Finance (No. 2) Bill Debate

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Department: HM Treasury
3rd reading: House of Commons & Report stage: House of Commons
Wednesday 21st February 2018

(6 years, 2 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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I have listed five or six of the 75 measures I mentioned, all of which have been taken since 2010. That is no accident. There is a causal link, not just a correlation, between those actions and the additional amounts of tax being collected.
Jim Cunningham Portrait Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South) (Lab)
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I am sorry that I was late for the beginning of the hon. Gentleman’s speech. He has given us a litany of what Conservative Governments have done over the past seven years. The Conservative Government before the previous Labour Government did not do very much about all the loopholes that he has listed.