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Queen's speech debate on Wednesday, 30 June 2010, in the House of Commons, led by Cheryl Gillan. The answering member was Lord Hain.

Legislative Programme and Budget Statement (Wales)

The Government's legislative programme as outlined in the Queen's Speech and the Budget statement as they relate to Wales. Debate by the Welsh Grand Committee (morning and afternoon sessions). Question negatived on division (7 to 21).

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Grand Committee proceedings (HC)
Reference
WGC c16-40, 43-76 
Session
2010-12
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Wales Office
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Welsh Grand Committee
Procedure
Government defeats
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House of Commons Grand Committees
Proceeding contributions
David Jones | WGC c75-6 (Link to this contribution) Forgive me, but I want to answer two points made by the hon. Member for Ynys Môn. He asked what impa...
David Jones | WGC c73 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman says he had no notice. He had a copy of the Chief Secretary’s statement in ...
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Chair of Welsh Grand Committee | WGC c73 (Link to this contribution) Order. May I ask both Front Benches to remain calm and allow the Minister to speak without being int...
Jonathan Edwards | WGC c70 (Link to this contribution) Rather than reciting the fine speech that I prepared on the Budget, I shall just make one brief poin...
Lord Murphy of Torfaen | WGC c30 (Link to this contribution) On the number of Welsh MPs, the Secretary of State will of course be familiar with the views of the ...
Lord Hain | WGC c25 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the right hon. Lady and the hon. Member for Ceredigion for allowing me to do what I...
Geraint Davies | WGC c27 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Lady give way?
Susan Elan Jones | WGC c56-7 (Link to this contribution) Thank you for calling me, Mr Sheridan. I promise to be as brief as possible. There is a great differ...
Lord Hain | WGC c31 (Link to this contribution) If we are going to look at the record of our Labour Government over 13 years, which I am more than h...
Lord Hain | WGC c36 (Link to this contribution) We intended to deal with the deficit. We had a tough deficit reduction plan, as I have already told ...
Cheryl Gillan | WGC c21 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman is entirely right. It would be untenable to think of the National Assembly ...
Chris Bryant | WGC c20 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Lady is preaching to us about how wonderful it is not to have any legislation, but le...
Cheryl Gillan | WGC c20 (Link to this contribution) I thank the right hon. Gentleman, no, the hon. Gentleman, for that intervention. He is not a right h...
Elfyn Llwyd | WGC c48 (Link to this contribution) Well, the hon. Gentleman's party spokesman said, "We are in favour of nuclear."
Elfyn Llwyd | WGC c44 (Link to this contribution) I hear what the right hon. Gentleman says and I am sure that he is right in that regard, but my poin...
Alun Cairns | WGC c34 (Link to this contribution) Does the right hon. Gentleman recognise that interest rates for businesses have dropped since the Bu...
Chair of Welsh Grand Committee | WGC c19 (Link to this contribution) That was a repetition of the intervention rather than a point of order to the Chair.
Cheryl Gillan | WGC c16 (Link to this contribution) I am reliably informed that the phone call was made to the right hon. Gentleman's office at 08.30 th...
Wayne David | WGC c17 (Link to this contribution) I have listened carefully to what you said, Mr Brady, but it does not alter the fact that what I sai...
Chair of Welsh Grand Committee | WGC c17 (Link to this contribution) Order. Before the Secretary of State responds, I say to you, Mr David, that you know the rules of th...
Lord Hain | WGC c30 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend, a former Secretary of State like me, makes a telling and convincing point, as ...
Lord Hain | WGC c30 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an important point. He has led the way in the past few weeks in exposing the ne...
Chris Bryant | WGC c30 (Link to this contribution) Is there not another pernicious side which has not yet been commented on? If the number of MPs is cu...
Lord Hain | WGC c31 (Link to this contribution) Yes, the people of Wales will pay for it now. They will pay for her Government’s policies. The Barne...
Lord Hain | WGC c30 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the hon. Gentleman to the Welsh Grand Committee and to his seat in the House, but he obvio...
