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HANSARDSupporting Small BusinessI will come on to those points. It is great that Conservative Members are asking for advice, because we have plenty about how to level the playing field in taxes for businesses. I…19 Oct 2021HANSARDSupporting Small BusinessThe Chancellor would have a lot more money to play with if he had gone ahead with President Biden’s proposals for a 21% global minimum rate of corporation tax. There are choices…19 Oct 2021HANSARDSupporting Small BusinessI know my hon. Friend is a keen supporter of businesses, including the Kirkdale Bookshop on Sydenham’s high street and Billings butchers. She is a fine steward for the people of…19 Oct 2021HANSARDSupporting Small BusinessMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. She speaks about businesses in Brent, but that could go for so many other constituencies, high streets and town streets across our country. We…19 Oct 2021HANSARDSupporting Small BusinessI thank my hon. Friend for speaking up for businesses in Reading that are struggling because of the unfair system of business rates. I expect that, like many other businesses up…19 Oct 2021HANSARDSupporting Small BusinessPerhaps the hon. Gentleman can give us an indication of when the review might finally be published.19 Oct 2021HANSARDSupporting Small BusinessMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. The Labour Government in Wales ensured that there would be no business rates at all for the retail and hospitality sectors in Wales for this…19 Oct 2021HANSARDSupporting Small BusinessI beg to move, That this House recognises the importance of British businesses to high streets and communities across the UK and the exceptional challenges they face due to the…19 Oct 2021HANSARDSupporting Small BusinessI thank my hon. Friend for that intervention and I know that he is a staunch supporter of businesses in Headingley, Otley and across his Leeds North West constituency. The…19 Oct 2021HANSARDSupporting Small BusinessMy hon. Friend is right to make that point. I have had constituents raise concerns about cuts to money advice, for example, through StepChange, the charity based in Leeds. This is…19 Oct 2021HANSARDHealth and Social Care LevyLet me just make this point. What a contrast. Yesterday, Amazon reported an additional £1.9 billion-worth of sales, but it is paying only £3.8 million more in corporation tax,…08 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Social Care LevyWe had a clear plan to bring down waiting lists, a plan that this Government are sorely lacking. The economic circumstances are different, too. The Government’s tax on jobs comes…08 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Social Care LevyThere are two tests for the package announced yesterday. First, does it fix social care? Secondly, is it funded fairly? The answer to both those questions is no. It is a broken…08 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Social Care LevyI will take an intervention from the hon. Gentleman, and perhaps he can tell us what he put on his election leaflets.08 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Social Care LevyNo, I think the hon. Lady should listen to this. What have this Government done for that worker and her family? The Chancellor has frozen her pay this year. The Chancellor has…08 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Social Care LevyI will come on to that in a moment, but that sums it up. You went into the election with a set of promises, and now you are breaking them one by one.08 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Social Care LevyI will clarify: Conservative Members are breaking their promises one by one by one. The Government will claim that that is all down to the pandemic, but in March this year—a year…08 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Social Care LevyI would go further than my hon. Friend: neither of those things were true, because the Government have no plan for social care and we have a tax increase. The sad truth at the…08 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Social Care LevyPerhaps the hon. Member for Thirsk and Malton (Kevin Hollinrake) will explain what he put in his manifesto to his constituents.08 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Social Care LevyWe should be looking at all forms of income, not just income from people who go out to work. A landlord who rents out a number of properties will pay nothing, whereas his tenants…08 Sept 2021