Speeches by Baldwin.

“On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. Earlier the Minister said that agricultural property relief was not available under Margaret Thatcher. In fact, it was Margaret Thatcher’s Government who brought it in under the Inheritance Tax Act 1984, and it was subsequently increased to 100% under John Major. How might I g…”

“Could the Minister just spell out for the House’s benefit how much taxpayers’ money he has signed up to spending next year and in every year of this Parliament? On where Members of Parliament can read about value for money, which line item of the Budget has this money come out of?”

“My hon. Friend is making a fantastic speech, with some very colourful analogies, but if I may be prosaic, is it not the case that the Office for Budget Responsibility has not scored a single impact on growth in the overall Budget?”

“The angle of my question was, when things go wrong in that phase how do people get themselves out of that and back on their growth trajectory again?”

“In terms of the other matters that the FCA is responsible for progressing at the moment, I am particularly interested in the provisional licence framework and how you would deal with the situation where something went wrong for someone who had a provisional licence. Subsequently, we have quite a lot of challenger banks…”

“If it were a private sector actor, you would have to investigate it for market abuse, would you not?”

“Turning to the senior managers certification regime, I wanted to ask Mr Alder the following hypothetical examples. There is a senior manager in a firm who makes a public statement to the market, and it subsequently turns out that that partial statement was an incomplete picture of the state of the firm at that time. So…”

“It would be quite helpful to know what parts we need to go through in Parliament, in a letter afterwards.”

“Is the provisional licence up and running?”

“You have completed all the workstreams that you needed to complete for the Leeds Reforms at the FCA and now you are waiting for legislation; is that correct?”

“I had a policing matter to discuss with the Ministers. I know that you will have covered some of what I am going to ask you about, but I am going to try to elicit some new information. In terms of the Leeds Reforms, I know you have covered progress that you have made on things like the provisional licences, consumer du…”

“I would like to pick up on some of the points made in today’s interesting debate and to reiterate that, as Conservatives, we have always stood shoulder to shoulder with Britain’s businesses and great exporters. In my opening remarks, I asked some questions of the Minister, and I look forward to hearing his replies. I t…”

“I am delighted to respond on behalf of the Conservatives, who have always championed British businesses. We believe very much in the ingenuity of our entrepreneurs, the skill of our engineers and the global reputation of our exporters. The Bill amends Acts dating from 1982 and 1991, and we believe that, time and again,…”

“I did not hear an answer to my question. To add insult to injury to the retail and hospitality businesses on our high streets, the letter that has gone out from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government about the change in business rates gives completely different information from the guidance on the Tr…”

“Last month in Business and Trade questions, I asked the Secretary of State to show some backbone and stand up to the Chancellor and say, “No more business taxes”. But he did not: far from permanently lower business rates, small and medium-sized businesses on our high streets are experiencing enormous rate hikes. Will t…”

“It sounds like the letter from MHCLG is incorrect, so perhaps that could be clarified, and that will help us all.”

“Mr Bowler, I have a technical point on the business rates questions I was asking the Chancellor earlier. The Treasury website gives some worked examples of how the transitional relief will be applied. That is a maximum cap versus the 40% discount that was in place. The letter that has gone out from the Ministry of Hous…”

“Can I urge you to look at this again, Chancellor? UKHospitality would dispute that. They think there will be a 15% hike on average for pubs. I will just leave that out there.”

“Yes, and they are saying that the average pub will get that cap.”

“That is what they are saying.”