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Debate on Thursday, 28 October 2010, in the House of Commons, led by Danny Alexander. The answering member was Angela Eagle.

Comprehensive Spending Review

Debate on a motion that this House has considered the matter of the Comprehensive Spending Review.

Secondary information

Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
517 c499-582 
Session
2010-12
Department
Treasury
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Proceeding contributions
Julian Smith | 517 c519, (corrigendum) 748;517 c519 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Lady take this opportunity to pay tribute to British business, which has created hundr...
Speaker | 517 c523 (Link to this contribution) Order. Speeches are limited to six minutes, and a vast number of Members wish to speak. We need rest...
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Speaker | 517 c541 (Link to this contribution) Order. Before I call the next speaker, I am going to have to reduce the time to five minutes, and ev...
Stewart Hosie | 517 c501 (Link to this contribution) The Chief Secretary said that to be taken seriously one needs to have a credible and detailed plan. ...
Danny Alexander | 517 c501 (Link to this contribution) There is a great deal of detail in the spending review document, as the hon. Gentleman knows because...
Ian Swales | 517 c501 (Link to this contribution) Is the Chief Secretary aware that the 2007 CSR called for £35 billion in cuts, and that in July 2010...
Danny Alexander | 517 c501 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a very important point. The NAO has indeed criticised the effectiveness of the ...
Angela Eagle | 517 c501-2 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman has been talking about detail, and there is one detail that I am interested...
Danny Alexander | 517 c500 (Link to this contribution) We have set out in detail what we would cut—that is the whole point of the spending review.
Danny Alexander | 517 c500-1 (Link to this contribution) I am going to press on; I will give way again in a moment. The House and the British people will ne...
Danny Alexander | 517 c501 (Link to this contribution) I will press on, and give way in a moment. Thanks to Labour's profligacy, there really was no money...
Danny Alexander | 517 c503 (Link to this contribution) I do not accept that. We have to control the welfare bill, which has risen dramatically over the pas...
Bernard Jenkin | 517 c503 (Link to this contribution) It is inevitable, of course, that individual Departments will have to set out the costs of redundanc...
Danny Alexander | 517 c502 (Link to this contribution) I am going to press on with this section of my speech, and then I will give way in a moment. In Jun...
Caroline Lucas | 517 c502 (Link to this contribution) Does the Chief Secretary accept that he is introducing a benefit system based on punishment? Does he...
Danny Alexander | 517 c502 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the hon. Lady to her place. I think that it is the first time we have had an exchange over...
Danny Alexander | 517 c502 (Link to this contribution) I am not going to give way again. These figures will be for Departments to set out.
Danny Alexander | 517 c502 (Link to this contribution) I am going to press on and make some progress. I will take further interventions later, but I answer...
Danny Alexander | 517 c499 (Link to this contribution) I am going to get to end of this section, and I will give way then. These are some of the most diff...
Danny Alexander | 517 c499 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move,"That this House has considered the matter of the Comprehensive Spending Review." It ...
Danny Alexander | 517 c499 (Link to this contribution) There is an important debate to be had. The Opposition have a chance to contribute to this discussio...
Toby Perkins | 517 c500 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman is perpetuating the myth that there is no alternative, but he just said tha...
Danny Alexander | 517 c500 (Link to this contribution) I do not accept that analysis, and I will come to that point later. The hon. Lady should be aware th...
Fiona Mactaggart | 517 c499 (Link to this contribution) I thank the right hon. Gentleman for giving way—at last. He says that in order to be taken seriously...
Adrian Bailey | 517 c500 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman has put great emphasis on the debt that he inherited and the need for the O...
Danny Alexander | 517 c500 (Link to this contribution) I will give way one more time, and then move on.
Adrian Bailey | 517 c500 (Link to this contribution) Will the Chief Secretary give way?
Danny Alexander | 517 c500 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman is certainly right to say that at the end of the spending review public spe...
Lord Redwood | 517 c500 (Link to this contribution) The figures assume 8% inflation over the period, but if, in the first couple of years, we have a com...
Danny Alexander | 517 c500 (Link to this contribution) No alternatives have been put forward by the hon. Gentleman's Front Benchers; perhaps he wants to ta...
Lord Redwood | 517 c527-9 (Link to this contribution) In the private sector, which is already generating tens of thousands of jobs every month. That is wh...
Malcolm Wicks | 517 c529-30 (Link to this contribution) I shall focus specifically on child benefit, and start by sincerely congratulating the coalition Gov...
