Speeches by Malthouse.

“This impact assessment is extremely important, not least because at a macro level—given that the UK is essentially a services-based economy in which human capital is the most expensive fixed cost, effectively—there is no way to escape this tax. Unlike corporation tax, which is levied on profits, this tax is levied whet…”

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“I am grateful to the Minister for giving way, but I am surprised she has not declared her interest because I believe she is herself a landlord. She presumably owns another property, so to cast aspersions on people who do as some kind of plague is, I think, a little unfair. I assume from this measure that the Minister w…”

“Our concern is that there has been no assessment of the impact on the rental market. All that the Opposition new clauses are asking for is a review, because no evidence has been adduced in this debate. There are three people who have spoken in this debate who have second properties—who are landlords—and that is complet…”

“I hope that the shadow Minister shares my surprise at the Minister agreeing to pay the stamp duty retrospectively on her flat. Let us hope that the cheque makes its way to HMRC. When stamp duty reaches penal rates, it not only diverts people away from becoming landlords, but means they may operate differently. Is there…”

“Forgive me, but that is not really what I was asking about. I understand that. What I am trying to get to is how much of the 8.5% is going straight back to the Treasury.”

“Will we be able to get an estimate of what that figure might be? Some of that number will be on existing research programmes, which you are continuing. Some of it will go to the Crick, which is a standard organisation. Some of it will be new. There must be an impact within the Department that is being assessed.”

“As I said, there was lots to welcome—do not get me wrong. I am just trying to work out what the figure is.”

“I just want to ask a couple of questions, one of which is connected. The leveraging in of private sector money is critical, and some of that is attracted by the co-funding or risk sharing, or whatever it is, that comes out of the Budget. Quite a lot of it operates within the wider fiscal environment. Is that fiscal env…”

“I am quite interested in the results of the investment summit. Would it be possible to drop us a note enunciating what the £24.3 billion of projects were, so that we can track their progress? I am very conscious, having been a Government Minister, that, very often, these announcements are made but, in terms of implemen…”

“So you would be intending to put more money into areas that are impacted by the national insurance rise.”

“Sorry, but I thought that you were implying that you were going to look at what the impact of the national insurance rise was on, for example, the Crick and to say, “We will give you another 3 million quid, so that you do not have to cut your research budget”.”

“Councils up and down the land, but particularly in the south-east of England, are frustrated by the high levels of undeveloped consents. It is perfectly possible that the Secretary of State will find that, come the next election, her target has been consented but is nowhere near built. Will she consider allowing counci…”

“I agree with the hon. Gentleman, and what a surprise it is that the conversation about palliative care has started. We were not having that conversation before this Bill came forward. The evidence from the Health and Care Committee, published only in February this year, shows that palliative care and assisted dying go …”

“I will not give way. Improvements also go hand in hand; medics from across the world told us that the two things are complementary. In Australia I discussed this issue with a palliative care doctor who was against the introduction of assisted dying when they were contemplating it. She now finds it an invaluable tool, a…”

“When I was a child, my parents shielded me from death. Centuries of art, literature and religion taught me that death was something noble or even slightly romantic. When I became an adult, I learnt pretty quickly that that was not the case. For far too many, it is anything but and certainly not noble. The deathbed for …”

“claimed to move the closure (Standing Order No. 36). Question agreed to. Question put accordingly, That the Bill be now read a Second time.”

“I will not. Finally, I want to talk briefly about rights. We hear a lot about rights in this debate—quite rightly. We hear about the rights and fears of the disabled community, who are specifically excluded from the Bill; we hear a lot about the rights and fears of the elderly, who are also specifically excluded from t…”

“I have a few questions. First, Sir Adrian, I hear what you say about the OECD ranking table, but there is an argument about quality over quantity. I think it is still the case that Trinity College Cambridge has more Nobel prizes for science than the whole of continental Europe put together. How would we deal with the a…”

“The Secretary of State makes much of growth. Of course we all want growth, but the OBR report actually says that growth in real GDP will start to slow over the next three years and that in years four and five of the Parliament it will go negative. It is telling us that the Government’s Budget is actually going to resul…”