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HANSARD Coronavirus BillLet me give the Minister a straightforward, practical example. One element of the Bill allows the delay of the oversight of the Investigatory Powers Act 2016. That is the case…23 Mar 2020HANSARD Coronavirus BillTo carry on in the context of the rolling news referred to by my hon. Friend the Member for Wycombe (Mr Baker), one thing that we need to provide is good healthcare. The new NICE…23 Mar 2020HANSARDLoan Charge 2019: Sir Amyas Morse ReviewAs usual, my right hon. Friend trumps my argument in advance, but I will come back to that in a second. What that demonstrates—and what my right hon. Friend’s point…19 Mar 2020HANSARDLoan Charge 2019: Sir Amyas Morse ReviewThe right hon. Gentleman makes an extraordinarily powerful point in his own skilful way. I say this back to him: his group took that evidence before the added economic stress of…19 Mar 2020HANSARDLoan Charge 2019: Sir Amyas Morse ReviewI am talking about how we got to that position. I will come on to talk about the financial status of these people, but my hon. Friend is right: these are not rich people. HMRC,…19 Mar 2020HANSARD Points of OrderOn a point of order, Mr Deputy Speaker. In his response to my hon. Friend the Member for Windsor (Adam Afriyie), the Leader of the House answered, in effect, that the Civil…19 Mar 2020HANSARDLoan Charge 2019: Sir Amyas Morse ReviewMy right hon. Friend is absolutely right. I started by saying that this is not a political issue; it is an issue of honour. As we would expect from our House—one of the greatest…19 Mar 2020HANSARDLoan Charge 2019: Sir Amyas Morse ReviewI thank the right hon. Gentleman—I nearly called him my right hon. Friend, from my days on the Public Accounts Committee. When financial advisers and accountants could not…19 Mar 2020HANSARDLoan Charge 2019: Sir Amyas Morse ReviewMy hon. Friend is, of course, a skilled businessman; he knows what he is doing, and he is across this sort of thing—it is his job to be across it—but I am not so sure we could say…19 Mar 2020HANSARDLoan Charge 2019: Sir Amyas Morse ReviewIf the hon. Lady will forgive me, I am trying to constrain my speech to 15 minutes, and it is beginning to be a struggle with so many interventions. In summary, these people are…19 Mar 2020HANSARDLoan Charge 2019: Sir Amyas Morse ReviewYes, I will send HMRC a copy of Microsoft’s thesaurus. Not only that, but in paragraph 3.8 of his report, Sir Amyas states: “The Review’s legal advisers found that there was no…19 Mar 2020HANSARDLoan Charge 2019: Sir Amyas Morse ReviewBefore my time.19 Mar 2020HANSARDLoan Charge 2019: Sir Amyas Morse ReviewThese occasions often show the House at its best, and that is certainly true today. I start by paying tribute to the Loan Charge Action Group, the all-party group—particularly its…19 Mar 2020HANSARDLoan Charge 2019: Sir Amyas Morse ReviewNo, I will not. I only have seconds. There is only one answer in this debate. I am afraid that Amyas Morse is wrong. The answer is laid out in our motion. HMRC should cease action…19 Mar 2020HANSARDBusiness of the HouseThe Opposition have a serious point in terms of the duration of the debate on the emergency legislation, given that it appears that we will debate it only for one day. There is a…19 Mar 2020HANSARDLoan Charge 2019: Sir Amyas Morse ReviewI beg to move, That this House believes that the Loan Charge is an unjust and retrospective tax; notes that the law on the Loan Charge was not settled until 2017; and calls on…19 Mar 2020HANSARDLoan Charge 2019: Sir Amyas Morse ReviewI do. The hon. Lady tempts me into a political point, because the Blair Government were the most active promoter of these schemes, but she is right in general. When something is…19 Mar 2020HANSARD Educational SettingsOne of the categories who will have most difficulty with this decision are the parents of children at special needs schools. As the hon. Member for Ashton-under-Lyne (Angela…18 Mar 2020HANSARD Economic UpdateI strongly welcome the Chancellor’s enormous loan and guarantee package, but he himself recognised that he is supporting the liquidity of businesses rather than their long-term…17 Mar 2020HANSARD Telecommunications Infrastructure (Leasehold Property) BillI have three very simple points to make. First, we are told that we should listen to the experts, namely the Government experts, but what is their argument? Their argument is…10 Mar 2020