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House of Commons

Thursday 2 December 2010

Public Bill Committee

New Amendments handed in are marked thus

Amendments which will comply with the required notice period at their next appearance

National Insurance Contributions Bill

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Resolution of the Programming Sub-Committee

The Programming Sub-Committee appointed by the Speaker in respect of the Bill

agreed the following Resolution at its meeting on Thursday 25 November (Standing Order

No. 83C):

That—

(1)	the Committee shall (in addition to its first meeting at 1.00 pm on Thursday

2 December) meet—

(a)	at 10.30 am and 4.00 pm on Tuesday 7 December;

(b)	at 9.00 am and 1.00 pm on Thursday 9 December;

(2)	the Committee shall hear evidence in accordance with the following table:

TABLE

	Date	Time	Witness
	Thursday 2 December	Until no later	British Chamber of Commerce;
		than 2.30 pm	Federation of Small Businesses; London
			Councils
	Thursday 2 December	Until no later	Cambridgeshire Chamber of Commerce;
		than 3.30 pm	Southampton Chamber of Commerce;
			Portsmouth Chamber of Commerce;
			London First; East London Small
			Business Centre; Wenta
	Thursday 2 December	Until no later	Treasury; HM Revenue and Customs
		than 4.00 pm

(3)	the proceedings on the Bill shall (so far as not previously concluded) be

brought to a conclusion at 4.00 pm on Thursday 9 December.

Mr David Gauke has given notice of his intention to move a motion in the terms of the

Resolution of the Programming Sub-Committee [Standing Order No. 83C].

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As amendments to David Gauke’s proposed Motion:

Mr Robert Goodwill

(a)

In the Table, in the third column, leave out ‘; London Councils’.

Mr Robert Goodwill

(b)

In the Table, in the third column, leave out ‘Cambridgeshire Chamber of Commerce;

Southampton Chamber of Commerce; Portsmouth Chamber of Commerce;

London First;’ and insert ‘Hampshire Chamber of Commerce;’.

Mr David Gauke

That, subject to the discretion of the Chairman, any written evidence received by the

Committee shall be reported to the House for publication.

Mr David Gauke

That, at this and any subsequent meeting at which oral evidence is to be heard, the

Committee shall sit in private until the witnesses are admitted.

Chris Leslie

Mr David Hanson

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Clause  3,  page  2,  line  2,  leave out ‘50’ and insert ‘90’.

Mr David Hanson

Chris Leslie

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Clause  4,  page  2,  line  9,  leave out paragraph (b).

Chris Leslie

Mr David Hanson

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Clause  4,  page  2,  line  10,  leave out ‘not in any of the excluded regions’ and insert

‘within a local authority area which features on a list of local authority areas drawn up at

the discretion of the Secretary of State for the purposes of this section’.

Mr David Hanson

Chris Leslie

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Clause  4,  page  2,  line  21,  leave out subsection (5).

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Mr David Hanson

Chris Leslie

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Clause  4,  page  2,  line  21,  leave out ‘Greater London, the South East Region and the

Eastern Region’ and insert ‘the 350 constituencies with the lowest percentage rate of

unemployment as defined by the Department of Work and Pensions on the date of Royal

Assent’.

Mr David Hanson

Chris Leslie

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Clause  4,  page  2,  line  21,  leave out ‘Greater London, the South East Region and the

Eastern Region’ and insert ‘the 350 constituencies with the lowest percentage rate of

public sector employment as defined by the Department of Work and Pensions on the date

of Royal Assent’.

Chris Leslie

Mr David Hanson

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Clause  5,  page  3,  line  33,  at end add—

‘(d)	a charity (within the meaning of section 1 of the Charities Act 2006)’.

Chris Leslie

Mr David Hanson

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Clause  6,  page  3,  line  40,  at end add—

‘(c)	a new business may choose to define as a single qualifying employee

several individuals working part-time where the work of those part-time

employees in aggregate comprises the equivalent of the work of a full-

time employee’.

Mr David Hanson

Chris Leslie

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Clause  8,  page  5,  line  10,  at end add ‘; which will aim to process all such

applications within a three month period’.

Mr David Hanson

Chris Leslie

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Clause  11,  page  6,  leave out lines 24 to 29.

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Mr David Hanson

Chris Leslie

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Clause  11,  page  6,  leave out lines 35 to 41.

New Clauses

Annual Report by HM Treasury

Mr David Hanson

Chris Leslie

NC1

To move the following Clause:—

‘Her Majesty’s Treasury shall, following Royal Assent, determine and publish

the total budget of the sceme and provide an annual report to Parliament which

will set out—

(a)	the total sum of business expenditure saved under the secondary

contributions holiday for each of the years of the scheme’s operation;

(b)	by constituency—

(i)	the number of businesses availing themselves of the secondary

contributions holiday;

(ii)	the number of employees designated qualifying employees

under the scheme; and

(iii)

the total expenditure saved by businesses under the scheme,

(c)	an assessment of whether the scheme should be reapplied by employment

sector rather than geographical region.’.

Publication of employment impact model

Chris Leslie

Mr David Hanson

NC2

To move the following Clause:—

‘Her Majesty’s Treasury shall publish in the House of Commons Library the

complete model used by Her Majesty’s Treasury for the purposes of calculating

the employment impact of National Insurance and taxation measures.’.

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Uprating of threshold

Chris Leslie

Mr David Hanson

NC3

To move the following Clause:—

‘Her Majesty’s Treasury shall publish at the 2011 Budget a report outlining the

impact of changing the indexation and uprating of the Natrional Insurance

thresholds in line with either the Consumer Prices Index or the Retail Prices

Index.’.

Publicity and promotion of the Secondary Contributions Holiday

Chris Leslie

Mr David Hanson

NC4

To move the following Clause:—

‘Her Majesty’s Treasury will ensure that all HMRC literature, websites,

publications and correspondence relevant for new businesses contains website

links to information relating to Part 2 of this Act for the duration of the scheme.’.

HMRC staffing

Chris Leslie

Mr David Hanson

NC5

To move the following Clause:—

‘HMRC will ensure that the staff dedicated to the administration of Part 2 of this

Act are additional employees and not taken from other tasks necessary for the

continuation of the other functions of HMRC.’.

Order of the House [23 NOVEMBER 2010]

That the following provisions shall apply to the National Insurance Contributions Bill:

Committal

1.	The Bill shall be committed to a Public Bill Committee.

Proceedings in Public Bill Committee

2.	Proceedings in the Public Bill Committee shall (so far as not previously

concluded) be brought to a conclusion on Thursday 9 December 2010.

3.	The Public Bill Committee shall have leave to sit twice on the first day on

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which it meets.

Consideration and Third Reading

4.	Proceedings on consideration shall (so far as not previously concluded) be

brought to a conclusion one hour before the moment of interruption on the

day on which those proceedings are commenced.

5.	Proceedings on Third Reading shall (so far as not previously concluded) be

brought to a conclusion at the moment of interruption on that day.

6.	Standing Order No. 83B (Programming committees) shall not apply to

proceedings on consideration and Third Reading.

Other proceedings

7.	Any other proceedings on the Bill (including any proceedings on

consideration of Lords Amendments or on any further messages from the

Lords) may be programmed.

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Revised 2 December 2010