Sir Mike Penning calls for an end to the discrimination against people who are visually impaired, who have to pay VAT on audiobooks when all other books are zero rated.
Sir Mike Penning calls on the Government to make use of opportunity of Brexit to remove VAT from audiobooks which currently unfairly impacts those who are visually impaired or have other disabilities that make reading printed books impossible.
Sir Mike Penning welcomes new measures being brought in to tackle spiking and calls on the Home Office to move forward with rapid drink testing kits, highlighting his experience of bringing in drug-driving testing kits where the technology improved and rapidly came down in price once introduced.
Sir Mike Penning joins MPs in raising concerns about the forthcoming trial of Jimmy Lai in Hong Kong and urges MPs to sign Early Day Motion 213 on the imprisonment of Jimmy Lai to send a message to the rest of the world.