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HANSARD Cashless TransactionsWe work closely with the Home Office on economic crime. In fact, last week the Chancellor and the Home Secretary launched a new taskforce on economic crimes, which will include…22 Jan 2019HANSARD Cashless TransactionsIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Gray, and to respond to the debate secured by my hon. Friend the Member for Boston and Skegness (Matt Warman). I thank him…22 Jan 2019HANSARD Long-term Capital for BusinessI thank my hon. Friend the Member for Stirling (Stephen Kerr) for raising this important issue and for exhorting the United Kingdom Treasury to look to all parts of our Union. If…15 Jan 2019HANSARDDraft Investment Allowance and Cluster Area Allowance (Relevant Income: Tariff Receipts) Regulations 2018I shall try to respond briefly to the questions put to me. On the Government’s support for the oil and gas industry, particularly in Scotland, it would be difficult for the…09 Jan 2019HANSARDDraft Investment Allowance and Cluster Area Allowance (Relevant Income: Tariff Receipts) Regulations 2018I beg to move, That the Committee has considered the draft Investment Allowance and Cluster Area Allowance (Relevant Income: Tariff Receipts) Regulations 2018. It is always good…09 Jan 2019HANSARD Finance (No. 3) BillClause 89 would give the Government the ability to provide certainty to taxpayers now. That is what we want to ensure. We do not want to inhibit the ability of HMRC and the…08 Jan 2019HANSARD Finance (No. 3) BillI give way to my right hon. Friend.08 Jan 2019HANSARD Finance (No. 3) BillI give way to the right hon. Lady because, of course, amendment 7 is hers.08 Jan 2019HANSARD Finance (No. 3) BillI am grateful to all right hon. and hon. Members for the debate. Delivering the deal negotiated with the EU remains the Government’s central priority. It is neither our preference…08 Jan 2019HANSARD Finance (No. 3) BillI will give way one last time to my hon. Friend—I apologise to the right hon. Lady, but I only have a couple of minutes.08 Jan 2019HANSARD Finance (No. 3) BillWe are leaving the European Union. We wish to do so with a deal. The House will vote on the deal next week, but we must and will prepare for all scenarios.08 Jan 2019HANSARD Finance (No. 3) BillMy right hon. and learned Friend and constituency neighbour tempts me to go into areas that I should not, but the Chancellor has said that we will be prepared and that we have…08 Jan 2019HANSARD Finance (No. 3) BillThe House of Commons has the right to make the law, but the law as it is today is that we will leave on 29 March. The point I am making is that, whatever the intentions of the…08 Jan 2019HANSARD Finance (No. 3) BillI will give way one last time, but I have only a couple of minutes.08 Jan 2019HANSARD Finance (No. 3) BillThe point I have just made is that the law of the land is that the UK will leave the European Union on 29 March, and nothing contained in amendment 7 will change that. As I will…08 Jan 2019