Committee of the whole House (day 1) - Tue 18 Apr 2023
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Rosie Winterton (LAB - Doncaster Central) at least two years and has a minimum employee count of 10 at the start of the observation period; and - Speech Link
2: James Murray (LAB - Ealing North) the main rate of corporation tax, which clause 5 sets at 25% for the financial year beginning in April - Speech Link
3: Jacob Rees-Mogg (CON - North East Somerset) thrown at him until he was dead. - Speech Link
4: Sarah Olney (LDEM - Richmond Park) by the cost of food and alcohol in hospitality venues. - Speech Link
5: Victoria Atkins (CON - Louth and Horncastle) The tax plan published at spring statement 2022 set out the Government’s vision for using the tax system - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Finance (No. 2) Bill
2nd reading - Wed 29 Mar 2023
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Victoria Atkins (CON - Louth and Horncastle) The Bill will extend for another two years the current 45% and 50% rates of tax relief for theatres, - Speech Link
2: Stewart Hosie (SNP - Dundee East) I am thinking particularly of the full expensing of capital allowance until March 2026, but as the hon - Speech Link
3: Richard Fuller (CON - North East Bedfordshire) are at least putting in measures in the Bill. - Speech Link
4: Siobhain McDonagh (LAB - Mitcham and Morden) We all agree that working is the best way out of poverty, or at least that it should be. - Speech Link
5: James Cartlidge (CON - South Suffolk) I can confirm that the Government have today published secondary legislation that will extend full VAT - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Windsor Framework (Democratic Scrutiny) Regulations 2023 - Wed 29 Mar 2023
Northern Ireland Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Caine (CON - Life peer) the right to end the application of its Articles 5 to 10. - Speech Link
2: Earl of Kinnoull (CB - Excepted Hereditary) In response to the committee’s March 2022 letter advancing this point, respected EU Commissioner Gabriel - Speech Link
3: Lord Dodds of Duncairn (DUP - Life peer) IRA should give up its arms, and at least support the police, if they were to be in the Government of - Speech Link
4: Baroness Foster of Aghadrumsee (Non-affiliated - Life peer) brake; it is important that, at least in this House, there is a detailed discussion. - Speech Link
5: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (GRN - Life peer) Northern Ireland will be exempt from certain VAT provisions, and the UK will be able to lower the VAT - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation - Tue 21 Mar 2023
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Jack Lopresti (CON - Filton and Bradley Stoke) least £2.3 billion this year, at least matching what we spent last year. - Speech Link
2: Anna Firth (CON - Southend West) changes in the VAT system. - Speech Link
3: Anna McMorrin (LAB - Cardiff North) data showing that at least 5 million households, or one in every five, are now in fuel poverty in England - Speech Link
4: Jeremy Corbyn (IND - Islington North) At the very least, the Government should commit to above-inflation pay rises for health workers, teachers - Speech Link
5: Margaret Greenwood (LAB - Wirral West) At the same time, he has frozen personal income tax thresholds until 2028. - Speech Link