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HANSARD National Insurance Contributions (Increase of Thresholds) BillWe have had a number of comments about what is within the scope of this debate, and I suspect that issue is rather out of scope. I will focus on national insurance and the…24 Mar 2022HANSARD National Insurance Contributions (Increase of Thresholds) BillWe have made it very clear that we believe in a fair taxation system. The key point for us in the Chancellor’s package is that he is raising taxes for working people, while ruling…24 Mar 2022HANSARD National Insurance Contributions (Increase of Thresholds) BillMy hon. Friend is absolutely right that there is a huge opportunity to levy a one-off windfall tax on North sea oil and gas producers’ profits. Yet there was no mention of such a…24 Mar 2022HANSARD National Insurance Contributions (Increase of Thresholds) BillI give way to the hon. Lady; the hon. Gentleman has already made several comments.24 Mar 2022HANSARD National Insurance Contributions (Increase of Thresholds) BillI repeat a principle I mentioned earlier to the hon. Member for Bury North (James Daly): the remit of the Bill is national insurance and related matters, such as the spring…24 Mar 2022HANSARD National Insurance Contributions (Increase of Thresholds) BillAs the hon. Gentleman knows, his party has been in power for the past 12 years. We have set out clearly that we would end the delay in new nuclear power alongside introducing…24 Mar 2022HANSARD National Insurance Contributions (Increase of Thresholds) BillI thank my hon. Friend for making an important point about the last Labour Government and drawing attention to the lack of action from this Government in pursuing investment in…24 Mar 2022HANSARD National Insurance Contributions (Increase of Thresholds) BillI am going to make some progress. Perhaps the most desperate part of the Chancellor’s pitch yesterday was his claim that “the work starts today”. The Conservatives have been in…24 Mar 2022HANSARD National Insurance Contributions (Increase of Thresholds) BillAs I said on Second Reading, we will support the Bill, but I thank my right hon. Friend the Member for Hayes and Harlington (John McDonnell) and my hon. Friends the Members for…24 Mar 2022HANSARD National Insurance Contributions (Increase of Thresholds) BillAs the hon. Gentleman knows, we have debated the increase in national insurance at length, and today we are debating the package of measures that the Chancellor brought forward.…24 Mar 2022HANSARD National Insurance Contributions (Increase of Thresholds) BillAs we debate the Bill, I cannot help but notice it is becoming a bad habit of this Chancellor to rush national insurance legislation through Parliament in a day. A little over six…24 Mar 2022HANSARD National Insurance Contributions (Increase of Thresholds) BillAs the hon. Gentleman knows, we are critical of the Chancellor for his desperate attempts to appear to be a tax cutter, despite the fact that the tax burden in this country is now…24 Mar 2022HANSARD National Insurance Contributions (Increase of Thresholds) BillI know that my hon. Friend is a champion for his constituents, and in challenging the Government about the harm that their decisions will do to the people he represents.24 Mar 2022HANSARD National Insurance Contributions (Increase of Thresholds) BillI do not recall whether the hon. Gentleman was present in the debate on the health and social care levy, but if he was, he would have heard us set out that any increase in…24 Mar 2022HANSARDEngagementsQ11. Former Treasury Minister Lord Agnew has described the Chancellor’s failure on covid fraud as “one of the most colossal cock-ups in recent government management and taxpayers…23 Mar 2022HANSARDManaging the Public FinancesJust in the last seven days, we have learned that 7 billion items of personal protective equipment were not fit for purpose, the Government are burning 500 lorryloads of it a…15 Mar 2022HANSARDNational Insurance Contributions IncreaseToday, we have heard from hon. Members representing people across the country about why it is so important that the Government cancel their national insurance hike on working…08 Mar 2022HANSARDNational Insurance Contributions IncreaseThank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. As I said, if Conservative Members managed to hold their noses last September to vote with the Prime Minister and the Chancellor, it is truly…08 Mar 2022HANSARDNational Insurance Contributions BillI thank the Minister for setting out the reasoning behind the Government’s amendments in the other place. Although we support many of the measures in this Bill, we cannot ignore…01 Mar 2022HANSARDCorporate Transparency and Economic CrimeAs hon. Members across the House have made clear, the register to make public the overseas owners of property here in the UK is years overdue; it has been a crucial missing part…28 Feb 2022