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Budget debate on Monday, 29 March 2010, in the House of Commons, led by John Denham. The answering member was Caroline Spelman.

Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation

Budget debate (third day): budget resolutions and economic situation.

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Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
508 c526-604 
Session
2009-10
Department
Treasury
Department for Communities and Local Government
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Proceeding contributions
Speaker | 508 c545 (Link to this contribution) Order. I remind Members that Mr. Speaker has imposed a 12-minute limit on Back-Bench contributions.
Jeremy Browne | 508 c539-40 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for the opportunity to make my final speech as a Member of Parliament before the gener...
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Greg Hands | 508 c540 (Link to this contribution) We certainly agree with the hon. Gentleman's sentiments on cider, but unfortunately for him last yea...
Clive Betts | 508 c538 (Link to this contribution) Is there a fallback position for the hon. Lady's new policy on house building and planning? What hap...
Caroline Spelman | 508 c538-9 (Link to this contribution) I know that the hon. Gentleman is interested in local government, housing and planning, and I commen...
Jeremy Browne | 508 c540-1 (Link to this contribution) Well, because—[Interruption.] It is not a U-turn at all: one cannot infer from my views on spirits t...
Caroline Spelman | 508 c536 (Link to this contribution) I will not give way; I want to make some progress. Let us consider stamp duty. Two and a half years...
Caroline Spelman | 508 c537-8 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady fails to understand that I was talking about the entire 13-year period that her party ...
Phyllis Starkey | 508 c537 (Link to this contribution) I am having some difficulty in following the logic of the hon. Lady's argument. Does she accept that...
Caroline Spelman | 508 c536-7 (Link to this contribution) I have got evidence by asking the business community, of course. The hon. Lady comes from the south-...
Linda Gilroy | 508 c536 (Link to this contribution) What evidence has the hon. Lady got that local business wants those changes rather than the stabilit...
Angus Brendan MacNeil | 508 c545 (Link to this contribution) I am listening carefully to the hon. Gentleman's speech. Will he confirm that Scotland currently pro...
Jeremy Browne | 508 c545 (Link to this contribution) I have always thought it an act of supreme charity by the Liberal Democrats that the electoral syste...
Jeremy Browne | 508 c541-2 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is making an interesting point, and I want to engage him directly on it. The defi...
Lord Maples | 508 c541 (Link to this contribution) That would normally be the case in a recession if we were talking about the cyclical part of the def...
Jeremy Browne | 508 c542-3 (Link to this contribution) I had thought that the Conservative party was supposed to have stopped banging on about Europe. I do...
Lord Jackson of Peterborough | 508 c542 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman regret—and will he apologise for—his party's wholehearted support for a sing...
Jeremy Browne | 508 c544-5 (Link to this contribution) I can. All the research—I hesitated before I used that word, because it sounds as though I am contra...
Laura Moffatt | 508 c544 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman tell me how he thinks his party's policy of abolishing child trust funds wil...
Clive Betts | 508 c533 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady mentioned national insurance increases. As far as I understood it, the Conservatives' ...
Caroline Spelman | 508 c532-3 (Link to this contribution) In due course. If the hon. Gentleman does not mind, I shall develop the argument about the business ...
John Denham | 508 c530-2 (Link to this contribution) The answer, of course, is that action to produce efficiency savings is already well under way. In th...
Caroline Spelman | 508 c532 (Link to this contribution) I am delighted to have this opportunity to debate the Budget. It is just a shame that the Secretary ...
John Denham | 508 c528-30 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend, who chairs that Select Committee, makes an important point. I am not aware of a sing...
Marquess of Lothian | 508 c530 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman spoke about efficiency savings. I quite see that savings can be made throug...
Phyllis Starkey | 508 c528 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend will be aware that when the Select Committee on Communities and Local Governmen...
Caroline Spelman | 508 c535 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman obviously did not follow the significant exchanges in January, when the Governmen...
Caroline Spelman | 508 c534-5 (Link to this contribution) No; I have replied to the Secretary of State's intervention. By retrospectively charging five years...
Lord Willis of Knaresborough | 508 c535 (Link to this contribution) I was looking forward to a zero council tax increase in Harrogate this year from the Conservative co...
Caroline Spelman | 508 c535 (Link to this contribution) As stated very clearly in our localism green paper, one of our three policy green papers, which I in...
John Denham | 508 c533-4 (Link to this contribution) I am sure the hon. Lady will be able to clarify this point. Sixty per cent. of businesses will see t...
Caroline Spelman | 508 c533 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman will have heard the Secretary of State explain that he too, and his Government, w...
Caroline Spelman | 508 c534 (Link to this contribution) The rating revaluation was based on commercial property prices in April 2008—pre-credit crunch. How ...
Philip Dunne | 508 c590 (Link to this contribution) I can count only one, including the hon. Member for Stroud.
Speaker | 508 c589 (Link to this contribution) Order. I am afraid that the hon. Gentleman's time is up.
Philip Dunne | 508 c590 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Stroud (Mr. Drew), and it is a slight shame that he w...
Philip Dunne | 508 c590-1 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. I was going to say that it is a pleasure to participate in a debate...
