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Budget debate on Wednesday, 21 March 2007, in the House of Commons, led by Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton.

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458 c829-916 
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2006-07
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Treasury
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Stephen Hesford | 458 c907 (Link to this contribution) China and India are often spoken of as the tiger economies of the east that are ready to overtake us...
Mark Field | 458 c905-6 (Link to this contribution) I would give the Chancellor even as much credit as the hon. Gentleman would do for that policy. I kn...
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Brooks Newmark | 458 c907 (Link to this contribution) Off-balance sheet financing is a legitimate device, and I appreciate why the Government use it, but ...
Mark Field | 458 c907 (Link to this contribution) In fairness, India is the only country with a more complicated tax code than ours. My point was that...
Kelvin Hopkins | 458 c907-8 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman seems to be making a critique of PFI, which I should be happy to support, especia...
Mark Field | 458 c907 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right. We have long argued that much of the off-balance sheet financing...
David Leslie Taylor | 458 c908 (Link to this contribution) It is estimated that the tax to GDP burden in the year we are about to enter is about 42 per cent. D...
Mark Field | 458 c908 (Link to this contribution) The operative word is ““seems””. I disagree with the hon. Gentleman’s analysis. I would rather that ...
Kelvin Hopkins | 458 c905 (Link to this contribution) Would the hon. Gentleman also give credit to the Chancellor for keeping us out of the euro, which ha...
Mark Field | 458 c904-5 (Link to this contribution) It is always a great pleasure to speak in a Budget debate, representing as I do the City of London, ...
Sammy Wilson | 458 c900 (Link to this contribution) While, on the surface, the national debt figures appear to have been held, does the hon. Lady accept...
Baroness Ussher | 458 c899-900 (Link to this contribution) I have not been looking for a job, so I did not notice those jobs being advertised. However, I can t...
Jeremy Browne | 458 c899 (Link to this contribution) I wonder whether the hon. Gentleman was referring to the large number of jobs in the office of the L...
Baroness Ussher | 458 c899 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for the opportunity to speak in the debate, and it is of course a pleasure to follow m...
Baroness Ussher | 458 c901 (Link to this contribution) I can see them thinking hard. Over the past 10 years or so, our policies have shifted the United Ki...
Baroness Ussher | 458 c900-1 (Link to this contribution) No, I would not accept that. Very good economists have analysed whether that expenditure should be i...
Nigel Evans | 458 c898-9 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman clearly was not listening. We are in favour of the effective spending of the huge...
Baroness Ussher | 458 c902-4 (Link to this contribution) I am loth to mention football, given Burnley’s current position, but I am sure that that will improv...
Sammy Wilson | 458 c916 (Link to this contribution) I have only about three minutes and I am not taking any more interventions. The Chancellor is going...
Stephen Hesford | 458 c915 (Link to this contribution) Which bit of public investment in Northern Ireland—or, indeed, in any part of the UK—would the hon. ...
Sammy Wilson | 458 c915 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Member for Birmingham, Selly Oak (Lynne Jones) for stopping short so that I have th...
Sammy Wilson | 458 c915-6 (Link to this contribution) We have already had this argument across the Chamber. It is not a case of cutting a piece of public ...
Lynne Jones | 458 c913-5 (Link to this contribution) The Government say that they believe in choice, so council tenants who wish to remain council tenant...
David Leslie Taylor | 458 c913 (Link to this contribution) Like my hon. Friend, I entered politics because I realised the value of affordable, decent housing p...
Lynne Jones | 458 c912-3 (Link to this contribution) I do not accept those figures. I am not a fan of private finance initiatives, but they are a relativ...
Brooks Newmark | 458 c911-2 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps I could help the hon. Lady. The Chancellor is in a difficult position, because he has set an...
Lynne Jones | 458 c911 (Link to this contribution) I do. Perhaps I am not being very clear, but that is what I am trying to say. When the Chancellor be...
Kelvin Hopkins | 458 c910 (Link to this contribution) Although I agree with my hon. Friend about raising thresholds, has not the focus in recent years bee...
Lynne Jones | 458 c910 (Link to this contribution) I come from a different political philosophy from the hon. Member for Cities of London and Westminst...
Mark Field | 458 c909-10 (Link to this contribution) I am aware of the great problems that exist. My hon. Friend rightly used the word ““largesse””. I wo...
Brooks Newmark | 458 c909 (Link to this contribution) I acknowledge what the Chancellor said about tax credits, but there is no point in continuing to giv...
