division_name: Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation - 2. Beer (rate of duty)
motion: <p>Our priorities should be to re-order public spending so that we're spending less on welfare and more on areas like education.
  <p>New Labour came to power committed to transform welfare. That revolutionary intent has fractured.
  <p>Welfare changes, masquerading as reform, have undermined the principle of work, mocked the idea of saving, and weighted public policy against people who tell the truth.
  <p>There are too many departmental fingers in the pie, but no clear lead, no effective co-ordination and culture clashes between different departments. It can't go on like this. Government policy on the family is incoherent and ineffective.
  <p>The first thing that our reforms will achieve is to do more for people who need help most.--[ Official Report , 3 November 1999; Vol. 337, c. 306.]
  <p>the number of lone parents on income support was 3.3 per cent. lower than it would have been without NDLP--
  <p>Payment of WFTC through the pay packet is central to demonstrating the rewards of work and making work pay for families on low incomes.--[ Official Report , 15 March 2000; Vol. 346, c. 183W.]
  <p>I want the next Labour Government to achieve what in 50 years of the welfare state has never been achieved--the end of the means test for our elderly people.
  <p>we will certainly make the announcement before the end of this month.--[ Official Report , 7 February 2000; Vol. 344, c. 77.]
  <p>Infant mortality rate for social class V births was 70 per cent higher than social class I births.
  <p>the research interviewers encountered examples of poverty and deprivation of a degree which they could hardly believe was possible in late 20th-century Britain.--[ Official Report, House of Lords , 16 February 2000; Vol. 609, c. 1282-3.]
  <p>the formation of local clusters in high-tech industries.--[ Official Report , 21 March 2000; Vol. 346, c. 863.]
  <p>I have no intention of changing my religion because the Pope has changed his.
  <p>I think that our monetary authorities are too hawkish. We need a better and a more genuinely independent Monetary Policy Committee, with a membership drawn from a wider range of people.--[ Official Report , 22 March 2000; Vol. 346, c. 1023.]
  <p>inflation is 2.2 per cent.--[ Official Report , 21 March 2000; Vol. 346, c. 858.]
  <p>a fair basis for UK bookmakers to compete internationally; a fair opportunity for horse racing to secure financial support; and a fair contribution from the industry towards general tax revenues.
  <p>The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil.
  <p>If normal demolition practices were followed the site would have needed a substantial amount of fill material to raise the ground levels to make the site safe.
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  The hard materials would have been removed to a land fill site for disposal, both of which have a considerable cost implication--
  <p>The process of crushing the hard material on site and using it as fill material to raise the levels, saved on the purchase of fill materials and the costs of tipping . . .
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  The project started by hand stripping and salvaging as much materials as possible, this included all timber, the roof covering, glazing and non structural metal work. The structural metal frames were then removed for recycling and the remaining concrete structure crushed to be used as fill materials over the site.
  <p>the risk remains of a sharp slowdown in the US and continued weakness in Japan with adverse effects on UK prospects.
  <p>Businesses have learnt not to be fooled by the Chancellor's headline announcements. Brown has not done enough to ease the increasing tax and administrative burden on business.
  <p>a voluntary agreement between employer and employee that:
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  All the employer's NICs liability on unapproved share option gains will be met by the employee, or
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  Part of the employer's liability on these gains, or the excess above a predetermined amount, will be met by the employee, or
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  The employer's NICs liability is to be met by the employee but, by mutual agreement, the employer could take on the statutory liability at the time it is incurred.
  <p>Find enclosed photocopies of my tax forms and pay slips. The most recent tax forms show that I will be thousands of pounds down in the taxable allowances I would normally get, starting in the tax year April 2000.
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  This is . . . a result of decisions made by your government.
  <p>I voted for a Labour Government for all the years the Conservatives were in power and so far I have never been poorer . . . I will never vote Labour again. You are simply a bunch of liars.
  <p>an analysis of everything the Chancellor won't be saying.
  <p>The Sun  newspaper said that it was a Budget that would need the seven-day test before judgment could be passed. It has indeed been a seven-day wonder. Today, on the seventh day, let us review where we have got to: day 1, the CBI said that this was not the Budget that they had been hoping for; day 2, a double taxation measure in the Budget's small print was exposed as costing British business billions of pounds; day 3, more small print was exposed, with a massive hike in company car tax; day 4, <p>Gordon Brown can either reduce taxes or he can increase public spending. What I would recommend is that he use that money to reduce taxes.
  <p>I do believe that in the long term you've got to create some new sources of finance, you know, may be companies can help with insurance schemes.
   
  
  <p>Question put and agreed to. 
  <p>Resolved, 
  <p>That it is expedient to amend the law with respect to the National Debt and the public revenue and to make further provision in connection with finance; but this Resolution does not extend to the making of any amendment with respect to value added tax so as to provide--
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  (a) for zero-rating or exempting a supply, acquisition or importation;
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  (b) for refunding an amount of tax;
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  (c) for varying any rate at which that tax is at any time chargeable; or
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  (d) for any relief, other than a relief which--
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  (i) so far as it is applicable to goods, applies to goods of every description, and
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  (ii) so far as it is applicable to services, applies to services of every description. 
  <p>Motion made, and Question put, 
  <p>That--
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  (1) In section 36(1) of the Alcoholic Liquor Duties Act 1979 for "&#163;11.50" there shall be substituted "&#163;11.89".
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  (2) This Resolution shall have effect on and after 1st April 2000.
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  And it is hereby declared that it is expedient in the public interest that this Resolution should have statutory effect under the provisions of the Provisional Collection of Taxes Act 1968.
  <p>The House divided:  Ayes 370, Noes 142.
  