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Conservatives in the European Parliament have welcome the adoption by national governments of the European Union's Small Business Act. The Act's main purpose is to cut the administration burden faced by small businesses in Europe. …

Shortly after the House of Commons did the same, the Scottish Parliament has debated fisheries. Conservative MSPs made useful contributions. Member for the Highlands and Islands Sir Jamie McGrigor made an excellent speech. He bemoaned the impact of fuel prices and discards on the industry: "I am grateful for the chance to speak once again in a fisheries debate. …

On 12 November the House of Commons agreed to establish a new committee, which will be chaired by the Speaker. According to the Parliament website, the Speaker's Conference - which will be comprised of seventeen other members - has been asked to: "Consider, and make recommendations for rectifying, …

economic strategy than the rise in taxes on the higher paid. Monday’s statement has both stolen the Tory clothes on spending and narrowed the Opposition’s options." - Peter Riddell in The Times > Our coverage yesterday of the lack of parliamentary scrutiny of the PBR There is no shortage of economic advice for the Conservatives "The Tories must champion an enterprise society and make the moral, political and economic case for lower taxes, starting with a reversal of the 45 per cent rate proposal and a smaller state. In short,

There has been an awful lot of nonsense talked about the PBR. We have heard that this is the death of New Labour because of the tax rises for people earning over £100,000 a year. Yet the Irish government, for long held up as a low tax haven by the likes of John Redwood, has just imposed a levy based on wealth, after facing an even sharper credit crunch induced crisis (and having had to abandon dottier alternatives like charging pensioners for health care and taxing low paid workers more). Anyone earning from

look closely and you can see that what's really going on is an attempt to use taxpayer money to remake Detroit in the image of the modern environmental movement. Given a choice between greens and blue-collar workers, Congress puts the greens first.” UK: Conservative climate change sceptics speak out again There are still some hardy Conservative critics of conventional climate change wisdom in the House of Commons. On Wednesday Mr Lilley introduced a debate on the Stern Review in Westminster Hall...

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Spotter's Badge for me! On ConservativeHome's Parliament page today is an article outlining an exchange in the House of Lords titled: "Lord Forsyth calls for VAT relief for small businesses". Very noble. As Lord Forsyth points out, it would indeed be helpful for the economy if the current concessionary VAT arrangements relating to

The honourable Gentleman makes an important point… Over at Conservative Home Owen Patterson asks whether the Saville Inquiry should be capped and timetabled… Mick Fealty @ 02:43 PM | Comments (8)

1. Coffee House spots a split between Brown and Darling. 2. Paul Linford on bloggers who want lobby passes. More on this tomorrow. 3. ConservaiveHome on the Tory climate change sceptics. 4. Douglas Carswell tells of Mr Speaker's attempt to censor his parliamentary newsletter. 5. Iain Martin on the Finkelstein punk tax cutting wars. 6. James Kirkup on the man who gave John Humphrys his comeuppance. 7. Donal Blaney

Saville Inquiry should be capped and timetabled

Conservative home has a speech by David Davies ( the Welsh one ) about DFID made in parliament. Its fine stuff and David Davis (the other one) looks like he'll go far. Surely its time to question Labour's vanity projects in India and the like! To the left is a fine example of what India has money left to burn on

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