Peers debate Private Members' Bills
Ways and Means Resolutions
House of Commons
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MPs vote 320 to 249 to back a motion enabling the government to change the extent to which trading profits are chargeable to corporation tax at the Northern Ireland rate.
Ways and Means Resolutions
House of Commons
Parliament
MPs are voting on a motion enabling the government to change the extent to which trading profits are chargeable to corporation tax at the Northern Ireland rate.
Ways and Means Resolutions
House of Commons
Parliament
MPs vote 320 to 287 to pass a motion which would enable the government to change the conditions under which business investment relief is available for non-domiciled individuals.
Ways and Means Resolutions
House of Commons
Parliament
MPs are voting on a motion which would enable the government to change the conditions under which business investment relief is available for non-domiciled individuals.
Ways and Means Resolutions
House of Commons
Parliament
MPs vote 317 to 276 for a motion which would enable the government to alter the taxes on payments or benefits received in connection with the termination of employment.
Ways and Means Resolutions
House of Commons
Parliament
MPs are voting on a motion which would enable the government to alter the taxes on payments or benefits received in connection with the termination of employment.
Ways and Means Resolutions
House of Commons
Parliament
Image source, HoCFinancial Secretary Mel Stride defends the measures before the House, saying they have already been "consulted upon widely and scrutinised by the public".
He tells MPs the tax adjustments will raise £16bn over next five years and "much of this revenue will be raised from large multinational corporations and, yes, from non-domicilepd individuals".
"It is this government which is ending permanent non-dom status," he points out.
Ways and Means Resolutions
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Image source, HoCWinding up for Labour, shadow Treasury minister Annaliese Dodds puts it to ministers that they have made "no genuine attempt to face up to enormous challenges".
She also claims MPs are being "rushed" into approving the government's tax proposals.
Like others, she focuses on non-domiciled status, on which she says the government is introducing "more and more complicated rules".
Leaked Home Office proposals say firms must put UK workers first after Brexit or face penalties.
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Image source, HoCLabour's Ruth George warns the tax measures before the House will "make our society more unequal".
She says it gives "huge advantage to those who spend most of their lives outside this country", or non-domiciled, and the crackdown promised on their taxes is "very different crackdown to those on the benefits of disabled people".
"Do we really need more overseas investors driving up property prices?" she asks.
Theresa May was asked during PMQs about the conviction of a cyclist over a pedestrian's death.
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House of Lords
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Image source, PAThe urgent questions concludes.
The next item of business is the committee stage of the Financial Guidance and Claims Bill.
This piece of legislation seeks to create a new Single Financial Guidance Body.
The government say it wants people to have access to "good-quality, impartial financial guidance and debt advice".
Childcare entitlement
House of Lords
Parliament
The Lib Dems Lord Storey expresses concern about the financial problems facing the sector.
He tells peers that the government funding does not cover the costs of providing the extra free hours of childcare.
Lord Nash disagrees and cites an independent report by the consultancy Frontier Economics which said the government was "more than covering the costs of the extra provisions".
Ways and Means Resolutions
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Image source, HoCLabour's Kevan Jones raises the issue of landfill tax, which he says is a "serious" one.
He says landfill tax avoidance runs into millions of pounds, and is "funding organised crime and leading to huge costs for local authorities".
Childcare entitlement
House of Lords
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Image source, PAEducation Minister Lord Nash now repeats an answer to the urgent question on childcare entitlement asked earlier today in the Commons.
Labour's Lord Watson of Invergowrie raises a concern that the system will produce two tiers, whereby those who can afford to pay extra will be able to access the new entitlement.
Lord Nash replies that he has "no desire for a two-tier system" and adds that the government is doing all it can to support less privileged children, citing the pupil premium and tax free childcare.
House of Lords
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Image source, PAOral questions concludes and government spokeswoman Baroness Goldie now repeats the statement, made earlier in the Commons, on the UK's new shipbuilding strategy.
Although pleased that the strategy has been published - adding "Eureka, we have it at last" - Labour's Lord Touhig suggest that it is "lacking in ambition".
Lib Dem Baroness Jolly welcomes the strategy but expresses concern that "efficiency savings" could lead to "cutting corners".
Ways and Means Resolutions
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Image source, HoCThe SNP's economy spokesman, Kirsty Blackman, says she welcomes some measures to alleviate tax on arts and sports organisations but warns that "some museums may lose out on VAT they expected to get back".
She goes on to say she doesn't think there's evidence that the resolutions proposed by the government will help tackle tax avoidance by "non-doms".
Ways and Means Resolutions
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Image source, HoCNicky Morgan, the new Conservative chair of the Treasury select committee, gives a broad welcome to the new tax measures, which she says should provide "certainty and stability".
She describes it as "alarming" that 27 of the 48 changes have retrospective application.
She gives her support to digital tax returns, but notes "concern" over the speed at which they are being introduced and the fact they are mandatory even for small businesses.
Oral questions
House of Lords
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Labour's Lord Howarth of Newport urges the government to change its mind arguing that "prohibition has failed with disastorous consqeunces".
Crossbencher Baroness Meacher says that "banning drugs will never create a drug free world".
Baroness Williams insists the act is working telling peers that under the act 300 retailers selling psychoactive drugs have closed down.
Oral questions
House of Lords
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Image source, PaThe last question come from Labour's Lord Howarth of Newport who wants to know if the government will renew the Psychoactive Substances Act in the light of recent failed prosecutions.
The act banned drugs that affect the human brain including poppers and nitrous oxide.
Two recent court cases prosecuting people for supplying nitrous oxide have collapsed due to a legal loophole.
The defence teams in the cases in question successfully argued that nitrous oxide was exempt as a medical product.
Home Office Minister Baroness Williams replies that the government has no plans to conduct a formal review of the act.