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HANSARDFinance BillOne more time.03 Mar 2025HANSARDFinance BillThe impacts of the changes to the alcohol duty and the energy profits levy have already been set out in the tax information and impact note that was published alongside the autumn…03 Mar 2025HANSARDUK-Andorra Double Taxation ConventionA double taxation convention with Andorra was signed in London on 20 February 2025. The text of the convention is available on HM Revenue and Customs’ pages of the www.gov.uk…26 Feb 2025HANSARD High Street Bank ClosuresI thank my hon. Friend for his intervention. As I set out, the Government have committed to 350 banking hubs in the course of the Parliament, but any changes to Link’s assessment…26 Feb 2025HANSARD High Street Bank ClosuresThe hon. Gentleman’s point relates to transport links and the accessibility of banking hubs. It links well to the comment from my hon. Friend the Member for Stoke-on-Trent Central…26 Feb 2025HANSARD High Street Bank ClosuresVery briefly.26 Feb 2025HANSARD High Street Bank ClosuresMy hon. Friend makes an important point about the barriers to people accessing cash—not merely the location of banking hubs or facilities, but financial barriers. There may also…26 Feb 2025HANSARD High Street Bank ClosuresIt is a pleasure to serve with you in the Chair, Mr Stringer. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Blyth and Ashington (Ian Lavery) for securing this important debate. We can see…26 Feb 2025HANSARDFamily BusinessesWhat I accept, as I said earlier, is that our difficult decision on employer national insurance contributions will have impacts on different businesses across the country. But the…26 Feb 2025HANSARDFamily BusinessesI return to my point that three quarters of estates claiming agricultural property relief, or agricultural property relief and business property relief, will not pay any more…26 Feb 2025HANSARDFamily BusinessesI think I was following the hon. Lady point that in many cases no one knows when inheritance tax will be due, because people cannot predict the sad events that may happen in their…26 Feb 2025HANSARDFamily BusinessesIt is important to emphasise that the correct data to work out the impact of these changes is the claims data. That is what is available to HMRC, and it is the basis on which we…26 Feb 2025HANSARDFamily BusinessesThe hon. Lady referred to meetings that I held last week, both with representatives of UK-wide organisations and those that represent other nations within the UK. There is a…26 Feb 2025HANSARDFamily BusinessesThe data that I refer to is based on claims data. This is an important point that comes up frequently when we have debates on agricultural property relief and business property…26 Feb 2025HANSARDFamily BusinessesTo correct the hon. Gentleman, I did not say that only 4% will be affected. We have set out that up to 520 estates claiming agricultural property relief, including those that also…26 Feb 2025HANSARDFamily BusinessesI will make some progress as I have been very generous in giving way to the hon. Gentleman. He will know that his colleagues who were in government were aware of the in-year…26 Feb 2025HANSARDFamily BusinessesThe hon. Member’s comments are clearly ridiculous if he thinks the £22 billion black hole was fictional. It has real-terms consequences in terms of the pressure—26 Feb 2025HANSARDFamily BusinessesI will give way one more time.26 Feb 2025HANSARDFamily BusinessesAs I am sure the hon. Member will know, upon entering Government and speaking to Treasury officials about the state of the public finances, we uncovered a £22 billion black hole,…26 Feb 2025HANSARDFamily BusinessesI assume the hon. Gentleman refers to the changes around employer national insurance, to which I will come in my remarks. Let me be absolutely clear about the context: no…26 Feb 2025