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HANSARDEmergency Cash Grant SchemeWe are providing cash grants of £10,000 to over 700,000 small and medium-sized businesses across England and grants of up to £25,000 per property for qualifying retail,…24 Mar 2020HANSARDTaxation of Online SalesI thank the hon. Gentleman for that question. He will be aware that, in the Budget, we left in place our digital services tax, which is specifically designed to look at online…24 Mar 2020HANSARDTaxation of Online SalesI speak for all my colleagues in saying how grateful I am to my hon. Friend for his kind regards and wishes. Of course, all taxes are taken into account and monitored by the…24 Mar 2020HANSARDTaxation of Online SalesA change to the taxation of online sales would require careful consideration, as my hon. Friend is aware. Many high street retailers are moving more of their business online, and…24 Mar 2020HANSARDLoan Charge 2019: Sir Amyas Morse ReviewI have half a minute left. The right hon. Gentleman has only just arrived, so it is a little impertinent to raise a question at this point. It is important that we focus on the…19 Mar 2020HANSARDLoan Charge 2019: Sir Amyas Morse ReviewI have in my hand a detailed document designed to address this very issue. It goes through a whole range of different approaches and integrates them into a strategy. I would be…19 Mar 2020HANSARDLoan Charge 2019: Sir Amyas Morse ReviewI congratulate my right hon. Friends the Members for Haltemprice and Howden (Mr Davis) and for New Forest East (Dr Lewis) and the hon. Member for Brentford and Isleworth (Ruth…19 Mar 2020HANSARDLoan Charge 2019: Sir Amyas Morse ReviewI thank my right hon. Friend for the question. All he needs to do is attend to the detail of the Morse report, in which Sir Amyas Morse goes through the efforts made at that time,…19 Mar 2020HANSARDLoan Charge 2019: Sir Amyas Morse ReviewI take it that the hon Gentleman rightly refers to the enablers and promoters of such schemes. As he knows, I take that extremely seriously, and I have insisted on that point ever…19 Mar 2020HANSARDLoan Charge 2019: Sir Amyas Morse ReviewI am not in a position to take the right hon. Gentleman through the legal arguments, and I do not need to, because, as I have said, they have been described in detail by Sir Amyas…19 Mar 2020HANSARDLoan Charge 2019: Sir Amyas Morse ReviewI am very grateful to the hon. Gentleman, but if I may say so, I do not think that has been true. I think the conclusion colleagues have been pushing in this debate is that they…19 Mar 2020HANSARDLoan Charge 2019: Sir Amyas Morse ReviewWill my right hon. Friend give way?19 Mar 2020HANSARDBudget ResolutionsThere have been so many interventions and I simply cannot cover all the speeches if I take an intervention now. I know that the hon. Lady will excuse me. We gave the party…12 Mar 2020HANSARDBudget ResolutionsI will not give way, for the reasons I have already described. I can continue to waste the hon. Lady’s time and the House’s time responding to these interventions, but we need to…12 Mar 2020HANSARDBudget ResolutionsMadam Deputy Speaker, or may I say Chairman of Ways and Means? What a delight it is to see you in the Chair. It is an epochal moment—the beginning of a new decade, a new…12 Mar 2020HANSARD Budget ResolutionsMight it be worth my reminding my right hon. Friend that bank leverage, which had been 20 times capital for 40 years between 1960 and 2000, on average, went from 20 times capital…11 Mar 2020HANSARDDraft Tax Credits, Child Benefit and Guardian’s Allowance Up-rating Regulations 2020I am very grateful to the hon. Member for Inverclyde and of course I understand the concerns that he has placed on the record. They do not bear directly on this uprating, which I…09 Mar 2020HANSARDDraft Tax Credits, Child Benefit and Guardian’s Allowance Up-rating Regulations 2020Of course.09 Mar 2020HANSARDDraft Tax Credits, Child Benefit and Guardian’s Allowance Up-rating Regulations 2020Thank you, Mr Pritchard. I am delighted to give way to the hon. Lady, who I know has views on these issues.09 Mar 2020HANSARDDraft Tax Credits, Child Benefit and Guardian’s Allowance Up-rating Regulations 2020Of course not, but the point that I was making was that there is no simple link between income, poverty and food bank usage, and Germany is the example that gives the lie to that…09 Mar 2020