Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: Cabinet Office

Oral Answers to Questions

Alan Brown Excerpts
Wednesday 23rd March 2016

(8 years, 1 month ago)

Commons Chamber
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David Gauke Portrait Mr Gauke
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Let me remind the House that there were three asks from the SNP: a freeze in whisky fuel duty, a freeze in fuel duty, and help for the oil and gas industry. That is exactly what the Chancellor delivered.

Alan Brown Portrait Alan Brown (Kilmarnock and Loudoun) (SNP)
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12. Did the Secretary of State discuss with the Chancellor the merits of an £8.5 billion corporation tax cut and a £6 billion giveaway in capital gains and inheritance tax versus those of a proposed £4 billion cut in payments to the disabled, and how that would affect people in Scotland, or did he sit there and do what he was telt yet again?

David Gauke Portrait Mr Gauke
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I remind the hon. Gentleman that 73,000 businesses in Scotland will benefit from the cut in corporation tax. Is he saying that he opposes that?