Mark Field | 458 c908-9 (Link to this contribution) I suspect that the figure would be about 42 per cent., if not slightly higher. I am sure that was th...
Rob Marris | 458 c885 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is gracious in defeat, as ever. Of course migration has had an effect on growth, ...
Stewart Hosie | 458 c883 (Link to this contribution) Everything in the garden is not rosy. I will give the hon. Gentleman figures later to show that in a...
Rob Marris | 458 c883 (Link to this contribution) I agreed with some of what was said by the hon. Member for Dundee, East (Stewart Hosie), as he would...
Mark Field | 458 c884-5 (Link to this contribution) I accept the argument about growth forecasts. Indeed, it is fair to say that the Opposition have occ...
Rob Marris | 458 c883-4 (Link to this contribution) I concede that I am somewhat greedy and that I want more growth, but growth is growth and that recor...
Willie Rennie | 458 c881 (Link to this contribution) On the issue of research funding and R and D investment, did you not think that when the Chancellor ...
Speaker | 458 c881 (Link to this contribution) Order. I remind the hon. Gentleman that he should not be using the second person. By doing so, he is...
Willie Rennie | 458 c881 (Link to this contribution) When the Chancellor referred to research funding, he neglected to inform the House that there has be...
Stewart Hosie | 458 c881-3 (Link to this contribution) We need to consider all the R and D funding pots in the round. The hon. Gentleman was right to refer...
Stewart Hosie | 458 c881 (Link to this contribution) I am almost underwhelmed by such wonderful Liberal semantics. The 10p rate has been abolished, and p...
Brooks Newmark | 458 c891 (Link to this contribution) I am somewhat curious, although I sympathise with what the hon. Gentleman is saying. What aspect of ...
Rob Marris | 458 c890-1 (Link to this contribution) This Budget is good for those at the lower end of the income tax scale as it were, because of what h...
Mark Field | 458 c889 (Link to this contribution) I cannot let the hon. Gentleman’s remarks go without some comment, not least because my mother is Ge...
Rob Marris | 458 c889-90 (Link to this contribution) I accept that there were some positive changes under the 18 years of Conservative government. There ...
Mark Field | 458 c886 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is making a great case for Wolverhampton and we might all be tempted to go there....
Rob Marris | 458 c886-9 (Link to this contribution) I am in a marginal seat—Enoch Powell’s old seat, as many hon. Members know—so I guess that I will fi...
Jim Devine | 458 c885 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right. When the Conservatives were in power, unemployment in my constit...
Rob Marris | 458 c885-6 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right. A little Brown pill is much better than a little blue pill. The...
Nigel Evans | 458 c894 (Link to this contribution) As in all cases, there are winners and losers. For the Chancellor to suggest that everyone will win ...
Brooks Newmark | 458 c894 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend not agree that this is another classic case of the Chancellor giving something a...
Daniel Kawczynski | 458 c894 (Link to this contribution) As chairman of the all-party group on dairy farmers, may I reinforce the points made by my hon. Frie...
Brooks Newmark | 458 c891 (Link to this contribution) But we are talking about the Budget, and in addressing the Budget one should examine what the Chance...
Brooks Newmark | 458 c892 (Link to this contribution) Let me address the effects that the hon. Gentleman is talking about. In my constituency of Braintree...
Rob Marris | 458 c892-3 (Link to this contribution) That ultimately is a matter for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. In the past ...
Nigel Evans | 458 c893 (Link to this contribution) I do not know how much carbon was emitted during the speech made by the hon. Member for Wolverhampto...
Sammy Wilson | 458 c893 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman accept that on page 301 of the Red Book, the line that deals with increase i...
Nigel Evans | 458 c894 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Member for Nottingham, South (Alan Simpson) spoke about ““cheat infidelity””, which would e...
Jeremy Browne | 458 c898 (Link to this contribution) Every item that the hon. Gentleman has mentioned would cost more public money than the Chancellor an...
Nigel Evans | 458 c897-8 (Link to this contribution) I fully accept what the hon. Gentleman says, but when my hon. Friend the Member for Cities of London...
Nigel Evans | 458 c895 (Link to this contribution) This will be an interesting one for me. I know that the hon. Lady knows my patch well. She will also...
Baroness Ussher | 458 c895 (Link to this contribution) I know the hon. Gentleman’s constituency well, as it is next door to mine. As a result of the Budget...
