Extract from Commons debate on the Budget: Amazon - Mar 8

Tuesday, 9 March 2021 08:30

Chi Onwurah (Newcastle upon Tyne Central) (Lab):...There is an infrastructure bank with one 20th of the funding for the failing test and trace system. This should have been the moment to light up the road to recovery; instead, it is a mean and limited mates’ rates economic sticking plaster. There is the super deduction capital allowance, which treats jacuzzis the same as manufacturing lines and rewards Amazon for investing in surveillance technology but not companies for investing in people......Request free trial