Lord Redwood | 517 c527 (Link to this contribution) At the end of the period, in 2014-15, the Government plan to spend £92 billion a year more, on curre...
Helen Goodman | 517 c527 (Link to this contribution) I am most grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for giving way. Of course, in a very small-minded way...
Toby Perkins | 517 c526 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is reflecting on the inequities of the changes to housing benefit. Does she agree tha...
Diane Abbott | 517 c526-7 (Link to this contribution) I quite agree, and I am grateful to my hon. Friend for raising that issue. I have a sentence or so m...
Malcolm Wicks | 517 c530-1 (Link to this contribution) I agree, of course, because child benefit is easily understood, simple and a universal benefit. I am...
Chuka Umunna | 517 c530 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. Friend also acknowledge that one of the good things about child benefit is that i...
Malcolm Wicks | 517 c530 (Link to this contribution) I am happy to give way to my constituency neighbour in Streatham.
Chuka Umunna | 517 c530 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. Friend give way?
Danny Alexander | 517 c522 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Lady has said that she is opposed to the welfare cuts that we have proposed, opposed ...
Angela Eagle | 517 c522 (Link to this contribution) I have not said that I am opposed to all the changes in the social security budget. My right hon. Fr...
Danny Alexander | 517 c522 (Link to this contribution) This really is quite a simple question. Can the hon. Lady name a single cut that she supports?
Angela Eagle | 517 c522-3 (Link to this contribution) If the Chief Secretary had answered my questions, I might answer his. [Hon. Members: ““Incredible!””...
Angela Eagle | 517 c522 (Link to this contribution) No. I have given way to the hon. Gentleman before. No priority is to be given to the services that ...
Diane Abbott | 517 c525-6 (Link to this contribution) I am very pleased to have an opportunity to contribute to this debate, as I believe that these econo...
Lord Tyrie | 517 c523 (Link to this contribution) Six minutes is not a long time in which to respond to such high-octane exchanges. I do not intend to...
Lord Tyrie | 517 c524-5 (Link to this contribution) Yes, and public expenditure will be back broadly speaking to the level under the last Labour Governm...
David Ruffley | 517 c523 (Link to this contribution) I wonder whether that is right, because I have looked at the numbers and it would be appear that, ov...
Angela Eagle | 517 c519 (Link to this contribution) I have talked about the importance of getting the deficit down, but the hon. Gentleman is falling fo...
Angela Eagle | 517 c519 (Link to this contribution) I am certainly more than happy to pay tribute to British business, but I do not connect the first pa...
Stephen Gilbert | 517 c519 (Link to this contribution) How is it fair that in the time that the hon. Lady has been on her feet at the Dispatch Box, we as a...
David Anderson | 517 c520 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for the sterling work she is doing here today. We have discussed the fact tha...
Angela Eagle | 517 c520 (Link to this contribution) I would not expect the hon. Gentleman to be fluffy—that is not a word that I would ever have associa...
David Ruffley | 517 c520 (Link to this contribution) I am most grateful to the hon. Lady, although I am afraid that I will not be lovely and fluffy, or w...
Angela Eagle | 517 c519 (Link to this contribution) I am very happy to give way to the hon. Gentleman; it is great to see him back in the House.
Angela Eagle | 517 c521-2 (Link to this contribution) I think we know who to believe. There is a great deal of real worry out there about the effects of t...
Angela Eagle | 517 c517 (Link to this contribution) I said no. When families have to work shorter hours, they pay less tax. We took a conscious decisio...
Sajid Javid | 517 c518 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady is fond of saying, ““Let's have a grown-up, sensible debate””, so it would be useful i...
Angela Eagle | 517 c518 (Link to this contribution) There we see it—the old boys' network writ large. They stick together, don't they?
Angela Eagle | 517 c518 (Link to this contribution) Whatever happened to old-fashioned courtesy? The hon. Gentleman should ask himself why I do not want...
Matt Hancock | 517 c518 (Link to this contribution) I am very grateful to the hon. Lady for plucking up the courage to give way. She said that Britain w...
Angela Eagle | 517 c519 (Link to this contribution) It is quite extraordinary that we have a Chancellor who is prepared to make such alarmist statements...
Chuka Umunna | 517 c518-9 (Link to this contribution) Has my hon. Friend noticed the tendency of those on the Government Benches, and in particular the Ch...
