Speeches by Tomlinson.

“It is a pleasure to serve on this Committee with you as Chair, Mr Swayne. The orders before the Committee give effect to the double taxation conventions, or DTCs, with Andorra, Peru, Portugal and Romania. Like all DTCs, these agreements will provide tax certainty to businesses and investors by removing double taxation …”

“I beg to move, That the Committee has considered the draft Double Taxation Relief and International Tax Enforcement (Peru) Order 2025.”

“In closing, Sir Chair, the orders before the Committee implement DTCs between the United Kingdom, Andorra, Peru, Portugal and Romania. The conventions will ensure that we have a modern DTC in place with all four of these countries, which will provide a stable foundation for trade and investment to grow, while at the sa…”

“In closing, Mr Chair—”

“I thank the hon. Member for giving me the chance to correct the record that we have a Sir in the Chair today—Sir Desmond Swayne. I am very grateful for your chairmanship, Sir Desmond. On the impact of these different DTCs, trade with Andorra is only £93 million a year, so the impact will be relatively small for some of…”

“I will.”

“I will.”

“It is a pleasure to serve on this Committee with you as Chair, Mr Swayne. The orders before the Committee give effect to the double taxation conventions, or DTCs, with Andorra, Peru, Portugal and Romania. Like all DTCs, these agreements will provide tax certainty to businesses and investors by removing double taxation …”

“I beg to move, That the Committee has considered the draft Double Taxation Relief and International Tax Enforcement (Peru) Order 2025.”

“I thank the hon. Member for giving me the chance to correct the record that we have a Sir in the Chair today—Sir Desmond Swayne. I am very grateful for your chairmanship, Sir Desmond. On the impact of these different DTCs, trade with Andorra is only £93 million a year, so the impact will be relatively small for some of…”

“In closing, Mr Chair—”

“In closing, Sir Chair, the orders before the Committee implement DTCs between the United Kingdom, Andorra, Peru, Portugal and Romania. The conventions will ensure that we have a modern DTC in place with all four of these countries, which will provide a stable foundation for trade and investment to grow, while at the sa…”

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“In the end, in order to sort out the strikes we needed to give public sector workers a fair deal. The situation that they were left in was not fair, with their wages going up significantly less than prices over the 14 years that the Conservatives were in power. The Health Secretary has been clear about not wanting to g…”

“Hon. Members want more! Okay. If this debate has taught us anything, it is simply this: not only do the Conservatives need to stay in opposition for longer, but I am sure that they will do so. So far, they have learned nothing from their time on the Government Benches. There is no humility for their mini-Budget, no pla…”

“And the Conservatives have the gall to lecture us about managing the public finances well. They say that they want to cut civil service numbers. Between 2016 and when the Conservatives left office, there were 130,000 more civil servants. The former Member for Uxbridge and South Ruislip and former Prime Minister said th…”

“One of the things that has changed is that Conservative Members seem to have found £47 billion down the back of the sofa and are coming forward with plans that are not deliverable, just like they did when they were in government. They have done the job of a losing Opposition—we have been there in the past—whereby numbe…”

“I will happily give way—it might be the final time I do so.”

“I was glad to attend the hon. Member’s Westminster Hall debate last night on wine producers across the UK. I am impressed by his close reading of all the words of members of the Cabinet; I hope one day to be as diligent as him in following the utterances of the Chancellor, the Prime Minister and all Ministers. When it …”