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Ministerial statement on Thursday, 17 June 2010, in the House of Commons, led by Danny Alexander.

Public Spending

Statement on the Treasury's review of the public spending commitments made by the previous government between 1 January 2010 and the General Election.

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Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
511 c1040-55 
Session
2010-12
Department
Treasury
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House of Commons chamber
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Proceeding contributions
Danny Alexander | 511 c1055 (Link to this contribution) The last Government announced a project for competition in the area. It is still undergoing a proces...
Toby Perkins | 511 c1054 (Link to this contribution) In the days when the Liberal Democrats were in a separate party from the Conservatives, did they not...
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Danny Alexander | 511 c1054 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has asked about four questions in one. I will answer the first. As he knows, the ...
Danny Alexander | 511 c1054 (Link to this contribution) What I know is that according to the Department for Work and Pensions the programme provides poor va...
Gavin Williamson | 511 c1054 (Link to this contribution) Has my right hon. Friend received one piece of slightly useful advice from Labour Members about how ...
Danny Alexander | 511 c1054 (Link to this contribution) According to my information, the programme represents poor value for money and is not delivering on ...
Chuka Umunna | 511 c1054 (Link to this contribution) Again and again, the Chief Secretary, his predecessor and the Secretary of State for Work and Pensio...
Danny Alexander | 511 c1055 (Link to this contribution) The Department for Transport will be in a position to provide clarity on the approvals that it has. ...
Catherine McKinnell | 511 c1054-5 (Link to this contribution) This morning, when I asked the Under-Secretary of State for Transport, the hon. Member for Lewes (No...
Danny Alexander | 511 c1050-1 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady will know that it is a foundation trust which is coming to the Government for addition...
Philip Hollobone | 511 c1051 (Link to this contribution) Which factors convinced the Chief Secretary to cancel the local authority business growth incentives...
Danny Alexander | 511 c1051 (Link to this contribution) It was the fact that there is no substantive evidence that it has had any effect on doing the job th...
Alex Cunningham | 511 c1051 (Link to this contribution) We have already heard from the new Prime Minister that the north-east of England can expect to suffe...
Danny Alexander | 511 c1051 (Link to this contribution) In the context of tighter budgets, it is essential that all major hospital buildings must be afforda...
Lord Wilson of Sedgefield | 511 c1051 (Link to this contribution) During the general election campaign, the Prime Minister said that any Minister who went to him to p...
Danny Alexander | 511 c1051 (Link to this contribution) I understand the hon. Gentleman's concerns on behalf of his constituents, but the anger should be di...
Phil Woolas | 511 c1051-2 (Link to this contribution) I ask the right hon. Gentleman to look again at his decision on Sheffield Forgemasters. That £80 mil...
Danny Alexander | 511 c1052 (Link to this contribution) I have looked very carefully at this and all the projects that we are cancelling or suspending. I be...
Helen Goodman | 511 c1052 (Link to this contribution) This afternoon, the Chief Secretary has taken a further £1 billion out of the Department for Work an...
Paul Blomfield | 511 c1052-3 (Link to this contribution) I wonder whether I can help the Chief Secretary by providing the answer that he failed to provide in...
Danny Alexander | 511 c1053 (Link to this contribution) What I can confirm to the hon. Gentleman is that we have applied value-for-money grounds to this as ...
Lord Sharma | 511 c1052 (Link to this contribution) Will the Chief Secretary remind us once again why we face such a difficult spending review? It is cl...
Danny Alexander | 511 c1052 (Link to this contribution) As I said earlier, the reason we face such a tough spending round is the overriding need to bring ou...
Mark Lazarowicz | 511 c1053 (Link to this contribution) When the cuts that the Chief Secretary has announced today—which his boss will no doubt announce aga...
Danny Alexander | 511 c1053 (Link to this contribution) I think that what the hon. Gentleman and, if I may say so, many Opposition Members fail to recognise...
Chris Heaton-Harris | 511 c1053 (Link to this contribution) Will the Chief Secretary remind the House of the size of the structural deficit, and perhaps remind ...
Danny Alexander | 511 c1053 (Link to this contribution) That is not a matter for my judgment; it is a matter for the judgment of the independent Office for ...
Clive Efford | 511 c1053 (Link to this contribution) Before his right hon. Friend the Member for Yeovil (Mr Laws) wrote the Chief Secretary his "Carry On...
Baroness Bray of Coln | 511 c1048 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend agree that job losses are the tragic consequence of 13 years of misgovernm...
