Business and the Economy

Debate between Nusrat Ghani and Damian Hinds

Wednesday 21st May 2025 Commons Chamber

[Madam Deputy Speaker (Ms Nusrat Ghani)]

Order. It is good etiquette to speak through the Chair, and to not use the word “you”; it just dampens the tone of the debate a little bit.

[Damian Hinds]

I shall suitably dampen. At a time when the Government are changing the relief from 75% to 40%, try telling those businesses already facing the national insurance contributions increase and all the other cost increases that their bill is being reduced. Clearly, it is going up.

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Nusrat Ghani and Damian Hinds

Monday 9th September 2024 Commons Chamber

[Madam Deputy Speaker (Ms Nusrat Ghani)]

I call the shadow Secretary of State.

[Damian Hinds (East Hampshire) (Con)]

At the start of the new term, we all wish everybody well for the academic year ahead. What will Ministers say next September to parents who, because of Labour’s education tax, find that class sizes are bigger and more schools are full, and that fewer children are able to get a place in their first-choice school in Bristol, Bury, Salford or Surrey?