Jackie Doyle-Price | 517 c542-3 (Link to this contribution) In the brief time available, I would like to direct my remarks to some of the changes announced this...
Joan Ruddock | 517 c541-2 (Link to this contribution) I am advised not to allow interventions, as it will take up other Members' time. The loss for a one...
Joan Ruddock | 517 c541 (Link to this contribution) I appreciate the opportunity to make a brief contribution, which I shall limit to my constituency, a...
Dominic Raab | 517 c540 (Link to this contribution) I will resist the temptation, but I thank my hon. Friend for his question. Finally, the comprehensi...
Richard Graham | 517 c540 (Link to this contribution) Would my hon. Friend like to ask the House which party introduced charges on university education?
Dominic Raab | 517 c540 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Lady for her intervention, but the problem is that the university budget as it was ...
Helen Goodman | 517 c540 (Link to this contribution) What is fair about those of us who had a free university education not paying extra tax while our ch...
Dominic Raab | 517 c539-40 (Link to this contribution) I commend Ministers on the spending review, because finally we have a Government who are prepared to...
Bob Russell | 517 c536-7 (Link to this contribution) I applaud the Archbishop of York for that sentiment and those words—and indeed many others. He and I...
Nicholas Dakin | 517 c536 (Link to this contribution) Archbishop Sentamu said only the other day:"““I am not an economist, and I am not a politician, but ...
Louise Ellman | 517 c538 (Link to this contribution) The headlines in the debate on the comprehensive spending review have concentrated mainly on justifi...
Bob Russell | 517 c536 (Link to this contribution) The reading comes from ““Proverbs””, chapter 31, verses 8 and 9:"““Speak up for those who cannot spe...
Lilian Greenwood | 517 c535 (Link to this contribution) We suffered most during the recession because we had a high reliance on financial services. It was b...
Bob Russell | 517 c536 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for that point, but I was talking about the major, national Chur...
Andy Slaughter | 517 c536 (Link to this contribution) I do not disagree with the hon. Gentleman, but I think he is being slightly unfair to the clergy. My...
Mel Stride | 517 c535 (Link to this contribution) If the previous Government took the right decisions, why were we the first of the G7 countries into ...
Lilian Greenwood | 517 c534 (Link to this contribution) I was particularly keen to speak in today's debate because, the day after the Chancellor delivered h...
Stephen Williams | 517 c533-4 (Link to this contribution) Not again. I do not think that the coalition Government will be making people homeless on the scale ...
Stephen Williams | 517 c533 (Link to this contribution) The cuts in housing benefit are an example of difficult decisions that have been made. However, I ha...
Lilian Greenwood | 517 c534-5 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for that interjection. In fact, the latest figures for both consumer and busi...
Nia Griffith | 517 c534 (Link to this contribution) Has my hon. Friend found any evidence that the coalition Government have thought out how confidence ...
Richard Graham | 517 c535 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that the hon. Lady and all hon. Members present agree that future jobs are vital. Will she...
Lilian Greenwood | 517 c535 (Link to this contribution) I am absolutely delighted that new jobs are being created. My concern is that when the cuts start to...
Stephen Williams | 517 c531 (Link to this contribution) I begin by reminding the House of the background against which we debate this comprehensive spending...
Stephen Williams | 517 c531-2 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for his point. Yes, I certainly did address many student audiences during...
Andy Slaughter | 517 c531 (Link to this contribution) Did the hon. Gentleman make it clear at those same meetings what he was going to do on tuition fees ...
Stephen Williams | 517 c532 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is a thoughtful man who now sits on the Treasury Committee. Perhaps he thinks tha...
Chuka Umunna | 517 c532 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman acknowledge that there is not a difference in views on the need to deal with...
Stephen Williams | 517 c532-3 (Link to this contribution) I am running out of time, so I will not be able to. The Chief Secretary announced that the comprehe...
Mary MacLeod | 517 c532 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Glenda Jackson | 517 c533 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Stephen Williams | 517 c533 (Link to this contribution) Once more, and then I will run out of time.
Alison McGovern | 517 c548 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman explain to the House how our debt was similar to that of Greece, given that ...
Mel Stride | 517 c548-9 (Link to this contribution) I will not give way because I have limited time available. [Interruption.] In the great tradition of...
Mel Stride | 517 c549 (Link to this contribution) I will not give way now, because I have very little time left. I am also pleased that the OBR, an i...
