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Developing Country Debt (Restriction of Recovery): Finance Bill (6 May 2009) has video

Philip Hammond: ...for ordinary families now, but with much, much more to come after the election, starting with the tax on jobs that will hit everybody on £20,000 a year or more in 2011, all under cover of the smoke generated by the 50p distraction tax "on the rich", designed to fool the gullible. We also got a slashing of planned public expenditure growth. After allowing for the increased cost of...

Written Answers — Treasury: Revenue and Customs: Smoking (9 Jun 2008)

Philip Hammond: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many smoking shelters were built at each HM Revenue and Customs office in the last five years.

Business of the House (Lisbon Treaty) (No. 3): Treaty of Lisbon (No. 4) — (4th Allotted Day) (6 Feb 2008)

Philip Hammond: ...of the defeat. First, they resolved to deny the referendum that they had promised the British people, because it would have exposed the gap between the rulers and the ruled. They then created a smokescreen of red lines and emergency brakes, which my right hon. Friend the Member for Richmond, Yorks (Mr. Hague) has brilliantly demonstrated is a meaningless charade of flannel and smoke that...

Orders of the Day: European Communities (Finance) Bill (19 Nov 2007)

Philip Hammond: I have to congratulate the hon. Gentleman on his elegant question. If I were in the Chief Secretary's position, I would do what he has done today: throw up lots of smoke and hope that everybody goes to sleep by the end of the debate.

Orders of the Day: European Communities (Finance) Bill (19 Nov 2007)

Philip Hammond: The right hon. Gentleman has thrown up lots of smoke over the past few minutes. Let us get back to the main point. He is saying that giving up the rebate is in Britain's interests and is the right thing to do. Why, then, did his previous Prime Minister go off to Brussels with a position that the rebate was non-negotiable?

Written Answers — Defence: Armed Forces: Smoking (23 Jul 2007)

Philip Hammond: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence whether the ban on smoking in enclosed public places applies to military vehicles.

Orders of the Day — Finance Bill: New Clause 1 — Inheritance Tax (6 Jul 2005)

Philip Hammond: ...to the 30,000 estates just below the IHT threshold, and the new definition, which includes some 300,000 estates that require probate and are below the IHT threshold, the right hon. Lady has effectively thrown up smoke around the debate, but she has not answered the challenge that we have put to her. The right hon. Lady says that all that is being asked is that people make a return to show...

Fire Safety (27 Jan 2005)

Mr Philip Hammond: ...hire external contractors or, alternatively, to pay an inspection fee to the local authority. Does he not think that that is likely to deter householders, especially the poorest, from hard wiring smoke alarms?

Fire Safety (27 Jan 2005)

Mr Philip Hammond: I was not aware that I was a part of the media. The Minister says that I am utterly wrong. Can he then give us an assurance that the part P regulations do not apply to the wiring of smoke alarms?

Fire Safety (27 Jan 2005)

Mr Philip Hammond: ...to be an expert on the part P regulations. To go back to where we started, the hon. Member for Denton and Reddish (Andrew Bennett) suggested that it would be good to encourage people to hard wire smoke alarms. Accepting that smoke alarms should not be in kitchens or bathrooms, will the Minister confirm that hard wiring one outside a kitchen or a bathroom would not give rise to the need to...

Fire and Rescue Services Bill: New Clause 4 — Limitation on Power to Authorise Charging (15 Mar 2004)

Mr Philip Hammond: ...to our relationship with the emergency services that it never crosses our minds to ask whether we will be charged for the services delivered. When we pick up the phone and dial 999 because we see smoke, we do not wonder first whether there will be a charge for calling the fire brigade. I am against charging for emergency services that are part of a statutory function, although I am not...

Public Bill Committee: Fire and Rescue Services Bill: Clause 19 - Charging (24 Feb 2004)

Mr Philip Hammond: ...that now. It is right that a fire and rescue authority should not charge for the ''provision of information, publicity and encouragement''. That is not to say that it should not charge for the smoke alarms that it installs or for some other product that it makes available—we can argue at the margins. However, I would hate the Minister to succeed in duping the Committee into...

Public Bill Committee: Fire and Rescue Services Bill: Clause 15 - Arrangements with other employers offire-fighters (24 Feb 2004)

Mr Philip Hammond: ...6 in clause 15. There are statutory duties on a fire authority for fire safety, and it is perfectly conceivable that authorities will want to contract out—for example, for the fitting of smoke detectors—to a third-party contractor on a commercial basis. I do not see where that power is stipulated.

Public Bill Committee: Fire and Rescue Services Bill: Clause 11 - Power to respond to other eventualities (12 Feb 2004)

Mr Philip Hammond: I am still a little unclear about where county brigades find the power to distribute smoke alarms, but no doubt the Under-Secretary can let me know about that in due course. I am sure that he will find it in the Bill somewhere but, given that we have all looked for it, it is not immediately obvious where it is. I am grateful for the Under-Secretary's assurance that there is no requisitioning...

Public Bill Committee: Fire and Rescue Services Bill: Clause 11 - Power to respond to other eventualities (12 Feb 2004)

Mr Philip Hammond: ...when he suggested that the power to secure the provision of equipment was not to be interpreted in the way that I understood it, but was actually a power that would allow fire authorities to fix smoke alarms to people's ceilings. I suppose that that is securing equipment, after a fashion, but it certainly is not pursuant to the obligations in subsection (1), which is clearly pursuant to...

Orders of the Day — Employment Bill: New Clause 2 — Assessment of effects of widening definition of 'employee' (12 Feb 2002)

Mr Philip Hammond: ...them for not doing so. We must accept that atypical workers will form an important part of this country's total labour force. In this debate the Minister has, perhaps tactically, thrown up a little smoke in anticipation of the debate to come. I know, Mr. Deputy Speaker, that you would not want me to stray too far into the subject of trade union funding for the Labour party, but the Bill is...

Orders of the Day — Employment Bill: New Clause 2 — Assessment of effects of widening definition of 'employee' (12 Feb 2002)

Mr Philip Hammond: ...the knowledge that the changes will be made on the basis of properly assessed need, cost and benefit. I hope that the changes will not be part of a wider political trade-off in the Labour party's smoke-filled tower, with Ministers desperately bidding to win trade union leaders' support for their privatisation of public services, while simultaneously keeping up the flow of cash into Labour...

Public Bill Committee: Employment Bill: Clause 2 - Statutory paternity pay (15 Jan 2002)

Mr Philip Hammond: You are absolutely right, Mr. Benton. I apologise for having been tempted by the hon. Member for Wolverhampton, South-West down that course. Perhaps in the Smoking Room at 10.30 one evening we might more appropriately pursue that interesting debate, but I shall seek to withdraw the amendment.

Public Bill Committee: Employment Bill: Clause 22 - Employment Tribunals (11 Dec 2001)

Mr Philip Hammond: ..., Municipal, Boilermakers and Allied Trades Union, said on 5 September: ''If this U-turn is true it is something we would warmly welcome. But again you have to question why the government is using smoke and mirrors. If they are going to drop the idea of charging why on earth don't they have the courage to come out and say it?'' Even now, the Minister seeks to obfuscate the point at which...

Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance (Supplementary Credit Approvals) Bill (17 Jun 1997)

Mr Philip Hammond: ...housing provision that the Government are seeking. If the Government achieve anything by the Bill it will be only by robbing Peter to pay Paul. The reference in the Bill to capital receipts is a smoke-screen. It does not detail the methodology that will apply in determining the supplementary credit applications. If it is to increase the amount of investment in social housing, it must...