Liberal Democrat Spokesperson (Chief Secretary to the Treasury)
Liberal DemocratMP for Witney
“Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. I wanted to discuss the future of Thames Water, and I want to start with Thames Water's record of pollution and environmental failure, and specifically how this impacts everyone in my Witney constituency. Th…”
“Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker, and I thank the member for Sheffield Central for bringing such an important debate to the House, and I appreciate all the speeches that have been given in with such force, and it's enormously important to my…”
“Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker, and I'd like to thank the minister and for everyone involved in this review for their hard work. And it is a difficult subject, so it's much appreciated. today's report has confirmed that perhaps something a…”
“Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. And on behalf of my colleague, I'd like to thank the Secretary of State for advance sight of her statement, as we've now come to expect of all major international summits. NATO's meeting in Ankara was taken …”
“Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Iran is continuing to hold a global economy to ransom through its reckless strikes in the Straits of Hormuz. We all agree on that. Meanwhile, Donald Trump's continuing tit for tat retaliations risk dragging the whole…”
“The electricity generator levy is a windfall tax on UK electricity generation from nuclear, renewable and biomass sources, and it raised £0.7 billion in the last financial year. The EGL is a revenue-based tax that currently applies at a rat…”
“It is clear that the creditors’ consortium has material influence over Thames Water, as it is funding the company and bilaterally negotiating with the Government. Material influence means that the consortium meets the defined criteria of be…”
“On 21 May, the Business and Trade Committee met representatives of more than 20 steel fabrication companies who were deeply worried about the potential loss of hundreds, or thousands, of jobs. I second that, in respect of the urgency, becau…”
“Thames Water, which serves my constituency, embodies the systemic failures of the sector. The company is in breach of its licence conditions by not having held any investment grade credit ratings for nearly the last two years and by failing…”
“Flashing back to the 1980s, would the right honourable Member like to remind us when the Conservatives last balanced a budget?…”
“I thank the Minister for his statement. We have learned today that this contract was awarded two and a half years ago. Capita had two and a half years to prepare for taking on the administration of the civil service scheme. As has been ment…”
“The Liberal Democrats have been clear throughout the Bill’s stages that we think the Government would be misguided to make this change. While it may raise some tax revenue in the medium term, in the longer term it discourages pension saving…”
“2. What steps his Department is taking through the criminal justice system to help tackle violence against women and girls.…”
“The Bill, and the Budget it derives from, demonstrates clearly that the Chancellor has implemented stealth tax grabs that will hit some of the lowest paid the hardest, through extending a freeze on income tax thresholds and the national ins…”
“Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker, and I will not burden the House with too long a speech. There are a lot of issues with the Government’s and the country’s economic policymaking process, but there are good arguments for reducing the number o…”
“It has been a very painful path to get to this point, but I simply want to welcome what the Government are bringing in. Reversing the decision on the two-child limit will lift 540,000 children out of absolute poverty, and it is unquestionab…”
“I thank the honourable Member for Mitcham and Morden (Dame Siobhain McDonagh) for securing this really important debate. She has been excellent in driving forward this issue, and is so determined. She demonstrates how to go after an issue a…”
“I refer Members to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests regarding the business that I founded in 1996, BDA partners, in which I still hold a stake but have no role or responsibility. Economically, this agreement offers s…”
“My chief concern with this Bill is that, like a lot of the measures that the Chancellor announced in the Budget, it looks like it may be a route to some medium-term increased tax revenues, but it gives no thought to longer-term consequences…”
“I welcome the White Paper and thank the Secretary of State and her team for their work. I am keen to understand how it will work in practice. As the Secretary of State will know, Thames Water’s largest equity shareholder wrote down its shar…”
“Farmers up and down the country should be really proud of the campaign that has forced the Government to rethink the completely short-sighted and ill-thought-out policy that has threatened the future of family farms up and down the country.…”
“On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. In response to a recommendation by the Committee on Standards, I would like to apologise to the House for failing to register several interests within the 28-day period set by the House. They inclu…”
“19. What assessment the child poverty unit has made of the potential merits of auto-enrolling eligible children for free school meals.…”
“On behalf of my party, I thank Richard Hughes for his service. We respect his resignation. I also thank Laura Gardiner, Professor Ciaran Martin and Huw Stephens for the very quick turnaround of the investigatory report on the leak. In that …”
“Will the honourable Member give way?…”
“This is a Budget driven far more by political calculation than by the economic realities that the country faces. The Chancellor has an enormous majority—on paper, at least—and the country desperately needs change, but we now have a second B…”
“I thank my honourable Friend the Member for Cheadle (Mr Morrison) for securing this excellent debate. I want to seek the Minister’s help with the case of my Witney constituent, Bill Maddocks. Bill was an on-call firefighter at Witney for 22…”
“New small modular reactors have real potential to help reduce our reliance on foreign gas and bring down energy bills, as well as bringing a welcome boost to jobs and investment in Anglesey. SMRs should be where the focus is when it comes t…”
“There is a real irony in the fact that the Conservative party has tabled a motion calling for the control of public expenditure and for trust to be returned just three years after a notorious mini-Budget that saw the biggest set of unfunded…”
“Given that it has been widely reported in the press that the UAE is arming the RSF, does the Minister have a view on the following two points? First, if any party is exporting weapons to the RSF, we would be in breach of our export licence …”
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