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Queen's speech debate on Tuesday, 8 June 2010, in the House of Commons, led by Lord Darling of Roulanish. The answering member was George Osborne.

Economic Affairs and Work and Pensions

Queens speech debate (sixth day) on economic affairs and work and pensions. Amendment negatived on division (247 to 343). Main question agreed on division (335 to 257).

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Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
511 c183-302, (corrigendum) 442;511 c183-302 
Session
2010-12
Department
Department for Work and Pensions
Treasury
Procedure
Addresses to the Crown
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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Queen’s Speech (Answer To Address)
Monday, 14 June 2010
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Proceeding contributions
Speaker | 511 c206 (Link to this contribution) Order. I must at this point remind the House that Mr Speaker has placed a seven-minute limit on Back...
George Osborne | 511 c195 (Link to this contribution) If my hon. Friend will allow me, I would like to make some progress first. I guess that the shadow C...
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Lord Blunkett | 511 c206-8 (Link to this contribution) I shall endeavour to adhere to what you have requested, Mr Deputy Speaker. I am standing to defend ...
Yvette Cooper | 511 c284-7 (Link to this contribution) I begin by paying tribute to the hon. Members who have made their maiden speeches this evening and h...
Charlie Elphicke | 511 c187 (Link to this contribution) The shadow Chancellor says that Government Members are scaremongering by pointing out that the Budge...
Geraint Davies | 511 c200 (Link to this contribution) On the figures, the Chancellor will remember that in February last year the unemployment rate was 2....
Geraint Davies | 511 c194 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. Friend give way?
Sheila Gilmore | 511 c280-2 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker, for calling me to make what I understand will be the final maiden spee...
Kwasi Kwarteng | 511 c278-80 (Link to this contribution) It is a great honour to be called to deliver my maiden speech. First of all, I want to give a hearty...
Heidi Alexander | 511 c276-8 (Link to this contribution) I am very grateful for the chance to speak in this debate, and I congratulate the many hon. Members ...
Nadhim Zahawi | 511 c282-3 (Link to this contribution) Thank you for calling me, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I should like congratulate all those who have made the...
Naomi Long | 511 c260-2 (Link to this contribution) Thank you for calling me, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I am honoured to address the House for the first time,...
Anne McGuire | 511 c245-7 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for St Austell and Newquay (Stephen Gilbert). My family h...
Lord Darling of Roulanish | 511 c189-90 (Link to this contribution) What economists call the "automatic stabilisers" are still operating and are still supporting the ec...
Andrew Bingham | 511 c222-4 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker, for allowing me the opportunity to deliver my maiden speech in the Hou...
Mark Pawsey | 511 c236-7 (Link to this contribution) It gives me great pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Dundee East (Stewart Hosie) and to be able ...
Rushanara Ali | 511 c229-30 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to make my maiden speech in this importa...
Baroness Morgan of Cotes | 511 c219-20 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker, for allowing me to make my maiden speech during this debate, which is ...
Nick Smith | 511 c217-9 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker, for letting me speak in the House for the first time. I would like to ...
Jim Shannon | 511 c224-7 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr. Speaker, for calling me to make my maiden speech. I thank the hon. Members for their ...
Gavin Williamson | 511 c239-41 (Link to this contribution) It is a great honour to be called and to follow so many fantastic maiden speeches: when the bar is s...
Rachel Reeves | 511 c237-9 (Link to this contribution) I would like to thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to make my maiden speec...
Shabana Mahmood | 511 c249-51 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to you, Mr Deputy Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to make my first contribution...
Alun Cairns | 511 c247-9 (Link to this contribution) It is a privilege to have the opportunity to make my maiden speech in the debate in response to the ...
Stephen Gilbert | 511 c243-5 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, for allowing me to speak here today for the first time. I am delighte...
Mike Crockart | 511 c267-8 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to make my maiden speech. I want to pay ...
Alex Cunningham | 511 c257-9 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker, for calling me to make my maiden speech. I congratulate other hon. Mem...
Elizabeth Truss | 511 c255-7 (Link to this contribution) Thank you for calling me, Mr Deputy Speaker, and may I congratulate the hon. Member for South Down (...
David Rutley | 511 c274-6 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker, for inviting me to address the House this evening. We have already hea...
