Priti Patel: ...outlined a way that is working and the funds allocated. Importantly, it is right that we have legislated to take more knives off our streets and that our serious violence Bill will place a new duty on public agencies to reduce serious violence. That means public agencies coming together at a community level to work to stamp out that violence but also to provide the support that young...
Priti Patel: ...outlined a way that is working and the funds allocated. Importantly, it is right that we have legislated to take more knives off our streets and that our serious violence Bill will place a new duty on public agencies to reduce serious violence. That means public agencies coming together at a community level to work to stamp out that violence but also to provide the support that young...
Lord Agnew of Oulton: My right honourable friend the Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Jesse Norman) has today made the following Writen Ministerial Statement. The past weeks have been an uncertain time for those buying and selling property. Since lockdown restrictions were implemented in March, more than 450,000 people have been unable to make progress with their plans to move house. Following the...
Jesse Norman: The past weeks have been an uncertain time for those buying and selling property. Since lockdown restrictions were implemented in March, more than 450,000 people have been unable to make progress with their plans to move house. Following the publication of updated regulations on 13 May 2020, some of the restrictions initially placed on the housing market have now been lifted. The...
Sadiq Khan: ...a continuing operating grant from the Government to carry us forward whilst we have the consequences of the virus, or devolving to London the powers to raise taxes, whether it is by property taxes, stamp duty, council tax, business rates, land value capture, the sort of stuff talked about in the London Finance Commission report commissioned by one Boris Johnson. Without one of those two...
Lord Truscott: To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to increase Stamp Duty Land Tax for foreign buyers.
Alexander Stafford: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent assessment he has made of the potential merits of reforming Stamp Duty.
Stephen Farry: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what plans he has to increase the threshold for stamp duty to help support the property market during the covid-19 outbreak.
Rosie Duffield: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the potential merits for the property market of extending the three year window to claim a refund of three per cent of stamp duty on second homes during the covid-19 outbreak.
Baroness Berridge: ...within higher education (HE) – for hatred or any form of harassment, discrimination or racism, including antisemitism. The government will continue to work with universities to ensure we stamp out antisemitism in all its forms. The government expects HE providers to take their responsibilities, including those under the Equality Act 2010 (including the Public Sector Equality Duty) and...
Baroness Berridge: ...within higher education (HE) – for hatred or any form of harassment, discrimination or racism, including antisemitism. The government will continue to work with universities to ensure we stamp out antisemitism in all its forms. The government expects HE providers to take their responsibilities, including those under the Equality Act 2010 and for freedom of speech, seriously. We expect HE...
Christopher Pincher: ...April 2021, which included a policy decision to define a first-time buyer as someone who has never previously owned a property. This definition is consistent with other government policies such as Stamp Duty Land Tax exemption. Budget 2020 set out the revised forecast expenditure arising from this decision.
Andrew Rosindell: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of increasing the stamp duty threshold to help increase levels of home ownership.
35. Stamp duty (unlisted securities and connected persons)
36. Stamp duty reserve tax (unlisted securities and connected persons)
37. Stamp duty (acquisition of target company’s share capital)
Rishi Sunak: ...whatsoever on women’s sanitary products. I congratulate all hon. and right hon. Members who campaigned for this, including the former Member for Dewsbury who led the charge. Let me turn now to duties. Scotch whisky is a crucial industry and our largest food and drink export. My Scottish Conservative colleagues, including my hon. Friend the Member for Moray (Douglas Ross), have...
Christopher Pincher: ...for local authorities to offer a discount on second homes enabling them to charge the full rate of council tax. Additionally, in April 2016, the Government introduced a 3 per cent higher rate of Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT) for those purchasing additional properties.
Catherine West: ...local authorities to have the key to addressing the need for high-quality early intervention, health and education services, and, of course, income. I think that if local authorities had a greater duty to stamp out the scourge of low pay, we would see a greater improvement in health. We know that 25% of people in Haringey are still not receiving the London living wage. If a quarter of our...
Ben Everitt: ...and bungalows, we would free up capacity for people who are, frankly, over-occupying larger houses, and that would help the whole system. That, however, relies on liquidity in the market, where stamp duty is a real issue, because it acts as a break on social mobility as well as on liquidity. I was struck by the comments by the hon. Member for Ealing Central and Acton (Dr Huq). We are...