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House of Commons

Tuesday 7 December 2010

Public Bill Committee Proceedings

National Insurance Contributions Bill

[Second and Third Sittings]

Clause 1 Agreed to.

Clause 2 Agreed to.

Chris Leslie

Mr David Hanson

Withdrawn  8

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

Clause Agreed to.

Mr David Hanson

Chris Leslie

Not selected  12

Clause  4,  page  2,  line  6,  at beginning insert—

‘( )
The Treasury shall set out a sum of resources available to the scheme established

by this part of this Act for the period of the scheme within one month of Royal

Assent.’.

Mr David Hanson

Chris Leslie

Negatived on division  1

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

Chris Leslie

Mr David Hanson

Not called  7

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’.

Public Bill Committee Proceedings: 7 December 2010
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National Insurance Contributions Bill, continued

Mr David Hanson

Chris Leslie

Not called  2

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

Mr David Hanson

Chris Leslie

Not called  5

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

Not called  6

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’.

Clause Agreed to.

Chris Leslie

Mr David Hanson

Negatived on division  9

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

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

Clause Agreed to.

Chris Leslie

Mr David Hanson

Negatived on division  10

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’.

Clause 6 Agreed to.

Clause 7 Agreed to.

[Adjourned until Thursday 9 December at 9.00 am



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