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Ministerial statement on Wednesday, 6 December 2006, in the House of Commons, led by Gordon Brown.

Pre-Budget Report

Statement on the Pre-Budget Report (Cm 6984)

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Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
454 c305-34 
Session
2006-07
Department
Treasury
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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Proceeding contributions
Brooks Newmark | 454 c327 (Link to this contribution) During the Chancellor’s rather long statement on the pre-Budget report, he talked about a £1 billion...
Gordon Brown | 454 c328 (Link to this contribution) The additional money that is raised from air passenger duty is about £1 billion.
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David Clelland | 454 c328 (Link to this contribution) In tackling climate change, will my right hon. Friend look at what seems to be a nonsensical positio...
Gordon Brown | 454 c327 (Link to this contribution) I hope that my hon. Friend will lobby to have the new Warm Front initiative, which will extend Warm ...
Sally Keeble | 454 c327 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the extra investment in transport, housing and skills, the innovative policies for communi...
Gordon Brown | 454 c326 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my right hon. Friend, because he has been one of the leading advocates throughout t...
Gordon Brown | 454 c327 (Link to this contribution) A total of 3.3 million people have pension credits as a result of the Government’s decision. In many...
Gordon Brown | 454 c326 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman will know that we introduced a varied licence fee, which is of benefit to people ...
Tom Clarke | 454 c326 (Link to this contribution) In view of the Chancellor’s recent meeting with Cardinal O’Brien from Edinburgh and other faith lead...
Gordon Brown | 454 c325-6 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend puts the point that, first, we should act on child poverty, and we will; and secondly...
Viscount Thurso | 454 c326 (Link to this contribution) The Chancellor announced an increase in fuel duty, with which I concur, as it must be right to redre...
Gordon Brown | 454 c325 (Link to this contribution) More than started under the previous Conservative Government—we have trebled the amount of spending ...
Lord Redwood | 454 c325 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the Chancellor’s realisation that a lack of transport capacity is a major constraint on ou...
Jim Cousins | 454 c324 (Link to this contribution) May I ask my right hon. Friend to go back to his Budget three years ago, when he announced that Newc...
Gordon Brown | 454 c323 (Link to this contribution) Under a Labour Government in Scotland, unemployment is down, employment is up, growth is up and livi...
Gordon Brown | 454 c324 (Link to this contribution) I will meet north Staffordshire MPs again—as my hon. Friend knows, I have met them before—to talk ab...
Michael Fallon | 454 c324 (Link to this contribution) How can the Chancellor claim that his fiscal rules are fully met when so many PFI liabilities and pu...
Gordon Brown | 454 c322 (Link to this contribution) Mr. Gershon—actually, I think it is now Sir Peter Gershon—undertook the review. There was no huge st...
Gordon Brown | 454 c322-3 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend has pioneered work that ensures that the textile industry can upgrade and, because of...
Kali Mountford | 454 c322 (Link to this contribution) The textiles industry is facing major global challenges, so as we consider the innovations that it n...
Speaker | 454 c323 (Link to this contribution) Order. The hon. Gentleman must ask a question. This is not an opportunity for him to make a counter-...
Stewart Hosie | 454 c323 (Link to this contribution) Under this Government, we have seen average growth in the UK of about 43 per cent., compared with 35...
Gordon Brown | 454 c321 (Link to this contribution) I always like interventions from the former Chancellor and I am grateful to him for attending today’...
Andrew Smith | 454 c321 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my right hon. Friend on his statement. My constituents will particularly welcome his ...
Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 454 c321 (Link to this contribution) Does the Chancellor accept that, although it is true that he has not destroyed the record of growth,...
Edward Leigh | 454 c322 (Link to this contribution) The National Audit Office has expressed concerns about the claimed efficiency gains because of doubl...
Gordon Brown | 454 c320-1 (Link to this contribution) The Leitch report alludes to that when it says that because of globalisation, there are 6 million un...
Lord McFall of Alcluith | 454 c320 (Link to this contribution) Last year, the Treasury Committee advised the Chancellor to double air passenger duties, so I am del...
Gordon Brown | 454 c319-20 (Link to this contribution) I shall deal individually with the points that the hon. Gentleman raised. On debt and household inco...
Gordon Brown | 454 c317-8 (Link to this contribution) Is it not remarkable that the shadow Chancellor cannot bring himself to acknowledge the longest peri...
Vincent Cable | 454 c318-9 (Link to this contribution) May I start with the bits of the statement I agree with? I am glad that the Chancellor has listened ...
Speaker | 454 c305 (Link to this contribution) Order. It is the done thing to let a Minister make a statement to the House and not to interrupt.
Speaker | 454 c315 (Link to this contribution) Order. The hon. Gentleman should be heard. There should be no private conversations.
George Osborne | 454 c314-7 (Link to this contribution) The Chancellor was being modest when he said that this was simply his latest PBR. It is surely his l...
Gordon Brown | 454 c305 (Link to this contribution) This is my 10th and latest pre-Budget report and, under this Government, the 10th consecutive year o...
