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HANSARDFinance (No.2) Bill (Second sitting)I note the points that have been made. The fact is that no single set of policies will please consumers, businesses and environmental NGOs, but we think we have struck the right…22 Apr 2021HANSARDFinance (No.2) Bill (First sitting)It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Gary. The clause makes changes to ensure that decommissioning expenditure incurred by oil and gas companies in anticipation…22 Apr 2021HANSARDFinance (No.2) Bill (First sitting)I thank the hon. Gentleman for his questions. He raises an interesting point. We have been discussing industry’s concerns for some time over the lack of clarity on decommissioning…22 Apr 2021HANSARDFinance (No.2) Bill (First sitting)Clause 23 makes changes to reduce the van benefit charge—the VBC—to zero for employees who are provided with a company van that produces zero carbon emissions. The van benefit…22 Apr 2021HANSARDGovernment EqualitiesWe did not go to the race relations industry to ask people to tell us the same things they have been telling us for a long time; we went to people who work in the field such as…22 Apr 2021HANSARDGovernment EqualitiesWe did not go to the race relations industry to ask people to tell us the same things they have been telling us for a long time; we went to people who work in the field such as…22 Apr 2021HANSARDFinance (No.2) Bill (Second sitting)These clauses and the schedule set out a number of criminal offences in respect of fraudulent activities connected with the plastic packaging tax and the penalties and proceedings…22 Apr 2021HANSARDFinance (No.2) Bill (Second sitting)Clause 76 sets out the tax treatment of plastic packaging imported from or exported to the Isle of Man. For imports from the Isle of Man to the UK, if in the future the Isle of…22 Apr 2021HANSARDFinance (No.2) Bill (Second sitting)Clauses 74 and 75 set out how the tax is dealt with in the event of a liable business changing ownership, or the unfortunate circumstances of an owner dying, or becoming…22 Apr 2021HANSARDFinance (No.2) Bill (Second sitting)Clauses 72 and 73 prevent businesses artificially splitting in order to come under the tax’s 10 tonne per year registration threshold and avoiding paying PPT. The clauses protect…22 Apr 2021HANSARDFinance (No.2) Bill (Second sitting)I am afraid that I have not seen the note to which the hon. Lady refers so I am not able to answer the question, but I am sure we can get an answer from officials before the next…22 Apr 2021HANSARDFinance (No.2) Bill (Second sitting)The clause sets out requirements relating to the inclusion of a PPT statement on certain invoices and allows for further regulations specifying what the statement must contain. In…22 Apr 2021HANSARDFinance (No.2) Bill (Second sitting)That is a point that we will come to in later clauses. Question put and agreed to. Clause 54 accordingly ordered to stand part of the Bill. Clauses 55 to 58 ordered to stand part…22 Apr 2021HANSARDGovernment EqualitiesI thank the hon. Lady for her question and note her comments about the former Runnymede Trust. We on the Conservative Benches have worked well with people such as Trevor Phillips,…22 Apr 2021HANSARDGovernment EqualitiesI thank the hon. Lady for her question and note her comments about the former Runnymede Trust. We on the Conservative Benches have worked well with people such as Trevor Phillips,…22 Apr 2021HANSARDGovernment EqualitiesIt is interesting that the hon. Lady raises that point. The Runnymede Trust has said, according to a letter from the chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, that the…22 Apr 2021HANSARDFinance (No.2) Bill (Second sitting)The Food and Drink Federation is part of the industry working group. The other members are WRAP, the British Plastics Federation, the Chartered Institution of Wastes Management,…22 Apr 2021HANSARDFinance (No.2) Bill (Second sitting)I am not sure that is the case. HMRC and the members of the working group could give specific details on exactly how that would work, but we are having the public technical…22 Apr 2021HANSARDFinance (No.2) Bill (Second sitting)I think that I can reassure the hon. Lady on those points. We have kept the exemptions as small as possible. Industry would have liked there to be many more exemptions, but we…22 Apr 2021HANSARDFinance (No.2) Bill (Second sitting)Clauses 54 to 58 make provision and set out the registration requirements for businesses liable to plastic packaging tax—or PPT, as it will henceforth be known—including the…22 Apr 2021