Danny Alexander | 511 c1048 (Link to this contribution) That is at least partly the case. The challenge that we now face is how to tackle the fundamental ec...
Lord Walney | 511 c1049 (Link to this contribution) In the light of the bizarre extension to the successor deterrent programme, will the Chief Secretary...
Danny Alexander | 511 c1049 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has no doubt studied carefully the coalition programme for government, and he wil...
Penny Mordaunt | 511 c1049 (Link to this contribution) I was surprised, but glad, to hear that Treasury staff have been able to help the shadow Chief Secre...
Danny Alexander | 511 c1049 (Link to this contribution) I agree with the hon. Lady that the people of this country are ahead of the Labour party in realisin...
Denis MacShane | 511 c1048 (Link to this contribution) In 1979, the then Government started destroying South Yorkshire's industry, and the right hon. Gentl...
Danny Alexander | 511 c1048 (Link to this contribution) I would say two things to the right hon. Gentleman. If he looks at the programmes in the Department ...
Aidan Burley | 511 c1049 (Link to this contribution) Which individual project was my right hon. Friend most surprised to see had been given the go-ahead?...
Danny Alexander | 511 c1049 (Link to this contribution) It would be invidious to choose between some of the projects on the list. I realise that each of the...
Fiona Mactaggart | 511 c1049 (Link to this contribution) If the Chief Secretary thinks that the biggest risk to jobs is the deficit, why does Britain have a ...
Danny Alexander | 511 c1049 (Link to this contribution) The risk that we face is the fact that we have the largest budget deficit in the EU, with the except...
Speaker | 511 c1049 (Link to this contribution) Order. I remind Members to try to keep to the subject of the statement; the Minister is not responsi...
Pat Glass | 511 c1050 (Link to this contribution) I and the people whom I represent will be desperately disappointed that the new North Tees hospital ...
Rob Wilson | 511 c1050 (Link to this contribution) Can the Chief Secretary confirm the good news for Reading and for my constituents—that the Governmen...
Danny Alexander | 511 c1050 (Link to this contribution) I have heard what the hon. Gentleman has said. It will be for the Department for Transport to announ...
Michael Connarty | 511 c1050 (Link to this contribution) I note that £1.2 billion-worth of the cancelled projects, as they are called, are from the future jo...
Danny Alexander | 511 c1050 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman will know that benefit and Department for Work and Pensions spending is a reserve...
Alec Shelbrooke | 511 c1050 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend agree with me that, after their cynical attempts to buy the last election,...
Danny Alexander | 511 c1050 (Link to this contribution) I share the hon. Gentleman's hopes for higher standards in Parliament, but Ministers of the previous...
Lord Harrington of Watford | 511 c1045 (Link to this contribution) Will the Chief Secretary enlighten us as to the number of projects that were approved by the previou...
Danny Alexander | 511 c1045 (Link to this contribution) A significant number of projects—with a significant cash value—were agreed in the last month before ...
Lord Beamish | 511 c1045 (Link to this contribution) I note from the right hon. Gentleman's statement that a commitment has been given on crucial equipme...
Lord Watson of Wyre Forest | 511 c1044 (Link to this contribution) There is a curious part in the right hon. Gentleman's statement on the successor deterrent extension...
Sajid Javid | 511 c1045 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Chief Secretary for outlining Labour's cuts. Will he take this opportunity to remind the...
Danny Alexander | 511 c1045 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman knows perfectly well that, in the context of renewing the deterrent, the coalitio...
Ann Coffey | 511 c1045 (Link to this contribution) In the last Parliament, the then Secretary of State for Transport agreed to part-fund the A6 bypass—...
Danny Alexander | 511 c1045 (Link to this contribution) We are facing a difficult spending round for two reasons: first, we have the largest peacetime budge...
Danny Alexander | 511 c1045 (Link to this contribution) A meeting would be better held with Ministers from the Department for Transport, who, I am sure, wou...
Tom Brake | 511 c1044 (Link to this contribution) I had hoped to hear the words "better health care closer to home" and "St Helier hospital" in the Ch...
Danny Alexander | 511 c1044 (Link to this contribution) We have considered a number of hospital projects against affordability and value for money criteria....
Mark Tami | 511 c1044 (Link to this contribution) The previous Labour Government agreed launch-aid investment for the Airbus A350, which will help to ...
Danny Alexander | 511 c1044 (Link to this contribution) As I said in my statement, spending Departments will make announcements themselves about the project...
