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Budget debate on Tuesday, 30 March 2010, in the House of Commons, led by Ed Balls. The answering member was Lord Clarke of Nottingham.

Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation

Budget debate fourth day: Children, schools and families. Motion on amendment of the law agreed. Motions on income tax agreed. Motion on corporation tax (charge and main rates) agreed on division (350 to 175). Motion on corporation tax (small profits) agreed on division (297 to 230). Motion on alcoholic liquor duties agreed on division (303 to 223). Motion on fuel duties (rates and rebates) agreed on division (298 to 63). Motion on fuel duties (further changes) agreed on division (294 to 61). Motion on landline duties agreed on division (339 to 168). Motion on furnished holiday lettings agreed on division (286 to 219). Other resolutions agreed on question.

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Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
508 c652-776 
Session
2009-10
Department
Department for Children, Schools and Families
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Proceeding contributions
Speaker | 508 c684-5 (Link to this contribution) I am not for one moment saying from the Chair that the situation today is in any way admirable. We h...
Speaker | 508 c702 (Link to this contribution) Order. To deal with much smaller numbers than those we have just heard about, after the next two spe...
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Speaker | 508 c739 (Link to this contribution) Instead of reading out each motion in full, I propose to follow the procedure used in recent years—t...
Speaker | 508 c735 (Link to this contribution) I say to the hon. Lady that the matter has been taken up, perhaps when she was temporarily not in th...
Liam Byrne | 508 c735-9 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for your guidance, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I was about start on a note of consensus, by a...
Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 508 c731-3 (Link to this contribution) We have heard some excellent speeches this evening. This has also been a poignant debate, with six v...
John Hayes | 508 c729-31 (Link to this contribution) I have never been terribly interested in the present because "now" is an illusion, as it instantly b...
Liam Byrne | 508 c735 (Link to this contribution) May I apologise again for missing the start of the debate, Mr. Deputy Speaker?
Baroness McIntosh of Pickering | 508 c735 (Link to this contribution) On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I was present at the start of the debate and it was notable...
Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 508 c733-5 (Link to this contribution) If the hon. Gentleman had been listening, he would have heard plenty about what the Opposition will ...
Andrew Mackinlay | 508 c724-7 (Link to this contribution) Much of this long Budget debate has focused on apportioning blame for the present crisis. Many insti...
Brian Binley | 508 c727-9 (Link to this contribution) I have listened to some excellent speeches, many of which have been by people who will be leaving th...
Brooks Newmark | 508 c721-4 (Link to this contribution) I first draw Members' attention to my ever-diminishing entry in the register of interests. I join o...
Edward Leigh | 508 c720 (Link to this contribution) The truth is that preparations are being made at this precise moment, but people are not being told ...
Sammy Wilson | 508 c720-1 (Link to this contribution) That brings me to my question for the Chief Secretary; I hope that we will get some answers when he ...
Speaker | 508 c710 (Link to this contribution) May I remind the House that there is now a 12-minute limit on Back-Bench speeches?
Ken Purchase | 508 c710-3 (Link to this contribution) It is an interesting experience following the right hon. Member for Banff and Buchan (Mr. Salmond), ...
Lord Boswell of Aynho | 508 c713-6 (Link to this contribution) First, may I congratulate the hon. Member for Wolverhampton, North-East (Mr. Purchase)? I have alway...
Edward Leigh | 508 c716-9 (Link to this contribution) It is a great pleasure to speak in this debate. It is rather like the ones that follow a general ele...
Alex Salmond | 508 c709-10 (Link to this contribution) I advise the hon. Gentleman to look again at the projections in the Red Book, because if they are fo...
Alex Salmond | 508 c706-7 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the right hon. Member for Oldham, West and Royton (Mr. Meacher). As he pr...
Michael Meacher | 508 c705-6 (Link to this contribution) Of course I take the hon. Gentleman's point. There is a significant structural deficit as well as th...
John Hayes | 508 c705 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman. It is arguable that, as he is asserting, in an ordinary e...
