Speeches by Reeves.

“Yes. John Glen And stuff to do with the City, but the overall tax burden has an impact when people look at the UK. Do you recognise that? What would you say to that?”

“No, but maybe I will let Dharmesh come in.”

“We took a number of measures, particularly in the first Budget, but also in the second Budget, to ensure that those with the broadest shoulders pay their fair share of tax. We have got rid of the non-dom tax status entirely. We increased the rate of capital gains tax. We got rid of the loophole whereby private equity b…”

“Absolutely, and when we looked at capital gains tax, we looked at the rate that would maximise revenue. If you go beyond a certain rate on taxes, it has an impact on people’s marginal propensity to work. I do not think we are at those levels, but of course when we score any policies and look at the impact of any polici…”

“Governments always keep all taxes under review, as you know—”

“The Department for Education has been working for a while on reform through the schools White Paper, including for children with special educational needs. We hear about that every week in Parliament, whether at Prime Minister’s questions or something else. Every week in all our surgeries, parents come to see us about—…”

“A lot of that is also with regard to the treatment of non-dom taxation. There was a worry that people would find loopholes to avoid the changes in the non-dom tax regime, but trusts have been incorporated into that—that is one example.”

“Yes.”

“Yes, they are more obvious places.”

“I am open-minded, but we have absolutely got to learn the lessons from the past. The Department of Health and Social Care has come up with some proposals around primary care. We are interested in working with it on those, but we are primarily pursuing that approach in areas where there is a clear income stream and wher…”

“We have now funded it in the spring forecast. That is in addition to funding previously allocated.”

“Yes, absolutely.”

“Mr Glen was in the Department when Russia invaded Ukraine and a lot of this work started then. But as you rightly suggest, Dame Meg, it did not progress and it was not far enough in advance to be able to have more targeted support, but I know that was something that was looked at by the previous Government. To be hones…”

“As I have already confirmed, we are looking at all eventualities, but the root cause of this is the challenge in getting oil and gas out of the middle east, so the best way to deal with this is to address that at the root.”

“It is easier to do those sorts of models where there is an income stream than in areas where there is not. I think there is some role. In the NHS, in primary care, the Health Secretary is looking at some options. But other areas—for example, the lower Thames crossing—will be primarily privately funded. Similarly, the i…”

“It was not my job to work out the funding need; the policy is for the Department for Education to work through. But we made a decision as a Government to fund that fully, based on the money that the Department for Education felt was needed to fully fund it. What I would say to parents is that this has been widely consu…”

“We always keep all taxes under review, but it is much too early, when those changes are not due to come into effect until September, to guess where petrol prices will be then. I am very loath to spend Government money on something that the market should be doing itself. That is why greater competition and greater trans…”

“As former Chancellor Jeremy Hunt said in the Chamber on Monday, it is much too soon to be speculating about what action is going to be needed.”

“It is much too soon to start speculating.”

“We have to make sure that we have a system that works, but we are committed to do that.”