Nick Boles | 511 c259-60 (Link to this contribution) Thank you for calling me, Mr. Deputy Speaker, and for giving me the opportunity to address this Hous...
Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick | 511 c253-5 (Link to this contribution) Thank you for calling me, Mr Deputy Speaker. I greatly appreciate the opportunity to make my maiden ...
Damian Hinds | 511 c251-3 (Link to this contribution) Thank you for allowing me to catch your eye, Mr Deputy Speaker. It is an enormous privilege to addre...
Sajid Javid | 511 c215-7 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to make my maiden speech. I speak with ...
Kate Green | 511 c214-5 (Link to this contribution) I am hugely proud to be giving my maiden speech this afternoon as the new Member for Stretford and U...
Robin Walker | 511 c230-3 (Link to this contribution) I am very grateful for this opportunity to address the House for the first time. Today's debate and ...
Guto Bebb | 511 c227-8 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, for calling me to make my maiden speech. After sitting in the House f...
Jonathan Edwards | 511 c241-3 (Link to this contribution) Diolch, Mr Deputy Speaker. I congratulate the hon. Member for South Staffordshire (Gavin Williamson)...
Steve Baker | 511 c262-4 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker, for the opportunity to give my maiden speech. Some Members may know th...
Ian Murray | 511 c264-6 (Link to this contribution) Congratulations on your tenure in your post, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I also congratulate the hon. Member...
Lord Johnson of Marylebone | 511 c270-2 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker, for calling me this evening. The six hours that I have been waiting ha...
Chi Onwurah | 511 c269-70 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker, for giving me the honour to follow so many excellent maiden speeches. ...
Toby Perkins | 511 c272-4 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate hon. Members who have made their maiden speeches, particularly the hon. Member for Or...
Iain Duncan Smith | 511 c287-9 (Link to this contribution) It has been a really interesting debate, and I thank the right hon. Member for Normanton, Pontefract...
Iain Duncan Smith | 511 c290 (Link to this contribution) That is exactly right. The hon. Member for Belfast East (Naomi Long) said that she was dedicated to ...
Iain Duncan Smith | 511 c290 (Link to this contribution) We do not have a great deal of time. I will give way, but I shall finish shortly.
Iain Duncan Smith | 511 c291;511 c290-1 (Link to this contribution) I can answer many questions, but I cannot say what the last Labour Government did as they toured Eur...
Huw Irranca-Davies | 511 c197 (Link to this contribution) I want to extend to the right hon. Gentleman the courtesy of asking the question that I asked previo...
Margot James | 511 c192 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?
Lord Darling of Roulanish | 511 c192 (Link to this contribution) That is indeed right, and many people in the construction industry say that an already difficult sit...
Lord Darling of Roulanish | 511 c192 (Link to this contribution) I will give way, for the last time, to the hon. Lady, whom I last met in a BBC studio. I got the dis...
Lord Blunkett | 511 c290 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful and I shall be brief. Perhaps the right hon. Gentleman, whom I wish well, would descri...
Speaker | 511 c269 (Link to this contribution) Order. That was a fine maiden speech, but we must move on to the next maiden speech. I am pleased to...
Lord Austin of Dudley | 511 c196 (Link to this contribution) This morning, we all read the Prime Minister's comments telling us that the cuts would affect every ...
George Osborne | 511 c197 (Link to this contribution) I will give way on one more occasion and then make some progress.
George Osborne | 511 c197 (Link to this contribution) At least the hon. Gentleman acknowledges—it is the first time, either in this debate or in Treasury ...
George Osborne | 511 c198-9 (Link to this contribution) I will make a little progress. The Queen's Speech contains five Treasury-sponsored Bills, and I sho...
Chris Bryant | 511 c199 (Link to this contribution) I warmly welcome the fact that the Chancellor has introduced that Bill, which is an important piece ...
David Winnick | 511 c198 (Link to this contribution) However dismissive the Chancellor may be, those of us who have been here since 1979 and who saw what...
George Osborne | 511 c198 (Link to this contribution) The similarity is this: in 1979, a new Conservative Government also had to deal with a terrible econ...
George Osborne | 511 c197-8 (Link to this contribution) If the hon. Gentleman is not prepared to trust my judgment, let me read out what the Governor of the...