Michael Meacher | 508 c705 (Link to this contribution) I will give way to the hon. Gentleman for the second time.
Ken Purchase | 508 c709 (Link to this contribution) Does the right hon. Gentleman accept, however, that although the Chancellor's remarks may be seized ...
Alex Salmond | 508 c707-8 (Link to this contribution) Although I concede it may not be the likeliest circumstance to arise from the campaign and election,...
Edward Leigh | 508 c707 (Link to this contribution) I cannot help but ask the right hon. Gentleman this question: would he prefer to have a Labour or a ...
Edward Leigh | 508 c666 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. and learned Friend recall that in our early years in Parliament Ministers were ve...
Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 508 c666 (Link to this contribution) It could be that he is trying to think what to say, because there is not much in the Budget to talk ...
John Baron | 508 c666 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps the Chief Secretary's absence could be explained by the fact that he is preparing the cuts.
Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 508 c666 (Link to this contribution) He may be trying to prepare a rather clearer explanation of the cuts than has just been given by the...
Alex Salmond | 508 c666 (Link to this contribution) I was with the Chief Secretary on Thursday night on "Question Time", so perhaps I can give an altern...
Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 508 c667 (Link to this contribution) It is more likely that Charlie Whelan is trying to deal with the problem if there is some discrepanc...
Ed Balls | 508 c667 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. and learned Gentleman give way?
Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 508 c667 (Link to this contribution) He should give it again; we are waiting for the finer details.
Brian Binley | 508 c685 (Link to this contribution) Does the right hon. Gentleman not recognise the anger out there; that the Prime Minister, then the C...
Lord Blunkett | 508 c685-6 (Link to this contribution) The Opposition were the first to criticise us for being too tough on regulation. They preached year ...
Lord Blunkett | 508 c685 (Link to this contribution) I will endeavour to take less than the 15 minutes, and I will also endeavour to help my right hon. F...
Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 508 c684 (Link to this contribution) Further to that point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I do not want to make a meal of this, but I do n...
Speaker | 508 c684 (Link to this contribution) I cannot recall the exact instance to which the hon. Gentleman refers, but obviously, as I think has...
Oliver Heald | 508 c686 (Link to this contribution) Does the right hon. Gentleman not remember that in 1998, when the current Prime Minister introduced ...
Lord Blunkett | 508 c686 (Link to this contribution) Of course we introduced that system precisely because there was no financial regulation. We also mad...
Ed Balls | 508 c682-3 (Link to this contribution) May the confusion about tranches 1 and 2 of Eurofighter, and therefore the confusion about exactly w...
Vincent Cable | 508 c683 (Link to this contribution) I appreciate the Secretary of State coming to my rescue, but I do not think I need it. I have given ...
Oliver Heald | 508 c683 (Link to this contribution) To clarify matters so that there is no misunderstanding, would the hon. Gentleman be prepared to pub...
Vincent Cable | 508 c682 (Link to this contribution) That is not the information that we have received. We have repeatedly checked our understanding of t...
Vincent Cable | 508 c682 (Link to this contribution) I gave no grovelling apology to the permanent secretary to the Treasury. I misrepresented nothing. I...
Vincent Cable | 508 c683-4 (Link to this contribution) I sent the permanent secretary to the Treasury a handwritten note. His conversation with me was priv...
Liam Byrne | 508 c684 (Link to this contribution) On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. May I apologise to you and to right hon. and hon. Members f...
Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 508 c684 (Link to this contribution) Further to that point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. Is it not the convention of the House that an ho...
Michael Meacher | 508 c704-5 (Link to this contribution) I was referring to the tax increases in this Budget, whereas the hon. Gentleman is referring to the ...
John Hayes | 508 c703 (Link to this contribution) I am an admirer of the right hon. Gentleman and I share some of his views about the redistribution o...
Brooks Newmark | 508 c699 (Link to this contribution) It would perhaps be much easier for anyone listening to this debate to understand that £1.4 trillion...
David Heathcoat-Amory | 508 c700-2 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for that illustration. I think that we can all agree that we are tal...
