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Comprehensive Spending Review

I welcome you to the Chair, Mr Owen, as this is the first time you have chaired the Committee. I know that you will do an excellent job and we all wish you well on this and other such occasions. The hon. Member for Monmouth, whose constituency neighbours mine, said that he did not like the legacy that the Labour Government had left his constituents and mine, but my constituents and his—I know plenty of them—would have welcomed the legacy of more hospitals, schools, teachers and police officers, the minimum wage and all the other things that the Labour Government did over the past 13 years.