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Budget debate on Monday, 28 March 2011, in the House of Commons, led by Lord Pickles. The answering member was Caroline Flint.

Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation

Budget debate (third day): budget resolutions and economic situation.

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Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
526 c74-141 
Session
2010-12
Department
Treasury
Department for Communities and Local Government
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Proceeding contributions
Speaker | 526 c90 (Link to this contribution) Order. I remind Members that speeches are limited to six minutes, although I might look to reduce th...
Nick Raynsford | 526 c74 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?
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Lord Pickles | 526 c74 (Link to this contribution) It is a great pleasure to resume the debate on the Budget. Since 1997, year on year, families have ...
Lord Pickles | 526 c74 (Link to this contribution) In a moment. Let us have the full panoply before we hear from the right hon. Gentleman.
Lord Pickles | 526 c75 (Link to this contribution) Yes. Bolsover council states that"““we have taken this step to freeze our share of the Council Tax ...
Nick Raynsford | 526 c75 (Link to this contribution) I am sure the right hon. Gentleman will recall, because he has followed local government matters, th...
Lord Pickles | 526 c75 (Link to this contribution) In a moment. I am proud to say that we are able to set aside £3 billion to support councils with a ...
Sheila Gilmore | 526 c75 (Link to this contribution) Will the Secretary of State give way?
Lord Pickles | 526 c75 (Link to this contribution) I suppose if a council sits on £130 million of reserves, that is an easy thing to do, but let him re...
Lord Pickles | 526 c76 (Link to this contribution) Well, I suppose there comes an occasion, you turn up, there's a lot of people there—and you just sta...
Nadhim Zahawi | 526 c76 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend not think it bizarre that the Leader of the Opposition chose to compare hi...
Lord Pickles | 526 c75-6 (Link to this contribution) In a moment. I am sure that my hon. Friend would like to hear this point. Perhaps that omission pro...
Nadhim Zahawi | 526 c75 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. Friend give way?
Sheila Gilmore | 526 c76 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?
Chris Leslie | 526 c76 (Link to this contribution) Who would you compare yourself to?
Lord Pickles | 526 c76 (Link to this contribution) Certainly not to Martin Luther King. Let us be clear: Communities and Local Government was the unpr...
Sheila Gilmore | 526 c76 (Link to this contribution) Will the Secretary of State consider monitoring what happens to charges where local authorities have...
Lord Pickles | 526 c76 (Link to this contribution) I am so sorry. I promised to give way to the hon. Lady.
Lord Redwood | 526 c76 (Link to this contribution) That is great news on the council tax—fantastic. Will my right hon. Friend confirm that, every year ...
James Morris | 526 c77 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State talked about rebalancing the economy. One of the most shocking statistics tha...
Lord Pickles | 526 c77 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend, as always in these matters, is absolutely correct. There is sometimes a fallac...
Claire O'Neill | 526 c78 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State said that we should have fewer bean counters and more wealth creators. Would ...
Lord Pickles | 526 c77-8 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a very reasonable point. Part of the problem is that we are now having to rebal...
Lord Pickles | 526 c78 (Link to this contribution) It is indeed true that we are a well-upholstered Department.
Charlie Elphicke | 526 c78 (Link to this contribution) Is not the key difference that instead of quangos such as the RDAs running amok across the country d...
Helen Goodman | 526 c91 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Lord Soames of Fletching | 526 c91-2 (Link to this contribution) No, I am very sorry; I am afraid that I cannot. I call on the Chancellor and the Prime Minister to ...
Lord Soames of Fletching | 526 c90-1 (Link to this contribution) I draw the House's attention to my entry in the register. I warmly welcome the Budget and my right ...
Ronnie Campbell | 526 c92-3 (Link to this contribution) Of course that is right, and that is part of my point. I would like the zones to be targeted in unem...
Chi Onwurah | 526 c92 (Link to this contribution) Is my hon. Friend aware that during the period of the last enterprise zone in Newcastle, there was a...
Ronnie Campbell | 526 c93 (Link to this contribution) No, I am not going to give way; I do not have time. What happens when the Conservatives are in the ...
Andrea Leadsom | 526 c93 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for giving way. Does he recognise the fact that 1 million people in this ...
Ronnie Campbell | 526 c93-4 (Link to this contribution) I am blaming the bankers for the way they invested their money in the crisis that they caused. They ...
Speaker | 526 c94 (Link to this contribution) Order. If people are going to intervene regularly, I am going to have to drop them down the list, be...
David Ruffley | 526 c94-5 (Link to this contribution) The business of the Government is not the government of business. The growth that this country needs...
