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[1st Allocated Day]: New Clause 1 — Government housing market support (second homes) (17 April 2013)

John Mann: Would the Minister accept that, with the affordable housing levy the Government have brought in on single properties, those who build their own home now face a minimum £40,000 tax per property? In Hertfordshire, it is £187,000. That will kill off aspiration for those who wish to build their own home.

[1st Allocated Day]: New Clause 1 — Government housing market support (second homes) (17 April 2013)

John Mann: I thank the hon. Gentleman for giving way, because I am little perplexed. Is this not the first opportunity for the Liberals to have one of their policies adopted by a major party? It has not happened in the past two and a half years. Should he not be thinking that his best bet is to throw more things the Labour way, because the way things are going, that will be his only chance in the future?

[Mr David Amess in the Chair] — Backbench Business — Sudden Adult Death Syndrome (25 March 2013)

John Mann: It is a pleasure to take part in this debate and I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Liverpool, Walton (Steve Rotheram) on the fine way that he introduced it. I pay tribute to the campaigners who have given Parliament an appropriate kick in the pants to ensure that this issue is debated with proper time. This is a great opportunity for us to look at what can be done and the best way...

[Mr David Amess in the Chair] — Backbench Business — Sudden Adult Death Syndrome (25 March 2013)

John Mann: The Minister knows them. She could have a word with these bodies and insist that homes have a defibrillator. What are they doing employing staff who have not been trained? We should insist they train them; we should make it part of the licensing process. It costs the Government nothing; it is also good business practice for the private homes and good public practice for the publicly run...

Financial Services (Banking Reform) Bill (11 March 2013)

John Mann: It ill befits the Minister, when an hon. Member makes a point on three occasions, not to manage to listen to it. Perhaps he would care to consider the point I made: I dismissed the Chinese model and recommended the German model.

Financial Services (Banking Reform) Bill (11 March 2013)

John Mann: The difference between the German model and the model the Minister has at the moment is that the German model is lending to business.

Financial Services (Banking Reform) Bill (11 March 2013)

John Mann: It is a pleasure to follow the Father of the House and to agree with many of the sentiments he expressed. I look at the Bill and at the Ministers and my reaction is to ask, “Is this it?” Considering what we have been through and the problems in British and world banking, is this Bill the best that we, as legislators, can do? If that is the case, it is no surprise that we are...

Financial Services (Banking Reform) Bill (11 March 2013)

John Mann: Before too much consensus breaks out, may I ask my hon. Friend to say a little more about how he envisages the problem of small building societies being addressed? They are saying unambiguously—although privately, of course, for commercial reasons—that their future is imperilled. Is a one-size-fits-all approach the right one? Is that the approach that my hon. Friend would take if...

Financial Services (Banking Reform) Bill (11 March 2013)

John Mann: Does the Minister perceive there to be a problem for very small building societies, because they are more disadvantaged than large institutions and could be swallowed up, thereby reducing competition in the market rather than increasing it?

Financial Services (Banking Reform) Bill (11 March 2013)

John Mann: I welcome the Minister’s comments. Will he also table an amendment to recreate the Halifax building society out of the state-owned Lloyds-TSB bank? That would immediately create a major competitor on the high street that would be hugely popular, as it was before it was bought out.

Financial Services (Banking Reform) Bill (11 March 2013)

John Mann: This is a Bill, and it can become an Act, so the Minister could table a Government amendment to do precisely what I said. Why is he not taking the opportunity to recreate the Halifax building society, which hundreds of thousands—perhaps millions—of consumers across the country would greatly welcome?

Oral Answers to Questions — Defence: Economic Policy (25 February 2013)

John Mann: Would not the honourable course be for the Chancellor to say at the next Cabinet meeting, “I’m going outside and I may be some time”?

Opposition Day — [16th Allotted Day: First Part] — Suicide Prevention: Clause 11 — Touting (6 February 2013)

John Mann: I thank the hon. Gentleman for giving way so generously. I am listening to the construction of his argument on the issue of the location in Canterbury. While I consider the merits of his argument, will he shed any light from his reading of their lordships debate on whether they considered the evidence base relating to location in Canterbury or whether there are any third-party evidence bases...

Opposition Day — [16th Allotted Day: First Part] — Suicide Prevention: Clause 11 — Touting (6 February 2013)

John Mann: The hon. Gentleman is not confusing the argument, but the argument is confusing me. I have received many representations about matters of concern to the House, but I have received none about this matter. The hon. Gentleman has suggested that it may have been important to the people of Canterbury in the context of what he describes as a possible motivation for the Bill, but they do not seem to...

[Mr George Howarth in the Chair] — HM Revenue and Customs (5 February 2013)

John Mann: Does my hon. Friend accept that it is not just about the numbers of staff but about their morale? Has he read the repeated surveys, over a number of years, that demonstrate that HMRC staff are the most demoralised anywhere in Government?

[Mr George Howarth in the Chair] — HM Revenue and Customs (5 February 2013)

John Mann: Has my hon. Friend considered the disproportionate impact of tax office closures on traditional market towns such as Retford? Where a significant number of staff are moved out and the offices are not re-let, the consequence is that other small businesses, newsagents, cafés, and so on, get into difficulties because part of their core lunch-time business disappears.

Oral Answers to Questions — Communities and Local Government: Banking Reform (4 February 2013)

John Mann: Given that we have the highest high street lending rates in the European Union, along with the lowest high street saving rates, why is not the Minister proposing the break-up of Lloyds TSB in addition to that of RBS? That would immediately create proper competition in the banking sector.

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (30 January 2013)

John Mann: The Prime Minister’s Government have just introduced two new taxes that will cost people wanting to build their own home between £25,000 and £35,000 per family. Why is he choosing to put a block on the aspirations of young people who want to build their own home?

Oral Answers to Questions — Treasury: Tax System (29 January 2013)

John Mann: Will the Minister join me in calling on all political parties in this country to refuse or return any donations from tax avoiders?

Bill Presented — Marriage (Same Sex Couples): Holocaust Memorial Day (24 January 2013)

John Mann: I am leaving in the next few minutes to go to Hungary, and I shall be speaking in the Hungarian Parliament tomorrow morning with politicians from five other countries about the statements made by the new party, Jobbik, which called in November for there to be lists of Jews rewritten by the Hungarian state, for purposes to be determined. Does the hon. Gentleman agree that even today there are...