Rachel in Parliament - Rachel Reeves

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...

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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...

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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...

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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).

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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...

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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...

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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...

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

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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...

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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.

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No, I think the hon. Lady should listen to this. What have this Government done for that worker and her family? The Chancellor has frozen her pay this year. The Chancellor has frozen her income...

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That is exactly the question that all our constituents ask, but as the Minister has failed to say today when the backlog will be cleared, we have to wonder whether this plan adds up, and when any...

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My hon. Friend is exactly right. The Conservatives walked out of cross-party talks in 2010, and despite offers from my hon. Friend the Member for Leicester West (Liz Kendall), they have never...

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The truth is that the Tories are all tax and no strategy. When it comes to the NHS and social care, last year the public clapped them; this year the Tories tax them. There are far too many...

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The Minister is wasting the House’s time, because he is not answering the question. There were three important points in the Minister’s opening speech. The first was that it is...

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I have already taken an intervention from the Minister, and he did not answer the question. [Interruption.] Okay, I will take the intervention on the basis that he answers the question that I and...

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My hon. Friend makes the point very well. People will still have to sell their homes to pay for care under these plans. There were three important points—

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The Minister has had a chance and he did not manage it. I will take an intervention from my hon. Friend.

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With all respect to the Minister, I asked how he would suggest that one of his constituents with a house worth £186,000, and no other savings, will pay £86,000 for their care without...

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I would be very happy to.