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HANSARDNational Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) BillNo, I will not give way again. It might be illuminating for him to read the OBR forecast and understand what it says about the previous Government’s relationship with it, how much…03 Dec 2024HANSARDBusiness Rates: High Street RetailersMay I extend my congratulations to St Martha Greek taverna in Nantwich? Given the time, I am feeling a bit hungry now that we are talking about food. I reassure my hon. Friend…03 Dec 2024HANSARDNational Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) BillI will make some progress as I want to explain why we are taking this tough decision, and why it is so important that we take this decision now, as set out by the Chancellor in…03 Dec 2024HANSARDNational Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) BillI will make some progress. We know how crucial economic stability is for businesses taking investment decisions, and as I said to my hon. Friend the Member for Bournemouth East…03 Dec 2024HANSARDNational Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) BillThe way that we are approaching the reimbursement of employer national insurance costs for Departments and public sector employees is similar to what the previous Government did…03 Dec 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsAs the hon. Member will know, we announced in the Budget an increase in local government funding of 3.2% next year, and the Chancellor announced extra funding for early years…03 Dec 2024HANSARDNational Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) BillI beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time. In her Budget statement on 30 October, the Chancellor set out the difficult decisions that we as a Government have been…03 Dec 2024HANSARDNational Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) BillI will make some progress, and take more interventions shortly. For me, keeping the promises on income tax, employee national insurance and VAT is crucial, but making those…03 Dec 2024HANSARDNational Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) BillWe recognise that we are asking businesses to contribute more, and that this will have impacts, but it will be up to individual businesses to decide how to respond to these…03 Dec 2024HANSARDNational Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) BillI recognise that the decision we are taking will have impacts, and in some cases it will mean that employers have to take difficult decisions. We are, however, reforming business…03 Dec 2024HANSARDNational Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) BillI thank my hon. Friend for his question. I will get to the detail of the Bill in a moment, but I can briefly reassure him that the Bill doubles the employment allowance, which…03 Dec 2024HANSARDEconomic Growth in Rural AreasMy hon. Friend is absolutely right to point out the failures of the previous Government, and to point out that this Government remain steadfast in our commitment to farmers across…03 Dec 2024HANSARDBusiness Rates: High Street RetailersTo deliver our manifesto pledge, we intend to introduce permanently lower tax rates for high street retail, hospitality and leisure properties from 2026-27. This tax cut must be…03 Dec 2024HANSARDBusiness Rates: High Street RetailersMy hon. Friend is right to highlight the importance to communities of having access to cash and banking services, which is why we have committed to rolling out more banking hubs…03 Dec 2024HANSARDBusiness Rates: High Street RetailersMy hon. Friend is absolutely right about the importance of small, independent businesses in his constituency, and I am sure his sentiment is shared by Members across the House.…03 Dec 2024HANSARDNational Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) BillWe know that the tough decision that we have had to take will have impacts—we have been up front with people about that—but we also know that over half of all employers will pay…03 Dec 2024HANSARDNational Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) BillI thank my hon. Friend for her question, but eligibility for the employment allowance is not changing. It is the same as it was before, and we are maintaining that provision. On…03 Dec 2024HANSARDNational Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) BillI will, one more time, and then I will make progress.03 Dec 2024HANSARDNational Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) BillI am sorry, but there are tough decisions that we have to take, and there are difficult decisions that businesses will have to take. The only people to have abandoned businesses…03 Dec 2024HANSARDNational Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) BillI thank the hon. Gentleman for his question. That will depend on the exact set-up of the hospice, but typically hospices are independent charities, so they will be able to use the…03 Dec 2024