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HANSARD Taxation (Post-transition Period) BillI think the Minister needs to be a little more forthcoming. What is the EU’s enforcement mechanism if it thinks UK authorities have not fulfilled the remit? What percentage of…15 Dec 2020HANSARD Taxation (Post-transition Period) BillI have declared my business interests in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests. The Bill is a great missed opportunity. It should have been the Bill in which we started to…15 Dec 2020HANSARD Taxation (Post-transition Period) BillI have declared my business interests in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests. The origins of this legislation lie in the negotiations under the previous Prime Minister…09 Dec 2020HANSARD Taxation (Post-transition Period) BillThese are urgent and important issues. We heard earlier from the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster that there are various delays to the full implementation of trade…09 Dec 2020HANSARD Taxation (Post-transition Period) BillI am grateful to the Minister for giving way in this Second Reading debate before we get to Committee. Will he confirm that under the proposals in this last legislation the…09 Dec 2020HANSARD Taxation (Post-transition Period) (Ways and Means)Up to this point, Labour has always backed the EU position and not the UK position. Will the hon. Lady now use the Opposition’s voice to say that we should not give away our fish…08 Dec 2020HANSARD Taxation (Post-transition Period) (Ways and Means)I do not agree, and nor did Scottish voters when they were asked this question. We do have a great democratic country and I was a great enthusiast for the people of Scotland…08 Dec 2020HANSARD Taxation (Post-transition Period) (Ways and Means)We are probably straying a little away from the resolutions before us, Madam Deputy Speaker, so I will not try your patience any more. I have made my two main points, but just to…08 Dec 2020HANSARD Taxation (Post-transition Period) (Ways and Means)I would like to know why the hon. Lady supports the EU position on everything. On the question of fish, does she support the general EU smash-and-grab raid for most of the fish,…08 Dec 2020HANSARD Taxation (Post-transition Period) (Ways and Means)Will the hon. Lady give way?08 Dec 2020HANSARD Taxation (Post-transition Period) (Ways and Means)Will the hon. Lady give way?08 Dec 2020HANSARD Taxation (Post-transition Period) (Ways and Means)The Minister has not yet reassured me about the sovereignty issue. Is it not the case that when any good in commercial quantity comes into the UK across any border—Northern…08 Dec 2020HANSARD Taxation (Post-transition Period) (Ways and Means)Will my hon. Friend confirm that when his admirable clause 38 was tried on the previous Prime Minister, she rejected it on the grounds that it would mean that Parliament could…08 Dec 2020HANSARD Taxation (Post-transition Period) (Ways and Means)Is it not up to Parliament to withdraw the provisions that we were asked to support, and did support, yesterday? Was there not a long debate in which my hon. Friend made a…08 Dec 2020HANSARD Taxation (Post-transition Period) (Ways and Means)The answer is that I campaigned for this Parliament to take control and use it in the interests of the people, which is why I am making the speech that I am making. Why does the…08 Dec 2020HANSARD Taxation (Post-transition Period) (Ways and Means)I do not disagree with the hon. Lady. I have said that I want to debate a real Bill. I am giving ideas to the Minister because I do not think what he has in mind for this Bill is…08 Dec 2020HANSARD Taxation (Post-transition Period) (Ways and Means)Did the right hon. Gentleman note that when I intervened on Labour and SNP Members to invite them to support just something in the current UK negotiating position, they could not…08 Dec 2020HANSARD Taxation (Post-transition Period) (Ways and Means)Will my hon. Friend comment on the sovereignty issue, which is at the heart of all this? I was not satisfied by the Minister’s reply, when my hon. Friend was asking very good…08 Dec 2020HANSARD Taxation (Post-transition Period) (Ways and Means)I declare my business interests in the register. I came to this debate expecting to hear the Minister set out a vision of post-Brexit Britain, how the taxation system will be…08 Dec 2020HANSARD Taxation (Post-transition Period) (Ways and Means)rose —08 Dec 2020