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Budget debate on Tuesday, 29 March 2011, in the House of Commons, led by Iain Duncan Smith. The answering member was Liam Byrne.

Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation

Budget debate (fourth day). Motion on amendment of the law agreed on division (327 votes to 250). Motions to approve ways and means resolutions. Resolved. Motion on increase in rate of supplementary charge agreed on division (334 votes to 13). Motion on capital allowances agreed on division (333 votes to 236). Motion on alcoholic liquor duties (rates) agreed on division (330 votes to 9). Other resolutions agreed on question.

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Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
526 c190-309, (corrigendum) 492;526 c190-309 
Session
2010-12
Department
Department for Work and Pensions
Treasury
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Proceeding contributions
Speaker | 526 c190 (Link to this contribution) I must notify the House that motion 12, which relates to tobacco products duty rates, has not been p...
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Liam Byrne | 526 c200 (Link to this contribution) Absolutely. We expected and anticipated falling unemployment, because what we were not doing was cut...
Tobias Ellwood | 526 c200 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman understands that whoever had won the last election would have had to introd...
Liam Byrne | 526 c199-200 (Link to this contribution) Of course, and the hon. Gentleman will also recognise that, despite the fact that we are some way ou...
Alec Shelbrooke | 526 c199 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for giving way, and I am listening carefully to him. While...
Speaker | 526 c201 (Link to this contribution) Order. I just want to clarify that the hon. Member for Bournemouth East (Mr Ellwood) meant that the ...
Liam Byrne | 526 c200-1 (Link to this contribution) Well, let us go through it, shall we? The deficit plan that we put in place would have involved £57 ...
Tobias Ellwood | 526 c200 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman is being very generous in giving way, but this is an important point. Labou...
Hazel Blears | 526 c191 (Link to this contribution) Is the right hon. Gentleman suffering from some kind of amnesia? Has he forgotten that, after some 2...
Iain Duncan Smith | 526 c191 (Link to this contribution) It is always a pleasure to give way to the right hon. Lady, because if anything she is always honest...
Oliver Heald | 526 c191-2 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend think that it is actually the right hon. Lady who is something of an amnes...
Iain Duncan Smith | 526 c192 (Link to this contribution) Indeed. My hon. Friend is, as ever, right. It is worth reminding—
Emma Reynolds | 526 c192 (Link to this contribution) Will the Secretary of State give way?
Iain Duncan Smith | 526 c192 (Link to this contribution) No. I am going to make some progress, because Mr Speaker has already told us that we need to let oth...
Iain Duncan Smith | 526 c192 (Link to this contribution) I will give way to the hon. Lady, and then I am going to make some progress.
Emma Reynolds | 526 c192 (Link to this contribution) Why, then, did the right hon. Gentleman's party pledge to match our spending plans right up until th...
Iain Duncan Smith | 526 c192-3 (Link to this contribution) What we are dealing with here—[Hon. Members: ““Ah!””] I will tell Labour Members what the big ““Ah!”...
Iain Duncan Smith | 526 c190-1 (Link to this contribution) In concluding the Budget debate, and recognising what you have just said, Mr Speaker, I will take in...
Geraint Davies | 526 c191 (Link to this contribution) Does the right hon. Gentleman not agree that two thirds of the deficit—£84 billion—was due to the fi...
Iain Duncan Smith | 526 c191 (Link to this contribution) That gives me an opportunity to put the shadow Chancellor right. He said in one of the Budget debate...
Liam Byrne | 526 c199 (Link to this contribution) I would rather have written a bad joke in public than a bad Budget in public. Now we know—and now t...
Alec Shelbrooke | 526 c197 (Link to this contribution) Like many hon. Members, I have received representation from constituents who wonder why there is a t...
Iain Duncan Smith | 526 c197-8 (Link to this contribution) That is to do with the process of equalising, which we are doing slightly faster. It is in the inter...
Liam Byrne | 526 c198-9 (Link to this contribution) I know that the Secretary of State learned some time ago that attack is the best form of defence, bu...
Kwasi Kwarteng | 526 c199 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?
Glenda Jackson | 526 c197 (Link to this contribution) It is a specific, targeted group.
Iain Duncan Smith | 526 c197 (Link to this contribution) It is not a specific group in the sense that they were targeted. That policy is part of trying to ge...
Lord Field of Birkenhead | 526 c197 (Link to this contribution) The House will be pleased that the Government want to move to a standard pension of about £140 a wee...
Iain Duncan Smith | 526 c197 (Link to this contribution) First, we will publish the Green Paper very shortly. We are finalising it, so I do not want to get i...
Liam Byrne | 526 c199 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps the hon. Gentleman can tell us what he thinks of that.
