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HANSARDEconomic Growth Forecasts: 2024 and 2025We announced 110 growth measures in the autumn statement. Taken together with the measures in the spring Budget, the independent Office for Budget Responsibility says that they…06 Feb 2024HANSARDBankers’ Bonuses: Removal of CapI suspect that when the hon. Gentleman tabled his question, he was not expecting that the biggest supporter of abolishing the bankers’ bonus cap was not the Chancellor but the…06 Feb 2024HANSARDBusiness Investment: Fiscal MeasuresMr Speaker, may I add my comments to yours yesterday about His Majesty the King? I wish him and his family well, as well as saluting his courage in being so open about his…06 Feb 2024HANSARDBusiness Investment: Fiscal MeasuresMy hon. Friend is absolutely right to highlight the pressures caused by business rates. That was why in the autumn statement we introduced the 75% discount for retail, hospitality…06 Feb 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsI do not know the details of the issue raised by the hon. Lady, but I assure her that the Treasury is ferocious in its determination to ensure that every penny of the public’s…19 Dec 2023HANSARDTopical QuestionsIf the hon. Gentleman has any evidence of people behaving improperly or illegally, he should tell the police, and he will get the full support of this Government and the whole…19 Dec 2023HANSARDTopical QuestionsI recognise the important role the household support fund has played. As my right hon. Friend the Chief Secretary to the Treasury said earlier, no decisions have been made about…19 Dec 2023HANSARDTopical QuestionsAs my right hon. Friend knows, I have long believed in the importance of investing in our armed forces, but that ultimately depends on a strong economy that will pay for sustained…19 Dec 2023HANSARDTopical QuestionsI am grateful to my hon. Friend for asking that question, because the UK, and London in particular, has become the global crypto hub. To make sure that the market can really take…19 Dec 2023HANSARDTopical QuestionsI am not going to comment on allegations by Baroness Mone or, indeed, on the individual case, but let me say this: we put together a taskforce of more than 1,000 people that…19 Dec 2023HANSARDTopical QuestionsI am happy to do that. In fact, I hosted a reception for Lord Harrington and the people responsible for that review last week. We will start by increasing the budget of the Office…19 Dec 2023HANSARDTopical QuestionsToday is the funeral of Lord Darling, who will be greatly missed by many in this House, as well as by Maggie and his family. Civil servants are known for being good at concealing…19 Dec 2023HANSARDTopical QuestionsI thank my hon. Friend for his campaigning on that issue and reassure him that we in the Treasury completely understand how vital steel is to the future of his area and to his…19 Dec 2023HANSARDTopical QuestionsI thank my right hon. Friend for his question and for his campaigning on these issues. I just note that on electric vehicle manufacturing alone, the Society of Motor Manufacturers…19 Dec 2023HANSARDReducing TaxesWhat I can confirm is that, as a result of the measures I took in the autumn statement, it will be lower at the end of the scorecard period than it would otherwise have been, and…19 Dec 2023HANSARDReducing TaxesI thank my right hon. Friend for her question. She will know that 70% of trading businesses only pay the lower corporation tax rate of 19%. That covers the vast majority of small…19 Dec 2023HANSARDReducing TaxesI am happy to write to the hon. Gentleman with the exact numbers, but for people on low incomes—people being paid the lowest legally payable wage—their post-tax real income has…19 Dec 2023HANSARDReducing TaxesIt is not just me but Paul Johnson of the Institute for Fiscal Studies who, when talking about Labour’s plan, has said that “additional borrowing…drives up interest rates”, which…19 Dec 2023HANSARDReducing TaxesI thank my hon. Friend for her question. As she knows, the marriage allowance is currently £1,260 per year, and it has been fixed at 10% of the personal allowance since it was…19 Dec 2023HANSARDReducing TaxesBecause the way we return the overseas aid budget to 0.7% is to grow the economy. By cutting national insurance, we put nearly 100,000 more people into the national workforce,…19 Dec 2023