Nigel Evans | 458 c896-7 (Link to this contribution) What I do know is that nurses are so agitated about the level of pay that they are getting that they...
Rob Marris | 458 c897 (Link to this contribution) When I last asked the Government to look into that, the annual cost of what the hon. Gentleman seeks...
Nigel Evans | 458 c896 (Link to this contribution) More can be done to incentivise people to conserve energy in their homes. If a small percentage of t...
Baroness Ussher | 458 c896 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman not agree that as a result of the ““Agenda for Change”” process the average ...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 458 c829-31 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker. It is a bit like Stalin: they are cheering him on now—he will wipe th...
Speaker | 458 c829 (Link to this contribution) Order. By sitting down, the right hon. Gentleman did my job for me. It is inevitable that a major st...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 458 c831-3 (Link to this contribution) It is difficult for them, Mr. Deputy Speaker; they are just realising that their next leader has the...
Speaker | 458 c831 (Link to this contribution) Order. I am hearing far too much noise from the Labour Benches—and I do not want it encouraged from ...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 458 c829 (Link to this contribution) Well, the Chancellor has finally given us a tax cut. He normally does that before a general election...
Lord McFall of Alcluith | 458 c843 (Link to this contribution) As my hon. Friend points out, we get more than the amount that goes out. The hon. Member for Maccles...
Nicholas Winterton | 458 c842 (Link to this contribution) The Chairman of the Treasury Committee is talking about a hugely important issue. While there might ...
Lord McFall of Alcluith | 458 c843 (Link to this contribution) This can be a very emotive issue. I remind the hon. Gentleman that we must take our place in the glo...
Mark Field | 458 c845 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend is a good-natured man, as we well know. I entirely agree that many of the chang...
Lord Redwood | 458 c845 (Link to this contribution) I have said in the Register of Members’ Interests that I hold non-executive directorships, and I dra...
Lord McFall of Alcluith | 458 c844-5 (Link to this contribution) Exactly. My hon. Friend outlines the situation cogently and cites a reason why we will examine the i...
Rob Marris | 458 c844 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend might be aware that I have attempted to find out how many prosecutions have bee...
Lord McFall of Alcluith | 458 c843 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes a relevant point. While we have a benign economic environment and low inter...
Mark Field | 458 c843 (Link to this contribution) I endorse the right hon. Gentleman’s robust support for the private equity and venture capital indus...
Lord Campbell of Pittenweem | 458 c833-5 (Link to this contribution) Once again, I am struggling to match the intellectual rigour of the previous speech. I am pleased to...
Lord McFall of Alcluith | 458 c835-7 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the Chancellor on the Budget, which will benefit families, society and business. He h...
Lord Redwood | 458 c837 (Link to this contribution) During the Committee’s deliberations, were Bank of England representatives asked why we in Britain h...
Nigel Evans | 458 c842 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman mentioned Africa. He will know that there will be discussions at the G8 mee...
Lord McFall of Alcluith | 458 c841-2 (Link to this contribution) I am concerned about the position of manufacturing. I would be concerned if there were adverse conse...
Lord McFall of Alcluith | 458 c842 (Link to this contribution) I agree entirely with the hon. Gentleman from both a humanitarian and an economic point of view. Whe...
David Gauke | 458 c838 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman rightly raises issues about the golden rules. An additional point that our ...
Lord McFall of Alcluith | 458 c838 (Link to this contribution) Witnesses have pointed out how favourable conditions are in the UK in terms of globalisation. The IM...
Nicholas Winterton | 458 c841 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman is making a good case about a responsible attitude to climate change and gl...
Lord McFall of Alcluith | 458 c838-41 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is a good, hard-working member of the Committee and I value his presence. In our ...
Lord Redwood | 458 c846 (Link to this contribution) I am all heart, but I am not sure that I can go quite that far on this occasion, because although th...
Rob Marris | 458 c846 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman kindly referred the House to table A1 on page 208 of the Red Book. My readi...
Lord Redwood | 458 c846 (Link to this contribution) I mentioned all three things, because I am being scrupulously fair in representing what the Chancell...
Sally Keeble | 458 c846 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?
Lord Redwood | 458 c847 (Link to this contribution) It is quite possible that some pensioners will be better off, but as the hon. Lady indicates, they w...
Sally Keeble | 458 c846-7 (Link to this contribution) Does the right hon. Gentleman accept that because of the big increase in pensioners’ personal tax al...