Cheryl Gillan | WGC c31 (Link to this contribution) I still do not quite understand the right hon. Gentleman’s contention that Scotland has had a revisi...
Alun Cairns | WGC c30 (Link to this contribution) Does the right hon. Gentleman now completely dissociate himself from the statements made by the prev...
Lord Hain | WGC c31-2 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for saying that. He does a fantastic job for his constituents. I...
Lord Hain | WGC c31 (Link to this contribution) I absolutely agree with my hon. Friend. That is a point that the Minister needs to address in his re...
Roger Williams | WGC c31 (Link to this contribution) Can the right hon. Gentleman explain why the Labour Government failed to link old-age pensions with ...
Nia Griffith | WGC c31 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend agree that the tax burden imposed by the recent Budget will take more mone...
Cheryl Gillan | WGC c17-8 (Link to this contribution) Mr Brady, I did not hear the hon. Gentleman chuntering away on his Front Bench because of the noises...
Geraint Davies | WGC c18 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Lady will know that identifiable public expenditure per head in Wales is higher than ...
Cheryl Gillan | WGC c18-9 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman. He missed an opportunity to put that question directly to the C...
Nick Smith | WGC c19 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Lady give way?
Cheryl Gillan | WGC c19 (Link to this contribution) I want to make some progress. As we heard from the Chief Secretary to the Treasury earlier, last ...
Nick Smith | WGC c19 (Link to this contribution) Has the Secretary of State any estimates of employment in Wales for the 12 months ahead? Today, the ...
Cheryl Gillan | WGC c19 (Link to this contribution) There was some speculation in the morning papers about leaked Treasury documents, but I was heartene...
Nick Smith | WGC c19 (Link to this contribution) On a point of order, Mr Brady, if the Secretary of State had read the Financial Times, she would hav...
Cheryl Gillan | WGC c19-20 (Link to this contribution) We want to rebalance and rebuild our economy, moving away from an economy centred on debt and out of...
Lord Hain | WGC c17 (Link to this contribution) Why did the right hon. Lady not tell me last night?
Cheryl Gillan | WGC c17 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman asks why I did not tell him last night, but he was in a convivial drinking ...
Lord Hain | WGC c16 (Link to this contribution) I have in my hands a copy of the notification that I received at 08.55 this morning. It is an e-mail...
Cheryl Gillan | WGC c16 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That the Committee has considered the matter of the Government’s legislative progr...
Lord Hain | WGC c17 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful that the right hon. Lady has taken the second point. I have been reminded by my Whi...
Cheryl Gillan | WGC c28 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?
Lord Hain | WGC c28 (Link to this contribution) No, I will make some progress. I repeat my congratulations to the right hon. Lady on assuming her...
Lord Hain | WGC c27-8 (Link to this contribution) I welcome you, Mr Brady, to the most powerful Committee in the House of Commons. By comparison, the ...
Roger Williams | WGC c28-9 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman is an experienced Member in this House, and he will have read the amendment...
Lord Hain | WGC c29 (Link to this contribution) There is a good way in which the impact can be modified: by not introducing it in the first place, w...
Lord Hain | WGC c29 (Link to this contribution) But, as the right hon. Lady knows, and as the Electoral Reform Society’s recent document confirms, i...
Cheryl Gillan | WGC c29 (Link to this contribution) I know that the right hon. Gentleman has constructed a press release and a story, because the line t...
Cheryl Gillan | WGC c23 (Link to this contribution) If the hon. Gentleman would like to finish his point, I am happy to give way to him.
Chair of Welsh Grand Committee | WGC c23 (Link to this contribution) Order. I think we have got the point. It was a point of argument and not a point of order.
Hywel Francis | WGC c23 (Link to this contribution) On a point of order, Mr Brady. The right hon. Lady said that she and her colleagues identified the d...
Cheryl Gillan | WGC c22 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman will have a chance to make a speech later if he catches the Chair’s eye. Altho...
Chris Bryant | WGC c22 (Link to this contribution) Can I make a representation now? The right hon. Lady has said that her door is always open.
