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Comprehensive Spending Review

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Parliamentary proceeding

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516 c949-91 

Session

2010-12

Department

Treasury

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House of Commons chamber

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Proceeding contributions

George Osborne | 516 c991 (Link to this contribution) Let me make two points. First, there is an increase of almost £4 billion in the DFID budget. Secondl...

Barry Gardiner | 516 c991 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the Chancellor's decision to honour the previous Government's commitment to contribute 0.7...

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Speaker | 516 c991 (Link to this contribution) Order. I am sorry to disappoint colleagues, but we have had a marathon session. I am grateful to the...

George Osborne | 516 c990 (Link to this contribution) Let me explain it to the hon. Lady. This country has the largest Budget deficit in the G20. If we do...

Lilian Greenwood | 516 c990 (Link to this contribution) The Chancellor has confirmed that almost half a million public sector jobs will go under his plan, a...

George Osborne | 516 c991 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right. Of course, we have made choices today. First, we have chosen to ...

Robert Buckland | 516 c991 (Link to this contribution) As a fellow one-nation Conservative, does my right hon. Friend agree that today's announcement has b...

Mary MacLeod | 516 c988 (Link to this contribution) When my right hon. Friend met the IMF and World Bank officials in Washington recently, did they agre...

George Osborne | 516 c988 (Link to this contribution) They said very clearly in their article IV assessment of the British economy that the measures we ha...

Jim Shannon | 516 c988 (Link to this contribution) In the statement, the Chancellor did not mention additions to tax credits at any stage. One of the a...

George Osborne | 516 c989 (Link to this contribution) I think the hon. Gentleman is referring to child benefit, and it has clearly been a difficult decisi...

George Osborne | 516 c987 (Link to this contribution) I did not mention in my speech that we are funding the enterprise finance guarantee scheme to help s...

Andrea Leadsom | 516 c987 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend agree that in this country the key to our economic recovery will be the de...

Natascha Engel | 516 c988 (Link to this contribution) The Chancellor has announced a cut of 490,000 jobs in the public sector. Whichever way he slices it,...

Speaker | 516 c988 (Link to this contribution) Order. This statement can run for only a few more minutes, so some people will be disappointed, but ...

George Osborne | 516 c988 (Link to this contribution) First, to put it in context, close to 200,000 jobs have been created in the last three months. Secon...

Speaker | 516 c988 (Link to this contribution) Order. We are grateful, but I think we have the thrust of it.

George Osborne | 516 c990 (Link to this contribution) We know the answer to that because they had 13 years to address the problem and gave absolutely noth...

George Osborne | 516 c990 (Link to this contribution) I do not have the exact number to hand, but I shall give it to the hon. Gentleman this afternoon. We...

Alec Shelbrooke | 516 c990 (Link to this contribution) May I thank the Chancellor for taking the decision to give to Equitable Life more than three times t...

David Lammy | 516 c989 (Link to this contribution) The Chancellor describes the cuts to local government as challenging, but will he clarify whether cu...

George Osborne | 516 c989 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a very good point. We have talked a lot about fairness and about fairness acros...

Paul Uppal | 516 c989 (Link to this contribution) It is often said of the last Labour Government that although talk is cheap, the consequences of thei...

Derek Twigg | 516 c990 (Link to this contribution) I was grateful to hear the announcement from the Chancellor about the Mersey gateway, which has all-...

George Osborne | 516 c989-90 (Link to this contribution) As my hon. Friend is my local MP, I had better agree with him. His predecessor—people will remember ...

David Rutley | 516 c989 (Link to this contribution) Does the Chancellor agree that the investments spelled out today in the regional growth fund will go...

Caroline Lucas | 516 c985 (Link to this contribution) I am not sure how the Government can claim to be the greenest ever when it is estimated that Departm...

George Osborne | 516 c985 (Link to this contribution) There is commitment, even in these difficult times, to a carbon capture and storage demonstration, t...

