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HANSARDNational Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) BillI thank my hon. Friend for his short speech to back up the points I have been making. Let me look at some of the arguments presented today. The first is that the Bill will help to…17 Dec 2024HANSARDNational Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) BillThis is a mentality—17 Dec 2024HANSARDWomen’s State Pension Age Communication: PHSO ReportHow long will we have this Government giving the excuse that they cannot do things because the last lot did not do them? Will the Secretary of State remember that she is now in…17 Dec 2024HANSARDNational Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) BillOf course, agrifood is another sector that I had not mentioned, along with hospitality, food processing, all the charitable sectors and some that are supporting the health…17 Dec 2024HANSARDNational Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) BillWe have seen over the last five months that growth has already been impacted. Of course, the OBR has indicated that in two and three years’ time, growth will be impacted…17 Dec 2024HANSARDNational Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) BillI am pleased to hear it. I certainly do not read The Guardian , and I certainly do not share the view, held by some of its readers, that we should pay more taxes. In closing, the…17 Dec 2024HANSARD Finance BillIt is not just that they have not been tried and tested. There is also an acceptance—indeed, it is the Government’s own stated position—that even with those technologies, we will…10 Dec 2024HANSARD Finance BillOnly a fool would say that climate change is not happening. Climate change has occurred in all the time that the earth has been in existence. Of course it happens, and of course…10 Dec 2024HANSARD Finance BillLet me try to understand the Minister’s logic. First, he recognises that we will need oil and gas. Secondly, he is going to tax oil and gas companies. Thirdly, he is telling them…10 Dec 2024HANSARD Finance BillThe Government have set a number of objectives that they wish to achieve over the next five years. Central to those objectives are growth, highly paid jobs, energy security, and…10 Dec 2024HANSARD Finance BillThe hon. Lady makes a good point about the mobility of investment in the oil and gas industry. Is it not ironic that, since we will need oil and gas, if we tax companies on…10 Dec 2024HANSARDTerrorism (Protection of Premises) Billrose—09 Dec 2024HANSARDTerrorism (Protection of Premises) BillLet us look at some of the language and the requirements in the Bill that are totally reasonable. For example, the Bill sets out that people who are organising events should have…09 Dec 2024HANSARD SyriaI think we all welcome the fall of the Assad regime, but it is important that he and his henchmen are eventually brought to justice. As we have seen in Iraq and Libya, the swift…09 Dec 2024HANSARDTerrorism (Protection of Premises) BillI fully understand the reasoning and the demand for a Bill such as this when it became known that, after a terrorist event, lives were lost because of bad organisation. If it is…09 Dec 2024HANSARDTerrorism (Protection of Premises) BillWith due respect, the hon. Gentleman said that the cost was a question for the Minister, but since this is his proposed new clause, surely he should have some idea of the…09 Dec 2024HANSARDTerrorism (Protection of Premises) BillI do not believe that training would address the ambiguity, because the ambiguity is in the wording of the legislation with which people will be required to comply. We all know…09 Dec 2024HANSARDTerrorism (Protection of Premises) BillThe hon. Member said earlier that these were “prompts”, and that what we should consider was what happened after an attack. What is worrying is that the Bill goes beyond that. It…09 Dec 2024HANSARD European Union (Withdrawal Arrangements) BillDoes my right hon. Friend not find it even stranger that for products moving from the Republic of Ireland into GB, the Government rushed to find an accommodation? Only last week,…06 Dec 2024HANSARD European Union (Withdrawal Arrangements) BillIt is amazing to look at the volume of law: there are 70 pages containing not the details of the law but simply the headings of the law. That shows the extent to which the EU has…06 Dec 2024