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Budget debate on Thursday, 24 June 2010, in the House of Commons, led by Chris Huhne. The answering member was Ed Miliband.

Budget debate

Budget debate (third day): energy and climate change

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Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
512 c444-534 
Session
2010-12
Department
Department of Energy and Climate Change
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Proceeding contributions
George Eustice | 512 c498-500 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for the opportunity to make my maiden speech. I start by congratulating my hon. Friend...
Matthew Offord | 512 c488-91 (Link to this contribution) I pay tribute to the speech made by my hon. Friend the Member for Staffordshire Moorlands (Karen Bra...
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Karl Turner | 512 c491-4 (Link to this contribution) I start by welcoming you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, to your position. One of the first tasks that I undert...
Karen Bradley | 512 c476-9 (Link to this contribution) It is an honour to address this House for the first time today. It is an equal honour to do so as th...
Speaker | 512 c476 (Link to this contribution) Order. As hon. Members will have recognised, we have a 12-minute limit, and I am grateful to everybo...
Chris Huhne | 512 c446-7 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr Speaker. Let me merely assert, until the hon. Member for Rhondda (Chris Bryant) has ha...
Ed Miliband | 512 c447 (Link to this contribution) Why did the leader of the Liberal Democrats, now the Deputy Prime Minister, say on 7 April 2010 that...
Chris Huhne | 512 c447-8 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady clearly did not listen to my earlier answer. When looking at the distributional impact...
Chris Huhne | 512 c447 (Link to this contribution) If VAT is raised right across without the exemptions that we have for food, children's clothes and b...
Rachel Reeves | 512 c447 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman talks about the IFS numbers on the distributional impact. Does he agree wit...
Chris Huhne | 512 c449 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman knows that the exemptions are exactly the same. I merely make a standard point th...
Adrian Bailey | 512 c448 (Link to this contribution) Let me take the right hon. Gentleman back to his defence of his party's volte-face on VAT. He explai...
Chris Huhne | 512 c448 (Link to this contribution) Before Opposition Members start chortling away, let me say that my hon. Friend makes a very good poi...
Chris Huhne | 512 c444-5 (Link to this contribution) I am delighted to open this day of the Budget debate and I want particularly to do three things in t...
Barry Gardiner | 512 c445 (Link to this contribution) Did the right hon. Gentleman have the opportunity to watch and listen to the eminent Japanese econom...
Chris Huhne | 512 c445 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes a point about the circumstances, but markets travel on expectations. The ex...
Matt Hancock | 512 c445 (Link to this contribution) Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that yesterday in the Chamber the shadow Chancellor argued that th...
Chris Huhne | 512 c445-6 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right. There is no doubt that the lessons of history are completely cle...
Chris Bryant | 512 c446 (Link to this contribution) I can fully understand why the Secretary of State feels the need to justify his change of position; ...
Speaker | 512 c446 (Link to this contribution) It is true that the use of visual aids in the Chamber is disorderly. I am going to be charitable and...
Chris Bryant | 512 c446 (Link to this contribution) On a point of order, Mr Speaker. "Erskine May" makes it very clear that hon. Members should be able ...
Ed Miliband | 512 c457 (Link to this contribution) No, at the end of the election campaign the right hon. Gentleman was offered the chance of office—an...
Chris Huhne | 512 c457 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman recently accused me of not changing my mind because I wanted office when he...
Ed Miliband | 512 c456-7 (Link to this contribution) I would give the right hon. Gentleman more credit if he had been more explicit about all these dange...
Chris Huhne | 512 c457 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman really has to take on board my case that while there was no evidence of con...
Ed Miliband | 512 c458 (Link to this contribution) I have given way to the right hon. Gentleman a number of times, but if he is going to say at the Dis...
Chris Huhne | 512 c458 (Link to this contribution) Does the right hon. Gentleman really think that an appropriate use of public money would be to ensur...
Ed Miliband | 512 c457-8 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman's defence is becoming even more contorted—I am not sure that even I underst...
