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HANSARD Self-employed Persons: Financial SupportFor some within this population—not all—there will be some solution already through the £5 million loan that is available as of yesterday. That will not cover the entirety of this…24 Mar 2020HANSARD Self-employed Persons: Financial SupportMay I first welcome the constructive tone that the right hon. Gentleman has struck? His offer to come to the Treasury might contravene some of the recent social distancing…24 Mar 2020HANSARDIncome tax (charge)My hon. Friend knows me well.17 Mar 2020HANSARDIncome tax (charge)I thank the hon. Member for Bootle (Peter Dowd) for his warm welcome to me in my new role. I join him in paying tribute to the number of excellent maiden speeches that we have…17 Mar 2020HANSARDIncome tax (charge)Infrastructure is an issue that concerns all Members of the House. We are committed in this Budget to boosting productivity and to levelling up opportunity across all regions…17 Mar 2020HANSARD Public Sector Exit Payments (Limitation) BillI pay tribute to my hon. Friend the Member for Christchurch (Sir Christopher Chope) for his work to secure value for money, an issue close to the heart of Her Majesty’s Treasury.…13 Mar 2020HANSARDTreasuryWe have also increased the penalties and consequences for those who devise, enable or use tax avoidance schemes. I draw the House’s attention, for example, to the disclosure of…03 Mar 2020HANSARDTreasuryWe have also increased the penalties and consequences for those who devise, enable or use tax avoidance schemes. I draw the House’s attention, for example, to the disclosure of…03 Mar 2020HANSARDTax Avoidance and EvasionThe right hon. Gentleman raises an important point about the moving target of criminality and the ingenuity of approaches to evade tax or abuse the tax system. That is partly why…25 Feb 2020HANSARDTax Avoidance and EvasionIt is always good, 10 days into the job, to get specific challenging questions on the detail, but to answer that question—and I do not want to tempt hon. Members who usually come…25 Feb 2020HANSARDTax Avoidance and EvasionThere is a shared desire across the House to ensure that the correct amount of tax is paid and that tax is not evaded, not least because the public services on which we all rely…25 Feb 2020HANSARDTax Avoidance and EvasionAs a point of principle, HMRC always seeks to collect the tax that it is due. One of the areas of innovation—I will come on to such areas as Making Tax Digital—is about making…25 Feb 2020HANSARDTax Avoidance and EvasionAs my hon. Friend will know, before coming to the House I worked in the field of trying to prevent money laundering in our financial institutions. As a principle, we are always…25 Feb 2020HANSARDTax Avoidance and EvasionNot only is my right hon. Friend absolutely right in the point he makes, but he draws attention to the measures taken in 2014—when he was a key figure in Government—through the…25 Feb 2020HANSARDTax Avoidance and EvasionThe hon. Member picks up on a point the shadow Chancellor made in his opening remarks about the total number of staff, but the key issue is how staff are deployed and what…25 Feb 2020HANSARDTax Avoidance and EvasionThe right hon. Member for Barking (Dame Margaret Hodge), when she chaired the PAC, looked at whether the Government were managing their estate efficiently. Through the PAC, the…25 Feb 2020HANSARDTax Avoidance and EvasionMy hon. Friend has been in the House long enough to know that Treasury Ministers will not comment on individual companies. However, there is a wider principle, which I think was…25 Feb 2020HANSARDPublic Service Pension Scheme Indexation and Revaluation 2020Legislation governing public service pensions requires them to be increased annually by the same percentage as additional pensions (state earnings related pension and state second…25 Feb 2020HANSARDTax Avoidance and EvasionFirst, I pay tribute to the work the right hon. Lady did, particularly through her chairmanship of the Public Accounts Committee, on a cross-party basis to bring transparency to…25 Feb 2020HANSARDTax Avoidance and EvasionThe target is a gap that is as narrow as possible, and I do not think HMRC’s commitment to that can be questioned. As I have said, the gap is now at a record low, but I entirely…25 Feb 2020