Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Torsten Bell and Nick Timothy

Tuesday 20th May 2025 Commons Chamber

[Torsten Bell]

What is anti-growth is the Conservative party, which sat over 15 long years of decline and completely unprecedented economic stagnation. Our job is to support the hospitality and leisure sector more generally. That is why we are reducing red tape through the cross-Government licensing taskforce; why we are permanently cutting business rates, moving away from the year-by-year chaotic system put in place by the Conservative party; and why we are engaging all the time with the Hospitality Sector Council.

[Nick Timothy (West Suffolk) (Con)]

6. What assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of the double contributions convention in the UK-India free trade agreement on levels of tax revenue.