Baroness Coffey | 516 c985-6 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the Chancellor and the Chief Secretary to the Treasury on this spending review. Deliv...

George Osborne | 516 c986 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend tells me something that I did not know, which is that the behaviour of Labour MEPs is...

Tom Clarke | 516 c986 (Link to this contribution) This is further to the question asked by my hon. Friend the Member for East Kilbride, Strathaven and...

Aidan Burley | 516 c986 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. Friend take this opportunity to nail, once and for all, the lie perpetuated by ma...

George Osborne | 516 c986 (Link to this contribution) Let me say to the right hon. Gentleman that, first, the 0.7% target is internationally monitored and...

Jeremy Corbyn | 516 c987 (Link to this contribution) The Chancellor will be aware that housing is the biggest and most serious problem facing people in m...

George Osborne | 516 c987 (Link to this contribution) If my hon. Friend has not yet had the opportunity to do so, he should look at chart 1.1 in the book ...

George Osborne | 516 c987 (Link to this contribution) There is a problem in social housing, but frankly the party that the hon. Gentleman supported in thi...

Michael McCann | 516 c984 (Link to this contribution) The Department for International Development operates within my constituency, and many people will w...

George Osborne | 516 c984 (Link to this contribution) There is a very substantial increase, of about 37%, in DFID's budget. There are parts of internation...

Andrew Percy | 516 c983 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the commitment to infrastructure funding for Yorkshire and Humber, which follows the annou...

George Osborne | 516 c984 (Link to this contribution) I think that I would get myself into a lot of legal hot water if I were to do that, but let me make ...

George Osborne | 516 c984-5 (Link to this contribution) What I would say to the hon. Gentleman is that, again, we have to take a realistic decision about in...

Simon Danczuk | 516 c984 (Link to this contribution) What will the increase in train fares do to get people out of their cars and on to the trains?

George Osborne | 516 c984 (Link to this contribution) I completely agree with my hon. Friend. It is striking that in all the responses and everything that...

Andrew Bridgen | 516 c984 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend agree that the reason why the previous Labour Government failed to hold a ...

Sajid Javid | 516 c985 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the bold and powerful statement that my right hon. Friend has made today and, in particula...

Lord Wilson of Sedgefield | 516 c981-2 (Link to this contribution) The Chancellor said in his statement that he would like the country to be able to afford new rolling...

George Osborne | 516 c982 (Link to this contribution) I am very aware of that project. If the hon. Gentleman will bear with me, the Secretary of State for...

Stephen Williams | 516 c982 (Link to this contribution) The Chancellor said that fairness was one of the objectives of his statement. I grew up in poverty—i...

Stuart Bell | 516 c983 (Link to this contribution) On the Prime Minister's statement which the Chancellor confirmed, the House will welcome the facts t...

George Osborne | 516 c983 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right, and he has considerable experience in this area. The problem wit...

George Osborne | 516 c983 (Link to this contribution) That is, quite frankly, a deliberate misrepresentation of the number, which was produced independent...

Joan Ruddock | 516 c982 (Link to this contribution) The Chancellor said that he will replace the education maintenance allowance with more targeted supp...

George Osborne | 516 c982 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend brings a life experience to bear on this debate. The two biggest settlements have bee...

Rob Wilson | 516 c982 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the Chancellor's commitment to protecting the science budget and his comments on Lord Brow...

George Osborne | 516 c982 (Link to this contribution) We looked very carefully at this programme, and it has a very high dead weight. We are raising the c...

George Osborne | 516 c980 (Link to this contribution) Let me say first that the biggest gamble that the country could have taken in the current world envi...

George Osborne | 516 c978 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry that the hon. Lady is opposed to more freedom for local government—[Interruption.] Well, ...

Tony Baldry | 516 c978-9 (Link to this contribution) Do not an increase in the number of adult apprenticeships, commitment to the digital economy through...

George Osborne | 516 c979 (Link to this contribution) Of course I agree with my hon. Friend. We made every effort to protect the science budget—that was o...