George Osborne | 511 c198 (Link to this contribution) I will make a little progress, and will give way later on in my speech, if Members will allow. Of c...
George Osborne | 511 c199-200 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes a good point. What happened with the miners compensation scheme was a trage...
George Osborne | 511 c200 (Link to this contribution) Unemployment is rising. We have the highest youth unemployment in Europe. We have the highest propor...
Andrew Love | 511 c200 (Link to this contribution) I thank the right hon. Gentleman for giving way. He spoke earlier about judgment. Is he not concerne...
George Osborne | 511 c201 (Link to this contribution) But the reason why European economies, particularly those in southern Europe and in the eurozone, ar...
Ivan Lewis | 511 c201 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Chancellor for giving way. I have some simple questions. Were we right to save Northern ...
George Osborne | 511 c201 (Link to this contribution) Talk about refighting the last war. We spent the entire general election talking about those decisio...
George Osborne | 511 c201 (Link to this contribution) Let me make some progress. It is striking that the Opposition do not have a single positive idea to...
George Osborne | 511 c201-2 (Link to this contribution) I have given way a great deal, and there are Members on both sides of the House who want to make the...
Lord Dodds of Duncairn | 511 c202 (Link to this contribution) The Chancellor mentions those areas heavily dependent on the public sector and the impact on differe...
George Osborne | 511 c202-3 (Link to this contribution) The devolved Administrations have to be part of the wider spending review. With the best will in the...
Lord Watson of Wyre Forest | 511 c203 (Link to this contribution) I strongly support the Chancellor in his drive to have more transparent budgeting, in particular the...
George Osborne | 511 c204 (Link to this contribution) The Public Accounts Committee will, I hope, be very involved in the process, and I want to involve t...
Chris Leslie | 511 c204 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?
George Osborne | 511 c203-4 (Link to this contribution) We chose £25,000 because, quite frankly, the US model suggested that that was an appropriate sum. I ...
John Pugh | 511 c204 (Link to this contribution) Where will the Public Accounts Committee and, indeed, other Select Committees play a part in the pro...
George Osborne | 511 c204-5 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the hon. Gentleman back to the House, but I shall not be drawn down the path whereby new, ...
Douglas Carswell | 511 c205 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend has been quoted talking about having a star chamber to oversee public spending....
George Osborne | 511 c204 (Link to this contribution) I shall give way, but then I must bring my speech to a close.
Chris Leslie | 511 c204 (Link to this contribution) In Treasury questions some time ago, I was concerned about items of expenditure that might have met ...
Lord Darling of Roulanish | 511 c193 (Link to this contribution) I knew that if I mentioned Europe this would happen, as sure as night follows day.
Margot James | 511 c192 (Link to this contribution) Will the shadow Chancellor clarify his party's position on our proposed spending reductions? Before ...
Robert Halfon | 511 c193 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?
Lord Darling of Roulanish | 511 c192 (Link to this contribution) I agree with that. If the hon. Lady is worried about spending cuts, she is going to have an interest...
Lord Darling of Roulanish | 511 c193 (Link to this contribution) No, I am not going to give way. I want to draw attention to one of the biggest problems that I see i...
Ian Lucas | 511 c192 (Link to this contribution) The construction sector is one of the most important barometers of the national economy, and I was p...
Lord Darling of Roulanish | 511 c194 (Link to this contribution) I think that the word "savage" was used by the Deputy Prime Minister, of whom the hon. Gentleman now...
Robert Halfon | 511 c194 (Link to this contribution) Before the last election, in an interview with the BBC, the right hon. Gentleman said that he believ...
Lord Darling of Roulanish | 511 c194 (Link to this contribution) For sheer endeavour, I will give way to the hon. Gentleman.
Robert Halfon | 511 c194 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?
David Tredinnick | 511 c195 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. Friend give way?
George Osborne | 511 c195 (Link to this contribution) I enjoyed what sounded very much to me like a valedictory speech by the shadow Chancellor, going thr...
Lord Darling of Roulanish | 511 c194-5 (Link to this contribution) No, I will not. If we are to maintain jobs and ensure that borrowing does indeed come down, we need ...
Lord Darling of Roulanish | 511 c193-4 (Link to this contribution) When comparing the judgments that we make about what is necessary fiscally, I do not think that brin...