Lord Redwood | 458 c848-9 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an extremely good point, which I endorse. Off the top of my head, I do not have...
Nicholas Winterton | 458 c847-8 (Link to this contribution) I am deeply concerned about fiscal drag and the indexation of tax allowances. Will my right hon. Fri...
Stephen Hesford | 458 c849 (Link to this contribution) I am interested in what the right hon. Gentleman is saying. When he was in government, he could not ...
Lord Redwood | 458 c853 (Link to this contribution) I do not think the hon. Gentleman was any better the second time. Maybe it was the sample that I hap...
Mark Durkan | 458 c853 (Link to this contribution) It is the social partnership model that has underpinned economic policy, creating consistent and sta...
Mark Durkan | 458 c853 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman should realise that what the social partnership framework agreements did wa...
Lord Redwood | 458 c853 (Link to this contribution) I will allow the hon. Gentleman a third try. Perhaps he will get better.
Mark Durkan | 458 c852 (Link to this contribution) All hon. Members need to remember that the backdrop to the change in economic performance in the Rep...
Lord Redwood | 458 c852 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend. To some extent I feel that I am the father of that great expedition...
David Gauke | 458 c852 (Link to this contribution) As another member of the Treasury Committee who was on the trip to Dublin, I can tell my right hon. ...
Lord Redwood | 458 c852 (Link to this contribution) The crisis in the health service in this country is every bit as big as the one to which the hon. La...
Lord Redwood | 458 c856 (Link to this contribution) The level of productivity has nothing to do with pay rates. I am interested in output in relation to...
Sally Keeble | 458 c856 (Link to this contribution) Does the right hon. Gentleman accept that it is easy to show high productivity growth when there is ...
Lord Redwood | 458 c856-7 (Link to this contribution) I have allowed the hon. Lady to intervene many times and she is trying my patience. She has made sev...
Alan Simpson | 458 c857-8 (Link to this contribution) It is normal on these occasions for me to follow the Chancellor’s Budget statement and fill in the c...
Lord Redwood | 458 c853 (Link to this contribution) I do not think we will agree. Business people have gone to Ireland mainly because of the lower tax r...
Lord Redwood | 458 c853-5 (Link to this contribution) The policy came from thinkers around the world who pointed out to Governments that that always works...
Mark Durkan | 458 c853 (Link to this contribution) Where did the policy come from?
Lord Redwood | 458 c856 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an extremely powerful point. Labour Members laugh, but this is their watch and ...
Graham Stuart | 458 c855 (Link to this contribution) Is my right hon. Friend aware that if the productivity growth under the last Conservative Government...
Alan Simpson | 458 c863-4 (Link to this contribution) That is almost like asking what is the length of a piece of string. I do not know the answer. What I...
Lord Redwood | 458 c863 (Link to this contribution) Can the hon. Gentleman give us some idea of the level of fuel tax that he thinks would be required t...
Alan Simpson | 458 c861-3 (Link to this contribution) I do, but I also have strong views on smart metering. The energy sector is desperately keen to get s...
Lord Stunell | 458 c861 (Link to this contribution) I entirely agree with the hon. Gentleman. Does he acknowledge that the 28-day rule works strongly ag...
Alan Simpson | 458 c859-61 (Link to this contribution) I would respond to that by referring to something that my dad said, which was that any idiot can run...
Lord Redwood | 458 c859 (Link to this contribution) Does not that show that there was a better reason for privatisation than even I dreamed up—that it i...
Alan Simpson | 458 c859 (Link to this contribution) I hope to take the opportunity to address those concerns by amending the Pensions Bill. I hope that ...
Mark Field | 458 c859 (Link to this contribution) I would like to associate myself personally with everything that the hon. Gentleman has said in this...
Alan Simpson | 458 c858-9 (Link to this contribution) I accept that, and I shall make most of my remarks in the context of what is happening in the wider ...
Mark Field | 458 c858 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes an entirely fair point, but does he not recognise that many Conservative Me...
Peter Bottomley | 458 c867 (Link to this contribution) I do not want to give way too often, because we have listened to some very lengthy speeches, but I w...
Paul Farrelly | 458 c867 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Paul Farrelly | 458 c867 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has talked about certain proposals put forward by the Conservatives and by the Li...
Rob Marris | 458 c865 (Link to this contribution) How does the hon. Gentleman know?
Alan Simpson | 458 c865 (Link to this contribution) No, I am not talking about using a price mechanism. I am talking about using a system that constrain...