Hazel Blears | 516 c979 (Link to this contribution) According to the independent organisation New Philanthropy Capital, the massive cuts of nearly 30% i...

George Osborne | 516 c979 (Link to this contribution) As I mentioned early in my speech, we have provided some additional resources for the voluntary sect...

Jesse Norman | 516 c979 (Link to this contribution) May I say, on behalf of not merely the people of Herefordshire but people in rural counties everywhe...

George Osborne | 516 c979 (Link to this contribution) It did make a difference, and I found in the Treasury absolutely no plans to reduce the budget defic...

Sammy Wilson | 516 c979-80 (Link to this contribution) We understand the economic mess that the coalition Government have inherited and the problems that i...

George Osborne | 516 c980 (Link to this contribution) We have already announced a record investment in apprenticeships, and many tens of thousands of addi...

Nick de Bois | 516 c980 (Link to this contribution) While I greatly welcome today's announcement, my constituents—particularly my younger constituents, ...

Gavin Williamson | 516 c981 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. Friend assure the House that, unlike the Labour party, which abandoned Prudence a...

George Osborne | 516 c981 (Link to this contribution) I can assure my hon. Friend that I am planning a long-term relationship with Prudence.

Andrew Love | 516 c980 (Link to this contribution) The Chancellor has announced the loss of 490,000 jobs in the public sector, and has not challenged t...

George Osborne | 516 c980-1 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman, who is a member of the Treasury Committee, knows that the budget deficit was thr...

George Osborne | 516 c981 (Link to this contribution) There are details in the book we have published today, and we will set out more details in the comin...

Mark Durkan | 516 c981 (Link to this contribution) Can the Chancellor assure us that the green investment bank will be active and accessible to all reg...

George Osborne | 516 c981 (Link to this contribution) In my statement, I set aside £1 billion of direct Government funding for the green investment bank. ...

Teresa Pearce | 516 c975 (Link to this contribution) The Chancellor has told us that we can expect 490,000 public sector jobs to go in the next five year...

George Osborne | 516 c974-5 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right. This country is spending £120 million a day on debt interest. So all the pe...

Nadhim Zahawi | 516 c975 (Link to this contribution) The shadow Chancellor, although very good at the jokes, demonstrated in his response his confusion a...

George Osborne | 516 c975 (Link to this contribution) I shall make a couple of observations. First, the independent Office for Budget Responsibility—the h...

Stewart Hosie | 516 c974 (Link to this contribution) The Chancellor has announced 500,000 job losses and cuts of £81 billion—that is just the cuts, not t...

Robert Halfon | 516 c974 (Link to this contribution) My constituents will welcome this Robin Hood public spending statement, particularly the resources t...

George Osborne | 516 c974 (Link to this contribution) First, we have preserved the Barnett funding arrangements. Secondly, the decisions that we have take...

Thomas Docherty | 516 c974 (Link to this contribution) indicated dissent.

George Osborne | 516 c974 (Link to this contribution) The housing benefit budget has been rising at a very rapid pace and, frankly, anyone doing my job wo...

Bob Russell | 516 c973 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the Government's commitment to end child poverty—during this Parliament, we hope—which Lab...

George Osborne | 516 c973 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is not known for overstatement, but I would say to him that we inherited a situat...

David Winnick | 516 c973 (Link to this contribution) I witnessed the misery and devastation that occurred in my black country constituency and elsewhere ...

George Osborne | 516 c973 (Link to this contribution) We have much more focused local area partnerships that are going to help areas such as Staffordshire...

Karen Bradley | 516 c973 (Link to this contribution) Areas such as Staffordshire Moorlands were neglected by the previous Government. Will the Chancellor...

George Osborne | 516 c972-3 (Link to this contribution) The first thing I would say to the right hon. Gentleman is that we believe strongly, as do the major...

Michael Meacher | 516 c972 (Link to this contribution) In cutting the deficit, why did the Chancellor ignore the economic growth dividend, which could yiel...