Stephen Timms | 508 c591 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman reflect on the fact that although our forecast in last year's Budget for the...
David Drew | 508 c590 (Link to this contribution) There are not many on your side either.
David Drew | 508 c587-9 (Link to this contribution) I am delighted to take part in the Budget debate. Unlike a number of other hon. Members tonight, I h...
Lord Soames of Fletching | 508 c595 (Link to this contribution) Will my hon. Friend acknowledge the admirable work done by our hon. Friend the Member for Uxbridge (...
Greg Hands | 508 c595-9 (Link to this contribution) I certainly will, and I thank my hon. Friend for the intervention. I also acknowledge the work of my...
Stephen Timms | 508 c599-600 (Link to this contribution) We have had a good debate, on the whole, on crucial matters for the economy. We have come through th...
John Hemming | 508 c600 (Link to this contribution) On the question of unemployment falling, I presume that the Minister means on the claimant count bas...
Stephen Timms | 508 c600 (Link to this contribution) A lot of things have happened that have ensured that the claimant count has not reached the levels o...
Christopher Fraser | 508 c600 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?
Stephen Timms | 508 c600 (Link to this contribution) I will give way, but then I need to make some headway.
Christopher Fraser | 508 c593-5 (Link to this contribution) It is a great pleasure to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Ludlow (Mr. Dunne), who is an assiduo...
Greg Hands | 508 c595 (Link to this contribution) This has been a very fine debate, and possibly the best Budget Monday debate for some time, not leas...
Alan Simpson | 508 c563-6 (Link to this contribution) I came into the House 18 years ago frustrated by a Government who had sold the pass on manufacturing...
Lord Maples | 508 c560-3 (Link to this contribution) The purpose of that was to try to do something to stimulate the creation of jobs in the private sect...
Jeremy Browne | 508 c560 (Link to this contribution) I ask this entirely in the spirit of genuine inquiry: does the hon. Gentleman think that this mornin...
David Clelland | 508 c556-9 (Link to this contribution) It is a great honour, indeed a privilege, to follow the right hon. Member for Skipton and Ripon (Mr....
Lord Maples | 508 c559-60 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Member for Tyne Bridge (Mr. Clelland) has just made an eloquent plea on behalf of the north...
David Curry | 508 c553-6 (Link to this contribution) Since we are having a succession of valedictories, I shall try not to be sentimental, maudlin or mor...
Marquess of Lothian | 508 c548-9 (Link to this contribution) I, too, rise to speak in the House for the last time, after 36 years. I have to admit that this is n...
Lord Hutton of Furness | 508 c549-53 (Link to this contribution) It is a great pleasure to follow the right hon. and learned Member for Devizes (Mr. Ancram) and, ind...
Richard Caborn | 508 c545-8 (Link to this contribution) In common, I think, with several other Members who will contribute today, this will possibly be my l...
Andrew Turner | 508 c585-7 (Link to this contribution) This Budget bears little relation to the times in which we live and comes from a Government who have...
Lord Willis of Knaresborough | 508 c582-5 (Link to this contribution) It is interesting that I am following the hon. Member for West Suffolk (Mr. Spring) because, unlike ...
David Simpson | 508 c577-8 (Link to this contribution) It is a privilege to follow the hon. Member for Crawley (Laura Moffatt). May I take this opportunity...
Lord McCrea of Magherafelt and Cookstown | 508 c578 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend acknowledge, however, that while the banks will talk a good talk, the percentage...
David Simpson | 508 c579 (Link to this contribution) I totally agree with my hon. Friend. I was just going on to say that we have all heard very distress...
Lord Risby | 508 c579-82 (Link to this contribution) I have read that the origin of the word ““swansong”” is the myth of the mute swan which, as it appro...
Charles Kennedy | 508 c566-9 (Link to this contribution) Unlike the hon. Member for Nottingham, South (Alan Simpson), who has just concluded his contribution...
Clive Betts | 508 c569-72 (Link to this contribution) This will probably be the last speech I make in Parliament as the Member for Sheffield, Attercliffe....
Lord Soames of Fletching | 508 c572-4 (Link to this contribution) It has been a great privilege tonight to listen to a series of impressive valedictory speeches, not ...
Laura Moffatt | 508 c575-7 (Link to this contribution) It is an absolute pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Mid-Sussex (Mr. Soames) and, of course, it ...
Charles Kennedy | 508 c602-3 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Minister for returning to my point about broadband. He mentioned his recent vis...
Stephen Timms | 508 c601-2 (Link to this contribution) To address the anomaly that was the previous differential in the duty. However, as I have said, ther...
Stephen Timms | 508 c603-4 (Link to this contribution) Broadly, I think they are. I must say that my disappointment is with the Conservative party, which p...
Christopher Fraser | 508 c600 (Link to this contribution) Does the right hon. Gentleman accept that long-term unemployment has gone up, as has youth unemploym...
Greg Hands | 508 c601 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister for giving way; he has plenty of time. Let me take him back to cider. He mentio...
Stephen Timms | 508 c600-1 (Link to this contribution) No. Actually, we have been successful in avoiding the big increase in long-term unemployment that wa...
John Denham | 508 c526-8 (Link to this contribution) This country has faced the deepest recession in living memory and the Budget outlines how we will se...
Philip Dunne | 508 c591-3 (Link to this contribution) We will have to see, will we not? That is another forecast. I concede that the Treasury has had the ...
Subjects
Debts Council tax Budgets Cider Economic situation Economic growth Local government finance National insurance contributions Public sector debt Small businesses Taxation Economic recession Gold and foreign exchange reserves Budget March 2010
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