Cheryl Gillan | WGC c22 (Link to this contribution) None whatsoever. The Treasury has made a generous offer to people to contribute to areas on which th...
Cheryl Gillan | WGC c23 (Link to this contribution) I will not correct what the hon. Gentleman refers to as an error in the press statement. The LCO has...
Hywel Francis | WGC c22-3 (Link to this contribution) On the right hon. Lady’s point about co-operation, may I congratulate her on the Wales Office’s wise...
Cheryl Gillan | WGC c22 (Link to this contribution) I will not give way to the hon. Gentleman. I did not hear what he said as part of his personal attac...
Wayne David | WGC c22 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Lady give way?
Cheryl Gillan | WGC c25 (Link to this contribution) That is absolutely correct. If Opposition Members huffed and puffed less, and spent some time lookin...
Alun Cairns | WGC c25 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend agree with the independent legal advice given by the Assembly Commission’s...
Cheryl Gillan | WGC c23 (Link to this contribution) The first attempt at the housing LCO was considered by the hon. Gentleman to be equivalent to a lash...
Hywel Francis | WGC c23 (Link to this contribution) Prevarication is the word that is being used. In fact the diligence of Jocelyn Davies in recognising...
Cheryl Gillan | WGC c24 (Link to this contribution) I am awfully sorry. The right hon. Gentleman has been a Member for a long time and has a lot of expe...
Alun Michael | WGC c23 (Link to this contribution) May I point out, through you, Mr Brady, that the first LCO the right hon. Lady was criticising was s...
Cheryl Gillan | WGC c24 (Link to this contribution) I say to the hon. Gentleman that the procedure we are following was laid down by his right hon. Frie...
Albert Owen | WGC c24 (Link to this contribution) Does the Secretary of State not recall that in 1997 a Government were elected who had a view, unlike...
Cheryl Gillan | WGC c24 (Link to this contribution) There is a lot of political will on our part; we are steaming ahead, and I have made more progress. ...
Lord Hain | WGC c26 (Link to this contribution) Why was the First Minister able to produce a question, literally within days of notification to do s...
Cheryl Gillan | WGC c25-6 (Link to this contribution) Ah, in the Welsh Assembly Government. I hope the right hon. Gentleman will make available to me the ...
Lord Hain | WGC c25 (Link to this contribution) In the Welsh Assembly Government.
Cheryl Gillan | WGC c25 (Link to this contribution) There was work. Then the right hon. Gentleman has access to his papers in his office-
Cheryl Gillan | WGC c25 (Link to this contribution) I take that as confirmation from the shadow Secretary of State that no work was done on the question...
Cheryl Gillan | WGC c25 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend. I am reliably informed that work had been done on the order—the statutory in...
Mark Williams | WGC c25 (Link to this contribution) I share the enthusiasm of the hon. Member for Ynys Môn for an October poll. The real issue is the ex...
Cheryl Gillan | WGC c27 (Link to this contribution) No, I am going to make some progress. In addition to making progress on the housing LCO and the r...
Chris Bryant | WGC c26 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Lady give way?
Cheryl Gillan | WGC c26 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for that intervention. It is not for me to square the ramblings of the right ...
Cheryl Gillan | WGC c26-7 (Link to this contribution) No, I will now make progress to the end of my speech. I have been very generous in giving way to the...
Cheryl Gillan | WGC c26 (Link to this contribution) I will take responsibility for what happens in my Department. I am not going to reveal advice given ...
David TC Davies | WGC c26 (Link to this contribution) Is the Secretary of State aware of a speech made by the right hon. Member for Neath, at Cardiff univ...
Lord Murphy of Torfaen | WGC c21 (Link to this contribution) Pursuant to the comments of my hon. Friend the Member for Rhondda about the impact of parliamentary ...
Chris Bryant | WGC c20 (Link to this contribution) The Deputy Prime Minister, I think, has proposed that he will introduce legislation on the matter be...
Cheryl Gillan | WGC c21 (Link to this contribution) I will ignore the personal remark. The hon. Gentleman is entirely wrong—I have already met the Deput...