Speaker | 516 c972 (Link to this contribution) Order. A very large number of right hon. and hon. Members are seeking to catch my eye, and I would l...

George Osborne | 516 c971-2 (Link to this contribution) First, let me thank my hon. Friend for the welcome that he gave—to repeat what I said —to what I imp...

Lord Tyrie | 516 c971 (Link to this contribution) This is undoubtedly one of the most radical and—I think most people in all parts of the House would ...

George Osborne | 516 c978 (Link to this contribution) I agree with my hon. Friend.

Speaker | 516 c978 (Link to this contribution) Order. I must ask for a very brief reply. I hope that the message will be received.

Louise Ellman | 516 c977 (Link to this contribution) It is very disturbing that this statement simply does not disclose the extent of the cuts being made...

George Osborne | 516 c977 (Link to this contribution) The poorest suffer when a country loses control of its public finances. That, indeed, was the assess...

Lord Harrington of Watford | 516 c977 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. Friend confirm to me and my constituents that the purpose of today's announcement...

George Osborne | 516 c977 (Link to this contribution) We are spending more on transport projects over the next four years than was spent during the last f...

Naomi Long | 516 c978 (Link to this contribution) Given that Northern Ireland has a great reliance on the public sector, which means that these cuts w...

George Osborne | 516 c978 (Link to this contribution) Of course there are difficult decisions today, but because of the decisions we have taken on the Eng...

Simon Hughes | 516 c977 (Link to this contribution) The Government have rightly taken decisions to deal with the deficit left by the international reces...

George Osborne | 516 c976-7 (Link to this contribution) We have had to take some difficult decisions on housing benefit, but I think they are fair and we ha...

Clive Betts | 516 c976 (Link to this contribution) With regard to the new rents at 80% of market rent levels for social housing tenants, when a tenant ...

George Osborne | 516 c976 (Link to this contribution) Obviously, I do not agree with right hon. Gentleman. All Government Departments have had to make sav...

Jack Straw | 516 c975-6 (Link to this contribution) The Chancellor of the Exchequer failed to answer the question put by my right hon. Friend the Member...

Speaker | 516 c975 (Link to this contribution) Order. I do not think that we will go with that. With respect, Members must get into the habit of as...

George Osborne | 516 c976 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right. These decisions are absolutely vital to provide economic stabili...

James Morris | 516 c976 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the Chancellor's statement, and I know that many hard-working people in my constituency wi...

George Osborne | 516 c949-65 (Link to this contribution) Today is the day when Britain steps back from the brink and when we confront the bills from a decade...

Speaker | 516 c952 (Link to this contribution) Order. All this noise makes progress slower and saps time that would otherwise be available for Back...

Speaker | 516 c965 (Link to this contribution) Order. I call Alan Johnson.

Alan Johnson | 516 c965-9 (Link to this contribution) Mr Speaker—[Interruption.] ... Mr Speaker, we remember well the cheers at the end of the emergency B...

Speaker | 516 c966 (Link to this contribution) Order. Ms Bray, you are getting quite over-excited. You must calm yourself—and remain calm. It is in...

George Osborne | 516 c969-71 (Link to this contribution) He's a nice guy, but he's in the wrong job. The truth is this: frankly, either member of the Balls f...

George Osborne | 516 c989 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman is obviously—I do not hold this against him—a centraliser rather than a loc...

George Osborne | 516 c985 (Link to this contribution) I agree with my hon. Friend. Whoever won the general election—whoever formed the Government—was goin...

Liz Kendall | 516 c978 (Link to this contribution) Cutting funds for local councils by 28.4% over four years will decimate services in Leicester West, ...

Sarah Newton | 516 c981 (Link to this contribution) We have inherited a social care funding system that is just not fit for purpose and that lets down t...

George Osborne | 516 c978 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right.

Speaker | 516 c965 (Link to this contribution) Order. The House needs to calm down. It is getting a little over-excited and there is a long way to ...

Louise Mensch | 516 c978 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend share my joy at the shadow Chancellor's admission that the deficit must be...

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