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HANSARDNational Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) BillMy Lords, I will also speak to Amendments 55 and 56. I thank my noble friend Lady Neville-Rolfe for adding her name to these amendments. They deal with two aspects of the…06 Feb 2025HANSARDNational Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) Bill06 Feb 2025HANSARDNational Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) BillMy Lords, I rise to move Amendment 18 and to speak to Amendments 21, 24 and 25 in this group. These amendments are designed to make the national insurance increases in the Bill…04 Feb 2025HANSARDNational Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) BillMy Lords, first, I thank all my noble friends for taking part in this debate and supporting these amendments. They were put forward as a constructive way to deal with what could…04 Feb 2025HANSARDNational Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) Bill04 Feb 2025HANSARDNational Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) BillHe cannot move it.29 Jan 2025HANSARDNational Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) BillHis amendment is Amendment 67, so he is not going to be moving it until day four.29 Jan 2025HANSARDNational Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) BillMy Lords, I have Amendment 33 in this group; I thank my noble friends Lady Neville-Rolfe, Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon and Lord Howard of Rising for adding their names to it. As my…29 Jan 2025HANSARDNational Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) BillOccasionally? It is more than occasionally.29 Jan 2025HANSARDNational Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) BillI will briefly respond to that. I am asking for an impact assessment of the Bill. The Bill does not incorporate the whole Budget; it incorporates one policy decision, which is the…29 Jan 2025HANSARDNational Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) BillMy Lords, I want to comment briefly on whether we should have impact assessments, which has been a theme running through a number of amendments. I know that the Minister has his…29 Jan 2025HANSARDNational Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) BillMy Lords, I agree with the noble Lord, Lord Eatwell, on simplification of the tax system; indeed, I have made many speeches on that subject in the past. I also agree that as a…21 Jan 2025HANSARDNational Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) BillIs the Minister going to address the amendment?21 Jan 2025HANSARDNational Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) BillMy Lords, the whole Committee has, I know, great respect for the immense knowledge and expertise in economics of both the noble Lord, Lord Eatwell, and his colleague, the noble…21 Jan 2025HANSARDNational Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) BillMy Lords, before the noble Baroness, Lady Kramer, speaks again to her amendment, the Minister said that what the Government have provided is in line with what they did for other…21 Jan 2025HANSARDNational Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) BillMy Lords, before we start on that amendment, it is 7.28 pm and the Committee is due to finish at 7.45 pm. It always used to be the custom that if we would cover only a very short…21 Jan 2025HANSARDNational Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) BillI am grateful to the noble Baroness for those comments. In the spirit of good will in the Committee, this would be an appropriate time for us to draw stumps.21 Jan 2025HANSARDGreat British Energy BillMy Lords, I do not support Amendments 66 and 87 in this group, for similar reasons to those that I gave on the first group that we debated today, in that they would weaken the…13 Jan 2025HANSARDGreat British Energy BillMy Lords, we now move to some more technical aspects of the Bill, compared to some of the really significant issues we have been debating in recent groups. I am sorry that the…13 Jan 2025HANSARDGreat British Energy BillMy Lords, I want to offer a slightly different perspective on this group of amendments. All the amendments in this group, and indeed some later groups, involve a series of rather…13 Jan 2025