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HANSARDNational Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) BillWe will have to beg to differ on that. I think that the Minister will turn around and say that a great deal is being done for small businesses that want to upscale and that we…29 Jan 2025HANSARDNational Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) BillMy Lords, I stand as a winding speaker but also as someone who attached their name to Amendment 22 from the noble Lord, Lord Londesborough, which I think gets to the heart of the…29 Jan 2025HANSARDNational Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) BillMy Lords, I shall speak briefly. If I had spotted the amendment of the right reverend Prelate the Bishop of Southwark in time, I would have signed it because it makes absolute…29 Jan 2025HANSARDNational Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) BillMy Lords, I shall be extremely brief. It must be galling for the Minister to sit here and be lectured by the Conservative Benches because he and I so often tried to obtain…29 Jan 2025HANSARDNational Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) BillHe said, “I beg to move”.29 Jan 2025HANSARDNon-domicile StatusMy Lords, dropping the changes anticipated to the non-dom regime would not be fair to UK-domiciled taxpayers and to UK public finances. However, it is also wrong if those who have…28 Jan 2025HANSARDAgricultural and Business Property Reliefs: OBR CostingMy Lords, my colleagues on these Benches have made it clear that we oppose this tax change; we are concerned about the impact of it on family farms and the rural economy, and the…27 Jan 2025HANSARDInheritance Tax, National Insurance and VATMy Lords, the Tory Government, especially in their last years, implemented a scorched-earth strategy on public finances, and I have great sympathy for the Government in facing…27 Jan 2025HANSARDNational Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) BillMy Lords, all the amendments in this group are in my name. They break, essentially, into two parts. Amendments 3 and 12 relate to national insurance contribution rates for…21 Jan 2025HANSARDNational Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) Bill21 Jan 2025HANSARDNational Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) BillMaybe I can be helpful by using the Library note on this occasion and a quote that it has from the OBR. The paragraph is headed “Labour supply”: “The OBR expects workers and…21 Jan 2025HANSARDNational Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) BillMy Lords, I just want to say a quick word to the noble Lord, Lord Macpherson—in a sense, the voice of the Treasury. This notion of part-time workers as very wealthy people who…21 Jan 2025HANSARDNational Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) BillMy Lords, I am standing in what would usually be a winding position, but I think Amendments 4 and 5 have been so thoroughly discussed and I am very much in support of most of the…21 Jan 2025HANSARDUK-China Economic and Financial DialogueMy Lords, we must not allow anxiety about America under Trump and Musk, particularly on tariffs and climate change, to drive us into an unhealthy economic relationship with China.…14 Jan 2025HANSARDSterling: Rise in Yields on 30-year GiltsMy Lords, the issue is one of confidence in the British economy. Today, Shevaun Haviland, director-general of the British Chambers of Commerce, called again for quick action to…14 Jan 2025HANSARDPublic Finances: Borrowing CostsMy Lords, the Minister used the phrase “meeting the fiscal rules is non-negotiable”. A few minutes ago in the other place, my colleague the honourable Member for Wokingham asked…09 Jan 2025HANSARDNational Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) BillMy Lords, we on these Benches are focused on the substance of this important Bill, which we demonstrated with our regret amendment on Monday. Disputing where Committee stage is…08 Jan 2025HANSARDNational Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) BillMy Lords, this has been a very impressive Second Reading on a very important Bill. I hope that in Committee we can have a really constructive discourse in which we can hopefully…06 Jan 2025HANSARDNational Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) BillMy Lords, before I begin, I say to the House that on these Benches, we will make sure that the words of appreciation and expressions of friendship for Baroness Randerson will be…06 Jan 2025HANSARDNational Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) BillAt end insert “but that, while recognising the need to rebuild public services and finances, this House regrets that the Bill risks worsening pressures in the NHS and social care…06 Jan 2025