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HANSARDDraft 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 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.09 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 2020HANSARD VAT (Listed Properties)Of course those are two entirely separate things. To remove a relief is to remove a very blunt and general instrument that is, by its bluntness and generality, open to abuse. In…04 Mar 2020HANSARD VAT (Listed Properties)It is a great pleasure to speak under your chairmanship, Sir Christopher. I think the debate has shown that this topic is of great interest in different parts of the country and…04 Mar 2020HANSARDVan Benefit and Car and Van Fuel Benefit Order 2020The van benefit charge and fuel benefit charges for cars and vans will be uprated by the consumer prices index from 6 April 2020. The uprate will take effect as follows: Van…02 Mar 2020HANSARDDraft Employment Allowance (Excluded Persons) Regulations 2020I am delighted to answer the questions put to me. In response to the hon. Member for East Dunbartonshire, I think I am right in saying that SNP policy was to double the employment…02 Mar 2020HANSARDDraft Employment Allowance (Excluded Persons) Regulations 2020I beg to move, That the Committee has considered the draft Employment Allowance (Excluded Persons) Regulations 2020. It is a delight to see you in the Chair, Ms Buck. This draft…02 Mar 2020HANSARDLoan Charge ReviewIn September 2019, the Government commissioned Sir Amyas Morse to lead the independent loan charge review. The loan charge is designed to tackle disguised remuneration avoidance…27 Feb 2020HANSARDTax Avoidance and EvasionI am afraid that there is no time at all to do that, but I will pick up a couple of further points. Colleagues quite rightly had concerns about HMRC resourcing, and they are…25 Feb 2020HANSARDTax Avoidance and EvasionI am delighted to wind up the debate for the Government. It has been a fascinating debate. There has, of course, been extensive discussion of the issues of tax avoidance and…25 Feb 2020HANSARDFinance BillThe Finance Bill will be published on 19 March. Explanatory notes on the Bill will be available in the Vote Office and the Printed Paper Office and placed in the Libraries of both…25 Feb 2020HANSARDOff-payroll Working Rules ReviewWe are conducting a review to ensure that this is as smooth as possible. We recognise that there is difficulty here. Some 18 months have passed since the original reform of status…11 Feb 2020HANSARDOff-payroll Working Rules ReviewWe have a question about the loan charge later on, so I look forward to my right hon. Friend’s further question then. He can answer on the number of pillars because I am sure he…11 Feb 2020HANSARDZero VAT Rate: E-publicationsThe hon. Gentleman is absolutely right that there are benefits associated with extending the zero rate of VAT in this area, as in others. The task for Government is to work out…11 Feb 2020HANSARDZero VAT Rate: E-publicationsI thank the hon. Gentleman for his question about e-publications and see by the way, Mr Speaker, that your predecessor Speaker Bercow’s book, aptly named “Unspeakable: the…11 Feb 2020HANSARDLoan Charge 2019The hon. Lady is quite wrong. We accepted all but one of Sir Amyas’s recommendations, and we did not accept that one because the issue he raised was already being handled very…11 Feb 2020HANSARDLoan Charge 2019HMRC did pursue these cases quite vigorously. Sir Amyas found, on the basis of detailed consideration, that the law was clear then, and therefore HMRC rightly believed that people…11 Feb 2020HANSARDLoan Charge 2019The hon. Lady is absolutely right that it is important to crack down on promoters, and at the Budget we will bring forward a package about how to do that. Her wider point,…11 Feb 2020