Lord Jamieson (Con)

My Lords, I declare my interest as a councillor in central Bedfordshire. I thank the noble Lord, Lord Shipley, for his contribution both to this House and to local government, which, as a previous cha

The Minister is keen to emphasise that it is just 1%. The key point that I and the noble Lord, Lord Fuller, were making is that it is a cumulative layering of a whole series of regulations, and levies

Enough of the joviality. The key point that we are trying to say here is that this is indicative of the Government’s approach. Although we can have sympathy and we can understand in isolation, this is

That sounds like an exam, my Lords. I thank the Minister for bringing forward these regulations for scrutiny and my noble friend Lord Fuller for his comments—as ever, he stole a little bit of my thund

I am sorry to be finicky; I just want to understand this. I read through the impact assessment and the Minister is right: familiarisation, triage, prep and postage are essentially administrative costs

I just want to follow up on that. It appears that the Government are coming forward with some very strong powers on HMRC and inspection for things such as mansion tax. Yet, on something that is about