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HANSARDSchool FundingI am grateful to the hon. Lady for putting that on the record.04 Mar 2019HANSARDSchool FundingI am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for putting that on the record.04 Mar 2019HANSARDSchool FundingOrder. It is disgraceful that there are Members sitting in this Chamber who are not listening to the Minister. They have taken advantage of participating in a debate and they are…04 Mar 2019HANSARDSchool FundingThe hon. Member for Wythenshawe and Sale East (Mike Kane) has kindly agreed to forgo some of the time for his winding-up speech to allow time for the next speaker.04 Mar 2019HANSARD Primary Schools: Nurture and Alternative ProvisionOrder. The hon. Member for Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle has made many interventions. The Minister is trying to respond to her points, and all she is doing is chuntering.13 Feb 2019HANSARD Value Added Tax BillIf we look at things in a dynamic way, what is the extent of the burden on the health service and social services of having people who are unnecessarily cold in their own homes…08 Feb 2019HANSARD Value Added Tax BillWill my hon. Friend give way?08 Feb 2019HANSARD Value Added Tax BillI beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time. I presented the Bill on 5 September 2017, and it is with a wry smile that I rise to speak to it today, with some four hours…08 Feb 2019HANSARD Value Added Tax BillI disagree with my hon. Friend; he is taking a conservative view rather than looking at the dynamic effect on the economy of making tax reductions. My hon. Friend is not yet a…08 Feb 2019HANSARD Value Added Tax BillThe estimate made is not mine but comes from the OTS paper: “Raising the threshold significantly, for example to £500,000, would potentially impact around 800,000 businesses. Of…08 Feb 2019HANSARD Value Added Tax BillI do. It is a mistake to look at these issues without considering the dynamic behavioural effects flowing from changes in the regulatory environment. We are all agreed—certainly…08 Feb 2019HANSARD Value Added Tax BillMy hon. Friend makes a brilliant point. This used to be at the heart of Conservative thinking and policy making on the Treasury Bench. It was that dynamic thinking that was behind…08 Feb 2019HANSARD Value Added Tax BillObviously, we are all united in wanting to be fiscally and financially prudent, and, going back to the intervention of my hon. Friend the Member for Berwick-upon-Tweed (Anne-Marie…08 Feb 2019HANSARD Value Added Tax BillYes, of course I do. I have an estimate—not quite done on the back of an envelope, but on a rough piece of paper. The Government’s figures say that the reduced rate—5% instead of…08 Feb 2019HANSARD Value Added Tax BillI am glad that my hon. Friend made that intervention, because if he looks at clause 4, he will see that I am saying that the Treasury may by regulations define “fitness…08 Feb 2019HANSARD Value Added Tax BillThe problem with the teacake or the Jaffa Cake case—08 Feb 2019HANSARD Value Added Tax BillYes, but the problem is that all that was subject to decisions by the European Court of Justice. Can my hon. Friend think of anything more ridiculous? If the matter had been under…08 Feb 2019HANSARD Value Added Tax BillBut would it not be much more transparent if excise duty was raised and petrol was not then subject to VAT, which is a hidden tax? When my hon. Friend campaigns so actively to…08 Feb 2019HANSARD Value Added Tax BillNothing. It need not be anything. To be transparent, whether on cigarettes, fuel or any other item subject to excise duty, it should just be excise duty, which could be set at…08 Feb 2019HANSARD Value Added Tax BillDoes my hon. Friend share my concern that if we do not leave on 29 March without a deal, people will have had their expectations raised that we will have left the EU, but will be…08 Feb 2019