Jeremy Browne | 508 c699 (Link to this contribution) The reason for our noises off was that if 1 million seconds last for 12 days and 1,000 million is 1 ...
David Heathcoat-Amory | 508 c699 (Link to this contribution) No, but the hon. Gentleman had better check his arithmetic. I have done mine, and it is the case tha...
Michael Meacher | 508 c702-3 (Link to this contribution) This has been an evening of memorable valedictory speeches, so I do not think we should let this mom...
Jeremy Browne | 508 c702 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for giving way, for two reasons. The first is that I want ...
David Heathcoat-Amory | 508 c702 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman. We have heard a few apologies in the Chamber this afternoon, an...
David Heathcoat-Amory | 508 c699 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to you, Mr. Deputy Speaker.
Speaker | 508 c699 (Link to this contribution) Order. I am sorry to interrupt the right hon. Gentleman, but there is a three-way conversation going...
Brian Binley | 508 c687 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman acknowledge that the school improvement programme, much of which we be...
Lord Blunkett | 508 c687 (Link to this contribution) It was not the only game in town, because, as I have just spelt out, we started in 1998 with £1 bill...
Lord Cormack | 508 c688-9 (Link to this contribution) It is always a pleasure to follow the right hon. Member for Sheffield, Brightside (Mr. Blunkett). We...
Lord Cormack | 508 c689-90 (Link to this contribution) I would rather not, if my hon. Friend does not mind. I like to measure every Budget against two of ...
Joan Walley | 508 c690-3 (Link to this contribution) It falls to me, a girl from Biddulph in Staffordshire, to pay tribute to the public service that the...
Frank Dobson | 508 c695-8 (Link to this contribution) Subject to the views of the electorate of Holborn and St. Pancras, it is not my intention not to be ...
David Heathcoat-Amory | 508 c698-9 (Link to this contribution) I am pleased to follow the right hon. Member for Holborn and St. Pancras (Frank Dobson), although I ...
Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 508 c672-3 (Link to this contribution) No. This is the delay argument. We are supposed to having a debate about whether we should start to ...
Barry Sheerman | 508 c672 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. and learned Gentleman is known for his honesty, and I have known him for a very long ...
Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 508 c671-2 (Link to this contribution) I shall stop giving way for a time, Madam Deputy Speaker, to help with that. That quote was taken f...
Speaker | 508 c670-1 (Link to this contribution) Order. That is not a point of order for the Chair. May I remind all— ... Order. May I please remin...
Peter Bottomley | 508 c670 (Link to this contribution) On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. The Secretary of State has six pages of quotes. Can we he...
Ed Balls | 508 c670 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. and learned Gentleman does himself a disservice in talking about the quotes being lov...
Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 508 c670 (Link to this contribution) I am glad that my pre-Front Bench quotes are being so lovingly preserved by the right hon. Gentleman...
Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 508 c669-70 (Link to this contribution) I wholly agree with my hon. Friend. Indeed, when the public are trying to make sense of what they pr...
John Hayes | 508 c669 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. and learned Friend mentioned the spending plans that the current Government inherited....
Ed Balls | 508 c670 (Link to this contribution) I only wish that I had had the chance to pay tribute to the right hon. and learned Gentleman in my s...
Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 508 c668-9 (Link to this contribution) What emerged was the work of Sir Peter Gershon and Martin Read, and the question of how to pay for i...
Ed Balls | 508 c668 (Link to this contribution) On the issue of whose advice was listened to over tax policy, a few days ago, on the question of rev...
Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 508 c669 (Link to this contribution) I will pause to give way in a moment. In the end, given such inadequate content, all it adds up to ...
Ed Balls | 508 c667 (Link to this contribution) It is important to set the record straight, Madam Deputy Speaker. It was actually post-neoclassical—...
Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 508 c667-8 (Link to this contribution) I shall obey your strictures, Madam Deputy Speaker. It is difficult to get back to the Budget. We a...
Speaker | 508 c667 (Link to this contribution) Order. As interesting and entertaining as this dialogue has been, it is important that we now return...
Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 508 c682 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman talks about the credibility of plans to cut spending and he has announced his £15...
Vincent Cable | 508 c681-2 (Link to this contribution) No, the criticism is not of the fact that there needs to be a tightening of budgets. Of course there...
Stewart Hosie | 508 c681 (Link to this contribution) That is a very good point indeed, as was the description of the real cuts at the hon. Gentleman's un...
Vincent Cable | 508 c678-9 (Link to this contribution) I too came along this afternoon under the impression that this was to be an economic debate. I am pl...
Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 508 c676-8 (Link to this contribution) Heaven forfend. I like the tower and I always go there when I am in Blackpool. My party used to go t...
Vincent Cable | 508 c680 (Link to this contribution) What I said, or what I thought I said, was that we would cut child tax credits for high earners. [Ho...
David Heathcoat-Amory | 508 c680 (Link to this contribution) While the hon. Gentleman is clearing up confusions, what about this one? Last night on television, h...
Angus Brendan MacNeil | 508 c680 (Link to this contribution) On the point about the very real world, I notice that just before the Budget the hon. Member for Inv...
Ed Balls | 508 c674 (Link to this contribution) If the right hon. and learned Gentleman cannot have any confidence in the £11 billion of savings we ...
Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 508 c673-4 (Link to this contribution) I do not know whether the Secretary of State does the research for the Prime Minister, who is also v...
Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 508 c675-6 (Link to this contribution) I must move on now. As we have turned this into a business debate rather than an industry debate, I...
Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 508 c674-5 (Link to this contribution) We have set out the five bases Gershon says we should pursue, but we have not allocated figures to i...
Sally Keeble | 508 c673 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. and learned Gentleman spoke of delaying tactics. He has now been speaking for nearly ...
Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 508 c673 (Link to this contribution) That brings me to my next point. First, there are the efficiency savings, which have been debated a ...
Ed Balls | 508 c673 (Link to this contribution) We are, but I want to make sure that we are absolutely clear about the position, and to give the rig...
Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 508 c666 (Link to this contribution) I shall give way to my hon. Friend the Member for Gainsborough (Mr. Leigh).
Speaker | 508 c666 (Link to this contribution) Order. The right hon. and learned Gentleman has not indicated that he will give way. Members must co...
Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 508 c666 (Link to this contribution) There may be a reasonable explanation, but I shall not take more time from the debate on the Budget ...
Ed Balls | 508 c666 (Link to this contribution) I do not know the answer, but we will get an answer as soon as possible. It is possible that the Chi...
Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 508 c665-6 (Link to this contribution) I will give way in a moment, because there may be an explanation and I am prepared to listen to it. ...
Ed Balls | 508 c663 (Link to this contribution) I will say only that we announced today that 15 more academies are now moving forward through their ...
Speaker | 508 c663 (Link to this contribution) Order. I call the Secretary of State.
Barry Sheerman | 508 c663 (Link to this contribution) I am tying that to the Budget because—
Ed Balls | 508 c664 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend is a well known campaigner on that matter. I must inform him that this morning,...
Denis MacShane | 508 c664 (Link to this contribution) I am trying to! They all have autistic children, which Opposition Members seem to find funny, and th...
Speaker | 508 c664 (Link to this contribution) Order. Is the hon. Gentleman making an intervention? Please continue.
Denis MacShane | 508 c664 (Link to this contribution) My point is about a very modest element of public expenditure. I met three constituents last week, M...
Lembit Opik | 508 c664 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State has been talking about 16-to-19 funding, and he may or may not be aware that ...
Ed Balls | 508 c664 (Link to this contribution) I do not want to see anybody ripping out educational provision in a haphazard and random way; to do ...
Annette Brooke | 508 c664 (Link to this contribution) Will the Secretary of State give way?
Annette Brooke | 508 c664 (Link to this contribution) On that very point—I need to declare an interest in that my daughter teaches at this school—the loca...
Lord McLoughlin | 508 c665 (Link to this contribution) On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. This is the final day of the Budget debate, which is usua...