Cheryl Gillan | WGC c21 (Link to this contribution) I am just going to do my job effectively and efficiently and make some progress. The Wales Office...
Alun Cairns | WGC c21-2 (Link to this contribution) What approaches has my right hon. Friend received from Opposition Members about the legislation? The...
Chris Bryant | WGC c21 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Lady be generous for a brief moment? Is she being nice?
Elfyn Llwyd | WGC c40 (Link to this contribution) That may be a valid point, but, on the narrow point of ID cards, I could not see the point of them. ...
Elfyn Llwyd | WGC c38-9 (Link to this contribution) I am much obliged to the right hon. Gentleman for his comments. I will relay them to my hon. Friend ...
Albert Owen | WGC c39-40 (Link to this contribution) Like the hon. Gentleman, I opposed identity cards and voted against the Government. Does he agree, h...
Susan Elan Jones | WGC c57 (Link to this contribution) I will not; I look forward to hearing the hon. Gentleman’s speech later. In conclusion, I hope th...
Chair of Welsh Grand Committee | WGC c56 (Link to this contribution) Order. I will make a point before I call the next speaker, which is no reflection on her. At the beg...
Jonathan Evans | WGC c59 (Link to this contribution) I will definitely let a Member from Tredegar intervene in a moment, but I will make one point first....
Jonathan Evans | WGC c59 (Link to this contribution) One thing must happen if we are going to address the deficit: the Opposition have to accept that the...
Geraint Davies | WGC c59 (Link to this contribution) During the election campaign, the Conservative party suggested that there should be £8 in cuts for e...
Jonathan Evans | WGC c58-9 (Link to this contribution) I visited the Table Office earlier in order to take advice on this speech, because this is the first...
Chair of Welsh Grand Committee | WGC c58 (Link to this contribution) I shall call the winding-up speakers at 3.40 pm.
Cheryl Gillan | WGC c53 (Link to this contribution) I add my congratulations to my hon. Friend on being elected to the Chair of the Welsh Affairs Select...
Jonathan Edwards | WGC c53 (Link to this contribution) Is the hon. Gentleman not concerned that overt fiscal consolidation based on expenditure cuts will l...
David TC Davies | WGC c53 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for that. I believe that the hon. Member for Swansea West will be a member of the Comm...
Wayne David | WGC c55 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman said that he was against additional powers for the Welsh Assembly. Can I take it ...
David TC Davies | WGC c54-5 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is correct but, again, I am veering a long way from where I wanted to be. Let me simp...
David TC Davies | WGC c55-6 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend said that she will remain entirely neutral to ensure fairness. As the Chairman ...
Susan Elan Jones | WGC c54 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman agree that if it is a ““tarian”” of anything, it is ““tarian y toriadau””—a ...
David TC Davies | WGC c53-4 (Link to this contribution) It could do. I do not know because I am not an economist. Lots of people are saying that such an app...
Alun Cairns | WGC c54 (Link to this contribution) Clearly, there are different views among many different economists on the risk of a double-dip reces...
David TC Davies | WGC c54 (Link to this contribution) We are going a long way from the remit of a humble Chair of the Welsh Affairs Committee. The Chief S...
Albert Owen | WGC c63 (Link to this contribution) The Treasury wants money, and that is why the Government are making huge cuts—to bring money back in...
Alun Michael | WGC c64-6 (Link to this contribution) Welcome to the Committee, Mr Sheridan. You will be pleased to hear that the first successful prosecu...
Albert Owen | WGC c63-4 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry that I gave way, because the right hon. Lady did not answer my question whether she would...
Cheryl Gillan | WGC c63 (Link to this contribution) I pay tribute to the hon. Gentleman, because, as everybody on this Committee would agree, he has alw...
Glyn Davies | WGC c66-7 (Link to this contribution) Thank you for giving me an opportunity to make my first contribution to the proceedings of this Hous...
Chair of Welsh Grand Committee | WGC c66 (Link to this contribution) Order. We have several speakers left to speak and we have 15 minutes.
