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HANSARD Online Harms ConsultationFirst Steps Nutrition Trust has launched a study this month which shows the impact of online marketing of infant formula. I am all for impartial information, but that is not what…15 Dec 2020HANSARDHealthcare Support Services: Conception to Age TwoIt is a pleasure to see you in the Chair, Sir Christopher. I thank the right hon. Member for South Northamptonshire (Andrea Leadsom) for securing this debate and for the work that…15 Dec 2020HANSARD Taxation (Post-transition Period) BillI also wish to thank the Minister and the Opposition Front-Bench spokesperson, the right hon. Member for Wolverhampton South East (Mr McFadden), for the way in which this debate…15 Dec 2020HANSARD Taxation (Post-transition Period) BillI think the Minister knows well that the point is the principle of the EU continuing to set the fuel duty rate, rather than the cost of it. Conservative Members know well about…15 Dec 2020HANSARD Taxation (Post-transition Period) BillI come to this debate with many of the same concerns that I had last week. I shall not repeat them because I think everybody is quite clear on what they were. We come to this…15 Dec 2020HANSARDUnited Kingdom Internal Market BillWe are clear on the SNP Benches that Scotland does not want this Bill and that it overrides powers within the Scotland Act 1998. The explanatory notes state: “The Bill’s…15 Dec 2020HANSARDHealthcare Support Services: Conception to Age TwoMy hon. Friend makes a good point about the Best Start Foods grant. The level of the equivalent payment in England is woeful and, although it will go up in April, there are…15 Dec 2020HANSARD Taxation (Post-transition Period) BillI thank the Minister for that detail. If he could tell me the further details on the questions that I have not yet had answered from the previous day’s debate, that would be…15 Dec 2020HANSARD Taxation (Post-transition Period) BillThe hon. Gentleman makes a good attempt there, but the issue is really the UK Government and their incompetence in dealing with all these issues, which could well have been…09 Dec 2020HANSARD Taxation (Post-transition Period) BillI have almost finished, so I want to make a little progress, but I will try to bring the hon. Lady in later. I am curious about what assessment the Government have made of the…09 Dec 2020HANSARD Taxation (Post-transition Period) BillThe hon. Lady is quite rightly querying how money has been spent. I do not know whether she has had letters from the Government asking MPs, as small businesses, to get ready for…09 Dec 2020HANSARD Taxation (Post-transition Period) BillThe way this Bill has been brought to the House today, less than 24 hours since it was published yesterday, really shows the disrespect the Government have for Parliament and for…09 Dec 2020HANSARD Taxation (Post-transition Period) BillI am very sorry to hear that the hon. Member for Stone (Sir William Cash) is not here, because I am sure that there is so much more that he could have added to this debate that he…09 Dec 2020HANSARD Taxation (Post-transition Period) BillThat is absolutely fine. I wish to speak to the amendments in my name and the names of my hon. Friends. As I outlined on Second Reading, I have real concerns about the scrutiny…09 Dec 2020HANSARD Taxation (Post-transition Period) BillI thank the hon. Gentleman for allowing an intervention. Is he aware that we were told in the Treasury Committee that the UK could have adopted the French customs system, which…09 Dec 2020HANSARD EU Withdrawal AgreementRTÉ reports on the derogation for sausages, chilled meats and unfrozen prepared meals and notes that “once a derogation period has elapsed, Northern supermarkets will have to…09 Dec 2020HANSARD Taxation (Post-transition Period) (Ways and Means)Devolution. If the Minister was paying attention, I said devolution has been sold down the river—08 Dec 2020HANSARD Taxation (Post-transition Period) (Ways and Means)The hon. Gentleman is making an interesting point about working cross-party. We entered into this in the spirit of cross-party working. The Scottish Government put forward…08 Dec 2020HANSARD Taxation (Post-transition Period) (Ways and Means)The hon. Gentleman says sovereignty. I am not sure he really understands that either. The UK Government have not known what they wanted from this situation from the start. I…08 Dec 2020HANSARD Taxation (Post-transition Period) (Ways and Means)I do not really agree with the point the hon. Gentleman makes. That probably will not surprise him. The difficulty with all of this is that the UK has never really known what it…08 Dec 2020