Danny Alexander | 511 c1044 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right. If there had been a spending review, we would not be in this...
Michael Fallon | 511 c1043-4 (Link to this contribution) Is it not pretty clear that some of those projects were hastily scribbled cheques on a long overdue ...
Andrew Turner | 511 c1044 (Link to this contribution) Will the Chief Secretary accept my thanks for finding the money for the private finance initiative f...
Danny Alexander | 511 c1044 (Link to this contribution) I understand that some of these decisions are difficult for communities and that there will be genui...
Jon Trickett | 511 c1044 (Link to this contribution) There will be fury in Wakefield and my constituency, where people are expecting schools to be rebuil...
Danny Alexander | 511 c1048 (Link to this contribution) The position on that is as I set out to the shadow Chief Secretary: the biggest risk to jobs and gro...
Duncan Hames | 511 c1047 (Link to this contribution) In the light of the Chief Secretary to the Treasury's statement and of the fact that this will be a ...
Robert Halfon | 511 c1048 (Link to this contribution) Is the Minister aware that, under the previous Government, the Department for Communities and Local ...
Danny Alexander | 511 c1047 (Link to this contribution) Having looked at the state of the books and seen the plans that the previous Government set out—at l...
Lord Watts | 511 c1048 (Link to this contribution) Can I try to get a straight answer to a straight question? What assessment has been made of the impa...
Bob Blackman | 511 c1047 (Link to this contribution) In the run-up to the election, we could hardly move for Labour Ministers making all sorts of spendin...
Danny Alexander | 511 c1047 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his question, and I understand the motivation behind it. Giv...
Derek Twigg | 511 c1047 (Link to this contribution) The Chief Secretary has made a serious accusation in saying that Labour Ministers deliberately agree...
Danny Alexander | 511 c1047 (Link to this contribution) Having found the piece of paper that I was looking for earlier, I can tell the hon. Gentleman that a...
Angus Brendan MacNeil | 511 c1046 (Link to this contribution) How much does this review bring into question private finance initiatives or public-private partners...
Danny Alexander | 511 c1047 (Link to this contribution) I will say two things to the hon. Gentleman. First, his point about PFI is not within the scope of t...
Speaker | 511 c1046 (Link to this contribution) Order. Questions must be addressed—and the Minister must respond—not to the former Government, but t...
Danny Alexander | 511 c1046 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right. It is easy for people to write cheques when they know they a...
Andrew Percy | 511 c1046 (Link to this contribution) In the run-up to the general election, Labour Ministers trotted up the M1 to my constituency to make...
Angela C Smith | 511 c1046 (Link to this contribution) The Sheffield Forgemasters loan would have helped place the UK at the forefront of global nuclear pr...
David Burrowes | 511 c1045 (Link to this contribution) Does not the shadow Chief Secretary's delay in coming to the Chamber for today's statement character...
Danny Alexander | 511 c1045 (Link to this contribution) As I said in my statement, Departments will make clear the projects that have been approved, but pro...
Speaker | 511 c1043 (Link to this contribution) Order. Many hon. Members wish to get in. We have another statement to follow and there is business a...
Danny Alexander | 511 c1040-1 (Link to this contribution) With permission, I wish to make a statement on the Treasury's review of the public spending commitme...
Danny Alexander | 511 c1042-3 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the shadow Chief Secretary for his response and for welcoming me to my post. He is ...
Liam Byrne | 511 c1041-2 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Chief Secretary for early sight of his statement, which arrived a few moments ago. We we...
Danny Alexander | 511 c1052 (Link to this contribution) Well, there is no money left. The more important point is that we are cancelling programmes that we ...
Danny Alexander | 511 c1048 (Link to this contribution) I was not aware of that Department's spending on luxury sofas—perhaps I should have been. It is prec...
Danny Alexander | 511 c1046 (Link to this contribution) No, none of the decisions was motivated in the way that the hon. Lady suggests. I have received repr...
Chi Onwurah | 511 c1055 (Link to this contribution) On 11 March, the Deputy Prime Minister came to Newcastle and announced an investment of half a billi...
Danny Alexander | 511 c1046 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes a good point, although I would not wish to cast aspersions on the shadow Ch...
Subjects
Hospitals Employment schemes Kent NHS Public expenditure Politics and government Loans Public libraries Schools Transport Sports Research Walking Stonehenge Cuts Building schools for the future programme Local authority business growth incentives scheme Sheffield Forgemasters North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust
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