Ed Balls | 508 c664-5 (Link to this contribution) Members of the House who are regulars at Children, Schools and Families questions will know that it ...
Speaker | 508 c665 (Link to this contribution) Order. The right hon. Member for West Derbyshire (Mr. McLoughlin) is correct. It is certainly usual ...
Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 508 c665 (Link to this contribution) Thank you for your ruling on that point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. The debate was opened by the...
Speaker | 508 c663 (Link to this contribution) Order. I have already made a ruling, and there is no need for that debate to continue. The ruling wa...
Barry Sheerman | 508 c663 (Link to this contribution) I spoke last Thursday at that very business school, the Ashcroft school of business at Anglia Ruskin...
Ed Balls | 508 c663 (Link to this contribution) Whether it was a point of order or a point of information, I am not sure that I really got the point...
Baroness McIntosh of Pickering | 508 c663 (Link to this contribution) I am most grateful to the right hon. Gentleman. Is he aware that the business school at Anglia Ruski...
Ed Balls | 508 c663 (Link to this contribution) I am happy to take an intervention from my hon. Friend.
Speaker | 508 c663 (Link to this contribution) Order. Can we now get back to the debate on the Budget?
Speaker | 508 c663 (Link to this contribution) Order. I am well capable of determining whether or not that is a point of order. The hon. Lady herse...
Baroness McIntosh of Pickering | 508 c662-3 (Link to this contribution) On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. Perhaps there is no reason for the Secretary of State to ...
Ed Balls | 508 c661 (Link to this contribution) I cannot do the detail of the shadow Education Secretary's sums for him—nor can Carol Vorderman. How...
John Baron | 508 c661 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State talks about help for poorer communities, but does he not accept that the free...
Ed Balls | 508 c661-2 (Link to this contribution) The freezing of personal allowances, which was announced in the pre-Budget report, is part of a pack...
Ed Balls | 508 c662 (Link to this contribution) I gave way to the hon. Gentleman once before, so I will carry on. I have been trying to work out wh...
Speaker | 508 c662 (Link to this contribution) Order. I am quite sure that the Secretary of State is now going to concentrate on aspects of the Bud...
Ed Balls | 508 c662 (Link to this contribution) The reason why this is relevant to the Budget debate is that our Chancellor and our Prime Minister h...
Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 508 c661 (Link to this contribution) First, let me point out that when the Secretary of State started attributing what he thought our pol...
Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 508 c660 (Link to this contribution) As the right hon. Gentleman has studied our announcement yesterday in such detail, has he calculated...
Ed Balls | 508 c660-1 (Link to this contribution) I have just calculated that the hon. Member for Surrey Heath, the shadow Education Secretary, who is...
Ed Balls | 508 c660 (Link to this contribution) My Department's budgets. The shadow Education Secretary will have to cut either those budgets by ab...
Ed Balls | 508 c659-60 (Link to this contribution) I shall give way in a second. I should like to set out in more detail our policy on Sure Start, on ...
Ed Balls | 508 c659 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady is a contributor to our education debates, so she will have studied in detail the cons...
Baroness McIntosh of Pickering | 508 c659 (Link to this contribution) The Conservative party will not abolish Sure Start, and I wish that the right hon. Gentleman would t...
Brian Binley | 508 c658 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State is moving at an amazing speed and sometimes it is a little difficult to keep ...
Ed Balls | 508 c658 (Link to this contribution) That is a matter for the Chancellor of the Exchequer, not for me. I am not going to start telling th...
Barry Sheerman | 508 c658 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend agree that many of the Conservative Members who usually come to the Chambe...
Ed Balls | 508 c658-9 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend has a strong track record of contributing to education debates. I have to say it is r...
Ed Balls | 508 c657 (Link to this contribution) No. It is not fair to the shadow Business Secretary: why should he be here answering on the details ...
Ed Balls | 508 c657-8 (Link to this contribution) I did answer it, but I will say it again. When we came to government in 1997, the schools capital bu...
