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HANSARDEconomic StabilityThe Government are already taking action to fix Britain’s economic foundations, with a new approach to growth with three pillars: stability, investment and reform. Sustainable…03 Sept 2024HANSARDEconomic StabilityI should have welcomed my hon. Friend to his place. It was the previous Government’s decision to maintain tax thresholds at their current levels until 2028. We have inherited an…03 Sept 2024HANSARDEconomic StabilityI thank the hon. Gentleman for his question. Having served as a local councillor for many years, I very much recognise the problem that he describes. I am sorry to hear about this…03 Sept 2024HANSARDEconomic StabilityI thank my hon. Friend for his question. Upon taking office, as he says, we discovered a £22 billion black hole in the public finances that had been left by the previous…03 Sept 2024HANSARDEconomic StabilityI think I thank the right hon. Gentleman for his question, but may I point out gently to him that, had our economy grown at the average rate of other OECD economies over the last…03 Sept 2024HANSARD Banking Services: Rural NorthumberlandI commend my hon. Friend the Member for Hexham (Joe Morris) for securing this important debate, which I think is his first Adjournment debate. I also congratulate him on being the…02 Sept 2024HANSARD Banking Services: Rural NorthumberlandI thank my hon. Friend for her intervention. I know that she is a doughty champion for her constituents. I hear what she says about her rural constituency. Mine is not a rural…02 Sept 2024HANSARD Banking Services: Rural NorthumberlandI thank my hon. Friend for his intervention and associate myself with his comments about Nicky Gavron, who was my constituent and a great friend. She worked with us in London…02 Sept 2024HANSARD Banking Services: Rural NorthumberlandNo Adjournment debate would be complete without an intervention from the hon. Member, so I am glad he intervened; I was waiting for him to do so. I share his frustration about the…02 Sept 2024HANSARD Banking Services: Rural NorthumberlandI absolutely hear what my hon. Friend says about protecting vulnerable people in our constituencies. That is why a lot of us stood for the Labour party: because we want to protect…02 Sept 2024HANSARDThe EconomyI thank the Minister for advance sight of his statement. Of course it is welcome that the rate of inflation is finally slowing after three years of the Government missing every…22 May 2024HANSARDFinance (No. 2) BillThis clause is so uncontroversial that we give it our full support. For the first time, I agree with everything the Minister has said, and the Committee will be happy to know that…21 May 2024HANSARDFinance (No. 2) BillThe Opposition support the changes that will assist with compliance checks by making online applications equivalent to paper applications. Has the Minister considered adding the…21 May 2024HANSARDFinance (No. 2) BillWe believe that individuals or companies generating wealth in the UK should pay their fair share, so we are in complete support of the aims of this clause. However, we have heard…21 May 2024HANSARDFinance (No. 2) BillIt is a pleasure to serve on this Committee under your chairmanship, Mrs Latham. I am pleased to respond to clauses 20 to 24 on behalf of the Opposition. Clause 20, as the…21 May 2024HANSARDFinance (No. 2) BillWe support the measures in clause 21 to raise the funds needed to tackle money laundering, fraud and other types of economic crime, but I cannot ignore the fact that the…21 May 2024HANSARDFinance (No. 2) BillI thank the Minister for his response. He said that he considered the options and decided to proceed with it as an alternative investment fund, but he did not actually set out the…21 May 2024HANSARDDraft Securitisation (Amendment) Regulations 2024It is a pleasure to serve under you, Madam Chair. I thank the Minister for setting out the purpose of the statutory instrument before us today, which is complementary to the…14 May 2024HANSARDPalestinians: Visa SchemeI thank my hon. Friend for his intervention. My mother came to this country as a political asylum seeker in the 1970s, because this country—our country, of which we are proud—has…13 May 2024HANSARDDraft International Monetary Fund (Increase in Subscription) Order 2024It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Graham. We welcome this draft statutory instrument. The changes are part of the IMF’s worldwide resolution to change its…13 May 2024