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HANSARDTaxesAs I am sure the hon. Gentleman knows, the way the system works is that national insurance generally supports the NHS and pensions, but, more broadly—12 Nov 2025HANSARDBusiness Rates: Affordability for SMEsWe very much recognise the role that grassroots music venues play in constituencies right across our country. In our reforms, on which we will set out more detail at the Budget on…04 Nov 2025HANSARDBusiness Rates: Affordability for SMEsHigh streets in St Austell and constituencies right across the country need more support from the business rates system. That is why we are transforming the system to ask larger…04 Nov 2025HANSARDIncomes of Working Families: NewcastleI thank my hon. Friend for her question; I know she is a tireless champion for working families in Newcastle. We know that for too long, people have felt that they are putting too…04 Nov 2025HANSARDBusiness Rates: Affordability for SMEsThat question barely deserves a response. The business rates relief we inherited from the previous Government when we came into office was due to end entirely in April of this…04 Nov 2025HANSARDBusiness Rates: Affordability for SMEsMore than 700,000 small businesses across the UK pay no business rates at all as they receive 100% small business rate relief. We are transforming business rates over this…04 Nov 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe pride in place funding is going towards 250 communities across the country to ensure that local people are in control of investing in their local areas. I note my hon.…04 Nov 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsMr Speaker, I am considering how to respond to that question. I will simply leave it at saying that everyone must pay their fair share of tax. That is something that the Labour…04 Nov 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsI am glad to hear that the people of Crook and Tow Law are already thinking about how to use their pride in place funding to improve their local area. Children at Peases West…04 Nov 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe work that my right hon. Friends the Chancellor and the Prime Minister have been doing with Europe is all about taking down trade barriers where they get in the way of our…04 Nov 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsI absolutely agree with the hon. Lady that we should reduce the cost of asylum accommodation. Indeed, that is why our commitment to close all asylum hotels in this Parliament is…04 Nov 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsThrough our investments in the National Wealth Fund, Great British Energy, the British Business Bank and UK Export Finance, we are using every lever the Government have to support…04 Nov 2025HANSARDIncomes of Working Families: NewcastleMy hon. Friend is right to draw attention to the Conservatives’ record in office, and she is right that in her constituency there are fantastic, passionate and productive workers…04 Nov 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsAt the spending review, we enabled better investment in temporary accommodation stock and strengthened local authorities’ financial position. Those changes will support local…04 Nov 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsAt the spending review, as announced earlier this year by my predecessor, my right hon. Friend the Member for Bristol North West (Darren Jones), we set out record investment into…04 Nov 2025HANSARDStamp Duty Land TaxAs the hon. Gentleman will know, the Chancellor’s fiscal rules say that day-to-day spending must be paid for through tax receipts. That is the definition of living within our…28 Oct 2025HANSARDStamp Duty Land TaxI had definitely been born by that time, Mr Speaker. I was doing my maths very rapidly, but I can be confident in saying that. I seem to have quite lost my way after your…28 Oct 2025HANSARDStamp Duty Land TaxSpeaking of amnesia, a lot of Conservatives have forgotten Liz Truss and are not prepared to talk about the impact she had.28 Oct 2025HANSARDStamp Duty Land TaxThank you, Mr Speaker. I was confirming what I think everyone in the Chamber knows about how bad the previous Government’s record on the economy was. We know why that record was…28 Oct 2025HANSARDStamp Duty Land TaxMy hon. Friend is absolutely right to draw attention to the Conservatives’ record. [ Interruption. ] In 2010, I think the national debt was about 67% of GDP, but it was about 100%…28 Oct 2025