Ed Miliband | 512 c458-9 (Link to this contribution) That is an extraordinary statement to make on the Floor of the House. A set of commercial negotiatio...
Toby Perkins | 512 c459 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend agree that the fact that a Liberal Democrat Chief Secretary to the Treasur...
Ed Miliband | 512 c459-60 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is completely right. He has experience of booting out Liberal Democrats locally—somet...
Matt Hancock | 512 c460 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?
Ed Miliband | 512 c460 (Link to this contribution) I will give way to the hon. Gentleman in a minute, because as a former adviser to the Chancellor, he...
Matt Hancock | 512 c460 (Link to this contribution) I can certainly be more proud of having been an adviser to the current Chancellor than if I had been...
Ed Miliband | 512 c460 (Link to this contribution) I want to be generous to the hon. Gentleman, as a new Member of Parliament, but I fear that he has w...
Ed Miliband | 512 c461 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman is itching to get back in, but let us be clear. The Chancellor's words—the ...
Chris Huhne | 512 c461 (Link to this contribution) The reality is that it is perfectly legitimate for the Treasury to analyse pre-announced measures as...
Ed Miliband | 512 c461 (Link to this contribution) The doublespeak just gets worse. The Conservatives spend the election attacking the Labour Governmen...
Mark Field | 512 c461 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman has made a statement about national insurance that he knows does not tell a...
Chris Huhne | 512 c450 (Link to this contribution) I honestly think that the hon. Gentleman is misreading the situation dramatically. We had three anno...
Toby Perkins | 512 c449 (Link to this contribution) A lot of environmentalists were deeply disappointed that there were not more green taxes. Is that ju...
Chris Huhne | 512 c449 (Link to this contribution) Let me make a bit of progress with the argument. The deeper answer is the profound change that must ...
David Wright | 512 c449 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?
Chris Huhne | 512 c450 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for that question. Obviously, he knows that we will go through the comprehens...
Duncan Hames | 512 c450 (Link to this contribution) Given my right hon. Friend's comments on the need to invest in the infrastructure needed for a low-c...
Chris Huhne | 512 c450 (Link to this contribution) I hope that the hon. Gentleman realises that there will be a consultation on that proposal in the au...
Mark Lazarowicz | 512 c450 (Link to this contribution) Even if we accept what the right hon. Gentleman says about the emergency Budget, there was a very ca...
Mark Lazarowicz | 512 c450 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way on that point?
Chris Huhne | 512 c450-1 (Link to this contribution) I shall give way a bit more, but let me make a little progress. I have been making the argument that...
Chris Huhne | 512 c451 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman mutters from a sedentary position that that was not mentioned in the Budget...
Lord Whitehead | 512 c451 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?
Chris Huhne | 512 c451 (Link to this contribution) Before I give way, let me make a couple of points about the economic significance of that approach. ...
Chris Huhne | 512 c451 (Link to this contribution) I will happily give way to my neighbour in Hampshire.
Ed Miliband | 512 c451 (Link to this contribution) That was not mentioned in the Budget speech.
Chris Huhne | 512 c452 (Link to this contribution) I certainly do not believe that we can rely on achieving the sort of comprehensive approach that I a...
Chris Huhne | 512 c453-4 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for that intervention. [Hon. Members: "Answer!"] Opposition Members know perf...
Sarah Wollaston | 512 c453 (Link to this contribution) I am extremely grateful to my right hon. Friend for giving way. My constituency is home to Transitio...
Chris Huhne | 512 c453 (Link to this contribution) I am not going to give way again. I am sorry, but I am going to end up—[Hon. Members: "But it's a ne...
Sarah Wollaston | 512 c453 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. Friend give way?
Chris Huhne | 512 c453 (Link to this contribution) No. I said that the previous intervention would be the final time that I would give way before windi...
Chris Bryant | 512 c453 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?