Jonathan Evans | WGC c60 (Link to this contribution) But is it? In Wales, 36% of the electorate supported the hon. Gentleman’s party while 46% supported ...
Jonathan Evans | WGC c60 (Link to this contribution) Even though the hon. Gentleman comes from such a wonderful town, that was not the best of interventi...
Nick Smith | WGC c60 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for giving way. It is typical of the good manners of men and women from T...
Cheryl Gillan | WGC c60 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for giving way, because I can welcome him back to the House of Commo...
Chair of Welsh Grand Committee | WGC c60 (Link to this contribution) Order. Once again, interventions are getting somewhat lengthy, and there are several people who want...
Albert Owen | WGC c61-3 (Link to this contribution) It is a genuine pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Cardiff North. I am sure that the whole Commi...
Jonathan Evans | WGC c60-1 (Link to this contribution) The reality is that we live in a country of multi-party politics in Wales. It is inconceivable that ...
Alun Cairns | WGC c63 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman talks about national insurance increases for employers, but what analysis has he ...
Elfyn Llwyd | WGC c48 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has made his point. We understand he will be a rebel in this Parliament, and that...
Mark Williams | WGC c47-8 (Link to this contribution) I was not aware that the hon. Gentleman was at the public meetings that we held in Aberystwyth with ...
Guto Bebb | WGC c46 (Link to this contribution) Obviously I accept fully the point the hon. Gentleman has just made about the system being fair to e...
Elfyn Llwyd | WGC c46-7 (Link to this contribution) Clearly it is not sustainable. As I said in prefacing my remarks, there will be some examples of was...
Cheryl Gillan | WGC c46 (Link to this contribution) I heard what the hon. Gentleman said earlier about that case and it worries me deeply. If he feels t...
Elfyn Llwyd | WGC c46 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the right hon. Lady and I may well take up that offer. One of our problems is with ...
Lord Hain | WGC c45 (Link to this contribution) I support what the hon. Gentleman is saying. Does he agree that the Paddington to Swansea high-speed...
Elfyn Llwyd | WGC c45-6 (Link to this contribution) That is no doubt true. Indeed, not so long ago I heard that some Korean entrepreneurs were on their ...
Geraint Davies | WGC c45 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman accept that in many areas, police chiefs are meeting AMs, MPs and councillor...
Elfyn Llwyd | WGC c44-5 (Link to this contribution) Yes, I hear what the hon. Gentleman says, which makes it even more perplexing that when introducing ...
Elfyn Llwyd | WGC c45 (Link to this contribution) That is an obvious example of what can go wrong when politics becomes mixed up with policing. We can...
Alun Michael | WGC c44 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman accept though, that over the past year or two, 14 transfers of powers to the...
Alun Cairns | WGC c44 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman not recognise that there has been a significant shift in the Government posi...
Chair of Welsh Grand Committee | WGC c43 (Link to this contribution) Before I call Mr Llwyd, I wish to say that at least 15 people have indicated that they wish to speak...
Cheryl Gillan | WGC c43 (Link to this contribution) On a point of order, Mr Sheridan. As this is our first Welsh Grand Committee, may I use this point o...
Elfyn Llwyd | WGC c43 (Link to this contribution) I agree with what has just been said. I hope that you have a convivial and rewarding afternoon, Mr S...
Wayne David | WGC c52 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
David TC Davies | WGC c52 (Link to this contribution) I will in a moment, but let me make my point first. If our triple A rating had been downgraded, it w...
Hywel Francis | WGC c52 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for his praise and congratulate him on his election to the Chair of the W...
David TC Davies | WGC c52 (Link to this contribution) I shall be ““tarian y gweithwyr””, but ““tarian y cwmnïau hefyd””—the shield of companies also—becau...
Geraint Davies | WGC c53 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman accept that one way to reduce the deficit may be to relocate some Whitehall ...
David TC Davies | WGC c53 (Link to this contribution) I accept the first part of the hon. Gentleman’s statement, but I do not necessarily accept the secon...
Wayne David | WGC c52 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman believe The Sunday Times to be an impartial and objective newspaper?
