Lord Livermore
The Lord Livermore
Labour
•House of Lords•ActiveMember since 15 April 2023
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Financial Services Reform
22/07/2025 • Lords
I am grateful to my noble friend for his comments. He started his remarks on the reception for these reforms. I think there is quite a consensus that ...
My noble friend sums up quite nicely the balance between rules and administration. We are maintaining many of the rules that were put in View full contribution →
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Tackling Unsustainable Debt
16/07/2025 • Lords
The noble Baroness is correct in saying that debt sustainability is the primary responsibility of borrowing countries, but I think lending countries s...
I do not know the specific answer to the noble Lord’s question, I am afraid. I am very happy to write to him to fill that in. As I have said, the acti...
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Taxes
14/07/2025 • Lords
The noble Baroness has a rather selective memory: she seems to have forgotten about the last 14 years. But she is quite right that the most sustainabl...
We listen carefully to all Budget representations, but as I say, I will not speculate on the next Budget now.
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Tax on Imports under £135
13/07/2025 • Lords
We have just completed a zero-based review of the whole of government spending. If the noble Lord has areas of spending that he would like to cut, I a...
I think that is a fair definition of that phrase, yes.
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Tourism Levy
13/07/2025 • Lords
As I said, the Government announced significant place-based funding in the spending review. Part of that MHCLG funding was targeted specifically at he...
The noble Baroness rightly talks about the importance of the visitor economy. The Tourism Minister has set a goal to grow inbound tourism to 50 millio...
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Tax Increases
09/07/2025 • Lords
The noble Lord is just talking about the revenue maximisation point. We are past that, for example, on tobacco taxes, as a deliberate government polic...
My noble friend is right to point out the long-standing and long-term challenges that we face in fiscal policy. As the noble Lord opposite said, the O...
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Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Regulated Activities etc.) (Amendment) Order 2025
09/07/2025 • Lords
That the draft Order laid before the House on 19 May be approved.
Relevant document: 28th Report from the Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Commit...
Primary Stock Exchange Listings
09/07/2025 • Lords
I commend the noble Lord for knowing more about government policy than I do. He talks about those companies listing abroad. It is interesting, just to...
I thank my noble friend for his question, and I pay tribute to his expertise in this area; I know it is something he is deeply passionate about. He sp...
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Government Performance against Fiscal Rules
07/07/2025 • Lords
I do not think the public are getting bored of it. The noble and learned Lord may be getting bored of it, perhaps because he is slightly sensitive abo...
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Unpaid Tax
06/07/2025 • Lords
What is conducive is the most ambitious package ever to close the tax gap, raising £6.5 billion in additional tax revenue per year by 2029-30 and an a...
We have committed an average of £660 million each year on measures to do so. By the end of the Parliament, that will raise an additional £5.7 billion ...
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