Chris Huhne | 512 c453 (Link to this contribution) Quite properly, the hon. Gentleman wants me to anticipate announcements that will be made by the Gov...
Mark Lazarowicz | 512 c452-3 (Link to this contribution) I am very grateful indeed to the right hon. Gentleman for giving way. I want to leave Louis XIV and ...
Chris Huhne | 512 c452 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman knows, as I do, that the two points that he makes are not as mutually contradicto...
Barry Gardiner | 512 c452 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful once again to the right hon. Gentleman. I welcome the measures that he is outlining an...
Speaker | 512 c456 (Link to this contribution) Order. May we have short interventions? The right hon. Gentleman has already made a speech, and ther...
Chris Huhne | 512 c456 (Link to this contribution) May I remind the right hon. Gentleman that the former Chancellor of the Exchequer said that the ice ...
Ed Miliband | 512 c455-6 (Link to this contribution) I am afraid I disagree with the right hon. Gentleman. The fiscal tightening may be less than the How...
Chris Huhne | 512 c455 (Link to this contribution) I wish to nip in the bud any temptation for the right hon. Gentleman to make parallels between what ...
Ed Miliband | 512 c456 (Link to this contribution) I will give way to the right hon. Gentleman. Perhaps he will say that because he wants to do good th...
Ed Miliband | 512 c454 (Link to this contribution) May I start by congratulating the Secretary of State? He is by my reckoning the first Liberal to ope...
Ed Miliband | 512 c454-5 (Link to this contribution) I do not want to be a pedant about this, but he was not the first speaker in the day's debate. That ...
Chris Huhne | 512 c454 (Link to this contribution) I am delighted to accept the right hon. Gentleman's commendation, but I should remind him that my ri...
Matt Hancock | 512 c522-4 (Link to this contribution) It is an honour to be able to speak in this debate on what is, by common recognition, a Budget of hi...
Toby Perkins | 512 c525 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman will be aware that those rules were changed only in the face of huge, global econ...
Kwasi Kwarteng | 512 c524-5 (Link to this contribution) I am very grateful to you for calling me to speak in the debate, Mr Deputy Speaker, and I feel privi...
Angela Eagle | 512 c526-8 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to welcome you to the Chair for the first time, Mr Deputy Speaker. I would also lik...
Kwasi Kwarteng | 512 c525-6 (Link to this contribution) I am merely stating the very prudent rules that the former Chancellor and Prime Minister outlined. A...
David Wright | 512 c525 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman outline what spending he would have cut between 1997 and 2007?
Kwasi Kwarteng | 512 c525 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman will remember that the second rule was that""public debt as a proportion of natio...
Matt Hancock | 512 c532 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that the Labour party's views tend to be based on misrepresentations? For ...
Justine Greening | 512 c532-3 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right. Let us just talk about the Office for Budget Responsibility. I s...
Clive Efford | 512 c531 (Link to this contribution) Would the hon. Lady care to comment on a quote from the right hon. Member for Wokingham (Mr Redwood)...
Justine Greening | 512 c531-2 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman continues in the vein that the Opposition have adopted today, which is to try to ...
Angela Eagle | 512 c528 (Link to this contribution) I agree, and during an earlier part of my speech I listed all those people as being among those who ...
Angela Eagle | 512 c529-30 (Link to this contribution) No. No amount—[Interruption.] Conservative Members have had all day to peddle their view of what is...
Justine Greening | 512 c530-1 (Link to this contribution) Mr Deputy Speaker, may I start by saying what a pleasure it is to give my first speech as a Minister...
Angela Eagle | 512 c528-9 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has not been here all day, so I will not give way to him. In the pre-Budget repo...
Toby Perkins | 512 c533 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady has referred to the election result a couple of times, but we remember the election re...
Justine Greening | 512 c533-4 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman, if he is not careful, might be projecting the political fate of his own party. W...
Lord Whitehead | 512 c534 (Link to this contribution) As the subject of today's debate is supposed to be energy and climate change, I wonder whether the h...