David TC Davies | WGC c52-3 (Link to this contribution) One thing I have learnt over the past year is that there is no such thing as an impartial and object...
David TC Davies | WGC c51-2 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps it was Callaghan, but that was a fair summary of what was said. In fact, Callaghan and Wilso...
David TC Davies | WGC c51 (Link to this contribution) It is clear that the thrust of today’s speeches—notwithstanding the previous one, which was interest...
Elfyn Llwyd | WGC c48 (Link to this contribution) Of course the Lib Dems cannot enforce the whole manifesto or indeed have it accepted, but—for heaven...
Alun Cairns | WGC c48 (Link to this contribution) If the hon. Gentleman is looking for consistency in policy, can he tell me how he squares the nuclea...
Elfyn Llwyd | WGC c48 (Link to this contribution) That question comes up at virtually every Welsh Grand Committee, and the answer is the same. Of cour...
Lord Murphy of Torfaen | WGC c49-50 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the Secretary of State and the Under-Secretary, whom I wish well in office. This mornin...
Jonathan Evans | WGC c50 (Link to this contribution) Is the right hon. Gentleman saying that the current disparity between Wales and the rest of the UK s...
Lord Murphy of Torfaen | WGC c50 (Link to this contribution) It is certainly not for a Welsh Grand Committee to argue for less representation for Wales. It is no...
Cheryl Gillan | WGC c50 (Link to this contribution) I assure the right hon. Gentleman that there has been a great deal of contact with the Welsh Assembl...
Lord Murphy of Torfaen | WGC c50-1 (Link to this contribution) It is all very well having meetings, but if nothing comes of them what is the point? It is likely th...
Mark Williams | WGC c48 (Link to this contribution) I consider the hon. Gentleman a friend; we share a border in our constituencies. Is he honestly sayi...
Lord Hain | WGC c38 (Link to this contribution) May I endorse that message of good wishes from the Secretary of State? The hon. Member for Arfon is ...
David Jones | WGC c75 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful, Mr Sheridan. The hon. Member for Ynys Môn was charitable and fair in welcoming severa...
Ian Lucas | WGC c75 (Link to this contribution) Will the Under-Secretary give way?
Wayne David | WGC c76 (Link to this contribution) On a point of order, Mr Sheridan. Is it possible to have a vote now?
David Jones | WGC c76 (Link to this contribution) I am glad to say that this Government regards broadband as a vital issue. They propose to roll out s...
David Jones | WGC c73-5 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr Sheridan. It is a huge pity that the shadow Secretary of State is clearly so bruise...
David Jones | WGC c73 (Link to this contribution) All I would say is that a copy of the Chief Secretary’s statement was made available to the right ho...
Lord Hain | WGC c73 (Link to this contribution) The point is that we knew, at least a day and probably a week before, that the statement was being m...
Wayne David | WGC c75 (Link to this contribution) On a point of order, Mr Sheridan. The Under-Secretary is clearly trying to talk out the debate. I in...
Chair of Welsh Grand Committee | WGC c75 (Link to this contribution) It would be inappropriate and without precedent for me to accept a closure motion at this stage, so ...
Roger Williams | WGC c75 (Link to this contribution) Will the Under-Secretary give way?
David Jones | WGC c75 (Link to this contribution) Forgive me, but I have very little time. We heard from my hon. Friend the Member for Cardiff North, ...
Wayne David | WGC c71-2 (Link to this contribution) No, I will not give way, because the right hon. Lady did not give way to me—the phrase ““hoist with ...
Cheryl Gillan | WGC c71 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Wayne David | WGC c72 (Link to this contribution) I do not have time. The so-called emergency Budget will harm the poorest in our communities. It w...
Alun Cairns | WGC c72 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Wayne David | WGC c71 (Link to this contribution) I am glad that the hon. Gentleman has reinforced a point that we have made. The Chief Secretary t...
David Jones | WGC c72-3 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman seems to regard it as an appalling thing that the Secretary of State should...