Peter Bottomley | 458 c866-7 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Member for Nottingham, South (Alan Simpson) on his speech. He certainly made...
Alan Simpson | 458 c865-6 (Link to this contribution) I have seen the website. [Interruption.] No, it does not work at all, but it is a wonderful spoof. A...
Nigel Evans | 458 c864 (Link to this contribution) It has been said that the Chancellor is Stalinist, but I think that he has strong competition in tha...
Rob Marris | 458 c865 (Link to this contribution) I caution my hon. Friend, who I always thought was on the left of the Labour party, that he seems to...
Alan Simpson | 458 c864-5 (Link to this contribution) The problem will not be the number of planes circling airports. We should take a look at the Governm...
Peter Bottomley | 458 c868-9 (Link to this contribution) Let me get through the rest of my list, as that may save a number of interventions. Is it true that...
Stephen Hesford | 458 c869 (Link to this contribution) On local government finance, does the hon. Gentleman advocate relocating some or all of the ability ...
Peter Bottomley | 458 c867-8 (Link to this contribution) Yes. Now let us look at taxes on business. The Chancellor has adopted the Conservative idea of redu...
Stephen Hesford | 458 c868 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Peter Bottomley | 458 c871 (Link to this contribution) If the Minister is going to volunteer to be one of them, I will certainly give way.
Ed Balls | 458 c871 (Link to this contribution) Can the hon. Gentleman advise me how that would impact upon Members of the House of Commons who are ...
Peter Bottomley | 458 c870 (Link to this contribution) It might, but I was not trying to go into detail. I just wanted to make the point—[Interruption.] I ...
Peter Bottomley | 458 c871 (Link to this contribution) Decisions could be made by lottery, according to merit or by popular vote. One day I shall welcome t...
Stephen Hesford | 458 c871 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my right hon. Friend the Chancellor on his 11th, and what is categorised as his last,...
Nigel Evans | 458 c871-2 (Link to this contribution) I suspect that, after listening to Budgets like this over the last 10 years, Members left to make su...
Stephen Hesford | 458 c872 (Link to this contribution) I am pleased that the hon. Gentleman reads the Red Book. Reflecting on the earlier debate, it seeme...
Ed Balls | 458 c872 (Link to this contribution) And the Leader of the Opposition.
Stephen Hesford | 458 c872 (Link to this contribution) And the Leader of the Opposition—I am obliged to my hon. Friend. The speech that I wanted to make n...
Stewart Hosie | 458 c872 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that the list that the hon. Gentleman is reading would be very interesting in other circum...
Stephen Hesford | 458 c873-4 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes his point. The final statistic that I will cite is that the London commodi...
Stephen Hesford | 458 c874-5 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has only just come into the Chamber, but if he had followed the debate he might h...
Peter Bottomley | 458 c871 (Link to this contribution) I know: that is why I said it. Denis Thatcher said that it might be called the Prince Albert Club, t...
Speaker | 458 c876 (Link to this contribution) Order. I should make it plain to the hon. Gentleman, and to the House in general in case it is not a...
Stephen Hesford | 458 c876 (Link to this contribution) As I say, I am sure that the hon. Gentleman can make his point in due course.
Stephen Hesford | 458 c876 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend. [Interruption.] My hon. Friend the Economic Secretary says that the...
Mark Hoban | 458 c876 (Link to this contribution) What message does the hon. Gentleman think the increase in the small companies rate of corporation t...
Stephen Hesford | 458 c876 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that the hon. Gentleman will tell me in due course in his winding-up speech.
Stephen Hesford | 458 c875-6 (Link to this contribution) The final piece of assistance for families with children was progress towards equalising the amount ...
Peter Bottomley | 458 c875 (Link to this contribution) If the hon. Gentleman can find any basis for that, will he send it to me?
Stephen Hesford | 458 c877 (Link to this contribution) I do agree. Of course, I had that in the back of my mind. I will not detain the House overlong but ...
Stewart Hosie | 458 c877-8 (Link to this contribution) May I comment first on the corporation tax change? It should have been greatly welcomed, as a cut in...
Ed Balls | 458 c878 (Link to this contribution) Did the hon. Gentleman hear the comment from his colleague, the leader of Plaid Cymru, this afternoo...
Stephen Hesford | 458 c876-7 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman can make his speech if he catches your eye, Mr. Deputy Speaker. My constituents ...
Nigel Evans | 458 c877 (Link to this contribution) Could the hon. Gentleman remind the House of what Tim Hames said about the abolition of the 10p rate...