Justine Greening | 512 c534 (Link to this contribution) I am pleased that the hon. Gentleman has given me the chance to finish on that subject, because I wa...
Jacob Rees-Mogg | 512 c517 (Link to this contribution) Is it not the case that the only time when the economy was run properly under the previous Governmen...
Toby Perkins | 512 c517-8 (Link to this contribution) I was certainly bewildered by the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change's contribution in...
Tom Harris | 512 c517 (Link to this contribution) May I congratulate my hon. Friend on a terrific election result in Chesterfield? Does he share my be...
Toby Perkins | 512 c518 (Link to this contribution) What he was probably referring to was 11 years of stable economic growth. What he did not foresee wa...
Kwasi Kwarteng | 512 c518 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman enlighten me on one thing? What does he think the former Prime Minister and ...
Tom Harris | 512 c515 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Sajid Javid | 512 c515-6 (Link to this contribution) I should like to plough on for a bit, but I will give way in a moment. The size of our national deb...
Toby Perkins | 512 c516-7 (Link to this contribution) It is interesting to follow the hon. Member for Bromsgrove (Sajid Javid). There was one thing in the...
Toby Perkins | 512 c517 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a valid point: it probably is not the new politics, but it is something that po...
Matt Hancock | 512 c519 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman referred to the Labour Government's plans for significant cuts in public spending...
Toby Perkins | 512 c519 (Link to this contribution) Talking of no one taking the Conservatives seriously, I give way to the hon. Gentleman.
Toby Perkins | 512 c520 (Link to this contribution) I am afraid that I do not have time. This was a Tory Budget without a shred of Lib Demery about it....
Simon Hughes | 512 c520 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Toby Perkins | 512 c519-20 (Link to this contribution) Yes, as the shadow Chancellor made clear, we would have maintained spending over the course of this ...
Jonathan Reynolds | 512 c518 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that there is something deeply disingenuous about the fact that the Conser...
Toby Perkins | 512 c519 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend effectively anticipates my speech, for which I thank him. He makes a very wise contri...
Speaker | 512 c518 (Link to this contribution) Order. I ask Members please to refrain from using the word "you", because that means me, and the hon...
Toby Perkins | 512 c518 (Link to this contribution) Please accept my apologies, Mr Deputy Speaker. I shall make sure that I address you and hon. Members...
Nick de Bois | 512 c520-2 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I shall do some immediate live editing to meet your request. As a re...
Andrew Bingham | 512 c522 (Link to this contribution) I agree with what my hon. Friend has said about the banks. Will he also acknowledge that hard-workin...
Nick de Bois | 512 c522 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for highlighting that distinction. Indeed, it does not apply only to those wo...
Ed Miliband | 512 c461 (Link to this contribution) I have enormous respect for the hon. Gentleman, but he will have to do better than that.
Rachel Reeves | 512 c461 (Link to this contribution) Can my right hon. Friend confirm that, in addition to what I said earlier about this Budget affectin...
Ed Miliband | 512 c461 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right, of course. That is the difference between a Labour Budget and a Conservativ...
Ed Miliband | 512 c462 (Link to this contribution) I am coming to them in a minute. That has been the case historically, but the difference this time i...
Ian Swales | 512 c462 (Link to this contribution) Yesterday The Independent described the Budget as a social democratic Budget. I came into politics v...
Ed Miliband | 512 c462-3 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman should not believe everything that he reads in The Independent. I say in all seri...
Simon Hughes | 512 c464-5 (Link to this contribution) I am happy to take part in what is clearly an important debate, in which we are invoking the spirits...
Lord Whitehead | 512 c465 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman agree that, if a programme such as that which he envisages is to have any re...
Simon Hughes | 512 c465-6 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has a good, honourable and knowledgeable track record on the issue, and, as he wo...
Kwasi Kwarteng | 512 c469 (Link to this contribution) What does the right hon. Gentleman think about the remarks written down by his party's former Chief ...
