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HANSARDFinance BillI am grateful to everyone who has contributed to this short but interesting debate. As colleagues have noted, when we think about tax transparency, we are in what might these days…02 Jul 2020HANSARDFinance BillAs is customary at the conclusion of Report stage, I will speak to the issues that have been raised, rather than the full content of the Bill. Let me start by saying how much I…02 Jul 2020HANSARDFinance BillI beg to move, That the Bill be now read the Third time. This Finance Bill stands in the shadow of a pandemic unprecedented in its scale and reach. We are keenly aware of the…02 Jul 2020HANSARDFinance Billthe hon. Gentleman is making a powerful speech, but he did not say whether the Blair Government hit their target of halving child poverty by 2010. Did they or not?02 Jul 2020HANSARDFinance BillI am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his question. As the House will be aware, HMRC is often responsive and generally extremely responsive to such issues. I will happily look…02 Jul 2020HANSARD Finance BillThe answer is that what I am talking about is a voluntary disclosure by those companies. I am not aware of a separate EU requirement for them to do so. Certainly, it is the…01 Jul 2020HANSARD Finance BillI think one could put it a slightly different way, which is to say, “You do not have to take a position on avoiding tax to come to the view that this is a base of tax revenue that…01 Jul 2020HANSARD Finance BillMy right hon. Friend is absolutely right. My point was a slightly different one. I have not yet come to the thrust of what he is suggesting about mandation, but in the first…01 Jul 2020HANSARD Finance BillIf I may, I will speak to the clauses and then take up the points made by Members in the debate. New clause 28 would require the Chancellor to assess the impact of the Bill on the…01 Jul 2020HANSARD Finance BillMay I say how much I am enjoying the thoroughly Conservative nature of much of what the hon. Lady is saying?01 Jul 2020HANSARD Finance BillMy hon. Friend raises an interesting point. Does he share my view—I think it is also the view of the people who really know the law in this area—that in Britain a corporation…01 Jul 2020HANSARD Finance BillIt has been a fascinating and lively debate, and I am grateful to all Members who have taken part. As Members will be aware, this Finance Bill introduces legislation to enact the…01 Jul 2020HANSARD Finance BillThe hon. Gentleman is congratulating himself heartily from a sedentary position. I wish I had his self-confidence. I noted those comments because they help to shape this…01 Jul 2020HANSARD Finance BillI am afraid that I just have to press on, because I have no time. My right hon. Friend raised the issue of a review of the loan charge. These are some of the most egregious and…01 Jul 2020HANSARD Finance BillI take my hat off to the astonishing hon. Member for Bradford South (Judith Cummins), who brought so much content into such a short presentation, and I thank her for that. We have…01 Jul 2020HANSARD Finance BillThe challenge for the hon. Gentleman is to explain how the money saved might not be better deployed on greener projects with better carbon performance. That is the question.01 Jul 2020HANSARD Finance BillI spent a lot of time looking at it when I was a Minister at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, and the right hon. Gentleman, who is chuntering from a…01 Jul 2020HANSARD Finance BillI am afraid I just do not have any time. I will come back to the hon. Gentleman at the end if I do. I want to respond to the hon. Member for Hornsey and Wood Green (Catherine…01 Jul 2020HANSARD Finance BillIt is a great pleasure to be able to speak to the very interesting debate that we have just had. It ranged very wide and far indeed, but I will speak now to the specifics of the…01 Jul 2020HANSARD Finance BillWe know that the incentive exists for all the reasons why we get voluntary compliance in a whole variety of areas—that is to say, groups with particular concerns, press…01 Jul 2020