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Oral Answers to Questions — Business, Innovation and Skills: Topical Questions (13 June 2013)

Andrew Stunell: Does the Secretary of State welcome Stockport council’s fund to assist private businesses in setting up apprenticeship organisations and schemes? Next time he comes to Stockport, will he agree to meet some of them?

[Mr Jim Hood in the Chair] — Rakhine and Kachin State (Human Rights) (12 June 2013)

Andrew Stunell: It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Hood. I am pleased to take part in this debate and I congratulate the hon. Member for Bolton South East (Yasmin Qureshi) on securing it. This is the most recent in a series of debates, each of which has shown that hon. Members are passionately committed to seeing Burma emerge as a successful, flourishing country with a mature and maturing...

[Mr Jim Hood in the Chair] — Rakhine and Kachin State (Human Rights) (12 June 2013)

Andrew Stunell: The hon. Lady, for whom I have a lot of time, could have been reading the next paragraph of my speech, so I have to agree with her. Indeed, our own history should give us the determination to help and support other countries and ensure that they do not have to spend 200 years getting to where we have got. I give credit to the work that successive Governments have done, particularly in the...

Public Administration Committee Report (Charity Commission): Pollinators and Pesticides (6 June 2013)

Andrew Stunell: I take a great deal of pleasure in knowing how much my hon. Friend knows about the subject and how sincerely he takes it to heart, but does he understand that some of my constituents see the careful words he has just spoken as indicating that the Government are ducking and weaving? May I ask him, in the nicest possible way, whether the Government will be in a position to take a decision when...

Opposition Day — [1st Allotted Day] — Badger Cull (5 June 2013)

Andrew Stunell: May I draw the Secretary of State’s attention to one area of healthy badgers, just to draw on his point about vaccination? Cheshire is on the frontier in terms of the disease spreading north. I am working closely with Cheshire Wildlife Trust and the National Farmers Union to see whether there is the possibility of having a vaccinated band of badgers across Cheshire to prevent that...

Written Answers — Communities and Local Government: New Businesses: Ethnic Groups (3 June 2013)

Andrew Stunell: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government when he plans to publish his Department's report on BME Access to Finance.

Oral Answers to Questions — Treasury: Corporate Tax Evasion (14 May 2013)

Andrew Stunell: What plans the Government have to use the UK’s presidency of the G8 to tackle corporate tax evasion.

Oral Answers to Questions — Treasury: Corporate Tax Evasion (14 May 2013)

Andrew Stunell: I thank the Minister for his reply. Does he think that it is now time to take a second look at the USA’s experience and its Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act to tackle the question of international tax avoidance?

Oral Answers to Questions — Education: School Curriculum (22 April 2013)

Andrew Stunell: What steps he plans to take to ensure that all children receive a broad and balanced education that includes the creative subjects.

Oral Answers to Questions — Education: School Curriculum (22 April 2013)

Andrew Stunell: I thank the Secretary of State for his answer. Bearing in mind how important the creative industries are as far as our exports are concerned—just to be pragmatic about this—will he give some assurance that music in particular will continue to play a part, and how will composition and other musical skills be developed at key stages 1 and 2?

[1st Allocated Day]: New Clause 7 — General anti-tax avoidance principle (17 April 2013)

Andrew Stunell: rose—

[1st Allocated Day]: New Clause 7 — General anti-tax avoidance principle (17 April 2013)

Andrew Stunell: I am happy to agree with the hon. Lady: it is true that the previous Government took the issue seriously and I was happy to serve on the International Development Committee during that time. I say to her, however, that we have taken the issue further.

[1st Allocated Day]: New Clause 7 — General anti-tax avoidance principle (17 April 2013)

Andrew Stunell: Indeed, it is. There are many propositions made here that are highly desirable, and I would not be at all disappointed if the Front-Bench team agreed to accept amendment 7 and a number of others. The point I am making is that what we need across all political parties in the House, and beyond, is strong consensus in favour of not only continuing our achievement of the aid target, but ensuring...

[1st Allocated Day]: New Clause 7 — General anti-tax avoidance principle (17 April 2013)

Andrew Stunell: Indeed, and I will move on to that shortly. Based on all that has gone before, I think that the Minister will say that the Government have every intention of ensuring that those things happen and that the work being promoted by the IF campaign becomes mainstream in this House and the outcome we all wish to see. I support that campaign and its objectives and am keen for the Government to adopt...

[1st Allocated Day]: New Clause 7 — General anti-tax avoidance principle (17 April 2013)

Andrew Stunell: Yes, I very much agree. Indeed, I have heard Government Ministers say that they agree. It is why it is important to work through the G8, the OECD and even the UN to get some level of international engagement on that. As is so often the case, those necessary and important international outcomes cannot be achieved by one country taking an initiative on its own. That does not deter me from...

[1st Allocated Day]: New Clause 7 — General anti-tax avoidance principle (17 April 2013)

Andrew Stunell: In all honesty, I was not surprised because that rule has always been in place. I do not have to hand figures on any similar underspend before 2010, but if I did I am absolutely certain that the Chancellor of the time would have repossessed it. That is part of the system of central Government control of our expenditure. I can understand that the hon. Gentleman is perhaps not in favour of...

[1st Allocated Day]: New Clause 7 — General anti-tax avoidance principle (17 April 2013)

Andrew Stunell: rose—

[1st Allocated Day]: New Clause 7 — General anti-tax avoidance principle (17 April 2013)

Andrew Stunell: With the permission of the Chair, in a minute or two I hope to be able to tell the House fully.

[1st Allocated Day]: New Clause 7 — General anti-tax avoidance principle (17 April 2013)

Andrew Stunell: I strongly support the general anti-avoidance rule and its introduction. Some would say that it is long overdue. Bearing in mind what the hon. Member for Newcastle upon Tyne North (Catherine McKinnell) has just said, how important and urgent it is and how long-standing the problem has been, one has to say that it was overdue in 2010, so it is good that it is in place now. I commend Ministers...

[1st Allocated Day]: New Clause 7 — General anti-tax avoidance principle (17 April 2013)

Andrew Stunell: I was very attracted to one point that my hon. Friend made in his speech, which was that he thought there was a tendency not to go for the biggest fish with the sharpest teeth and the most expensive lawyers, but to go for the little people or at least the middle-sized people. That is a powerful point and I hope those on the Front Bench are listening carefully. A general anti-avoidance rule...