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HANSARDNational Insurance Contributions IncreaseThe average household in the hon. Lady’s constituency will be £1,200 worse off because of the tax increases and the price rises happening as a result of her Government’s policies.…08 Mar 2022HANSARDNational Insurance Contributions IncreaseI beg to move, That this House calls on the Government to cancel its planned 1.25 percentage point rise in National Insurance Contributions that will cost families an average of…08 Mar 2022HANSARDNational Insurance Contributions IncreaseIf we raised those taxes now on North sea oil and gas companies, we could bring in money that could be used to relieve pressure now. I think that the right hon. and learned…08 Mar 2022HANSARDNational Insurance Contributions IncreaseI fully agree with the hon. Gentleman. A buy now, pay later scheme for energy prices, based on the premise that prices are going to fall, does not bear any relation to the facts.…08 Mar 2022HANSARDNational Insurance Contributions IncreaseI will give way to the hon. Lady, and then to the hon. Gentleman.08 Mar 2022HANSARDNational Insurance Contributions IncreaseThe hon. Gentleman is absolutely right. That is the great deceit at the heart of this national insurance tax rise. I will address some of those details in a moment.08 Mar 2022HANSARDNational Insurance Contributions IncreaseSorry, I said I would give way to the hon. Member for Strangford (Jim Shannon). I will do that and then I will make a little more progress.08 Mar 2022HANSARDNational Insurance Contributions IncreaseThe hon. Gentleman speaks powerfully on behalf of his constituents, who are struggling with the double whammy of prices increasing, particularly gas and electricity bills, at the…08 Mar 2022HANSARDNational Insurance Contributions IncreaseI thank my hon. Friend for bringing that to the House’s attention. It is exactly why Labour said that the warm home discount should be expanded to ensure that the money goes to…08 Mar 2022HANSARDNational Insurance Contributions IncreaseLet me just finish this point. Yesterday, we saw a whole new meaning to burning through money. After wasting billions on unusable PPE, the Government are literally burning it to…08 Mar 2022HANSARDNational Insurance Contributions IncreaseThe hon. Gentleman knows that the average household in Gloucester will be £1,299 worse off because of the double whammy of tax increases and price increases. I think they would be…08 Mar 2022HANSARDNational Insurance Contributions IncreasePolitics is about choices; the hon. Lady makes an important point. This Government are making the choice to increase taxes on ordinary working people and those who employ them,…08 Mar 2022HANSARDEconomic UpdateI thank the Chancellor for his statement. We have known that this price rise was coming for months, and today we learn that the energy price cap will increase to £1,971 in April.…03 Feb 2022HANSARDEconomic UpdateCan the Chancellor confirm how many people who are fuel-poor will miss out on council tax support compared with the warm home discount support that Labour has announced? The…03 Feb 2022HANSARDTackling Fraud and Preventing Government WasteI beg to move, That this House agrees with the remarks of Lord Agnew of Oulton in his resignation letter that the Government’s record on tackling fraud is lamentable; recognises…01 Feb 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsIt is in black and white on the Government’s own website still today, and in the Government accounts—£4.3 billion written off. Despite the Chancellor’s words, “written off” means…01 Feb 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsMr Speaker: “Schoolboy errors… a combination of arrogance, indolence and ignorance… nothing less than woeful.” —[ Official Report, House of Lords, 24 January 2022; Vol. 818, c.…01 Feb 2022HANSARDTackling Fraud and Preventing Government WasteLord Agnew did not resign from the board of a bank; he resigned as a Government Minister because of “schoolboy errors…indolence and ignorance.” —[ Official Report, House of Lords,…01 Feb 2022HANSARDTackling Fraud and Preventing Government WasteMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. What we are talking about would be appalling even if it were a one-off example of waste, but it has become the hallmark of this Government that…01 Feb 2022HANSARDTackling Fraud and Preventing Government WasteMy hon. Friend speaks powerfully. I would like the Minister to explain, at the Dispatch Box, why drugs gangs got tens of thousands of pounds of taxpayers’ money when my hon.…01 Feb 2022