🗣️ Speeches and Debates
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My Lords, the Budget contains a set of measures that reinforce the three pillars which support investment and growth: financial stability, growing demand and institutional reform. Financial instability, as many have commented, is the enemy of investment, as painfully illustrated in the years since the global financial crisis. That is why the ÂŁ21 billion headroom is important, securing...
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My Lords, the Opposition suggested that markets were misled. Does the Minister agree that, if markets had been misled by the Chancellor’s speech on 4 November, there would have been a sharp market reaction when the truth was revealed in the Budget? But quite contrary to the erroneous statement by the noble Baroness, Lady Neville-Rolfe, there was no sharp reaction. Indeed, the markets after...
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My Lords, we are all grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Elliott, for having secured this debate. As noble Lords will know, the noble Lord is one of the most brilliant political campaigners of his generation, evidenced in the speech we have just heard and, most notably, in his leadership of Vote Leave, the successful Brexit campaign. Hence, according to estimates by the Institute for Fiscal...
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My Lords, it is an honour and a pleasure to follow the excellent maiden speech of my noble friend Lady Caine. It must have been a special delight for her to highlight the importance of the creative industries on the day that the Government announced the creation of a national centre for music and dance as part of their plan for change. The changes will ensure that young people across the...
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My Lords, I am afraid that I regard this amendment, although obviously achieving consistency with treatment in Scotland as well as in the rest of the United Kingdom, as just another of the irresponsible measures we have seen from Opposition Benches. One will have noticed very clearly that there are no proposals whatever on how the expenditure should be funded. As a way of managing public...
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My Lords, Amendment 38, as written, is econometrically impossible. This cannot be done unless we have further specification of what is to be done. For example, are we to look at the effect of these changes assuming that the Budget had not changed or to look at their effect taking into account the consequential effects of the Budget which were also dependent on the national insurance changes?...
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My Lords, the amendments proposed by the noble Baroness, Lady Barker, are a classic example of how to distort a market. She wishes not only to exempt part-time employees from the measures in the Bill but to reduce the national insurance charge on part-time employees. She does not appear to have reflected on what would be the impact on full-time employees. How many full-time employees will,...
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My Lords, I find some difficulty in addressing this group of amendments, specifically because these amendments are but a part of 38—out of the total of 44—amendments in the Marshalled List that are essentially all the same. The 38 amendments all propose exemptions to the changes proposed in the Bill, or variations in the various thresholds at which employers’ national insurance is...
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✍️ Written Questions and Answers
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To ask Her Majesty's Government what proportions of UK national debt were owned by (1) UK households, (2) the Bank of England, (3) overseas purchasers, (4) banks and financial houses, and (5) insurance and pension funds, in (a) 2017, (b) 2018, (c) 2019, (d) 2020, and (e) 2021.
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To ask Her Majesty's Government what was the average duration of UK national debt in (1) 2017, (2) 2018, (3) 2019, (4) 2020, and (5) 2021.
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To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they treat children who claim to be adopted differently from those who are not adopted in determining immigration cases; and if so, how many instances of such different treatment there have been in the last five years.
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To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Williams of Trafford on 26 October (HL2021), which member states of the UN have adoption laws that are not recognised as lawful in the UK.
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To ask Her Majesty's Government what proof of adoption is required for a child adopted in a foreign jurisdiction to be deemed lawfully adopted by the UK authorities.
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To ask Her Majesty's Government in which circumstances the Home Office differentiates between adopted and natural children for (1) immigration purposes, and (2) other purposes.
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asked Her Majesty's Government: Whether the United Kingdom will continue to uphold the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe embargo on the export of weapons and military equipment to Azerbaijan.
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asked Her Majesty's Government: What progress is being made on the decision whether to add Chardon LL maize to the National Seeds List.
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