Tom Clarke | 512 c469-70 (Link to this contribution) I had assumed that the hon. Gentleman had a better sense of humour. It was clear to the whole countr...
Simon Hughes | 512 c467-8 (Link to this contribution) No, we are not taking credit for it—we are just making sure that we look together at the measures th...
Tom Clarke | 512 c468-9 (Link to this contribution) I have seldom been so disappointed with a speech by the hon. Member for Bermondsey and Old Southwark...
Simon Hughes | 512 c466-7 (Link to this contribution) I am, and always have been, very clear about that issue. When it was obvious that there was no possi...
Toby Perkins | 512 c466 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Gentleman on his appointment as the deputy leader of the Liberal Democrats, ...
Matt Hancock | 512 c470 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?
Rachel Reeves | 512 c470 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend agree that it does not seem fair that the welfare bill will be cut by £11 ...
Tom Clarke | 512 c470 (Link to this contribution) Absolutely—that is an excellent point. Indeed, I wish now to compare to the Budget's response to loc...
Jonathan Edwards | 512 c473-6 (Link to this contribution) In my speech today, I will examine several different issues of Welsh, UK and international significa...
David Wright | 512 c479-81 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Member for Staffordshire Moorlands (Karen Bradley) on a genuinely excellent ...
Tom Clarke | 512 c470-1 (Link to this contribution) I will not, because I know others want to speak. I wish to conclude now for that very reason—many ho...
Michael Fallon | 512 c471 (Link to this contribution) It is always a pleasure to follow the right hon. Member for Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill (Mr C...
Tom Clarke | 512 c471 (Link to this contribution) When the hon. Gentleman makes comparisons with other countries, will he bear in mind that we in Brit...
Mark Field | 512 c482-5 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Staffordshire Moorlands (Karen Bradley) on her charming...
Clive Efford | 512 c485-6 (Link to this contribution) This is my first speech in the new Parliament, so let me take this opportunity to say what a pleasur...
Kwasi Kwarteng | 512 c486 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman mentions the deficit; who does he think was responsible for it?
Clive Efford | 512 c488 (Link to this contribution) No. I have given way twice, and other Members wish to speak. We can see who is paying the price for...
Andrew George | 512 c487 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving way. I certainly appreciate the attention that he is ...
Clive Efford | 512 c487 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the hon. Gentleman getting to his feet. Perhaps he will explain whether he supports the st...
Andrew George | 512 c487 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Clive Efford | 512 c486-7 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman will probably know the history of this matter. Until November 2008 there was an a...
Guy Opperman | 512 c488 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Clive Efford | 512 c487-8 (Link to this contribution) I assume that the hon. Gentleman has applied to speak in the debate, but it is clear that I have tou...
Clive Efford | 512 c487 (Link to this contribution) If that did not sound like an excuse, I do not know what would. A person on a low income who receive...
Kate Green | 512 c495 (Link to this contribution) It is all very well to say that this Budget will protect the poorest, but how can that possibly be r...
Baroness Bray of Coln | 512 c494-5 (Link to this contribution) Let me start by congratulating the hon. Member for Kingston upon Hull East (Karl Turner) and my hon....
Matt Hancock | 512 c495 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend share my surprise that Opposition Members can possibly comment on the fairness o...
Baroness Bray of Coln | 512 c495 (Link to this contribution) I have to say to the hon. Lady that needs must, to an extent, and we find ourselves in these problem...
Lord Whitehead | 512 c496-8 (Link to this contribution) I must say that I felt that the previous speech was derived directly from a Conservative central off...
Baroness Bray of Coln | 512 c495-6 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an extremely good point, and let us not forget that the gap between the rich an...
Baroness Berger | 512 c500-1 (Link to this contribution) I welcome you to your seat, Mr Deputy Speaker. I also congratulate the hon. Member for Camborne and ...
Robert Halfon | 512 c501 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady talked about cuts to front-line services in her constituency and I understand her want...