Stewart Hosie | 517 c549-50 (Link to this contribution) The one thing that I would say about the CSR is that—no matter how many times the Chancellor said it...
Greg Hands | 517 c550 (Link to this contribution) What would happen under Scottish independence?
Stewart Hosie | 517 c550 (Link to this contribution) The Parliamentary Private Secretary is chuntering away about Scottish independence. It is interestin...
Justine Greening | 517 c544 (Link to this contribution) This is a very important issue, and I want to take this opportunity to reassure the hon. Lady that t...
Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick | 517 c544 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Lady for her response. The most important thing to us in Northern Ireland is the a...
Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick | 517 c543 (Link to this contribution) When the comprehensive spending review was debated recently in the Northern Ireland Assembly, there ...
Baroness Hodge of Barking | 517 c546-7 (Link to this contribution) Given the shortness of time, I will focus on my observations as Chair of the Public Accounts Committ...
Stephen Gilbert | 517 c544-5 (Link to this contribution) Let me begin by reminding the House why the country is in its present position, and why the spending...
Mary MacLeod | 517 c545 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree with the leaders of 35 of the biggest companies around, including Marks & ...
Mel Stride | 517 c548 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is entirely correct, and there is no doubt that if the Government had not taken promp...
Mel Stride | 517 c547-8 (Link to this contribution) I have sat through most of this debate with a sense of growing incredulity at the collective amnesia...
Rehman Chishti | 517 c548 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that the International Monetary Fund's statement was clear about the fact ...
Danny Alexander | 517 c504 (Link to this contribution) I give way to the hon. Gentleman.
Gordon Banks | 517 c504 (Link to this contribution) I am very grateful to the Chief Secretary for finally seeing me up at the back here. One of the word...
Angela C Smith | 517 c504 (Link to this contribution) Will the Chief Secretary give way?
Lord Walney | 517 c505 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman's speech so far has shown that he is sticking to the outlandish predictions...
Danny Alexander | 517 c504-5 (Link to this contribution) I will not give way at the moment. We are a Government with fairness at our core, and a reforming G...
Danny Alexander | 517 c504 (Link to this contribution) How could I miss the hon. Gentleman? I will explain the answer to his question as I make progress in...
Danny Alexander | 517 c503 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend asks a very good question. Over the course of the spending review period, our plans w...
Danny Alexander | 517 c503 (Link to this contribution) I will give way one more time, then I will press on.
Angela Eagle | 517 c503 (Link to this contribution) I thank the right hon. Gentleman. We know that he will know the answer to this question. He has set ...
Danny Alexander | 517 c504 (Link to this contribution) I will not. We also have the largest budget deficit in the G20. Those are the facts that the hon. L...
Danny Alexander | 517 c503 (Link to this contribution) I will give way at the end of this section of my speech. That 41% figure is about the same level as...
Danny Alexander | 517 c503 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady is the shadow Chief Secretary, and we read in a memo directed to the Leader of the Opp...
Danny Alexander | 517 c504 (Link to this contribution) I think that that is a classic statement of deficit denial. The hon. Lady has to recognise that we a...
Angela C Smith | 517 c504 (Link to this contribution) In 2007-08, the UK debt stood at 36.5% of GDP. In 1997, at the end of the last Tory Government, it w...
Lord Darling of Roulanish | 517 c506 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Chief Secretary for giving way. So far, he seems bereft of answers to any of th...
Danny Alexander | 517 c506 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker. As I was saying, we have published distributional analyses that clear...
Speaker | 517 c506 (Link to this contribution) Order. The right hon. Gentleman is giving way, but will hon. Members please take their seats when he...
Danny Alexander | 517 c507 (Link to this contribution) No, I will not confirm that. We have made many spending choices to invest additional resources in fa...
Richard Burden | 517 c507 (Link to this contribution) On banks and fairness, will the Minister confirm that families with children are being asked to cont...
Danny Alexander | 517 c506-7 (Link to this contribution) I am going to press on and answer this point. I shall give way in a moment. The right hon. Gentlema...
Danny Alexander | 517 c506 (Link to this contribution) I think that the phrase ““no answers”” applies to Opposition Front Benchers on dealing with the defi...
Angela Eagle | 517 c508 (Link to this contribution) I thank the right hon. Gentleman for giving way on that point. There are press reports out on the wi...
Danny Alexander | 517 c507 (Link to this contribution) I shall get to the end of this section on welfare before giving way, so hon. Members should stop tro...