David Jones | WGC c72 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to address the Grand Committee today. Frankly, given that this is the first Grand C...
David Jones | WGC c72 (Link to this contribution) Indeed, as well as a touch more humility. But there was none of that—the shadow Secretary of State s...
Lord Hanson of Flint | WGC c69-70 (Link to this contribution) I realise that time is pressing, so I shall make a couple of brief points. For the first time in 13 ...
Owen Smith | WGC c68 (Link to this contribution) I almost always agree with what Joseph Stiglitz says, and he was absolutely right about that. We hav...
Jonathan Edwards | WGC c68 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is making a fantastic point. Does he agree with the economist Joseph Stiglitz tha...
Owen Smith | WGC c67-8 (Link to this contribution) I shall return briefly to what I think has been the most important issue that we have discussed toda...
Wayne David | WGC c70 (Link to this contribution) It was indeed noticeable how uncomfortable the two hon. Members on either side of the Liberal Democr...
Elfyn Llwyd | WGC c71 (Link to this contribution) This morning there was constant talk about whether or not we were told about the imminent visit by t...
Wayne David | WGC c70 (Link to this contribution) We have had an interesting day. It began with a statement from the Chief Secretary to the Treasury. ...
Lord Brennan of Canton | WGC c70 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right; my right hon. Friend the Member for Cynon Valley and my hon. Friend the Mem...
Geraint Davies | WGC c32 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend is aware that the Liberals are supporting cuts in departmental spending for edu...
Lord Hain | WGC c32 (Link to this contribution) We had taken 1 million pensioners out of poverty through the pension credit, the winter fuel allowan...
Jonathan Edwards | WGC c32 (Link to this contribution) Does the right hon. Gentleman agree that the banking levy, at the rate at which it has been set, is ...
Lord Hain | WGC c32 (Link to this contribution) I think that the Barnett consequentials for Wales will be that the Welsh budget is cut. Everyone kno...
Mark Williams | WGC c32 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman at least acknowledge that the pupil premium policy, which my party fou...
Lord Hain | WGC c32 (Link to this contribution) I could not agree more. The Liberal Democrats’ control of Swansea county council has resulted in an ...
Lord Hain | WGC c32-4 (Link to this contribution) Indeed. The hon. Gentleman makes a good point, which I will address in a moment. On Sunday, The O...
Lord Hain | WGC c36 (Link to this contribution) I want to make progress. I have been generous in giving way. For every high-earning public servic...
Guto Bebb | WGC c37 (Link to this contribution) My constituency is hugely dependent on small businesses. A pension pot of around £100,000 is require...
Guto Bebb | WGC c36 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?
Cheryl Gillan | WGC c36 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman obviously has a long and pre-prepared speech, which is why earlier today he...
Lord Hain | WGC c35 (Link to this contribution) No, I am going to make some progress. Tories, using the Lib Dems for cover, accept that unemploym...
Elfyn Llwyd | WGC c38 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the right hon. Lady. My hon. Friend is a popular Member and many people are worried...
Cheryl Gillan | WGC c37 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman. Perhaps because of the antics at the start of the sitting, I om...
Elfyn Llwyd | WGC c37 (Link to this contribution) There are several things in the Queen’s Speech that are acceptable, and I want to look at the positi...
Lord Hain | WGC c37 (Link to this contribution) The VAT increase will not help small businesses or their employees, will it? As for their pensions, ...
Elfyn Llwyd | WGC c34-5 (Link to this contribution) I agree entirely with what the right hon. Gentleman says about the social welfare budget. On Monday,...
Lord Hain | WGC c35 (Link to this contribution) I agree with the hon. Gentleman. Wales has been through a difficult time, as has every other coun...
Cheryl Gillan | WGC c35 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?
Lord Hain | WGC c34 (Link to this contribution) Actually, long-term interest rates, future bond rates and so on were coming down under our Governmen...
Lord Hain | WGC c34 (Link to this contribution) There are still 100,000 more jobs in Wales than when we came to power in 1997. Those jobs will be un...
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Legislation Economic policy Public expenditure Wales Budget June 2010
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