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HANSARD Inheritance TaxI am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving way. I am following his logic about money staying in a constituency where inheritance tax falls, but that presupposes that all…17 Jan 2024HANSARD Inheritance TaxDoes this not clearly illustrate the distinction between those of us on this side of the House who would love to see inheritance tax reduced and ultimately abolished, and those…17 Jan 2024HANSARD Inheritance TaxI am grateful to the hon. Gentleman, who I consider a friend, for giving way. I am interested in his points on a proportional property tax. We know from research that northern…17 Jan 2024HANSARD Inheritance TaxCould the Minister specifically address the point I made about the inherent unfairness to those who do not or are unable to have children, in respect of the nil-rate band that…17 Jan 2024HANSARD Inheritance TaxWill the hon. Member give way?17 Jan 2024HANSARD Inheritance TaxI completely agree with my right hon. Friend. We know that when we reduce a tax, the effect has the potential to cascade throughout families—and throughout the country, because…17 Jan 2024HANSARD Inheritance TaxIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Robert, and I congratulate the hon. Member for Hemsworth (Jon Trickett) on securing this important debate. As a practising…17 Jan 2024HANSARD Illegal VapesIt would not be a Westminster Hall debate without an intervention from the hon. Gentleman. He anticipates two of the points that I am about to come on to in my speech—first, the…16 Jan 2024HANSARD Illegal VapesI beg to move, That this House has considered the matter of the use and sale of illegal vapes. It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Mark, and I am pleased to…16 Jan 2024HANSARD Illegal VapesWill the hon. Lady give way?16 Jan 2024HANSARD Illegal VapesI am grateful to my hon. Friend for that intervention; he raises a really important point. It is right that we encourage people to stop smoking and that smokers have an array of…16 Jan 2024HANSARD Illegal VapesI am delighted to have led the debate this afternoon and to have heard from the Minister. I was pleased to hear all the contributions from Members across the Chamber, and it is…16 Jan 2024HANSARDNHS DentistryI wish to put on the record at the outset my thanks to my hon. Friend the Member for Harborough (Neil O’Brien) for his work on dentistry. I also thank the Under-Secretary of State…09 Jan 2024HANSARDNHS DentistryThe hon. Lady is obviously in a different ICB area from mine and I am not privy to the detail in respect of her ICB’s underspend, but it would be wonderful to know whether her ICB…09 Jan 2024HANSARDNHS DentistryThe hon. Lady and I share the same integrated care board. If this is to do with austerity, why has she not engaged with our local ICB to ask it about the underspend and the…09 Jan 2024HANSARDNHS DentistryI am very grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving way and I appreciate that he gave me notice that he was going to mention my constituency. What he failed to do in his…09 Jan 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsWe are all mindful of the need to control public finances and slim the civil service, but can my right hon. Friend reassure my constituents that the Darlington Economic Campus…19 Dec 2023HANSARDChristmas, Christianity and CommunitiesIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Dame Maria. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Don Valley (Nick Fletcher) on securing this debate, and opening with…19 Dec 2023HANSARD Business of the HouseEvery single week, I receive correspondence from and meet parents who are simply exasperated by the wait they face for a child and adolescent mental health services assessment for…07 Dec 2023HANSARD BBC FundingI welcome the statement from my right hon. and learned Friend. What further steps is she taking to encourage the BBC to maximise its commercial revenue in order to minimise the…07 Dec 2023