David Wright | 526 c95-6 (Link to this contribution) Last week's Budget was delivered by a Chancellor who was quite frankly in denial about the impact of...
David Wright | 526 c96-7 (Link to this contribution) I will not. In the Budget, we have seen that growth estimates have gone down for last year, this ye...
Jacob Rees-Mogg | 526 c96 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Annette Brooke | 526 c97-8 (Link to this contribution) I draw the House's attention to my entry in the Register of Members' Financial Interests. I start b...
Jim Cunningham | 526 c99-100 (Link to this contribution) It is well documented that the west midlands has been one of the worst hit regions during the recess...
Chi Onwurah | 526 c124-5 (Link to this contribution) I want to declare an interest. From 2004 to 2010, I worked for a regulator—the bogeyman of Conservat...
Nadhim Zahawi | 526 c123-4 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right. That is exactly what the Budget would do for our imaginary busin...
Charlie Elphicke | 526 c123 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend also welcome the Budget because it represents a vast crackdown on regulation? Th...
Nicholas Dakin | 526 c128 (Link to this contribution) The alternative is to go much more slowly and much more carefully so that things can be managed out ...
Charlie Elphicke | 526 c128 (Link to this contribution) I have been listening carefully to the hon. Gentleman's argument. I am unable yet, however, to under...
Nicholas Dakin | 526 c127-8 (Link to this contribution) It is always a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Lancaster and Fleetwood (Eric Ollerenshaw), an...
Eric Ollerenshaw | 526 c125-7 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to follow the hon. Member for Newcastle upon Tyne Central (Chi Onwurah), who was tryin...
Nicholas Dakin | 526 c128 (Link to this contribution) I turn to deal with aspects of regulation and economic reform.
Kerry McCarthy | 526 c131 (Link to this contribution) The Government have had to face up to two challenges in this Budget. The first was to do with growth...
Paul Uppal | 526 c129-31 (Link to this contribution) I thank all Members for the speeches that they have made this evening. We have heard a bit of knocka...
Kerry McCarthy | 526 c131-3 (Link to this contribution) I am afraid I do not have time, as I want others to be able to speak. Instead of listening to the m...
Sheila Gilmore | 526 c135 (Link to this contribution) No, I will not. The private and public sectors are constantly interrelated, because public sector s...
Nicholas Dakin | 526 c128-9 (Link to this contribution) I am not giving way, as other Members want to speak. Let me welcome the decision to defer the fuel ...
Helen Goodman | 526 c105-6 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady says yes, so she obviously thinks it is satisfactory for poor children to live in that...
Helen Goodman | 526 c105 (Link to this contribution) I am pleased to have the opportunity to contribute to this year's Budget debates. Last Wednesday, th...
Andrea Leadsom | 526 c104-5 (Link to this contribution) The measures our coalition Government have taken in the Budget make something of a silk purse out of...
Paul Goggins | 526 c102-4 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for City of Chester (Stephen Mosley). I want to start by...
Stephen Mosley | 526 c100-2 (Link to this contribution) Last year's emergency Budget and the comprehensive spending review laid the foundations for rescuing...
Baroness Bray of Coln | 526 c110-1 (Link to this contribution) Let me start by saying how welcome the Chancellor's measures to remove red tape are. By freeing up s...
Baroness Berger | 526 c111-3 (Link to this contribution) Across Britain, our low-carbon firms, our green groups and millions of concerned citizens had high h...
Lord Evans of Rainow | 526 c106-8 (Link to this contribution) Before I dive into my speech, I just want to provide clarity on a matter that has caused considerabl...
Debbie Abrahams | 526 c108-9 (Link to this contribution) It probably comes as no surprise that I was deeply disappointed by the announcements in last week's ...
Lord Whitehead | 526 c117-9 (Link to this contribution) This Budget trumpets much about growth, and indeed accompanying it we have a whole White Paper, ““Th...
Harriett Baldwin | 526 c120 (Link to this contribution) Those sentiments were echoed by businesses in my constituency, where entrepreneurs welcomed and chee...
Mel Stride | 526 c120 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a powerful point about the importance of lowering taxation on businesses to pro...
Guto Bebb | 526 c113-4 (Link to this contribution) It is a privilege to speak in this Budget debate. First, I should like to touch on some of the comme...
Bob Russell | 526 c116-7 (Link to this contribution) Until the Labour party acknowledges the problems it left the country and its financial mismanagement...
William Bain | 526 c114-6 (Link to this contribution) I am pleased to be called to speak in the debate on the Budget resolutions. In January, the Chancell...
