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HANSARDTackling Fraud and Preventing Government WasteAs an hon. Member mentioned earlier today, this morning was the first we had seen of the Chancellor at the Dispatch Box since the beginning of December—perhaps we were lucky to…01 Feb 2022HANSARDTackling Fraud and Preventing Government WasteMy hon. Friend is absolutely right that it is good value for money to invest in HMRC to get that money back, but the truth is that it did not need to be like this in the first…01 Feb 2022HANSARDTackling Fraud and Preventing Government WasteMy hon. Friend is exactly right. The Government say that they need to raise taxes to fund public services, and yet at the same time they are writing off billions of pounds-worth…01 Feb 2022HANSARDTackling Fraud and Preventing Government WasteIt was nice to see a Government Minister with a bit of integrity doing the right thing and resigning because of the errors that the Government are making. Let us look at the…01 Feb 2022HANSARDTackling Fraud and Preventing Government WasteI understand that MPs want to represent businesses employing people in their constituencies, but it is the role of the Chancellor and the Government to make sure that money goes…01 Feb 2022HANSARDTackling Fraud and Preventing Government WasteMy hon. Friend makes an important point. Her council in Liverpool and all our councils have lost money, and this Government are handing it out to criminals. Billions of pounds of…01 Feb 2022HANSARDHousehold Energy Bills: VATOn 9 June 2016, the right hon. Lady said: “We are unable to get rid of VAT on fuel bills” because the EU prevents us from doing so, despite fuel poverty, but nothing prevents the…11 Jan 2022HANSARDHousehold Energy Bills: VATWe want to make Brexit work. We have this power, so let us use it now. A VAT cut is something practical that the Government could do right now, and it would be felt automatically…11 Jan 2022HANSARDHousehold Energy Bills: VATI beg to move, That this House calls on the Government to cut the rate of VAT for household energy bills as soon as possible; and makes provision as set out in this Order: (1) On…11 Jan 2022HANSARDHousehold Energy Bills: VATIn fact the poorest households spend a higher proportion of their income on gas and electricity bills, with pensioners spending the highest proportion, so the beneficiaries of…11 Jan 2022HANSARDHousehold Energy Bills: VATLiterally no one would want that, Madam Deputy Speaker. I look forward to seeing the leaflets in Stoke-on-Trent at the next election and seeing how the hon. Member will justify…11 Jan 2022HANSARDHousehold Energy Bills: VATI would say to my hon. Friend’s constituent that, under Labour’s plans, £600 would be taken off her bills in April compared with what will happen without Government action. That…11 Jan 2022HANSARDHousehold Energy Bills: VATI welcome the hon. Gentleman’s concern for reducing gas and electricity bills for his constituents and all our constituents, and we are willing to consider anything that can be…11 Jan 2022HANSARDHousehold Energy Bills: VATThat is levelling up in action, filling in the potholes at the Lord’s manor. On this side of the House we want to keep bills low, which is why Labour is bringing forward this vote…11 Jan 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsI want to take this opportunity to put on record my thanks to the Mother of the House, my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Camberwell and Peckham (Ms Harman), who, in…07 Dec 2021HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe Chancellor might be relaxed about handing out £6.5 billion, or perhaps it is £4 billion, to companies that did not deserve it, but we on this side of the House are absolutely…07 Dec 2021HANSARDTopical QuestionsAccording to the Office for Budget Responsibility, the Government’s supply chain chaos, woefully inadequate post-Brexit planning and a lack of HGV drivers have contributed to…02 Nov 2021HANSARDTopical QuestionsLet me help the Chancellor with the answer to that question. The typical family shop is likely to go up by £180 more next year. It is not just food prices that are rising: gas and…02 Nov 2021HANSARD Budget ResolutionsSo as well as having the highest death toll in Europe, Britain has suffered the worst economic hit of any major economy. The Chancellor now boasts that we are growing faster than…27 Oct 2021HANSARD Budget ResolutionsThank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. Families struggling with the cost of living crisis; businesses hit by a supply chain crisis; those who rely on our schools, our hospitals and our…27 Oct 2021