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HANSARD Finance (No. 2) BillMy right hon. Friend highlights the problem that different countries could indeed game the system. The peculiarity here is the domestic top-up tax. Even if, under the UK…29 Mar 2023HANSARD Finance (No. 2) BillI will start with a depressing fact. We have talked about the Office of Tax Simplification, and I struggle because the Bill before us runs to 456 pages and the explanatory notes…29 Mar 2023HANSARD Finance (No. 2) BillDon’t worry; there is a lot more yet.29 Mar 2023HANSARD Finance (No. 2) BillMy hon. Friend makes a very good point. This 6 percentage point increase is actually very big in percentage terms. The corporation tax increase is in clauses 5 and 6, and…29 Mar 2023HANSARD Finance (No. 2) BillMy hon. Friend speaks a truism that should not need to be spoken from the Conservative Benches, as it should be patently clear. A sole trader who is running a good little business…29 Mar 2023HANSARD Finance (No. 2) BillI thank my right hon. Friend for the prompt. Let us suppose the Standard Life shares had been left for the grandchildren to get the capital when they are 18—I am talking about the…29 Mar 2023HANSARD Budget Resolutions and Economic SituationI congratulate the Treasury team on what I thought was an imaginative Budget, particularly on getting people back into work, including through the pension changes to get some key…15 Mar 2023HANSARDCivil Service ImpartialityI believe in the integrity, diligence and value of our most unique civil service. All civil servants, as with everybody else, have a right to a political view, and they can…06 Mar 2023HANSARDCivil Service ImpartialityYes. Thank you, Mr Speaker—my apologies. I am asking a question of the Minister, from the men and women on the normal Clapham omnibus: does this smell right?06 Mar 2023HANSARDCivil Service ImpartialityI’m finishing.06 Mar 2023HANSARD Charity Sector Funding: TransparencyThe hon. Member is quite right. That imprimatur of a charity registration number has always given people confidence that the charity has charitable aims and is being looked at…01 Mar 2023HANSARD Charity Sector Funding: TransparencyI beg to move, That this House has considered the transparency of charity sector funding. It is always an enormous pleasure to have you chair a debate, Mr Hollobone. The…01 Mar 2023HANSARDEngagementsQ13. To continue a theme, evidence is now very clear that the London Mayor’s sham consultation has suppressed 5,000 negative responses from members and supporters of FairFuelUK,…18 Jan 2023HANSARD Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill: Section 35 PowerI am rather concerned that the hon. Member for Brighton, Kemptown (Lloyd Russell-Moyle) might have a seizure at the end of my speech, but we will do our best to keep him calm. I…17 Jan 2023HANSARD Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill: Section 35 PowerI was going to cover the things that people can do at 16. I understand that in education in Scotland, access for the armed forces to encourage a future and a career in the armed…17 Jan 2023HANSARD Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill: Section 35 PowerI thank my hon. Friend the Member for Rutland and Melton (Alicia Kearns). I could go into quite a story about a nurse, a transsexual woman, who was presented to a constituent of…17 Jan 2023HANSARDDraft Health and Social Care Information Centre (Transfer of Functions, Abolition and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2023It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mrs Latham. Interoperability of data across different systems in the NHS between GP surgeries and hospitals has always been…17 Jan 2023HANSARDStamp Duty Land Tax (Reduction) BillI think that the Government have made a number of admissions today about the importance of property taxes, and stamp duty land tax in particular. During the covid period we used a…10 Jan 2023HANSARDSmall Boats Incident in the ChannelWe all feel deeply for those lives tragically lost overnight, which makes the measures announced by the Prime Minister yesterday to break the evil trade of people smuggling even…14 Dec 2022HANSARDIllegal ImmigrationI am very pleased to hear about the new approach to Albanians, which is both obvious and very sensible. My question to the Prime Minister is on how we bridge the gap. We approve…13 Dec 2022