Clive Betts | 526 c120-2 (Link to this contribution) This could be a Budget for growth—reduced growth. A few weeks ago, the Chancellor blamed the snow. N...
Nadhim Zahawi | 526 c122-3 (Link to this contribution) As a nation, we borrow almost £150 billion a year. That is £12.5 billion a month, £410 million a day...
Heather Wheeler | 526 c123 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that businesses in my constituency will grow because of the reductions in ...
Caroline Flint | 526 c83 (Link to this contribution) I will shortly, but I want to make a little progress. What the Secretary of State's rhetoric today ...
Bob Russell | 526 c83 (Link to this contribution) I am glad that my intervention was delayed, because I had not recognised the utopia that the right h...
Caroline Flint | 526 c83 (Link to this contribution) I begin by saying that the violence of a handful of anarchists and attention seekers at the weekend ...
Bob Russell | 526 c83 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Lady give way?
Lord Pickles | 526 c84 (Link to this contribution) Mine is a second-hand ex-Labour Jag. If the Labour Government were doing such a good job, why did t...
Caroline Flint | 526 c84 (Link to this contribution) For goodness' sake. I have always put on record my pride in what the Labour Government did to ensure...
Caroline Flint | 526 c84 (Link to this contribution) If my hon. Friend was going to point out that when we go into recession we have to ensure that we do...
Caroline Flint | 526 c83 (Link to this contribution) We were part of a global crisis that affected countries around Europe and the world, but it is inter...
Chris Bryant | 526 c83-4 (Link to this contribution) I am particularly glad that my right hon. Friend has reminded that lot over there on the Tory Benche...
Bob Russell | 526 c81 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. Friend give way?
Lord Pickles | 526 c81 (Link to this contribution) I will give way to my hon. Friend, and then to the hon. Gentleman.
Lord Pickles | 526 c82 (Link to this contribution) The local plan will have to reflect the presumption as well. It will be reflected in the national pl...
Chris Bryant | 526 c82 (Link to this contribution) Will the Secretary of State give way?
Lord Pickles | 526 c82 (Link to this contribution) No. In 2009, pleasingly, Lenin is still dead and the Soviet Union is no more; multi-channel TV is a...
Lord Pickles | 526 c81 (Link to this contribution) The coalition agreement is not quite holy writ, but it is pretty close to it, so of course those par...
Lord Whitehead | 526 c81 (Link to this contribution) Does the Secretary of State consider that his abandonment of the code for sustainable development an...
Lord Pickles | 526 c82 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is entirely wrong. We have included zero-carbon homes, and that will take effect ...
Clive Betts | 526 c82 (Link to this contribution) I ask the Secretary of State to look at paragraph 2.12 of ““The Plan for Growth””, which states that...
Chris Bryant | 526 c80 (Link to this contribution) One of the big issues in many former mining constituencies is that a large proportion of people live...
Lord Pickles | 526 c80 (Link to this contribution) Into the former colliery areas. That £30 million is more than the hon. Gentleman's party had put in....
Lord Pickles | 526 c80 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman will know that we have just put £30 million into the former coal homes area.
Lord Pickles | 526 c81 (Link to this contribution) In a moment. The purpose of the planning system is to ensure that the country benefits from the righ...
Lord Pickles | 526 c81 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady will be aware that we have abolished the density targets, which led to a glut of flats...
Lord Whitehead | 526 c81 (Link to this contribution) Will the Secretary of State give way?
Steve Rotheram | 526 c80 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful that the Secretary of State mentioned Liverpool, but what is happening with Liverpool ...
Jim Cunningham | 526 c78 (Link to this contribution) Can the Secretary of State say whether Coventry is going to be part of these enterprise zones, and i...
Lord Pickles | 526 c79 (Link to this contribution) It is very important to understand that the enterprise zones will be allotted on the basis of innova...
David Wright | 526 c79 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman will know that several new towns still have areas of land that are, in esse...
Lord Pickles | 526 c79 (Link to this contribution) It is certainly our intention to release an awful lot of Government land.
Kerry McCarthy | 526 c79 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman mentioned three cities having local enterprise zones, but he did not mentio...
Lord Pickles | 526 c79 (Link to this contribution) This is a very clear example of the difference between how we do business and how the Opposition did...
Helen Goodman | 526 c79 (Link to this contribution) There is confusion in the north-east because what the Chancellor said in his speech about enterprise...
Lord Pickles | 526 c79-80 (Link to this contribution) There is one in Teesside and an additional one within the northern area. In truth, it is up to the l...
