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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 08 Jun 2021
0.7% Official Development Assistance Target

"I will be brief. The arguments for the moral case that we are arguing today should be clear to anybody who has listened to the discussions of the last few days, weeks and months. The Government’s arguments on financial grounds are clearly wrong. This is a rounding error in the …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 24 May 2021
Finance Bill

"I rise to speak to amendments 32 to 34 and new clause 31 tabled in my name and those of other right hon. and hon. Members. The Government’s historic IR35 policy has dated from long before this Minister was in his office. Far from rationalising the collection of tax from …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 24 May 2021
Finance Bill

"I have a lot of sympathy with what the hon. Lady says. There are many ways to attack the issue; I will mention one or two, including my proposals to build in some changes to that effect. There are many ways to make sure that these scams cannot happen, but …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 24 May 2021
Finance Bill

"The right hon. Gentleman is right. The first phase of IR35 was about contractors for Government, so the whole wild west that I have described was actually created for public services.

To come back to my point about illegitimate contractors forcing the legitimate ones out of business, it is quite …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 24 May 2021
Finance Bill

"That is entirely right. Indeed, one of the flaws that HMRC exhibits is that although it very often has real-time information on the issues, it acts only much later. That doubles or quadruples the problem for the ordinary person who is effectively a victim of these schemes, who suddenly finds …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 12 May 2021
Better Jobs and a Fair Deal at Work

"When I saw that I was number 7a on the call list, I thought perhaps I was the first reserve for my hon. Friend the Member for The Cotswolds (Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown); I did not realise that I had promotion rights too, so thank you for that, Madam Deputy Speaker.

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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 12 May 2021
Better Jobs and a Fair Deal at Work

"My right hon. Friend is quite right: I opposed the increase to 0.7% because I thought that it was too fast and that it would encourage inefficiency, but, once you are at 0.7%, reducing it will lead to the loss of lives, so I absolutely agree with him on that.

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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 25 Nov 2020
Spending Review 2020 and OBR Forecast

"I lend my support to everything said by the Father of the House. Covid-19 means that the Chancellor’s strategy is broken into three phases: first, as we are doing now, spending everything necessary to stop the economy collapsing, which he is doing successfully; secondly, essentially from next spring, doing everything …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 22 Oct 2020
Covid-19: Disparate Impact

"I congratulate the Minister on a comprehensive report. She has clearly done a great job of identifying the numerous factors that exacerbate the problem and acting rapidly on them. However, of the first 26 doctors in the national health service to die of covid-19, 25 were from minority ethnic backgrounds. …..."
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Written Question
Tax Avoidance
Wednesday 14th October 2020

Asked by: David Davis (Conservative - Goole and Pocklington)

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what proportion of loan charge cases remained unsettled after the 30 September deadline.

Answered by Jesse Norman - Shadow Leader of the House of Commons

At the time of the independent review of the Loan Charge, about 12,000 employers and individuals had the opportunity to avoid the Loan Charge by concluding settlements, having provided all the relevant information to HMRC by 5 April 2019. Early indications are that as at 2 October about 60 percent of these taxpayers have either settled, informed HMRC that they had instead decided to report and pay the Loan Charge, or have been taken out of scope of the Loan Charge following the Government’s changes in response to the independent review.

HMRC are continuing settlement discussions with a relatively small number of taxpayers who were prevented from meeting the 30 September deadline by exceptional circumstances beyond their control, such as recent hospitalisation. HMRC’s criteria for continuing settlement discussions beyond the 30 September deadline are:

  • The taxpayer had actively engaged in the settlement process until the occurrence of a factor, and
  • The factor is entirely outside the control of the taxpayer, and
  • The factor prevented the taxpayer from settling by 30 September, and
  • Absent the factor, the taxpayer would have been able to settle by 30 September, and
  • The taxpayer will be able, and agrees, to settle within a defined period of no more than 3 months after the 30 September.

HMRC do not hold aggregate data on when individual taxpayers were issued with settlement offers.