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HANSARD Health and Social Care Levy BillI have been listening carefully to my hon. Friend and what he has said has a great deal of merit. Does he agree, however, that while the Government’s aim is to integrate health…14 Sept 2021HANSARD Health and Social Care Levy BillWe are getting more granularity in the proposals that Opposition Front Benchers have in their heads for funding the uplift, which I think we all agree is necessary for health and…14 Sept 2021HANSARD Health and Social Care Levy BillOn clause 2, in 2014 we passed the Care Act and accepted the Dilnot proposals; slightly less than two years later, we canned the central part of the Dilnot proposals, in that it…14 Sept 2021HANSARD Health and Social Care Levy BillJust to clarify my thinking on this matter, is that £50 million to £60 million a one-off or a recurring feature?14 Sept 2021HANSARD Health and Social Care Levy BillThe fact that the social care levy will be introduced in 2023 and not 2022, and that in the interim we will have to rely on national insurance, suggests that creating it will…14 Sept 2021HANSARD Health and Social Care Levy BillI will certainly be supporting the Government in the Lobby this evening, and the reason is this: in 1948, we instituted a system of socialised medicine, which has the support of…14 Sept 2021HANSARD Health and Social Care Levy BillOf course, we have also had a wealth tax in the form of the removal of indexation allowance on capital gains tax for some years now, which is very substantial over time.14 Sept 2021HANSARD Health and Social Care Levy BillI am loth to give the hon. Gentleman an extra minute, but I must ask him how much he would put on income tax. I know that his party was famously keen on putting a penny on income…14 Sept 2021HANSARD Health and Social Care Levy BillThe hon. Gentleman has been speaking for some time, but he has not said what taxes he would raise. Why was it okay for Labour to raise national insurance to pay for healthcare in…14 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Social Care Levy Bill: Business of the HouseIt is very clear to most of our constituents that, after 18 months, there will need to be a tax rise to pay for service items that the NHS has not been able to provide because it…14 Sept 2021HANSARDAfghanistan PolicyI welcome the statement. Many of those fleeing the Taliban will be highly skilled people who will want to integrate rapidly into the workforce so that they can become…13 Sept 2021HANSARDHGV Driver ShortagesThe British Army is one of the biggest employers of HGV drivers; it has about 2,000. What discussion has the Secretary of State had with our right hon. Friend the Defence…13 Sept 2021HANSARDAjax Armoured Vehicle ProcurementMay I commend the Minister for the forensic way in which he has tried to get to the bottom of a mess that is not of his making? The Royal Dragoon Guards based at Battlesbury…09 Sept 2021HANSARDAfghanistan: FCDO Responses to MembersI thank the Government for responding positively to the representations I have made on behalf of Afghans at risk. May I ask my right hon. Friend about what will happen? Given that…09 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Social Care LevyIf the hon. Lady is so against this increase in national insurance contributions, why did she vote for one in 2003? Can she say what happened to NHS productivity as a result in…08 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Social Care LevyMay I congratulate the Government on dealing with unfinished business? Since 1948, we have pooled our risk for the management of the consequences of poor health except for things…08 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Social Care LevyI am grateful for that intervention, because additional rate taxpayers, who I think make up about 2% of taxpayers in this country, will be paying a fifth of the whole receipts for…08 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Social Care LevyI always listen very carefully to what the hon. Gentleman has to say. Why, then, does he think that Gordon Brown did something remarkably similar to what my right hon. and hon.…08 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Social CareI congratulate my right hon. Friend on grasping an issue that his predecessors have been ducking for decades. Does he agree that what has been announced restores some equity to a…07 Sept 2021HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateSix years ago we lost 28,000 people to seasonal flu. Can the Minister assure me that we will not prioritise the jabbing of 12 to 15-year-olds over the seasonal flu programme,…06 Sept 2021