Ed Balls | 458 c877 (Link to this contribution) Lest there is any possibility that my hon. Friend might have been unsettled by some of the intervent...
Sammy Wilson | 458 c876 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman accept that the 2 per cent. increase in corporation tax for small businesses...
Stephen Hesford | 458 c876 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend the Economic Secretary is shaking his head, so that cannot be right.
Baroness Ussher | 458 c849 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman voted against it.
Lord Redwood | 458 c849-50 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady is being absurd. Of course, we have always welcomed the extra teachers, nurses and doc...
Lord Redwood | 458 c849 (Link to this contribution) I wish that the hon. Gentleman would try to listen to what I am saying. Of course, I welcome the ext...
Sally Keeble | 458 c852 (Link to this contribution) One of the advantages of the Select Committee’s excellent trip to Ireland was that we looked at some...
Baroness Ussher | 458 c851 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman mentions Ireland. Does he not think that part of the astounding growth is d...
Lord Redwood | 458 c851-2 (Link to this contribution) No, of course not. If the hon. Lady studies the facts, she will see that Ireland was growing very st...
Rob Marris | 458 c850 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for his generosity. He is making an interesting speech, bu...
Lord Redwood | 458 c850-1 (Link to this contribution) The business would not have survived if it had been run in the way that the Chancellor has run some ...
Nigel Evans | 458 c850 (Link to this contribution) We applaud the work that nurses do, but does my right hon. Friend agree that they have been met with...
Lord Redwood | 458 c850 (Link to this contribution) Nurses will certainly not be amused by the Budget, because they will not receive the tax cut that th...
Stewart Hosie | 458 c879 (Link to this contribution) It is for Plaid Cymru to make its own points, and I think the spokesman was referring to the fact th...
Stewart Hosie | 458 c879-80 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman might say that, but I think that my colleagues were being critical of the fact th...
Jim Devine | 458 c880 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Jeremy Browne | 458 c881 (Link to this contribution) May I caution the hon. Gentleman against saying that the 10p rate has been abolished? Is it not much...
Stewart Hosie | 458 c881 (Link to this contribution) No, I do not, because many of the drivers of investment, particularly in manufacturing, are reserved...
Jim Devine | 458 c880 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman, and I apologise. Has not the Chancellor shot the Scottish National party...
Baroness Ussher | 458 c880-1 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman mentions that manufacturing job losses have been greater, unfortunately, in Scotl...
Stewart Hosie | 458 c880 (Link to this contribution) When we are talking about the loss of 1 million manufacturing jobs, it is disappointing to be subjec...
Rob Marris | 458 c891-2 (Link to this contribution) I humbly suggest that the hon. Gentleman should make his speech and let me make mine. I am not talki...
Lynne Jones | 458 c895-6 (Link to this contribution) Returning to the hon. Gentleman’s point about wind turbines, I share his cynicism about their contri...
Lord Redwood | 458 c846 (Link to this contribution) I will deal with the previous point first, and then I will be happy to hear the hon. Lady’s point. ...
Lord Redwood | 458 c852-3 (Link to this contribution) How many times do I have to explain? I and my colleagues would like our public sector to have more m...
Stewart Hosie | 458 c880 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has only just come into the Chamber, but I will give way to him.
Lord Jackson of Peterborough | 458 c890 (Link to this contribution) I wonder whether the hon. Gentleman became a Labour Member of Parliament to witness a Labour Chancel...
Ed Balls | 458 c871 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Danny Alexander | 458 c874 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is quoting with approbation the words of an economist who would like Britain to, ...
Nigel Evans | 458 c894-5 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that the House is aware of the work that my hon. Friend has done in that field. [Laughter....
Mark Hoban | 458 c876 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman will find that the changes to which the hon. Member for Burnley (Kitty Ussher) re...
Baroness Ussher | 458 c876 (Link to this contribution) Is it not my hon. Friend’s understanding—this might help him out—that the changes in small company c...
Stephen Hesford | 458 c877 (Link to this contribution) No. My right hon. Friend the Chancellor rescued my speech for me. I had been ordering my thoughts o...
Rob Marris | 458 c891 (Link to this contribution) With respect to the hon. Gentleman, he appears to be completely missing the point that I am making. ...
Stephen Hesford | 458 c876 (Link to this contribution) I am obliged, Mr. Deputy Speaker. We will therefore have to wait with bated breath for a few days fo...
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