Lord Blackwell

My Lords, I oppose the amendment, and I should perhaps declare an interest as one of the many Members of the House who has had the privilege to be in ...

My Lords, I declare an interest as a governor of a specialist music school. As the Minister will be aware, the MDS covers music schools as well as dan...

My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Eatwell, is a distinguished economist and I defer to his expertise, but I have to challenge him on the assertion that t...

My Lords, I will make a brief comment on these amendments. In the Committee’s discussions so far, the noble Lord, Lord Eatwell, has made great play of...

My Lords, I will not repeat the powerful arguments that have been made for this set of amendments, but I would like to put the argument in stark terms...

In that case, I will address that amendment when we come to it.

My Lords, as the noble Baroness said, the easiest way to avoid exemptions would be not to raise this tax at all; then we would not have to deal with t...

My Lords, in contributing to the debate on this Bill, I should declare my interest as a trustee of two charitable music organisations, which, like oth...

My Lords, the Minister will be aware that the most important and fastest-growing part of UK exports is services. Can he assure us that the Government ...