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HANSARD Making Tax DigitalI think we can all agree that the digitisation of tax is to be welcomed, as is companies paying the correct amounts and the tax gap being reduced, but I want to pick up where the…19 Feb 2019HANSARDLeaving the EUI agree with the Prime Minister, and have done for many months, that the best way to avoid a no-deal outcome to Brexit is to have a deal put in place. That is why I have been…12 Feb 2019HANSARD Financial Services (Implementation of Legislation) Bill [Lords]Will my right hon. Friend give way?11 Feb 2019HANSARD Financial Services (Implementation of Legislation) Bill [Lords]I thank the Minister for giving way. In his letter to colleagues last week, the Economic Secretary stated that the Bill will allow for the Government to choose to implement only…11 Feb 2019HANSARDNissan in SunderlandIn 2016, my predecessor as Chair of the Treasury Committee, who now sits in the other place, wrote to the Chancellor asking what money had been promised to Nissan in order for it…04 Feb 2019HANSARDDeficit ReductionThe next most important update on the deficit will be the Office for Budget Responsibility’s statement around the time of the spring statement, but the OBR has been clear that it…29 Jan 2019HANSARD European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018I agree with the Prime Minister that the best way to avoid no deal is to put an agreement in place. She will be aware that a surprising combination of Members with very different…29 Jan 2019HANSARDAppropriate ME TreatmentIt was a pleasure to apply for this debate with the hon. Members for Glasgow North West (Carol Monaghan) and for Ceredigion (Ben Lake) and others. [ Interruption. ] How could I…24 Jan 2019HANSARDAppropriate ME TreatmentI agree with the hon. Lady. We all know that resources may be constrained, but we want our constituents to be able to see specialists who really know about a condition. One of the…24 Jan 2019HANSARDEngagementsFurther to my right hon. Friend’s point of order last night and the questions that she has been asked so far during this session, does she agree that we all need to maintain…16 Jan 2019HANSARD European Union (Withdrawal) ActHow is it possible for the right hon. and hon. Members who speak today to capture the past two and a half years in five minutes? How is it possible to capture the 45 years of our…15 Jan 2019HANSARD European Union (Withdrawal) ActI can hear the joy on the Opposition Benches. As the Attorney General said, this is only the end of phase 1. I think that the point he was trying to make in his speech was that…15 Jan 2019HANSARD Finance (No. 3) BillI have great respect for my right hon. Friend, and on this issue he speaks much good sense, as always. I hope that right hon. and hon. Members will listen to what he has to say. I…08 Jan 2019HANSARD Finance (No. 3) BillTrade deals are immensely complicated. While Members know how I voted in 2016, I accept that this country will be leaving the European Union on 29 March—with regret, I have to…08 Jan 2019HANSARD Finance (No. 3) BillI am afraid I am going to make some progress. My hon. Friend will be able to intervene on other Members. Those who wanted Brexit talked often about the taking back of control. I…08 Jan 2019HANSARD Finance (No. 3) BillI rise to speak briefly—I know time is short in this debate—about new clause 26. For the avoidance of doubt among those on the Treasury Bench, I will not be supporting the new…08 Jan 2019HANSARD Finance (No. 3) BillVery briefly.08 Jan 2019HANSARD Finance (No. 3) BillI very much agree with my right hon. Friend. It will probably turn out that most of us have constituents who are affected in that way. There are some who perhaps did know what…08 Jan 2019HANSARD Finance (No. 3) BillYes, I absolutely agree with my right hon. Friend. That was raised in the Westminster Hall debate led by my fellow Committee member, my hon. Friend the Member for Wycombe (Mr…08 Jan 2019HANSARD Finance (No. 3) BillI realise that time is short and that many hon. and right hon. Members want to speak on this group, which shows the appetite of Members on both sides of the House to have their…08 Jan 2019