Danny Alexander | 517 c507-8 (Link to this contribution) I shall give way at the end of the section on welfare because I know it is of interest to many hon. ...
Sajid Javid | 517 c505 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend agree that the biggest risk to our economy is the record deficit of 10% of...
Danny Alexander | 517 c505 (Link to this contribution) Outlandish predictions by politicians were the prerogative of the previous Government. We have estab...
Helen Goodman | 517 c505 (Link to this contribution) Will the Chief Secretary give way?
Danny Alexander | 517 c505 (Link to this contribution) I agree wholeheartedly with my hon. Friend. If we had not tackled the deficit, the poor in this coun...
Helen Goodman | 517 c505 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful. The Chief Secretary has pointed to the forecasts made by the OBR. He will know that b...
Danny Alexander | 517 c505 (Link to this contribution) I will give way to the hon. Lady, and then I will press on.
Danny Alexander | 517 c505 (Link to this contribution) In fact the OBR forecast more private sector jobs than the hon. Lady suggests. She will know that in...
Madeleine Moon | 517 c505 (Link to this contribution) Will the Chief Secretary give way?
Danny Alexander | 517 c506 (Link to this contribution) Not for a moment. I am going to press on with my speech. I know that many hon. Members wish to contr...
Danny Alexander | 517 c506 (Link to this contribution) Fairness means that even in tough times, we focus our resources on extending the ladder of opportuni...
Danny Alexander | 517 c510 (Link to this contribution) I will give way to the hon. Member for Birmingham, Erdington (Jack Dromey), then I will press on.
Danny Alexander | 517 c510 (Link to this contribution) I am not going to give way because many hon. Members wish to speak. Together with capital investmen...
Danny Alexander | 517 c510 (Link to this contribution) No, I will not give way. The old ways of doing things were not working even in times of plenty, so ...
Speaker | 517 c510 (Link to this contribution) That is not a point of order, as the hon. Lady knows.
Helen Jones | 517 c510 (Link to this contribution) On a point of order, Mr Deputy Speaker. Is it in order for the Chief Secretary to accuse Opposition ...
Speaker | 517 c510 (Link to this contribution) Order. A lot of Members want to speak in this debate, and this disorderliness is doing us no good.
Danny Alexander | 517 c510 (Link to this contribution) The last quarter of growth—Opposition Members were hoping that things would be worse than they are, ...
Jack Dromey | 517 c510 (Link to this contribution) The House has waited in vain for a straight answer to a straight question. I know the right hon. Gen...
Danny Alexander | 517 c511 (Link to this contribution) No, I am not going to give way. There will be reform, too, in the justice system. A prison populati...
Matt Hancock | 517 c509 (Link to this contribution) Does the Minister think it fair that his, my and other constituents should pay so that some people c...
Danny Alexander | 517 c509 (Link to this contribution) The cap that we propose, which will be debated in due course, is nearly £21,000-worth a year of hous...
Clive Efford | 517 c509 (Link to this contribution) I have one simple question: will he confirm that the majority of people on housing benefit are in wo...
Lord Austin of Dudley | 517 c508 (Link to this contribution) The Minister's whole plan is based on two things: achieving, first, the biggest rate of export since...
Danny Alexander | 517 c508 (Link to this contribution) I think it is panic stations on the Opposition Front Bench if they do not have a single answer to a ...
Kate Green | 517 c509 (Link to this contribution) Does the Minister accept that housing benefit is also an in-work benefit? The Government have presen...
Danny Alexander | 517 c508-9 (Link to this contribution) I had planned to give way a few more times, but that intervention took so long that there will not b...
Danny Alexander | 517 c509 (Link to this contribution) Yes; many people on housing benefit are in work. The point of our reform is to say that the fairness...
Danny Alexander | 517 c509 (Link to this contribution) I want to press on, so I shall not give way. Our third principle is reform, which manifests itself ...
Tom Blenkinsop | 517 c513 (Link to this contribution) On the policy to give two-year-olds 15 hours of education based on free school meal eligibility, wha...
Danny Alexander | 517 c513 (Link to this contribution) That is a very good question. I imagine that the hon. Gentleman intended to preface his question by ...
Danny Alexander | 517 c513-4 (Link to this contribution) I now intend to finish my speech with no further interruptions. I am often asked about a plan B. Pl...
Angela Eagle | 517 c514 (Link to this contribution) Last week's comprehensive spending review statement has taken a huge and risky gamble with the jobs ...
