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HANSARDDraft Tax Credits, Child Benefit and Guardian’s Allowance Up-rating Regulations 2020It is a pleasure to serve with you in the Chair, Mr Pritchard. This statutory instrument will finally bring to an end, in April, the freeze on working-age benefits that has been…09 Mar 2020HANSARDFloodingIt is extremely good of you to call me, Mr Deputy Speaker, so that I can say a little about the issue of flooding, why it has been so important to my constituency and how it has…04 Mar 2020HANSARDFloodingI am grateful to the hon. Lady for that intervention. Grouse shooting is a business in my constituency. I am not sure how much proportionality one can put on what she has…04 Mar 2020HANSARDDraft Employment Allowance (Excluded Persons) Regulations 2020It is always a pleasure to see you in the Chair, Ms Buck, and I thank you for the opportunity to respond to the Minister. I thank the Minister for his explanation of this measure.…02 Mar 2020HANSARDEuropean Union: Future RelationshipThe Minister began by saying that the Government were not asking for anything that was not already in an existing agreement between the EU and another country, but then gave an…27 Feb 2020HANSARDDraft Double Taxation Relief and International Tax Enforcement (Gibraltar) Order 2020May I, too, say that it is always a pleasure to serve under you in the Chair, Ms McDonagh? I thank the Minister for his opening remarks and his explanation of the order that we…25 Feb 2020HANSARDTreasuryThree years ago, at my first shadow Treasury questions from this Dispatch Box, I asked the Government about their plan to continue market access for financial services to EU…13 Feb 2020HANSARDEU Single Market Access: Manufacturing and the EconomyThree years ago, at my first shadow Treasury questions from this Dispatch Box, I asked the Government about their plan to continue market access for financial services to EU…11 Feb 2020HANSARD Lloyds, HBOS and the Cranston ReviewI am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his intervention. We must look at the issue that he raises. In some ways, we have already addressed some of the things that the Australians…04 Feb 2020HANSARD Lloyds, HBOS and the Cranston ReviewI am grateful to you Mr Hollobone, for giving me the chance to respond to this debate. I thank the hon. Member for Thirsk and Malton (Kevin Hollinrake) for securing this debate…04 Feb 2020HANSARDDraft Public Bodies (Abolition of Public Works Loan Commissioners) Order 2019It is always a pleasure to see you in the Chair, Mr Sharma, and it is nice to see the Minister in his place once again. As the Minister has outlined, the draft order will make a…03 Feb 2020HANSARD Netflix: Tax AffairsI am very impressed with the case that my right hon. Friend is making. Like her, I have had conversations with companies that claim that intellectual property means there have to…03 Feb 2020HANSARDBusiness of the HouseMay we have a debate about ophthalmology and the contribution made by opticians to public health? My local opticians tell me that the fees they receive from the NHS have not…30 Jan 2020HANSARD Middle East Peace PlanHow can a plan that has not included one side, offers no concessions to one side and proposes as a destination a state without any of the real aspects of sovereignty as we…30 Jan 2020HANSARDRoad Network: EnglandAfter a campaign of over 50 years and quite a lot of lobbying from me and my predecessors as MP for Stalybridge and Hyde, and indeed from successive Members for High Peak, the…30 Jan 2020HANSARD5G Network and HuaweiAny Members who chose to visit China—and I encourage all colleagues to do so—would, for instance, be advised by our security services not to take their smartphones. They would be…27 Jan 2020HANSARDGlobal Free TradeThe statement from the Trump Administration that we will be subject to retaliatory tariffs if we proceed with the digital services tax that is set to come in in April seems an…23 Jan 2020HANSARDNational ProductivityIt is a pleasure to see you in the Chair, Mr Paisley. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Barnsley Central (Dan Jarvis) for securing the debate. He made an excellent…22 Jan 2020HANSARDNational ProductivityI could not agree more. I am delighted to hear about new jobs being created in Manchester, but not that people are struggling to get to them. My point about the state of…22 Jan 2020HANSARDNational ProductivityIn an interview with the Financial Times at the weekend, the Chancellor very ambitiously said he intends to double the trend rate of economic growth that we have seen since the…22 Jan 2020