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Asylum and Migration (14 Mar 2024)

Stephen Kinnock: I thank the Backbench Business Committee for securing this important debate and pay tribute to the Chair of the Home Affairs Committee for her powerful opening speech and for the outstanding work that she is doing on these issues. The Home Office spending figures, detailing an astronomical overspend of £5.9 billion last year, represents such a shockingly cavalier attitude to taxpayers’...

Income Tax (Charge) ( 7 Mar 2024)

Stephen Kinnock: The Minister has not yet mentioned the Government’s damascene conversion on scrapping the loophole for non-doms, but there is a point here about what they could have generated. If they had listened to Labour and done that two years ago, it would have generated an extra £6 billion of revenue, which could have paid for free breakfast clubs for nearly 4.5 million children. So on the point of...

Income Tax (Charge) ( 7 Mar 2024)

Stephen Kinnock: It is a real pleasure to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Easington (Grahame Morris). We on the Labour Benches talk a lot, and rightly so, about the Conservatives crashing our economy and sending mortgages up by almost £3,000, rent up by 10%, and food prices up by 25%. We talk a lot about the fact that the Prime Minister is utterly blinkered about the truth that he has gone from being a...

Income Tax (Charge) ( 7 Mar 2024)

Stephen Kinnock: My hon. Friend is making an excellent speech. Does he think that it is extraordinary, given what happened after the so-called mini-Budget, that the Conservative party seems to have learned nothing and is still making all sorts of unfunded commitments, which could wreak havoc on our economy, just as happened last time around?

Income Tax (Charge) ( 7 Mar 2024)

Stephen Kinnock: Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

Income Tax (Charge) ( 7 Mar 2024)

Stephen Kinnock: It is clear that the tax burden is actually the highest it has been in 70 years. The hon. Gentleman raised a point about national insurance contributions. I assume that he has seen the email that the Chancellor of the Exchequer sent to all Conservative party members, making it clear that the plan is to scrap NICs in the next Parliament. Does he accept that that is the Government’s plan,...

Income Tax (Charge) ( 7 Mar 2024)

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Income Tax (Charge) ( 7 Mar 2024)

Stephen Kinnock: As the hon. Gentleman will be aware, I am an avid reader of the Chancellor’s emails to Conservative party members. He states: “We want a simpler, fairer tax system where you only pay tax once. If we stick with our plan that’s working, we’ll be able to make progress towards that goal in the next Parliament.” If that is not a commitment to scrapping NICs in the next Parliament,...

Income Tax (Charge) ( 7 Mar 2024)

Stephen Kinnock: It has been widely reported that the taxpayer is having to pick up the tab for £15,000 of legal costs and damages incurred because of the actions of the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, the right hon. Member for Chippenham (Michelle Donelan), who is rapidly becoming known as the hon. Member for “chipping in”. Will the Minister confirm that the figure of...

Business of the House ( 7 Mar 2024)

Stephen Kinnock: It has been reported that taxpayers have had to pick up a £15,000 bill due to the actions of the right hon. Member for Chippenham (Michelle Donelan), who is rapidly becoming known as “the Member for Chipping In”. Could the Leader of the House confirm that amount of £15,000? Does she think it fair that taxpayers should be footing the bill for the disgracefully bad judgment and behaviour...

Business and Trade: Topical Questions ( 7 Mar 2024)

Stephen Kinnock: I have repeatedly asked Ministers whether any strings were attached to the £500 million of taxpayers’ money that was given to Tata Steel, particularly with regard to job guarantees. I have not had a straight answer, so I will try again today. Can the Secretary of State please confirm whether any conditionality was attached to the £500 million, or did the Government simply buy Tata...

Home Department: Legal Migration (26 Feb 2024)

Stephen Kinnock: Since our last Home Office questions, the list of Government failures on immigration has continued to grow relentlessly: 30,000 asylum seekers stuck in limbo, unable to be processed due to the Prime Minister’s legislative fiasco; 250 visas awarded to a care home that does not actually exist; net migration trebled; and criminals free to fly into our country undetected on private jets. Having...

Cavity Wall Insulation: Government Support (21 Feb 2024)

Stephen Kinnock: The Minister is being generous in giving way. Several of my Aberavon constituents are fighting to get justice after cavity walls have been incorrectly or inappropriately installed, and real damage has been done to their homes. The companies have disappeared and no longer exist, and this Cavity Insulation Guarantee Agency does not seem to be working at all. It has cost my constituents tens of...

Steel Industry: Wales — [Sir Gary Streeter in the Chair] (21 Feb 2024)

Stephen Kinnock: Will the Minister give way?

Steel Industry: Wales — [Sir Gary Streeter in the Chair] (21 Feb 2024)

Stephen Kinnock: Surely when the Government entered into a negotiation with Tata Steel, which is highly experienced in the business of negotiation, they considered the possibility that a gun was being held to their head, and that Tata Steel would of course make threats about total closure because that would strengthen their negotiating position. Were the Government completely naive or just incompetent when...

Steel Industry: Wales — [Sir Gary Streeter in the Chair] (21 Feb 2024)

Stephen Kinnock: The Minister keeps saying that the blast furnaces—plural—are reaching the end of their lifespan. Yes, everybody agrees that blast furnace No. 5 is very close to the end of its lifespan; that part of the heavy end, with the coke ovens, should shut down, because the investment does not wash its face. The lifespan of blast furnace No. 4 is until 2032. It does not require that additional...

Steel Industry: Wales — [Sir Gary Streeter in the Chair] (21 Feb 2024)

Stephen Kinnock: On a point of information, the multi-union plan is based on a 1.5 million tonne electric arc furnace. Nobody is denying that electric arc furnaces should not be in the mix. We fully support an EAF. We need a 1.5 million tonne EAF, running alongside blast furnace No. 4, not least because that blast furnace could then produce the iron ore-based metallics that are a vital part of sweetening the...

Steel Industry: Wales — [Sir Gary Streeter in the Chair] (21 Feb 2024)

Stephen Kinnock: Will the Minister give way?

Steel Industry: Wales — [Sir Gary Streeter in the Chair] (21 Feb 2024)

Stephen Kinnock: The Minister is being generous in giving way. She said that the Tata plan would enable us to be open to new technologies. In fact, the opposite is the case because the 3 million tonne electric arc furnace negates the possibility of direct-reduced iron capability, of an open slag bath furnace and of a plate mill; the plan is closing down routes to other technologies, not opening them up.

Steel Industry: Wales — [Sir Gary Streeter in the Chair] (21 Feb 2024)

Stephen Kinnock: My hon. Friend is summarising the discussion extremely well. I declare an interest as a member of the transition board. During the board’s discussions, we talked about what the vacancies looked like in the labour market in south-west and south-east Wales, and the vast majority of vacancies are in the retail and healthcare sectors. Those are really important sectors and really important...


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