Lord Redwood | 517 c514 (Link to this contribution) Given that between 250,000 and 500,000 people leave the public service every year voluntarily, for r...
Angela Eagle | 517 c514 (Link to this contribution) That is not my statement: it is a statement by the Office for Budget Responsibility. It is also the ...
Danny Alexander | 517 c512-3 (Link to this contribution) I will not give way again to the hon. Gentleman; I shall press on. Also in June, the OBR forecast t...
Keith Vaz | 517 c513 (Link to this contribution) We all accept that those are very difficult decisions. However, the chairman of the Police Federatio...
Danny Alexander | 517 c513 (Link to this contribution) I do not accept that analysis. Of course, it will be for individual police forces in due course to m...
Helen Jones | 517 c511 (Link to this contribution) The Chief Secretary is proposing to make many public sector workers redundant. Given that, why is it...
Danny Alexander | 517 c512 (Link to this contribution) If the hon. Lady was listening to me earlier, she would know that we have announced significant addi...
Danny Alexander | 517 c511 (Link to this contribution) I am not going to give way. The spending review will have an impact on the public sector workforce....
Danny Alexander | 517 c511 (Link to this contribution) I will give way to the hon. Member for Warrington North (Helen Jones).
Danny Alexander | 517 c512 (Link to this contribution) I will give way to the hon. Gentleman sitting next to the hon. Member for Warrington North.
Huw Irranca-Davies | 517 c512 (Link to this contribution) Does the right hon. Gentleman accept that the localised hotspots he mentioned, where the cumulative ...
Lord Dodds of Duncairn | 517 c511 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Government for their work in rescuing savers in the Presbyterian Mutual Society in North...
Danny Alexander | 517 c511 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for the right hon. Gentleman's intervention—my hon. Friend the Financial Secretary, wh...
Angela Eagle | 517 c517 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady's intervention was extremely helpful. Of course I have. We have all done a great deal ...
Angela Eagle | 517 c517 (Link to this contribution) No. Public spending did not cause this deficit—the global financial crisis caused it. A large defic...
Stephen Lloyd | 517 c516 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Lady agree that it has been down to this Government to introduce the bank levy of £2.5...
Angela Eagle | 517 c516 (Link to this contribution) We introduced the bonus tax, which the Conservative party opposed and which raised £3.5 billion. We ...
Madeleine Moon | 517 c516 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that it is depressing to see the huge ranks of men opposite talking about ...
Angela Eagle | 517 c516-7 (Link to this contribution) I do not suppose it is their fault they are men. I can blame them for some things, but not that. My ...
Angela Eagle | 517 c516 (Link to this contribution) We entered the crisis with the second-lowest deficit in the G7. We were affected by the credit crunc...
Angela Eagle | 517 c516 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps the hon. Gentleman will agree that in an advanced economy with a social security system, if ...
Angela Eagle | 517 c515 (Link to this contribution) Well, the hon. Gentleman could take a look at the March Budget, which was presented to the House bef...
Lord Harrington of Watford | 517 c516 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Lady agree that it is a basic principle that spending money we do not have does not cr...
Tom Brake | 517 c515 (Link to this contribution) Will we hear anything concrete from the Opposition today about their alternative proposals?
Angela Eagle | 517 c515 (Link to this contribution) The key point about our approach to the difficulties in the world economy was that we spent and inve...
Angela C Smith | 517 c515 (Link to this contribution) Is it not the case that the stimulus put into the economy by the Labour Government saved more than 2...
Angela Eagle | 517 c514-5 (Link to this contribution) No, I shall finish answering the question. The hon. Gentleman can sit down and be patient, and we wi...
Ian Swales | 517 c515 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady referred to the number of job losses mentioned in the comprehensive spending review. C...
Lord Harrington of Watford | 517 c551 (Link to this contribution) Like many hon. Members, I have listened all afternoon to the debate. If everyone examined the matter...
Stewart Hosie | 517 c550-1 (Link to this contribution) What I did, possibly before the hon. Gentleman was a Member of the House, was to table amendments to...
Kwasi Kwarteng | 517 c552 (Link to this contribution) I forget—how many general elections did Baroness Thatcher win? Will my hon. Friend remind the House?...
Lord Harrington of Watford | 517 c552 (Link to this contribution) Not enough. The most important thing is that the cuts are made sensibly, and that the bloated manag...
Lord Harrington of Watford | 517 c551 (Link to this contribution) Not at the moment. I shall concentrate on two points that I do not believe have been mentioned. The...