William Cash | 511 c193 (Link to this contribution) I do not want to disappoint the shadow Chancellor, but I am much more interested in the reasons why,...
Baroness Burt of Solihull | 511 c209-10 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is entirely mistaken. In fact, the policies of the two parties were almost identi...
Andrew Love | 511 c209 (Link to this contribution) Is this not simply another fudge by the coalition? The Liberal Democrats wanted to keep RDAs and the...
Baroness Burt of Solihull | 511 c208-9 (Link to this contribution) It is a strange feeling to be standing here today—not only am I on this side of the Chamber, but I a...
George Osborne | 511 c206 (Link to this contribution) My team and I are in regular discussions with manufacturing industry, representatives of which were ...
Adrian Bailey | 511 c206 (Link to this contribution) In his list of those who would be consulted on the budget cuts, the Chancellor omitted to mention ma...
George Osborne | 511 c206 (Link to this contribution) I will give way on this point, if the hon. Gentleman likes, but just let me say this. We have publis...
George Osborne | 511 c205-6 (Link to this contribution) I am probably going to regret this, but I am quite attracted to the idea that my hon. Friend has pro...
Michael Meacher | 511 c220-2 (Link to this contribution) We have heard some wonderful speeches; there have been four very good maiden speeches today from my ...
James Clappison | 511 c211-3 (Link to this contribution) This is my first opportunity to make a contribution in this Parliament, and it is a pleasure, as alw...
Frank Dobson | 511 c210-1 (Link to this contribution) At the recent general election, the Tories gleefully asserted that under the Labour Government, ineq...
James Clappison | 511 c213 (Link to this contribution) I am not misrepresenting it in any way. Labour Members were prepared to have a system in which 80 or...
Anne McGuire | 511 c213 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman recognise that the previous Government implemented a proposal that meant tha...
Stewart Hosie | 511 c233-4 (Link to this contribution) I hope that the clock has not yet started, Mr Deputy Speaker; as the last person whom you will call ...
Anne McGuire | 511 c234 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman confirm that the current Administration's budget in Scotland is double what ...
Stewart Hosie | 511 c234-6 (Link to this contribution) I am delighted to confirm to the right hon. Lady that she seems again to fail to understand what rea...
Speaker | 511 c183 (Link to this contribution) I inform the House that I have selected the amendment in the name of the Leader of the Opposition. S...
Keith Vaz | 511 c184 (Link to this contribution) On the point about banking regulation, the shadow Chancellor will remember the closure of the Bank o...
Lord Darling of Roulanish | 511 c183-4 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move an amendment, at the end of the Question to add:""endorse the successful steps taken b...
Keith Vaz | 511 c185 (Link to this contribution) Will the shadow Chancellor give way?
Lord Darling of Roulanish | 511 c184-5 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend will know that I have always had reservations about transferring responsibility...
Baroness Coffey | 511 c186 (Link to this contribution) Will the shadow Chancellor explain why, if he was so open about the state of the economy, he would n...
Lord Darling of Roulanish | 511 c186 (Link to this contribution) I shall give way to the hon. Lady first.
Lord Darling of Roulanish | 511 c186-7 (Link to this contribution) First, I said on many occasions that the right thing to do was to hold a spending review this year, ...
Lord Darling of Roulanish | 511 c185 (Link to this contribution) I will give way once more to my right hon. Friend.
Nadhim Zahawi | 511 c186 (Link to this contribution) Did not the shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury, the right hon. Member for Birmingham, Hodge Hill...
Lord Darling of Roulanish | 511 c186 (Link to this contribution) Forgive me if I have misunderstood the hon. Gentleman, but throughout the three years when I was Cha...
Keith Vaz | 511 c185 (Link to this contribution) On the Bingham report, if the shadow Chancellor has read the confidential parts, why did he resist t...
Lord Darling of Roulanish | 511 c185-6 (Link to this contribution) I think it was providing a response to a parliamentary question from my right hon. Friend that oblig...
Lord Darling of Roulanish | 511 c191 (Link to this contribution) I am glad that I gave way to the hon. Lady for at least the first part of her intervention. I do not...
Lord Darling of Roulanish | 511 c191-2 (Link to this contribution) I shall not give way. I want to make some progress, because I know that many hon. Members want to ma...
