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Bill Presented: Members' Salaries (3 Jul 2008) has video

John Butterfill: ...accept whatever he recommended, so that it would not be a matter of contention on a party political or any other basis. That is not where we are today. The other problem is that the Government have changed their position on a lot of the aspects of the Baker report during the course of its evolution. It is worth examining those aspects. When the Government made their recommendation to Sir...

Opposition Day: Pensions and Pensioners (6 Nov 2000)

Mr John Butterfill: ...by all of us on an all-party basis to provide a sustainable decent standard of living for pensioners in future. There are three groups in society. The young have inherited a wonderful economic climate and will have the opportunity during their lifetimes to make themselves rich beyond the aspirations of any of us here. Most of us probably represent the middle group and then there are the...

Orders of the Day — Business of the House: Custodianship of Investments (3 Apr 2000)

Mr John Butterfill: ...a measure such as the new clauses can prevent it. I apologise for detaining the House, but these are important subjects. Amendment No. 83 would amend section 56 of the 1995 Act in a way that would change the operation of the minimum funding requirement. The amendment's intention is to permit fund trustees to take into account the total return on their assets rather than simply to...

Innovation and Enterprise (25 Jun 1999)

Mr John Butterfill: ...speeches of Labour Members. Not everything that the Government have done to encourage industry and commerce has been entirely bad—some of their proposals have been helpful in principle. The changes to the capital gains tax regime are a step in the right direction. However, the abolition of indexation and the introduction of a 10-year taper will mean not just that an entrepreneur will...

Innovation and Enterprise (25 Jun 1999)

Mr John Butterfill: ...Conservative Government bequeathed to the country. One particular measure that is especially worrying is the energy tax that the Labour Government intend to impose on British industry. The climate change levy is unnecessary as Britain has already done more than any other leading economy to reduce emissions. Of course I am sympathetic to the idea that we should continue to reduce emissions...

Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation (30 Nov 1994)

Mr John Butterfill: ...through her bills, we discovered that far from being worse off, even with only the 50p increase we have given this time, she was better off by a few pounds a year than she would have been without the changes we have made. If we take into account the reductions in fuel costs in the past two years, she was actually significantly better off. It is wrong to alarm all pensioners, as the...