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Speech 29 April 2008

Finance Bill: Collective enfranchisement by leaseholders

David Gauke tables an amendment to remove an ambiguity where the Bill refers to a ‘right to enfranchise company’ – a definition not currently legally in effect – which can cause leaseholders to be overcharged stamp duty when they purchase the freehold.

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Speech 29 April 2008

Finance Bill: Penalties for errors

David Gauke tables an amendment to delay any extension of the single penalty regime for incorrect tax returns that was brought in last year in respect of ‘main taxes’ to enable an assessment of the effectiveness of the regime.

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Newsletter 25 April 2008

Newsletter from David Gauke, April 2008

I am dropping you a quick note to update you on recent work.

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News 24 April 2008

MP publishes draft submission on air flight proposals

'More low flying flights for West Hertfordshire'. That is the conclusion of MP for South West Hertfordshire, David Gauke, who has published his draft response to the NATS Consultation Document proposing new flight paths to and from Luton Airport.

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Parliamentary Debate 24 April 2008

Welfare Tax Credits

David Gauke highlights the problem of low take-up in response to the Government’s proposal to use working tax credits for households without children as a compensation package for the scrapping of the 10p tax rate.

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News 22 April 2008

MP publishes Highways Agency noise map

David has been campaigning to ensure that the widening of the M25 will not result in a big increase in noise levels in the areas around and between Junction 17 and 18.

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News 17 April 2008

MP campaigns for Tring Recycling Centre

David Gauke has joined local campaigner, Olive Conway, to discuss the proposed closure of Tring Recycling Centre.

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News 16 April 2008

MP welcomes potential new football facility

David joined staff, governors and pupils of Ashlyns School, Berkhamsted, plus representatives of Berkhamsted Raiders Football Club and fellow MP, Mike Penning, to highlight a potential new footballing facility at the school.

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Parliamentary Debate 25 March 2008

Constitutional Renewal

David Gauke asks the Lord Chancellor whether he has considered the introduction of a recall mechanism whereby in certain specific and exceptional circumstances constituents could remove their MP during the course of a Parliament?

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News 19 March 2008

MPs raise concerns about flightpath proposals

Dacorum MPs, David Gauke and Mike Penning, have today met representatives of NATS, the organisation which air traffic control services in the UK, to raise concerns about proposals to change the flight paths for departures and arrivals to Luton airport.

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Link: Telegraph Blogs 14 March 2008

An unhelpful intervention from Byers (for Brown)

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Speech 13 March 2008

Budget Debate

David Gauke winds up the second day of the Budget Debate for the Conservatives and tells MPs that after 11 years the Government has failed to deliver on welfare reform and has failed to use the good years to prepare for difficult years ahead.

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Link: Telegraph Blogs 13 March 2008

Gordon Brown snubs Peter Mandelson

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Speech 12 March 2008

HMRC (Northern Ireland)

David Gauke winds up a debate on behalf of the Conservatives on a structural reorganisation of the HMRC in Northern Ireland which could lead to the closure of regional offices such as those in Coleraine.

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Letter to The Guardian 11 March 2008

"Recall mechanism" for MPs

I welcome Nick Clegg's support for the proposal that voters should be allowed to collect petitions in their constituency if an MP is expelled or suspended from the Commons...

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Related Link: The Guardian