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HANSARDRenters' Rights Bill (Second sitting)Q Just on that, every landlord—or the vast majority of landlords—increases the rent annually to take account of inflation and other issues. Is that not right? Justin Bates KC:…22 Oct 2024HANSARDRenters' Rights Bill (Second sitting)Q Just to follow up on that point, none of us knows what the increase in tribunal work will be, but there will be an active incentive not to agree a rent increase because you have…22 Oct 2024HANSARDRenters' Rights Bill (First sitting)Thank you both very much.22 Oct 2024HANSARDRenters' Rights Bill (First sitting)Q You have mentioned confidence twice. In anticipation of the Bill, and now that it has been published, are you able to say what has happened to confidence in the real market for…22 Oct 2024HANSARDRenters' Rights Bill (First sitting)Q Ben, you have been patient. Perhaps you could do your best to answer the same question. Ben Beadle: With pleasure. We are largely supportive of many features in the Bill. There…22 Oct 2024HANSARDRenters' Rights Bill (First sitting)Q What impact, if any, is that having on rental asks? If supply is being reduced, what is happening to demand? Theresa Wallace: Demand is up and supply is down, so that obviously…22 Oct 2024HANSARDSecondary Ticketing and Dynamic PricingI am grateful to the Minister for his answer. I understand the need to look at secondary ticketing, but dynamic pricing is a contractual bargain between buyer and seller, based on…17 Oct 2024HANSARDSecondary Ticketing and Dynamic Pricing10. When she plans to launch a consultation on secondary ticketing and dynamic pricing.17 Oct 2024HANSARD Business ConfidenceThank you, Mrs Harris, for chairing the debate, and well done to my hon. Friend the Member for East Grinstead and Uckfield (Mims Davies) for securing it. What a good debate it has…15 Oct 2024HANSARD Business ConfidenceI will, but I would just like to refute this. Perhaps if the hon. Gentleman takes out Hansard , he will find the answer to his question in the first half of the debate. My hon.…15 Oct 2024HANSARD Business ConfidenceNo, I am not going to take an intervention. I feel quite strongly that if an hon. Gentleman cannot make it to the start of a debate, wanders in halfway through and then seeks to…15 Oct 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsLabour’s cut to the winter fuel payment will cause 262,000 cold pensioners to seek NHS treatment, according to the End Fuel Poverty Coalition. Do the Government agree with those…15 Oct 2024HANSARD Universities: Freedom of SpeechThe Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act is not a Government scheme that is being paused, but an Act of Parliament that has received Royal Assent. It is a very serious…10 Oct 2024HANSARDVAT: Independent SchoolsI have a child at a private school. Government Members say that is not a problem. They say, “This is not a criticism of private education; this is merely a revenue-generation…08 Oct 2024HANSARDIndependent Schools: VAT and Business Rates ExemptionsMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. It feels as though the Government have a cartoonish characterisation of what a private education looks like—top hats and tails—but that is not…08 Oct 2024HANSARDIndependent Schools: VAT and Business Rates ExemptionsI am grateful to the hon. Lady, and I am sorry that she waited so long to intervene. I quite agree with the point that she makes. We need to have an impact assessment on another…08 Oct 2024HANSARDVAT: Independent SchoolsMy right hon. Friend is absolutely right. The Government have published no evidence to support their stated objective. There has been no impact assessment. This measure is rushed,…08 Oct 2024HANSARDIndependent Schools: VAT and Business Rates ExemptionsWe have been told by the Government that the rationale for this policy is not class hatred or class warfare; it is a revenue-generation mechanism for state schools. It is a sort…08 Oct 2024HANSARDBritish Indian Ocean Territory: NegotiationsThe Foreign Secretary has come to this House with the smile of a favourite, having exchanged British sovereign territory for a 99-year lease from a Chinese ally, and expects to be…07 Oct 2024HANSARDCarbon Capture, Usage and StorageI am pleased that there is an announcement on the funding of blue hydrogen at Ellesmere Port, but what about Bacton, the gas terminal in north Norfolk? What are the Secretary of…07 Oct 2024