Baroness Berger | 512 c502 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for his comments but I do not agree with them. My point was that the Cons...
Chuka Umunna | 512 c507 (Link to this contribution) No, I am not, but I am seeking to point out what happens when people take a cold, dispassionate and ...
Chuka Umunna | 512 c505-7 (Link to this contribution) I have listened with interest to the various speeches made today and I do not think anybody denies t...
Jeremy Lefroy | 512 c503-5 (Link to this contribution) May I welcome you to the Chair, Mr Deputy Speaker? May I also congratulate those Members who have ma...
Baroness Berger | 512 c502-3 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for making his point and I am disappointed by the response from Conservative ...
Tom Harris | 512 c502 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is making a powerful and significant contribution in talking about the difficulties t...
Baroness Berger | 512 c502 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a very good point. [Interruption.]
Matt Hancock | 512 c507-8 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for giving way in his an extremely thoughtful speech. Does he not agree t...
Chuka Umunna | 512 c508 (Link to this contribution) First, the deficit pre-November 2008 was primarily in some respects caused by increased spending to ...
Tom Harris | 512 c507 (Link to this contribution) I rise in part to respond to the hon. Member for Spelthorne (Kwasi Kwarteng), because it was not my ...
Chuka Umunna | 512 c507 (Link to this contribution) Silence. There has been a lot of talk about IFS and IOD reports, various statistics, the extent to ...
Jonathan Reynolds | 512 c513 (Link to this contribution) It is not the reduction of the deficit that is the point of conflict between us but the scale and th...
Sajid Javid | 512 c513 (Link to this contribution) I pay tribute to those hon. Members who have made their maiden speeches today. My hon. Friends the M...
Chuka Umunna | 512 c508 (Link to this contribution) I am not going to say that I do not welcome things such as apprenticeships, because we need those pr...
Mark Hoban | 512 c508 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps the hon. Gentleman will think back to the package of cuts that was announced last month. Som...
Valerie Vaz | 512 c511-3 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Hexham (Guy Opperman). He does his family proud. They...
Guy Opperman | 512 c508-11 (Link to this contribution) I remind the House that I have declared a previous involvement in manufacturing through my family fi...
Tom Harris | 512 c514 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman believe that it was right for the Government to bail out Northern Rock?
Sajid Javid | 512 c514-5 (Link to this contribution) Personally speaking, on my own behalf, I would not have carried out the bail-out in such a way. I th...
Chris Williamson | 512 c515 (Link to this contribution) I would be interested to hear what the hon. Gentleman has to say about Professor David Blanchflower'...
Sajid Javid | 512 c515 (Link to this contribution) Yes; Professor Blanchflower has been consistently wrong for the past three years since the crisis st...
Sajid Javid | 512 c513-4 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman's own party said before the election that it expected to make very large, severe ...
Ian Swales | 512 c448 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend agree that regressive taxes are those that stay the same regardless of peo...
Chris Huhne | 512 c446 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes an interesting point, but I would merely commend to him the Institute for F...
Lord Whitehead | 512 c451 (Link to this contribution) I thank the right hon. Gentleman for giving way. He envisages that his green deal will involve insul...
Mark Field | 512 c528 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Lady not recognise that huge global imbalances built up, and that mistakes by policy m...
Toby Perkins | 512 c502 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend share my confusion? Have we not been told for the past six weeks that the Labour...
Toby Perkins | 512 c517 (Link to this contribution) It certainly is not the case. The hon. Gentleman should remember that in 1997 we inherited hospitals...
Speaker | 512 c520 (Link to this contribution) Three Members wish to catch my eye, and I intend to call the winding-up speeches at half-past 5. I a...
Michael Fallon | 512 c472-3 (Link to this contribution) I accept both those points, and I am not drawing exact parallels with Greece and Spain. I am making ...
Kwasi Kwarteng | 512 c507 (Link to this contribution) Is the hon. Gentleman seriously suggesting that riots on the scale witnessed in Brixton in 1981 will...
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