Rachel in Parliament - Rachel Reeves

Supporting Small Business

Commons debates

The Chancellor would have a lot more money to play with if he had gone ahead with President Biden’s proposals for a 21% global minimum rate of corporation tax. There are choices in...

Supporting Small Business

Commons debates

I thank my hon. Friend for speaking up for businesses in Reading that are struggling because of the unfair system of business rates. I expect that, like many other businesses up and down the...

Supporting Small Business

Commons debates

I will come on to those points. It is great that Conservative Members are asking for advice, because we have plenty about how to level the playing field in taxes for businesses. I will come on to...

Supporting Small Business

Commons debates

Perhaps the hon. Gentleman can give us an indication of when the review might finally be published.

Supporting Small Business

Commons debates

My hon. Friend is right to make that point. I have had constituents raise concerns about cuts to money advice, for example, through StepChange, the charity based in Leeds. This is linked to the...

Supporting Small Business

Commons debates

I thank my hon. Friend for that intervention and I know that he is a staunch supporter of businesses in Headingley, Otley and across his Leeds North West constituency. The Government should not...

Supporting Small Business

Commons debates

My hon. Friend is absolutely right. The Labour Government in Wales ensured that there would be no business rates at all for the retail and hospitality sectors in Wales for this financial year....

Supporting Small Business

Commons debates

My hon. Friend is absolutely right. She speaks about businesses in Brent, but that could go for so many other constituencies, high streets and town streets across our country. We want businesses...

Supporting Small Business

Commons debates

I know my hon. Friend is a keen supporter of businesses, including the Kirkdale Bookshop on Sydenham’s high street and Billings butchers. She is a fine steward for the people of Lewisham...

Supporting Small Business

Commons debates

I beg to move, That this House recognises the importance of British businesses to high streets and communities across the UK and the exceptional challenges they face due to the pandemic and...

Non-domestic Rates: Tax Allowances

Rachel Reeves received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much of the £1.5 billion Business Rates Relief fund, announced on 25 March 2021, has been distributed to businesses; and what the timescale is by...

Health and Social Care Levy

Commons debates

We had a clear plan to bring down waiting lists, a plan that this Government are sorely lacking. The economic circumstances are different, too. The Government’s tax on jobs comes at the...

Health and Social Care Levy

Commons debates

My hon. Friend speaks well of what our constituents in Leeds North West and Leeds West will be facing with that double whammy of universal credit and the national insurance increase, in addition...

Health and Social Care Levy

Commons debates

I will give way just twice more: to my hon. Friend the Member for Leeds North West (Alex Sobel) and then to the hon. Member for Sevenoaks (Laura Trott).

Health and Social Care Levy

Commons debates

Let me just make this point. What a contrast. Yesterday, Amazon reported an additional £1.9 billion-worth of sales, but it is paying only £3.8 million more in corporation tax, with much...

Health and Social Care Levy

Commons debates

I will give way again in a moment, but I have taken a lot of interventions—a lot more than the Minister. In contrast, who has been shielded by the Chancellor? Which types of income will be...

Health and Social Care Levy

Commons debates

I think many councils and the people who work for them and provide social care at a local level will be incredibly worried about what they are hearing from this Government, which is that council...

Health and Social Care Levy

Commons debates

I will give way to the Chair of the Select Committee.

Health and Social Care Levy

Commons debates

I am not sure what the constituents of South Ribble will make of that, but I know what they will think after seeing less money in their pay cheques time after time because of decisions by this...

Health and Social Care Levy

Commons debates

I will give way to the hon. Lady. I will be interested to hear what she is going to say to her constituents at her surgery.