Gordon Brown | 454 c331 (Link to this contribution) At the 29th week, mothers to be are eligible to receive maternity grants. I propose that we consider...
James Clappison | 454 c331 (Link to this contribution) Will any aspect of the Chancellor’s announcement about universities and tuition fees affect the situ...
Gordon Brown | 454 c331 (Link to this contribution) I made two proposals on tuition fees: one in relation to voluntary work and the other in relation to...
Clive Efford | 454 c331-2 (Link to this contribution) I welcome my right hon. Friend’s statement and especially the extra resources for schools. Although ...
Gordon Brown | 454 c332 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right. The matter concerns us all. The number of young people who are s...
Anne Snelgrove | 454 c329 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my right hon. Friend on the extra £8.3 billion capital investment in schools, which w...
David Gauke | 454 c329 (Link to this contribution) Will the Chancellor confirm that he has today downgraded the GDP growth forecast for 2008 and will h...
Gordon Brown | 454 c329 (Link to this contribution) The trend growth rate is exactly the same. If the hon. Gentleman is saying that if growth is upgrade...
Lord Bellingham | 454 c328 (Link to this contribution) The Chancellor mentioned making life easier for people on low incomes. Let us look at last year. How...
Gordon Brown | 454 c328 (Link to this contribution) I will send the figures to the hon. Gentleman. We are introducing a better system today so that ther...
Karen Buck | 454 c328 (Link to this contribution) We are in the middle of a £70 million investment programme involving building three new schools and ...
Gordon Brown | 454 c329 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend, who persistently puts the case for her constituency both to me and ...
Gordon Brown | 454 c328 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes two important points. I will look at each of them in detail in the run-up to th...
Gordon Brown | 454 c331 (Link to this contribution) If I am right, the criticism was made against the previous Government—[Interruption.] This is a Labo...
Helen Goodman | 454 c331 (Link to this contribution) In addressing Labour’s historic commitment to end child poverty, the Chancellor was right to talk ab...
Speaker | 454 c330 (Link to this contribution) Order. I hope that the hon. Gentleman will withdraw that unwise language immediately.
Gordon Brown | 454 c330 (Link to this contribution) I will consider in detail the information that my hon. Friend has given me about that important agen...
Mike Penning | 454 c330-1 (Link to this contribution) When the Chancellor was in opposition, he made a statement that if the parliamentary ombudsman found...
Gordon Brown | 454 c330 (Link to this contribution) If meetings are necessary on this issue, I am sure that they can take place. At the same time, I hop...
Dari Taylor | 454 c330 (Link to this contribution) I warmly welcome my right hon. Friend’s statement and everything that he said about child poverty, e...
Gordon Brown | 454 c329-30 (Link to this contribution) If we had to adopt a policy to cut £28 billion of public spending now, it would be the equivalent of...
Danny Alexander | 454 c330 (Link to this contribution) The Chancellor rightly emphasised the need for fiscal measures to tackle the causes of climate chang...
Angus Brendan MacNeil | 454 c332 (Link to this contribution) How much time did the Chancellor spend thinking about the islands when he doubled air passenger duty...
Gordon Brown | 454 c332 (Link to this contribution) For the record, I am happy to read out the figures for Wellingborough. In May 1997— The hon. Gentle...
Gordon Brown | 454 c334 (Link to this contribution) A document is to be published on procurement, and the hon. Gentleman will understand that that proce...
Gordon Brown | 454 c333 (Link to this contribution) The health service has already been given £5 billion more this year, and it will get between £5 bill...
Gordon Brown | 454 c333 (Link to this contribution) As the hon. Gentleman knows, there are special arrangements for the islands. He had better read the ...
Philip Dunne | 454 c333 (Link to this contribution) Why, having raised £2 billion today for the next year, did the Chancellor choose to make barely a pa...
Gordon Brown | 454 c333-4 (Link to this contribution) I just gave the figures: productivity in the last economic cycle was 1.9 per cent., and productivity...
Mark Pritchard | 454 c334 (Link to this contribution) If the Chancellor does not have one of my leaflets, I am happy to send him one. I welcome what he sa...
Graham Stuart | 454 c333 (Link to this contribution) It is hard to tell what the Chancellor does more: wriggle or fiddle. Today, there was only a single ...
Peter Viggers | 454 c327 (Link to this contribution) To complete the picture placed before us today, will the Chancellor tell us what part he thinks that...
Mark Durkan | 454 c325 (Link to this contribution) May I assure the Chancellor that there will be a very significant welcome for the very significant c...
Gordon Brown | 454 c324-5 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for raising those issues. I have talked to him about them before. I ...
Gordon Brown | 454 c324 (Link to this contribution) Opposition Front Benchers say, ““Hear, hear.”” We operate exactly the same rules and procedures that...
Speaker | 454 c333 (Link to this contribution) Order. I am sorry to interrupt the right hon. Gentleman, but I will not continue the questioning or ...
Joan Walley | 454 c324 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the measures in the pre-Budget report that relate to the environment and follow on from th...
Gordon Brown | 454 c322 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my right hon. Friend. It was under his period at the Department for Work and Pensio...
Peter Bone | 454 c332 (Link to this contribution) The Chancellor will recall that more people were unemployed in Wellingborough in October 2006 than i...
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