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HANSARDDraft Social Security (Contributions) (Rates, Limits and Thresholds Amendments and National Insurance Funds Payments) Regulations 2022
Draft Tax Credits, Child Benefits and Guardians Allowance Up-rating Regulations 2022 May I again ask the Minister to respond to my second point about the second SI before the Committee and confirm what the level of the working tax credit basic element will be in…22 Feb 2022HANSARDDraft Social Security (Contributions) (Rates, Limits and Thresholds Amendments and National Insurance Funds Payments) Regulations 2022
Draft Tax Credits, Child Benefits and Guardians Allowance Up-rating Regulations 2022 I am grateful for the opportunity to respond on behalf of the Opposition to the two statutory instruments. The first statutory instrument gives effect to the annual re-rating of…22 Feb 2022HANSARDDraft Social Security (Contributions) (Rates, Limits and Thresholds Amendments and National Insurance Funds Payments) Regulations 2022
Draft Tax Credits, Child Benefits and Guardians Allowance Up-rating Regulations 2022 On a point of clarification, I was asking about the increase in the primary threshold and the increase in NICs for 2022-23. As the Minister will know, the health and social care…22 Feb 2022HANSARDChildren’s Mental HealthOn 10 February 2020, when I had been an MP for less than two months, I was glad to be invited to a youth-led mental health summit at William Perkin Church of England High School,…08 Feb 2022HANSARDFinance (No. 2) BillIt is the same tired doublespeak by Government Members trying to hide this tax cut for banks. However they try to present it, in this Bill the banking surcharge is cut from 8% to…02 Feb 2022HANSARDFinance (No. 2) BillWhen we first debated this Finance Bill on Second Reading in November last year, it was clear to us that it offered nothing to help people struggling with the rising costs of…02 Feb 2022HANSARDFinance (No. 2) BillAny member of the public hearing that the Government were today voting their Finance Bill through the House of Commons might expect such a Bill to do something to help with the…02 Feb 2022HANSARDFinance (No. 2) BillNo, I am going to make some progress. The truth is that this tax cut is going ahead at a time when bankers’ earnings are on the rise, with investment banks’ profits soaring off…02 Feb 2022HANSARDFinance (No. 2) BillNo one denies that the NHS needs more money, but hiding behind the hon. Member’s intervention is the idea that there is no other way to raise the £12 billion that the national…02 Feb 2022HANSARDFinance (No. 2) BillI remember many slogans that the Conservative party has used and I would not trust many of them. However, I would like to make some progress and talk about what the Government are…02 Feb 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsLast month, the Government came out against Labour’s plan to help people on modest incomes pay their energy bills using a one-off £1.2 billion windfall tax on the profits of oil…01 Feb 2022HANSARDProduct Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure BillMany of my constituents in Northolt are not able to access faster broadband through a fibre connection. I have repeatedly pressed Openreach on this, and it admitted that one of…26 Jan 2022HANSARDLocal Government Finance Act 1988 (Non-domestic Rating Multipliers) (England) (No.2) Order 2021To clarify, I asked about the detail of the review process of the SI. The explanatory memorandum says “The operation of this instrument will be monitored and reviewed as part of…25 Jan 2022HANSARDLocal Government Finance Act 1988 (Non-domestic Rating Multipliers) (England) (No.2) Order 2021It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship for the first time, Mrs Miller. As we heard from the Minister, we know that national non-domestic rates are calculated as the…25 Jan 2022HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateThe Prime Minister spoke about the importance of the vaccination programme, but the first dose, second dose and booster jab rates in my constituency are significantly behind the…19 Jan 2022HANSARD Rebated Fuel Rules: Construction IndustryIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Mr Bone. Thank you for the opportunity to speak on behalf of the Opposition. I congratulate the hon. Member for Upper Bann (Carla…19 Jan 2022HANSARDFinance (No. 2) Bill (Fifth sitting)Clauses 101 and 102 are entirely reasonable, and we do not oppose them. I take this opportunity, however, on behalf of myself and my hon. Friend the Member for Erith and…11 Jan 2022HANSARDFinance (No. 2) Bill (Fifth sitting)As we heard from the Minister, clause 100 relates to an increase of two members in the maximum independent representation on the board of the Office of Tax Simplification,…11 Jan 2022HANSARDFinance (No. 2) Bill (Fifth sitting)As we heard from the Minister, the purpose of clause 94 is to introduce schedule 15, which, in turn, introduces a new requirement for large businesses to notify HMRC when they…11 Jan 2022HANSARDFinance (No. 2) Bill (Fifth sitting)The Minister may have missed my question in my earlier comments, which was whether she would commit to responding formally to every OTS recommendation within a prescribed…11 Jan 2022