Speeches by McDonagh.

“I see no other Back Benchers who wish to contribute, so I call the Liberal Democrat spokesperson.”

“Before I call Sir John Whittingdale to move the motion, I would like to inform Members that the parliamentary digital communication team will be conducting secondary filming during this debate.”

“I remind Members that they should bob if they wish to be called in the debate, and it seems that everybody does.”

“Order. Could I ask Members to keep interventions as interventions?”

“Does that include Portcullis House?”

“I remind hon. Members that they can make speeches in this debate only with the agreement of the debate holder. Sarah Dyke will move the motion and then the Minister will respond. As is the convention for 30-minute debates, there will not be an opportunity for the Member in charge to wind up.”

“I so enjoyed hearing him about this. I wonder whether, for our entertainment, we could hear from him as well.”

“Does Mr Johnson not have something to say about this?”

“Dare I say, Chair, as we both share an Irish background, we know exactly what it is like when anybody takes on the farmers.”

“When Chancellor Jeremy Hunt came before the Treasury Committee in November 2022, he said that the Treasury did not have any estimate of how much money would be raised by abolishing non-dom status. It now appears that it will be £30 billion between 2025-26 and 2029-30. That is good news, but it leads me to wonder how ma…”

“As a layperson, having seen the former Chancellor be at this Committee over the last period of Government, we were always assured that the numbers were there and that they could stick to what things were going to cost. I was particularly surprised to see that within the black hole there was no compensation for the infe…”

“A lot of the policy measures that were described as highly uncertain relate to taxes on those with the broadest shoulders: non-doms, capital gains tax, inheritance tax. What can be done to improve the evidence base on these groups so that we can have more confidence when designing policies about how much they will rais…”

“Given the estimates of how much the non-dom changes would originally have made, are you happy with the evidence that you get from the Treasury on policy measures and how could they be improved?”

“What really interests me is that, whenever you go to tax wealth, there is always great consternation and very loud noise and concerns that none of these measures will make any money and they are merely politically spiteful. Given that the measures in the Budget include taxing those people with the broadest shoulders—no…”

“The OBR re-costed the March 2024 non-dom reforms and found that they raised twice as much as originally estimated—£10 billion over 2025-26 to 2029-30. How did that happen?”

“And childcare?”

“That might have been because they did not want to put in how much it was going to cost.”

“Yes, but it is how that could not be included. The other thing that I find quite interesting, given our discussions with the former Chancellor about childcare, is how it can be that the current Government had to put in an extra £1.6 billion to meet the upcoming changes to the childcare policies brought in by the former…”

“As a question from a lay person, following John’s, it seems amazing to me that something obvious, like the compensation due to sub-postmasters, or for victims of contaminated blood—”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Mr Twigg. In my constituency, we are amazingly served by Shooting Star CHASE hospice, a children’s hospice that serves 14 London boroughs across south-west and north-west London—quite why that configuration exists, I am unsure—and boroughs and councils within Surrey. I ca…”