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HANSARDEnergy (Oil and Gas) Profits Levy BillI am saying very clearly that big companies can make investments anywhere they please in the world, perhaps with tax regimes that are more suitable to them and where they are not…11 Jul 2022HANSARDEnergy (Oil and Gas) Profits Levy BillI am so delighted that the hon. Lady has expanded this debate. This is not somewhere that I wanted to go, Dame Rosie, but I think it is my duty to respond to the intervention.…11 Jul 2022HANSARDEnergy (Oil and Gas) Profits Levy BillIf I may, Dame Rosie, I will address the hon. Lady’s questions. On international markets, I do not know any more about economics than this: if we add more capacity to any system,…11 Jul 2022HANSARDEnergy (Oil and Gas) Profits Levy BillLet me take a couple of those points. The hon. Lady makes the point that tax rates on the oil and gas industry are higher elsewhere in the world. Well, that may be the case. I…11 Jul 2022HANSARD Employment Agencies and Trade UnionsI thought about such issues when I was drafting my speech. There would be absolute outrage from the public if we were to get such pay rises. I do not particularly want such a pay…11 Jul 2022HANSARDEnergy (Oil and Gas) Profits Levy BillThe hon. Gentleman has merely clarified what I have been trying to say; yes, of course there were supranormal profits on the back of Ukraine war and coming out of covid, when the…11 Jul 2022HANSARDEnergy (Oil and Gas) Profits Levy BillI had not developed a point, but, please, make an intervention.11 Jul 2022HANSARDEnergy (Oil and Gas) Profits Levy BillThank you, Dame Rosie, for clarifying that. I think that we will find that the hon. Member for Aberdeen South (Stephen Flynn) was being a touch facetious.11 Jul 2022HANSARD Employment Agencies and Trade UnionsIt is always a pleasure to follow many of the Members in this House, and the hon. Member for Easington (Grahame Morris) knows I have great regard for him. I am glad that he…11 Jul 2022HANSARDEnergy (Oil and Gas) Profits Levy BillI was asked on 26 May by one of the main newspapers what I thought about this proposal of a windfall tax, on the back of what Labour had proposed some time before. I gave this…11 Jul 2022HANSARD Northern Ireland Protocol BillEveryone in the House this evening should remember what this is all about. It is about protecting the Good Friday agreement of 1998—nothing more and nothing less. As a mere lad…27 Jun 2022HANSARD EU Retained LawI pay tribute to my right hon. Friend for giving a summary masterclass, in his usual way, of what the Brexit freedoms Bill will mean. I think that the British people have not…22 Jun 2022HANSARD National Security BillMy right hon. Friend is covering clauses 24 onwards, on the meaning of foreign power and influence thereon. There have been instances involving Members of the House during the…06 Jun 2022HANSARD National Security BillI see that my hon. Friend is about to finish, and I have just got in in time. I understand his desire for both breadth and depth, and he has very clearly identified various actors…06 Jun 2022HANSARDSue Gray ReportMy right hon. Friend will be aware that I voted against much of the covid legislation over the past couple of years, because I felt that a lot of it was pettifogging, ridiculous…25 May 2022HANSARDHM Passport Office BacklogsI appreciate that the surge is such because people have not been able to go away, which was not unanticipated, but I have not heard of too many problems with the online system.…27 Apr 2022HANSARD Global Migration ChallengeIt seems to me that some actively celebrate the porosity of the French border. That weakness has seen 28,000 irregular crossings, a huge number of appalling deaths and a trade…19 Apr 2022HANSARDP&O Ferries and Employment RightsI am very pleased that my right hon. Friend has had the opportunity to speak to some of the employees. Has he managed to glean the level of the financial compensation for…21 Mar 2022HANSARDP&O Ferries and Employment RightsWill the hon. Gentleman give way?21 Mar 2022HANSARDP&O Ferries and Employment RightsThat is very kind. The hon. Gentleman is quite right to talk about fire and rehire. Is he going to discuss the issue of Ferguson Marine, with no hire at all? The contracts for the…21 Mar 2022