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HANSARD Health and Social Care Levy BillMy hon. Friend rightly points out that an element of NICs is already hypothecated, which is sometimes forgotten by people who are concerned about the hypothecation in the levy. I…14 Sept 2021HANSARD Health and Social Care Levy BillThe hon. Gentleman has not featured in the debate so far, so I will make a bit more progress before happily taking his intervention. Amendment 7, tabled by my hon. Friend the…14 Sept 2021HANSARD Health and Social Care Levy BillIn the collective sense, this is a state insurance system, because it is making long-term provision for catastrophic outcomes in people’s health and social care, but the point…14 Sept 2021HANSARD Health and Social Care Levy BillI am afraid that I must correct myself. It is actually £40 million to £50 million, rather than £50 million to £60 million. I was relying on an imperfect memory.14 Sept 2021HANSARD Health and Social Care Levy BillI am desperately sad, because I thought the hon. Lady was going to answer my questions about Labour’s plan or the taxation for it. Of course, we would expect people earning that…14 Sept 2021HANSARD Health and Social Care Levy BillIt is a desperate shame that the Labour party has decided to take this party political position, because this area above all is one where we would expect it to back its own policy…14 Sept 2021HANSARD Health and Social Care Levy BillIt is a great pleasure to be here today to explain the clauses in this Bill. The Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 sets out the earnings and profits on which…14 Sept 2021HANSARD Health and Social Care Levy BillI am so sorry, Dame Eleanor. I am rightly chastised and thank you for that point. My hon. Friend the Member for Christchurch asked why the Barnett formula applies and what will…14 Sept 2021HANSARD Health and Social Care Levy BillIt is very hard for me to comment on such a remote hypothetical, but the fact of the matter is, as the Prime Minister said, no political party had a pandemic in their manifesto…14 Sept 2021HANSARD Health and Social Care Levy BillThe Bill is designed to fund the plan and the plan has been published. The plan is perfectly explicit as to where the money is going with regard to social care and how much is…14 Sept 2021HANSARD Health and Social Care Levy BillI thank colleagues for their contributions to the debate. It has been very wide ranging—especially the last speech—occasionally touching on the subject of the Bill and the clauses…14 Sept 2021HANSARD Health and Social Care Levy BillI thank my right hon. Friend for his question. I think the point is perfectly clear: this levy is intended to be and will be a long-term, permanent funding arrangement to support…14 Sept 2021HANSARD Health and Social Care Levy BillThe Treasury already consults the devolved Administrations very closely on many aspects of tax policy and there is no reason to think, and the Bill does not suggest, that there…14 Sept 2021HANSARD Health and Social Care Levy BillI do not know whether the hon. Lady heard, but I was talking about the NHS and that has been a founding principle of the NHS, one the Conservative party have always adhered to,…14 Sept 2021HANSARD Health and Social Care Levy BillMy hon. Friend invites us to think of social care as a completely separate thing, but of course there is a tremendous overlap between social care and some aspects of health. It is…14 Sept 2021HANSARD Health and Social Care Levy BillI do not think that is true at all. The reason for putting it on the payslip is so that taxpayers can see that this new tax is clearly represented. If they need reassurance that…14 Sept 2021HANSARD Health and Social Care Levy BillI think it will, which is why the Government have decided to make this rather important change. It may well be that this is not the end of the story, and in due course the desire…14 Sept 2021HANSARD Health and Social Care Levy BillThat was a series of questions. The payslips that people are given will be generated by their own companies in the large part, and it is therefore important to think not only…14 Sept 2021HANSARD Health and Social Care Levy BillMy hon. Friend has successfully dragooned a topic that has nothing to do with national insurance contributions or the levy into the debate, but let me reassure him that the…14 Sept 2021HANSARD Health and Social Care Levy BillThere have been 27 speeches, so, if I may, I will continue for a while. I may take an intervention later if we have made a bit more progress. I feel particularly badly for the…14 Sept 2021