Lord Darling of Roulanish | 511 c190 (Link to this contribution) I shall give way to the hon. Gentleman who I think used to advise the Chancellor at one point.
Lord Darling of Roulanish | 511 c190-1 (Link to this contribution) No, I do not think that was the main problem. The system of regulation that we introduced in 1998 br...
Matt Hancock | 511 c190 (Link to this contribution) The shadow Chancellor has mentioned the banking crisis several times. With hindsight, does he regret...
Claire O'Neill | 511 c191 (Link to this contribution) I thank the shadow Chancellor for giving way. May I say that as a bystander, rather than a participa...
Lord Darling of Roulanish | 511 c191 (Link to this contribution) I shall give way to the hon. Lady. It might be a mistake, but I will.
Lord Darling of Roulanish | 511 c188 (Link to this contribution) No, I do not agree with that. I think the hon. Gentleman will find that an awful lot of things that ...
Rachel Reeves | 511 c188 (Link to this contribution) Does the shadow Chancellor agree with this statement by the Governor of the Bank of England:""I don'...
Lord Darling of Roulanish | 511 c188 (Link to this contribution) The Governor was making a very fair point, as he does on many occasions. It is interesting that even...
Lord Darling of Roulanish | 511 c187 (Link to this contribution) I will give way to my hon. Friend the Member for Huddersfield (Mr Sheerman), and then I shall make s...
Lord Darling of Roulanish | 511 c187 (Link to this contribution) I think it is necessary for anyone charged with responsibility for the British economy to take a mea...
Barry Sheerman | 511 c187 (Link to this contribution) Will the shadow Chancellor join me in recommending Sam Brittan's article in the Financial Times last...
Lord Blunkett | 511 c190 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend did a phenomenal job as Chancellor of the Exchequer. The measures that he has j...
Lord Darling of Roulanish | 511 c190 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend is right. No doubt, there will be another occasion to revisit the lend-lease ar...
Lord Darling of Roulanish | 511 c190 (Link to this contribution) Before I leave this point I should say something further because a number of hon. Members mentioned ...
Stewart Hosie | 511 c189 (Link to this contribution) The shadow Chancellor rightly says that there was an international consensus, and I supported many o...
Lord Darling of Roulanish | 511 c189 (Link to this contribution) I agree with my hon. Friend. The new Government will find that for every industrialist or manufactur...
Adrian Bailey | 511 c189 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend agree that some of the measures that have now contributed to the deficit w...
Lord Darling of Roulanish | 511 c188-9 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for accepting what is obvious: the fact that during a recession ...
Andrew Bridgen | 511 c188 (Link to this contribution) I wish to assure the shadow Chancellor that Conservative Members appreciate that the previous Govern...
Ivan Lewis | 511 c195 (Link to this contribution) In The Sunday Times, the Prime Minister said that the cuts would be unprecedented in their severity ...
George Osborne | 511 c195-6 (Link to this contribution) It was the shadow Chancellor who said—and we were reminded of this—that the cuts would be deeper tha...
George Osborne | 511 c196 (Link to this contribution) If that is the quality of the intervention by the Labour party as the country faces a very serious e...
George Osborne | 511 c196-7 (Link to this contribution) I want to make a little progress because a lot of Members on both sides of the House want to make th...
Barry Sheerman | 511 c197 (Link to this contribution) A lot of brickbats will be thrown across the Chamber today. Surely all hon. Members, on both sides o...
David Tredinnick | 511 c196 (Link to this contribution) Many congratulations to my right hon. Friend on taking up his position. Was not one of the greatest ...
George Osborne | 511 c196 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right. There was a profound imbalance in the economy. We heard the shadow Chancell...
George Osborne | 511 c196 (Link to this contribution) I want to make progress, as I know that a lot of people want to make their maiden speeches; I was ta...
Notes
Daily part printing error-in Division lists in col. 293 and 296, add David Davis to the Noes and in col.299, add him to the Ayes.
Subjects
Poverty Children Cost effectiveness Bank services Banks Bank of England European Union Financial services Financial Services Authority Economic situation Economic growth Public expenditure Nationalisation Unemployment Regulation Economic recession Social security benefits Public sector debt Social security Reviews Cuts World economy Office for Budget Responsibility Living wage
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