Results 1-20 of 5,857 for in the 'Commons debates' OR in the 'Westminster Hall debates' OR in the 'Lords debates' OR in the 'Northern Ireland Assembly debates' speaker:Nick Gibb
- Oral Answers to Questions — Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Flood Insurance (16 May 2013)
Nick Gibb: I welcome the Secretary of State’s announcement. Residents of Pagham and Middleton-on-Sea, in my constituency, greatly valued the visit by the Under-Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, my hon. Friend the Member for Newbury (Richard Benyon), on 29 April. Surface water flooding was a huge problem in my constituency on 10 June last year, and it is now becoming...
- Tributes to Baroness Thatcher (10 April 2013)
Nick Gibb: Many in this House can speak more eloquently about Lady Thatcher as a person than I can, particularly my hon. Friends the Members for Bournemouth West (Conor Burns) and for Maldon (Mr Whittingdale), who made moving speeches. To me, Lady Thatcher was a more distant figure whom I met at party events and as a parliamentary candidate hoping for a photograph with her for the elections. Whenever I...
- Flood Insurance (26 March 2013)
Nick Gibb: The Minister has been assiduous on this issue, and we are looking forward to seeing him in Pagham in my constituency in late April. Will he be able to make an announcement on this issue before 30 June?
- Flood Insurance (26 March 2013)
Nick Gibb: Is my hon. Friend beginning to receive, as I am, some letters from constituents who are already encountering difficulties in renewing their building insurance and particularly the flooding element of it?
- Flood Insurance (26 March 2013)
Nick Gibb: My hon. Friend’s description of seeing homes in her constituency flooded reminds me of the problems I saw in Bognor Regis and Littlehampton on 10 and 11 in June, when more than 300 homes were flooded. Does she share my view that in addition to the flood insurance issue, we need to spend sufficient capital to ensure that the surface drainage system is sufficient to mitigate such problems...
- Royal Assent: Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust (26 March 2013)
Nick Gibb: I congratulate my right hon. Friend on the action he has taken, particularly re-instilling the importance of compassion in the NHS and the changes he is proposing to the training of nurses. Can he inform the House of any other NHS trust where similar concerns are being investigated?
- Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation: amendment of the Law (21 March 2013)
Nick Gibb: It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Airdrie and Shotts (Pamela Nash), but I should point out to her that unemployment in her constituency has fallen by 3.8% over the last 12 months and youth unemployment by 9.3%. I welcome this Budget, in particular the cut in corporation tax to 20% from April 2015; the rise in the personal allowance to £10,000; the cancellation of the...
- Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation: amendment of the Law (21 March 2013)
Nick Gibb: This is all very amusing, but not very serious. Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that in his own constituency over the past 12 months unemployment has fallen by 2.5% and youth unemployment has fallen by 12.5%? Why is he complaining about higher borrowing and at the same time advocating higher borrowing? Is it not right that the Chancellor is letting the automatic stabilisers kick in?
- Oral Answers to Questions — Justice: Jobseekers (Back to Work Schemes) Bill (19 March 2013)
Nick Gibb: May I bring the right hon. Gentleman back to the Bill? Does he agree with its impact assessment, which states that a retrospective transfer of £130 million of “public money to this group of claimants would represent poor value to the taxpayer and will not help those unemployed enter employment”? Surely, in the current climate he should welcome the swift action taken by the...
- Oral Answers to Questions — Justice: Jobseekers (Back to Work Schemes) Bill (19 March 2013)
Nick Gibb: I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for giving way to me a second time. If I have read the Library briefing correctly, the JSA claimant count in his constituency fell over the last year by 6.7%.
- Opposition Day — [19th Allotted Day] — Tax Fairness (12 March 2013)
Nick Gibb: While my hon. Friend is on the subject of the last Labour Government, he will recall that in 2009-10, the last financial year of the last Labour Government, expenditure exceeded income by £159 billion, equal to 11% of the whole country’s income. Since he has been a Minister at the Treasury, have civil servants explained to him why that was allowed to happen, virtually bankrupting...
- Opposition Day — [19th Allotted Day] — Tax Fairness (12 March 2013)
Nick Gibb: I am waiting to hear the shadow Minister mention that this Government have taken £2.2 million of the lowest earners out of tax altogether. Does Labour’s support for a mansion tax signal its return to high-tax policies, and a end to the new Labour project so admirably led by Tony Blair and Peter Mandelson, which transformed Labour into an electable party? Are we now seeing signs of...
- Opposition Day — [19th Allotted Day] — Tax Fairness (12 March 2013)
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- Opposition Day — [19th Allotted Day] — Tax Fairness (12 March 2013)
Nick Gibb: Is the hon. Gentleman advocating that a widow with little income who is living in her matrimonial home and is confronted with a £16,000 tax bill take out an equity release scheme mortgage in order to pay it?
- Opposition Day — [19th Allotted Day] — Tax Fairness (12 March 2013)
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- Oral Answers to Questions — Treasury: Tax Avoidance (12 March 2013)
Nick Gibb: Private equity is an important source of investment for expanding businesses, but when they over-leverage it can lead to disasters such as that with Castlebeck. It can also lead to protracted negotiations with the Revenue over the deductability of interest and an erosion of the tax base. Will my hon. Friend consider the German approach of limiting the level of interest that can be deductible...
- Oral Answers to Questions — Work and Pensions: Long-term Unemployment (11 March 2013)
Nick Gibb: May I ask my hon. Friend what happens when someone who is long-term unemployed rings Worthing benefits centre given its failure to return calls within even the three-hour performance target and its failure to meet the target of processing 85% of employment and support allowance payments within the target of 16 days? What action is being taken to remedy the position, and when does he...
- Oral Answers to Questions — Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Flood Defences (7 March 2013)
Nick Gibb: In February, the Minister announced £10.8 million of capital to upgrade the tidal defences on the east bank of the River Arun in Littlehampton, in my constituency. That is a welcome decision, which demonstrates the Government’s commitment to building new flood defences, but it is not time for the insurance industry to match that commitment by agreeing to a replacement for the flood...
- Oral Answers to Questions — Education: School Information (4 March 2013)
Nick Gibb: What recent steps he has taken to increase the amount of information about schools available to parents and the public.
- Oral Answers to Questions — Education: School Information (4 March 2013)
Nick Gibb: My right hon. Friend will know that the new school information regulations came into force on 1 September last year. Among other things, they require schools to publish details of the curriculum for every subject in each year. Looking at a sample of schools’ websites, I do not yet see widespread compliance with this regulation. Given the importance of this information to parents and of...