Written Answers — Transport: Aviation: Exhaust Emissions (21 May 2013)
Kwasi Kwarteng: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what progress he has made on discussions with the International Civil Aviation Organisation on carbon emissions.

Public Bill Committee: Finance (No. 2) Bill: Clause 4 - Charge and main rate for financial year 2014 (25 Apr 2013)
Kwasi Kwarteng: As a matter of record, can the Minister say what the thinking is behind the speed of the reduction, and what the point is at which the reduction should stop? I ask because clearly there are people in the Government-certainly among the Conservatives, and perhaps one or two Lib Dems-who would like to see corporation tax cut even further, perhaps to a rate of 15%. I just wanted to...

Public Bill Committee: Finance (No. 2) Bill: Clause 2 - Personal allowance for 2013-14 for those born after 5 April 1948 (23 Apr 2013)
Kwasi Kwarteng: The hon. Lady will appreciate that the 10-year gilt-the interest rate-has actually fallen in the past few months. That means that investors-people-have more confidence in the current Government and it is very likely that if, God forbid, Labour should ever form a Government, that 10-year rate will go up. What does she think about that?

Public Bill Committee: Finance (No. 2) Bill: Clause 2 - Personal allowance for 2013-14 for those born after 5 April 1948 (23 Apr 2013)
Kwasi Kwarteng: What does the Minister think about the Opposition’s argument that the best way to get out of a debt crisis is simply to borrow more money?

Public Bill Committee: Finance (No. 2) Bill: Clause 2 - Personal allowance for 2013-14 for those born after 5 April 1948 (23 Apr 2013)
Kwasi Kwarteng: The hon. Gentleman is making a number of good points and relating the debate to the evolution of pension provision, which is very important. He should appreciate that when the old-age pension was introduced in 1909-104 years ago-the age at  which one received a pension was 70 years, and life expectancy at that point was another 18 months. The 1909 old-age pension was...

Public Bill Committee: Finance (No. 2) Bill: Clause 2 - Personal allowance for 2013-14 for those born after 5 April 1948 (23 Apr 2013)
Kwasi Kwarteng: It is especially ironic that the hon. Gentleman is talking about a raid on pensions, given that that was the first thing that the Labour Government did in 1997. The then Chancellor of the Exchequer raided pensions to the tune of £5 billion, so Labour did more to damage the pension industry in this country than any other Government before or since.

Public Bill Committee: Finance (No. 2) Bill: Clause 2 - Personal allowance for 2013-14 for those born after 5 April 1948 (23 Apr 2013)
Kwasi Kwarteng: We have sat a long time and what we have heard from the Opposition Benches has not been a rigorous scrutiny of the Bill; it has been a litany of complaints about Government measures to reduce the deficit and to reduce spending. We have not heard one constructive idea. This is not constructive opposition, by any stretch of the imagination, and it is terrifying that the people on the seats...

Public Bill Committee: Finance (No. 2) Bill: Clause 2 - Personal allowance for 2013-14 for those born after 5 April 1948 (23 Apr 2013)
Kwasi Kwarteng: Does the hon. Lady want to see house prices fall?

Public Bill Committee: Finance (No. 2) Bill: Clause 2 - Personal allowance for 2013-14 for those born after 5 April 1948 (23 Apr 2013)
Kwasi Kwarteng: Is the hon. Lady suggesting that we should increase taxes further because those people are not going to go away?

Public Bill Committee: Finance (No. 2) Bill: Clause 2 - Personal allowance for 2013-14 for those born after 5 April 1948 (23 Apr 2013)
Kwasi Kwarteng: Gone through the roof?

Written Answers — Health: Coeliac Disease (23 Apr 2013)
Kwasi Kwarteng: To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether he plans to introduce early coeliac screening blood tests.

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: River Thames (16 Apr 2013)
Kwasi Kwarteng: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what assessment he has made of recent changes in navigation charges levied by the Environment Agency on vessels on the River Thames and the comparative effects of such changes on the owners of larger and smaller vessels.

Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation — Amendment of the Law (25 Mar 2013)
Kwasi Kwarteng: Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation — Amendment of the Law (25 Mar 2013)
Kwasi Kwarteng: Will the hon. Lady give way?

Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation — Amendment of the Law (25 Mar 2013)
Kwasi Kwarteng: I happen to be a balanced budget Conservative. Even at the time, before I was elected to this House, I completely disavowed any move to stick to Labour’s spending. I thought that it was a big mistake at the time and I am quite happy to say that in this House. I think that it was entirely a mistake to do what the Labour Government did and run deficits at a time when the economy was...

Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation — Amendment of the Law (25 Mar 2013)
Kwasi Kwarteng: I am pleased to have the opportunity to contribute to this debate. Last week’s Budget was a successful one politically. It worked because it identified that the cost of living affects all our constituents. I particularly welcome the fact that the Chancellor, by getting rid of the beer duty escalator and checking the fuel duty escalator put in by the previous Government, for example,...

Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation — Amendment of the Law (25 Mar 2013)
Kwasi Kwarteng: Am I right in assuming that the hon. Gentleman favours a high-tax economy for Britain?

Public Bill Committee: Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill: Examination of Witnesses (14 Feb 2013)
Kwasi Kwarteng: Clearly, with respect to this legislation, there is a tension, is there not, between the state, and how the state defines marriage, and the religious denominations that we have? This is manifested in the quadruple lock, which is a phrase that I have never  heard of before, but which clearly has been designed for this Bill. How secure do you think the quadruple lock is? From my point of...

Public Bill Committee: Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill: Examination of Witnesses (14 Feb 2013)
Kwasi Kwarteng: A general question: what role do you think a Government have or Parliament has in defining marriage, which for your Churches is a sacred ritual? I wanted to get some impression of that.

Public Bill Committee: Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill: Examination of Witnesses (14 Feb 2013)
Kwasi Kwarteng: My rather cloudy conclusion-I followed most of what you said, but not everything-is that you do not feel that the quadruple lock, as provided in the Bill, is necessarily as watertight as it could be.