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HANSARDCost of Living IncreasesThose with the broadest shoulders should pay the most, but I just say to everyone in the country watching this who is worried about their bills that we have two Governments who…16 Mar 2022HANSARDCost of Living IncreasesYes, if we increase the additional rate on the oil and gas sector from 40% to 50%—10 percentage points extra—that will generate the money towards our fully costed plan for raising…16 Mar 2022HANSARDCost of Living IncreasesI am pleased that we are debating this important topic and I thank the SNP for bringing it to the Chamber again. Opposition parties have held a number of debates on the cost of…16 Mar 2022HANSARDCost of Living IncreasesIf the SNP has an argument for not taxing the oil and gas companies, it can have the floor to tell us. I am happy to take an intervention. I am also happy to take an intervention…16 Mar 2022HANSARDCost of Living IncreasesIt certainly is. To correct the Minister—I hope it is not the third time already; I am on only the second page of my speech—she assumed that the SNP motion backed a windfall tax…16 Mar 2022HANSARDCost of Living IncreasesThose are some of the consequences that we start to see when the chickens come home to roost. When the Minister responds, perhaps he can also clarify the Government’s policy on…16 Mar 2022HANSARDCost of Living IncreasesMy hon. Friend raises a critical point and we have to keep dragging the Government back to their responsibilities as a result of being in power. Much of the crisis in our public…16 Mar 2022HANSARDLegislative ConsentI am sure that anomaly could be sorted to ensure that we do not hurt unsuspecting third parties. One of the most important ways to clamp down on illicit Russian money and…16 Mar 2022HANSARDCost of Living IncreasesThe bottom line is that I should not be getting £150 off my council tax bill. That seems fair, and I think that we agree on that. We need much more imagination in how to get money…16 Mar 2022HANSARDCost of Living IncreasesApart from chairing the debate wonderfully, of course. Let us make the serious point. We are debating the motion in front of us and we cannot get clarity from its mover about…16 Mar 2022HANSARDCost of Living IncreasesI make this substantive point. Your motion, which you brought to the House to debate today, says that you are happy to tax Irn-Bru and Pets at Home, but you are not willing to…16 Mar 2022HANSARDLegislative ConsentI am sure that the Secretary of State would like to join me in welcoming Dr Riches, who is watching our proceedings today. She is from the Royal Society and she is shadowing me as…16 Mar 2022HANSARDCost of Living IncreasesWe do not want to see council tax bills rising anywhere across the country, but my own council, the City of Edinburgh Council, has had £1 billion ripped out of its budget over the…16 Mar 2022HANSARDDraft Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018 (Disability Assistance and Information- Sharing) (Consequential Provision and Modifications) Order 2022In the generations ahead.02 Mar 2022HANSARDDraft Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018 (Disability Assistance and Information- Sharing) (Consequential Provision and Modifications) Order 2022It is a great pleasure to serve with you in the Chair, Ms Rees. We will not divide the Committee on this order; we fully agree with it. We have continued frustrations that such…02 Mar 2022HANSARDStrength of the UnionThe Sue Gray report released on Monday was utterly damning about the Prime Minister’s conduct, yet the Secretary of State continues to back him against the wishes of his own…02 Feb 2022HANSARDStrength of the UnionWhat is Groundhog day, Mr Speaker, is the Secretary of State’s defence of this broken Prime Minister. Tomorrow, the Bank of England is projected to raise interest rates, and…02 Feb 2022HANSARDCost of Living IncreasesMay I say how pleased I am that we are having this incredibly important debate today? While Parliament has been hopelessly paralysed by the Prime Minister’s refusal to do the…24 Jan 2022HANSARDCost of Living IncreasesI hear hon. Members behind me asking from a sedentary position what we would cut—which is surely the same budget dilemma facing the Government that they have just been arguing…24 Jan 2022HANSARDCost of Living IncreasesI will give way if the hon. Gentleman will tell us how much the SNP has spent on ferries that has been wasted.24 Jan 2022