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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 25 Mar 2015
Finance (No. 2) Bill

"Does the hon. Gentleman agree that VAT is a regressive tax in principle? Can he tell us why the Government chose to use an increase in VAT as a tool for bringing down the deficit?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 25 Mar 2015
Finance (No. 2) Bill

"Will my hon. Friend give us a bit more detail about new clause 1? I would like the study to look at the impact of VAT on the poorest people in our community, who are hit disproportionately by increases in VAT. The Conservative party has form on VAT, so the …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 25 Mar 2015
Finance (No. 2) Bill

"Will my hon. Friend give way?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 25 Mar 2015
Finance (No. 2) Bill

"As my hon. Friend will have noted, the new clause states that the Chancellor should produce a report within three months of the passing of the Act. I suspect that the Treasury already have these figures and could probably move more quickly. If her point about businesses is right and …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 25 Mar 2015
Finance (No. 2) Bill

"When the Chancellor decided to increase VAT, he must have asked Treasury officials to produce projections on its likely impact on the economy at that point. It would be interesting, would it not, to compare the projections given to him by Treasury officials with an official report, which this new …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 25 Mar 2015
Finance (No. 2) Bill

"Is my hon. Friend interested, as I am, in the line developed by the Liberal Democrats that the 50p rate was in place only at the end of the previous Labour Government for a very short time?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 25 Mar 2015
Finance (No. 2) Bill

"Indeed. This is all about the choices made to bring down the deficit. We made a choice—a forward offer or plan—to use a higher top rate of income tax to bring down the deficit, and the Liberal Democrats decided to vote against that strategy...."
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Written Question
Welfare Tax Credits
Tuesday 20th January 2015

Asked by: David Wright (Labour - Telford)

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what payments the Government has made to (a) Capgemini and (b) Fujitsu for work decommissioning tax credits.

Answered by David Gauke

HM Revenue and Customs has undertaken limited decommissioning work on the Tax Credit systems. All decommissioning costs are paid through Cap Gemini as our prime supplier and the value of those payments is £1.2m.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 13 Jan 2015
Charter for Budget Responsibility

"Is it not also the case that many people who are in work are receiving benefits, and is that not a symptom of the low-wage economy? Given that we are discussing budget responsibility, is my right hon. Friend as concerned as I am about the fact that the Chancellor promised …..."
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Written Question
Revenue and Customs
Monday 17th November 2014

Asked by: David Wright (Labour - Telford)

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the integration costs likely to be incurred when passing HM Revenue and Customs Aspire Contract Work to potential new suppliers.

Answered by Priti Patel - Shadow Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs

Over the 7 year period from 07/08 to 13/14 there is an annual c£3m productivity improvement a year on average.

HM Revenue and Customs is in the process of preparing a Business Case to manage the end of the Aspire contract in June 2017.

HMRC has one of the largest outsourced IT contracts in the world, enabling us to deliver a very wide range of services to more than 50 million customers.

We are committed to delivering all this for the minimum cost to the taxpayer. As the NAO report recognises, the Aspire contract helped the department to collect almost £506 billion for the UK in the last year alone as well as improving services to customers.

The NAO also recognises the progress that HMRC has made over the last two years in developing in-house technical skills, so that we are less dependent on external suppliers. For instance, we recently opened a new Digital Delivery Centre in Newcastle as part of our Digital transformation programme.

We will continue to improve the performance of the contract over the next three years.