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HANSARDOff-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 ReviewThe hon. Lady may be aware that we have already made a small but important change to the roll-out as a result of the review. We are not aware of blanket determinations being made,…11 Feb 2020HANSARDZero VAT Rate: E-publicationsThat is a very telling point, and I draw the House’s attention to the parallel issue of sanitary products for women, on which I am pleased to say we will be able to act after we…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 2020HANSARD Rating and ValuationLet me start by responding to the comments from the Opposition Front Bencher, the hon. Member for Oxford East (Anneliese Dodds), who raised a series of questions of a technical…04 Feb 2020HANSARD Rating and ValuationThe autumn Budget 2017 brought forward this implementation date to April 2018. The switch makes a reduction to business rates that is estimated to be worth more than £6 billion…04 Feb 2020HANSARD Rating and ValuationI beg to move, That the Local Government Finance Act 1988 (Non-Domestic Rating Multipliers) (England) Order 2019, which was laid before this House on 4 November 2019, in the last…04 Feb 2020HANSARD Netflix: Tax AffairsI thank the hon. Gentleman for his question, although it is a pity that he asks a question that has already been asked when we are short of time in a debate, because that does not…03 Feb 2020HANSARD Netflix: Tax AffairsI really have no time if I am to answer the right hon. Lady’s questions. Perhaps I can come back to the hon. Gentleman, but I have already taken two completely irrelevant…03 Feb 2020HANSARD Netflix: Tax AffairsMay I begin by thanking the right hon. Member for Barking (Dame Margaret Hodge) for calling this debate on an interesting and important topic that is of great public import?…03 Feb 2020HANSARDBusiness Rates ReliefsThe Government will increase the retail discount from one third to 50%, extend that discount to cinemas and music venues, extend the duration of the local newspapers office space…27 Jan 2020HANSARDGrowth StrategyI will not, because I am very short of time. I share the concern expressed by the hon. Member for Strangford (Jim Shannon) about the toxic atmosphere in SW1. I will mention…21 Jan 2020HANSARDGrowth StrategyIt is a delight to be able to speak for the Government in this first Westminster Hall debate of the new decade, as well as of the new parliamentary term. I congratulate my right…21 Jan 2020HANSARDIndependent Loan Charge Review: ImplementationIn September 2019, the Government commissioned Sir Amyas Morse to lead the independent loan charge review. The loan charge is designed to tackle disguised remuneration tax…20 Jan 2020HANSARDHMRC Tax Office: CumbernauldI have very little time, and I want to talk about the support that HMRC is giving to staff. As I have said, HMRC will do all it can to retain the skills, knowledge and experience…14 Jan 2020HANSARDHMRC Tax Office: CumbernauldThe hon. Lady rightly raises the tax gap. When expressed as an absolute number, £35 billion is a large amount of money. Some £7 billion or £8 billion of that sum is caused by…14 Jan 2020HANSARDHMRC Tax Office: CumbernauldThe hon. Lady is right to say that the Government take the needs of towns seriously. That is why we have a towns fund, which, in turn, works with a much wider spread of support…14 Jan 2020HANSARDHMRC Tax Office: CumbernauldI have no doubt that HMRC, which is operationally responsible for this change and for the management of its business, will have spoken very closely with the relevant unions on…14 Jan 2020HANSARDHMRC Tax Office: CumbernauldNo, I will not. The hon. Gentleman has absolutely no basis for coming in late to this debate in order to ask a question; I am a great fan of his and I have answered questions of…14 Jan 2020HANSARDHMRC Tax Office: CumbernauldOf course, in any relocation there will be people who disagree with it, and that is to be anticipated. As the hon. Gentleman will know, HMRC has an elaborate and established…14 Jan 2020