Ed Balls | 508 c655 (Link to this contribution) I will turn to that very subject now. I hope that I can give some comfort—
Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 508 c656 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman said a moment ago that teachers' pensions were part of his budget. Will he ...
Ed Balls | 508 c655-6 (Link to this contribution) No, I will not. I hope that I can give some comfort to my hon. Friend the Member for Northampton, No...
Simon Burns | 508 c655 (Link to this contribution) Will the Secretary of State give way?
Ed Balls | 508 c656 (Link to this contribution) I said that I would take an intervention, and I will do so in a moment. I shall explain what I have...
Simon Burns | 508 c656 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?
Ed Balls | 508 c656 (Link to this contribution) A total of 13 per cent. of my budget covers pensions. The document that the Government published a f...
Ed Balls | 508 c656 (Link to this contribution) I give way to the right hon. and learned Member for Rushcliffe.
Ed Balls | 508 c653 (Link to this contribution) I am happy to do just that. I will make sure that the hon. Gentleman gets the information he request...
Ed Balls | 508 c654 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman is a student of economics and will have studied that period in great detail...
Alex Salmond | 508 c654 (Link to this contribution) May I go back to the right hon. and learned Member for Rushcliffe (Mr. Clarke)? If I remember correc...
Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 508 c654 (Link to this contribution) I hasten to interrupt the series of references to me and the rather inaccurate wanderings down memor...
John Hayes | 508 c654 (Link to this contribution) Will the Secretary of State confirm a very straightforward fact––that the growth of gross domestic p...
Ed Balls | 508 c654 (Link to this contribution) I am very happy to set out the details of exactly what I am going to be doing in my budget. That is ...
Sally Keeble | 508 c655 (Link to this contribution) I very much welcome my right hon. Friend's commitment to protect the schools budget. In the course o...
Lord Mann | 508 c652 (Link to this contribution) Before my right hon. Friend moves on, I am sure that he will wish to recognise that the right hon. a...
Ed Balls | 508 c652 (Link to this contribution) It is a great honour to be invited to open this final day of the Budget debate and to set out the st...
William Cash | 508 c653 (Link to this contribution) About two weeks ago, I asked a question about the record of the Labour county council in Staffordshi...
Ed Balls | 508 c653 (Link to this contribution) I shall give way in a moment, but I wish to make this point. The Chancellor considered proposals to ...
Ed Balls | 508 c653 (Link to this contribution) It is very nice to see the right hon. Gentleman in the House, and I shall give way to him once I hav...
Ed Balls | 508 c652 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right about that. However, to give the right hon. and learned Gentleman some credi...
Sammy Wilson | 508 c719-20 (Link to this contribution) This has been an enjoyable debate. Listening to the valedictory speeches from a number of well-respe...
Lord Jackson of Peterborough | 508 c682 (Link to this contribution) In the welcome spirit of mea culpa, will the hon. Gentleman share with the House the circumstances t...
Ed Balls | 508 c663 (Link to this contribution) I was in no way trying to besmirch his reputation. I fear that it is the shadow Foreign Secretary's ...
Ann Widdecombe | 508 c693-5 (Link to this contribution) I am following my hon. Friend the Member for South Staffordshire (Sir Patrick Cormack) in that this ...
Vincent Cable | 508 c680 (Link to this contribution) We want special provision for remote rural areas. If the Government were able to introduce a scheme ...
Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 508 c673 (Link to this contribution) I will give way to the Secretary of State for the last time. We are both taking up too much time.
Rob Marris | 508 c733 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman decries the Chancellor for lacking credibility, vision, energy and new ideas, but...
Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 508 c657 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman. May I refer him to page 90 of the Red Book and paragraph ...
Ed Balls | 508 c655 (Link to this contribution) I think that the hon. Gentleman will find that we had a decade of stability, with low interest rates...
Simon Burns | 508 c657 (Link to this contribution) I am extremely grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for giving way. Despite all the waffle and the m...
Subjects
Childcare Cost effectiveness Capital investment Education Economic situation Pre-school education Public expenditure Schools VAT Economic recession Academies Children's centres Cuts Budget March 2010
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