Caroline Flint | 526 c90 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a very good point. I could not make it better myself. The fact is that this is...
Nicholas Dakin | 526 c89-90 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend not agree that what we need in order to promote growth is demand in the ec...
Caroline Flint | 526 c89 (Link to this contribution) They have already U-turned on the forests; let us see how much they respond to the elections in a mo...
Tom Blenkinsop | 526 c89 (Link to this contribution) Government Members have mentioned export-led recovery. Only last week, in the Budget debate, the rig...
Caroline Flint | 526 c86-8 (Link to this contribution) People throughout the country benefited from the decent homes programme and other housing initiative...
Andrew Bridgen | 526 c86 (Link to this contribution) The story the right hon. Lady tells is not one that I recognise in my constituency, which had the wo...
Caroline Flint | 526 c89 (Link to this contribution) It is amazing how Conservative MPs are picky about which part of our budget they want to suggest wou...
Edward Timpson | 526 c89 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Lady will be aware that the Darling plan commits her party to £14 billion of cuts, be...
Caroline Flint | 526 c88-9 (Link to this contribution) I notice that the economies of the USA, France and Germany grew in the last quarter of 2010, but tha...
George Freeman | 526 c88 (Link to this contribution) Has the right hon. Lady noticed the International Monetary Fund's recent figures showing that Britai...
Annette Brooke | 526 c85 (Link to this contribution) Did the right hon. Lady support regional spatial strategies, which imposed on my constituents a bran...
Caroline Flint | 526 c85 (Link to this contribution) I have already given way to the hon. Gentleman, so I am going to make some progress. I turn to some...
Charlie Elphicke | 526 c86 (Link to this contribution) On a non-partisan basis, I caution the right hon. Lady against many of those numbers, because many o...
Caroline Flint | 526 c85-6 (Link to this contribution) I am afraid that if the Chancellor gets his way, nobody will be consulted. No community can thrive ...
Caroline Flint | 526 c86 (Link to this contribution) They still had people living in them. The hon. Gentleman should come to the constituencies of Labour...
Nadhim Zahawi | 526 c84 (Link to this contribution) Let's try again. Does the right hon. Lady think that, in the court of public opinion, people blame L...
Claire O'Neill | 526 c84 (Link to this contribution) Does the right hon. Lady share the opinion of her esteemed colleague, the very sensible right hon. M...
Caroline Flint | 526 c84 (Link to this contribution) I think we are doing quite well in by-elections, but I do not take the public for granted, and I kno...
Caroline Flint | 526 c84 (Link to this contribution) I will come later to the position that Labour put before the electorate at the general election, whi...
Chris Leslie | 526 c135-8 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend the Member for Edinburgh East (Sheila Gilmore) was making her point so well, and I co...
Mark Hoban | 526 c138-41 (Link to this contribution) We knew that the Labour party was in denial about the deficit and the difficult decisions that the c...
Sheila Gilmore | 526 c134-5 (Link to this contribution) A very interesting thing happened in my city in 2009. For the first time since the 1960s, the number...
Andrew Bridgen | 526 c133-4 (Link to this contribution) I welcome this Budget as the first step in a much overdue reform of our economy and our tax system. ...
Bob Russell | 526 c81 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. Friend confirm that the third and sixth paragraphs of chapter 4 of the coalition'...
Lord Pickles | 526 c78 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely correct—so much so that I am delighted to tell him that I will refer to...
Lord Pickles | 526 c76 (Link to this contribution) We will certainly look at that, but may I remind the hon. Lady that Labour councils are of the view ...
Ronnie Campbell | 526 c92 (Link to this contribution) Let me start by saying that I did not recognise the Secretary of State's position. In my county of N...
Nadhim Zahawi | 526 c123 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right, and I shall come to the effect of corporation tax in a moment. ...
Harriett Baldwin | 526 c119-20 (Link to this contribution) I rise to speak in support of my right hon. Friend the Chancellor's historic and pivotal Budget. Tod...
Speaker | 526 c84 (Link to this contribution) Order. You have to be much shorter, Mr Bryant.
Lord Pickles | 526 c80 (Link to this contribution) I suspect that when the hon. Gentleman was putting that question together in front of his shaving mi...
Anne Begg | 526 c80-1 (Link to this contribution) Has the Secretary of State had discussions with the Department for Work and Pensions on the reforms ...
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Business Construction Council tax Budgets Housing Environment protection Economic planning Inflation Planning permission Local government finance Public expenditure Social security benefits Small businesses Regional planning and development Taxation VAT Enterprise zones Budget March 2011
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