Baroness Chapman of Darlington | 517 c554 (Link to this contribution) I thank my colleague from the north-east for giving way. Does he have any idea how much it will cost...
Ian Swales | 517 c554-5 (Link to this contribution) Clearly the north-east has already suffered, and no doubt there will be more cuts there. The decisio...
Grahame Morris | 517 c553-4 (Link to this contribution) In the short time that is available to me, I shall deal with a couple of aspects of the CSR, particu...
Ian Swales | 517 c554 (Link to this contribution) I am a member of the Public Accounts Committee. Sadly, the Chair left the Chamber a few minutes ago,...
Gordon Banks | 517 c555-7 (Link to this contribution) We have heard a lot today about the impact that the CSR will have on some of the most vulnerable peo...
Liz Kendall | 517 c558-9 (Link to this contribution) I shall address two issues: first, whether the Government have kept their commitment to protect the ...
Mark Pawsey | 517 c557-8 (Link to this contribution) Eight days have passed since the Chancellor stood at the Dispatch Box and made it clear why it was n...
David Rutley | 517 c559-60 (Link to this contribution) This is a vital debate, and the comprehensive spending review and its delivery will define this Parl...
Kwasi Kwarteng | 517 c561 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Andy Slaughter | 517 c561 (Link to this contribution) No, I have not got time—actually I will, because it gives me more time.
Kwasi Kwarteng | 517 c561 (Link to this contribution) I thought I was attending one of those rallies in North Korea, so reluctant are Labour Members to en...
Andy Slaughter | 517 c561-2 (Link to this contribution) What a stupid question, although I thank the hon. Gentleman very much for the extra time that he has...
Stephen Lloyd | 517 c562-3 (Link to this contribution) I have had the pleasure of listening to speeches all afternoon. In a way, they could be summed up by...
Lord Hanson of Flint | 517 c575-6 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman was not a Member in March, but if he had been, he would have seen our proposals t...
Dominic Raab | 517 c575 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman refers to the March Budget, but the former Chancellor, who sat in on much o...
Lord Hanson of Flint | 517 c574-5 (Link to this contribution) I know the hon. Gentleman was not a Member at the time, but I wish he had been here for the Budget p...
Mary MacLeod | 517 c576 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?
Lord Hanson of Flint | 517 c574 (Link to this contribution) I have five minutes or so to wind up the debate. I will not give way at present. The spending revie...
Lord Hanson of Flint | 517 c574 (Link to this contribution) I shall give way to the hon. Member for Spelthorne (Kwasi Kwarteng).
Kwasi Kwarteng | 517 c574 (Link to this contribution) I am obliged to the right hon. Gentleman. He acknowledges that there is a deficit and his party ackn...
Kwasi Kwarteng | 517 c568-9 (Link to this contribution) Like my hon. Friend the Member for Central Devon (Mel Stride), I have sat through this debate all af...
Tom Blenkinsop | 517 c567-8 (Link to this contribution) I echo the views of my colleagues who have already spoken. I concur with them about the impact that ...
Mary MacLeod | 517 c571-2 (Link to this contribution) It is good to have this debate on the comprehensive spending review following the gross domestic pro...
Chuka Umunna | 517 c570-1 (Link to this contribution) Although she is not in her place, I wish to associate myself with the comments, particularly those o...
Lord Hanson of Flint | 517 c574 (Link to this contribution) Thirty-one Members from all parties and all parts of the House, including the Chair of the Treasury ...
Angela C Smith | 517 c572-3 (Link to this contribution) Last Wednesday, the Chancellor took a huge gamble on the future of the UK economy. The CSR statement...
Chris Williamson | 517 c563 (Link to this contribution) If the hon. Gentleman is so concerned about low-paid workers, will he not concede that cuts to housi...
Stephen Lloyd | 517 c563-4 (Link to this contribution) The reality is that when a nation has reached a place where it is acceptable and normal for rents up...
Alex Cunningham | 517 c564-6 (Link to this contribution) Last week's comprehensive spending review delivered cuts beyond the dreams of even Margaret Thatcher...
Bob Blackman | 517 c566-7 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the Chancellor and his team on beginning the process of righting what has been wrong ...
Speaker | 517 c582 (Link to this contribution) The rules of the House dictate that once the debate has gone past 6 o'clock it finishes and we move ...
Justine Greening | 517 c580-2 (Link to this contribution) That was a completely ineffective intervention. The hon. Gentleman ought to complain to Labour Front...
Tony Cunningham | 517 c582 (Link to this contribution) On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. Why was no decision made about whether the debate that we h...
Justine Greening | 517 c580 (Link to this contribution) I do not accept that at all. The right hon. Gentleman needs to have a chat with the hon. Member for ...
Andy Slaughter | 517 c580 (Link to this contribution) The Leader of the House will confirm that at business questions today, I quoted the Mayor of London ...
Justine Greening | 517 c579-80 (Link to this contribution) I was about to ask the hon. Gentleman to give way, Mr Deputy Speaker. The Government are spending sl...
Justine Greening | 517 c578 (Link to this contribution) As the hon. Lady will be aware, we have set up the Office for Budget Responsibility, which is an ind...
Justine Greening | 517 c579 (Link to this contribution) I will not, because we have had a long debate and I have three minutes to respond to each hour of it...
Chris Williamson | 517 c578 (Link to this contribution) Will the Economic Secretary give way?
Lord Hanson of Flint | 517 c576 (Link to this contribution) Yes, I will, so that the hon. Lady can defend these policies, which are unfair, short-sighted and ju...
Mary MacLeod | 517 c576 (Link to this contribution) What is the right hon. Gentleman's plan, and which cuts does he agree with?
Lord Hanson of Flint | 517 c576-7 (Link to this contribution) I can see a pattern developing. Members who were not here in March of this year did not hear my righ...
Justine Greening | 517 c577-8 (Link to this contribution) We have had a very good debate on the Government's spending review, and I thank all hon. Members who...
Mary MacLeod | 517 c576 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?
Lilian Greenwood | 517 c534 (Link to this contribution) If only. I thank my hon. Friend. What did I hear in the media coverage of the visit? I heard about ...
Gordon Banks | 517 c534 (Link to this contribution) Could the Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister possibly have been at the school in my hon. Frien...
Mel Stride | 517 c548 (Link to this contribution) The answer to that is that we came that close because the credit rating agencies, such as Standard &...
Stephen Gilbert | 517 c545-6 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Lady for her intervention. Not only do I agree with those companies; I also agree w...
Danny Alexander | 517 c504 (Link to this contribution) I will not give way again, I am going to press on. The Chancellor's statement set out the level of ...
Danny Alexander | 517 c510 (Link to this contribution) Finally, reform means recognising that the old ways of doing things were not working.
Danny Alexander | 517 c512 (Link to this contribution) Of course I accept that people will judge the Government's performance on the basis he suggests. I f...
Kwasi Kwarteng | 517 c516 (Link to this contribution) What does the hon. Lady think was the reason behind our deficit being worse than that of every other...
Malcolm Wicks | 517 c580 (Link to this contribution) Is it fair that when the cuts, including those to child benefit, are analysed, time and time again t...
Chris Williamson | 517 c579 (Link to this contribution) This morning, I met a representative from the UK construction group that represents some of the larg...
Angela C Smith | 517 c578 (Link to this contribution) Can the Economic Secretary give us any indication of the evidence that the Government have used to r...
Lord Hanson of Flint | 517 c576 (Link to this contribution) No, not in view of the little time I have left. More widely, there are cuts to front-line policing,...
Louise Ellman | 517 c538-9 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry, but I have very little time and other hon. Members wish to speak. Bus fares often do no...
Glenda Jackson | 517 c533 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Glenda Jackson | 517 c533 (Link to this contribution) In the light of what the hon. Gentleman just told the House, does he support the cuts in housing ben...
Rehman Chishti | 517 c550 (Link to this contribution) Did the hon. Gentleman respond to the Government's spending challenge with his own ideas about where...
Angela C Smith | 517 c504 (Link to this contribution) Will the Chief Secretary give way?
Sarah Wollaston | 517 c517 (Link to this contribution) Has the hon. Lady met people trapped on benefits, many of whom, incidentally, are women? The failure...
Angela Eagle | 517 c515 (Link to this contribution) Yes, according to the OBR. We saw the undisguised glee of Members opposite as they celebrated the ha...
Andy Slaughter | 517 c560-1 (Link to this contribution) At the beginning of this debate, my hon. Friend the Member for Wallasey (Ms Eagle) quoted an article...
Danny Alexander | 517 c499 (Link to this contribution) So today's debate also offers a challenge for Labour Members. I will be listening carefully to what ...
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