Kwasi Kwarteng | 526 c199 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman remind the House which member of the previous Cabinet wrote a note say...
Iain Duncan Smith | 526 c195 (Link to this contribution) Yes, exactly. That will provide a really generous state pension that gives a firm financial foundati...
Albert Owen | 526 c196 (Link to this contribution) On the subject of pensioners, was the Secretary of State as disappointed as I was that the Chancello...
Iain Duncan Smith | 526 c194-5 (Link to this contribution) I am bowled over by that—what can I say? That was a timely intervention by my hon. Friend. I apologi...
David Rutley | 526 c194 (Link to this contribution) I wonder whether my right hon. Friend has seen the latest statement from the Institute of Directors,...
Iain Duncan Smith | 526 c197 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady's comment on working four years longer is simply incorrect, but I take what she says. ...
Iain Duncan Smith | 526 c196 (Link to this contribution) I am interested that the hon. Gentleman raises the matter, because it was originally mentioned in th...
Glenda Jackson | 526 c196-7 (Link to this contribution) If the change in the pension system is to benefit the whole country and all pensioners—current and f...
Mel Stride | 526 c261-2 (Link to this contribution) I have listened to this debate with growing incredulity this afternoon and for some hours yesterday,...
Gemma Doyle | 526 c262-4 (Link to this contribution) As we debate the Budget it is deeply disappointing, but not a bit surprising, that Labours Members a...
Neil Carmichael | 526 c264-5 (Link to this contribution) It is a great honour to speak in this important debate. I am mindful of the contribution made by the...
Alex Cunningham | 526 c265-7 (Link to this contribution) Like others, my speech will focus on people. The number of unemployed claimants in my constituency i...
George Freeman | 526 c254-6 (Link to this contribution) ““Rescue, rebalance and recover””. No, My Deputy Speaker, I have not got hold of a copy of the late ...
Jonathan Reynolds | 526 c252-4 (Link to this contribution) I apologise to the House for my brief absence from the debate, which was caused by my attendance at ...
Charlie Elphicke | 526 c258-9 (Link to this contribution) It is a real privilege, as ever, to follow the right hon. Member for Salford and Eccles (Hazel Blear...
Hazel Blears | 526 c256-8 (Link to this contribution) I want to talk about work, the value of work, the economic necessity of work and the consequences of...
Michael Meacher | 526 c259-60 (Link to this contribution) The Government's main jibe at the Opposition throughout this debate has been, ““What is the alternat...
Kwasi Kwarteng | 526 c225 (Link to this contribution) What was the cause of all that waste in the first place?
Jack Dromey | 526 c225 (Link to this contribution) On productivity, the Prime Minister hailed local government as the most efficient part of the public...
Steve Barclay | 526 c224-5 (Link to this contribution) Had the hon. Gentleman bothered to be here for the whole debate he would have heard some of the poin...
Jonathan Reynolds | 526 c224 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman clarify that point? Does he not recognise that one crucial difference is the...
Steve Webb | 526 c230 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Ian Lavery | 526 c229-30 (Link to this contribution) Many of the people affected by last week's Budget were in attendance in Hyde park on Saturday. Some ...
David Mowat | 526 c228-9 (Link to this contribution) We have heard a lot this afternoon about the serious deficit left to this Government, but there is a...
Emma Reynolds | 526 c226-7 (Link to this contribution) There seems to be agreement across the House that one of the main lessons of the global financial cr...
Steve Barclay | 526 c225-6 (Link to this contribution) I would attribute it to a number of factors. Let me give an example. I have mentioned local spending...
David Rutley | 526 c220-2 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for the opportunity to speak in this important debate. Given the restrictions on time,...
Simon Danczuk | 526 c219-20 (Link to this contribution) I listened to the hon. Member for Burton (Andrew Griffiths) with interest. The Budget has not been a...
Tom Clarke | 526 c222 (Link to this contribution) I begin where I ended my speech a few weeks ago on Second Reading of the Welfare Reform Bill—by refe...
Steve Barclay | 526 c224 (Link to this contribution) First, further to a number of the speeches from Labour Members, including the hon. Members for Rochd...
Tom Clarke | 526 c223-4 (Link to this contribution) If I had another six minutes I would be very happy to answer the hon. Gentleman, but if he does not ...
Maria Miller | 526 c222 (Link to this contribution) I thank the right hon. Gentleman for allowing me to intervene. I point out to him that clause 83 of ...
Tom Clarke | 526 c222 (Link to this contribution) I invite the Minister to intervene to tell us for the first time exactly what is going on. She has h...
Steve Barclay | 526 c223 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman says that the measures are too little, too late. Why did his party set a 10...
Tom Clarke | 526 c223 (Link to this contribution) I heard the Prime Minister, and I have heard the hon. Lady on numerous occasions. I even had a priva...
Chris Ruane | 526 c215-6 (Link to this contribution) I was hoping and praying that this Budget would offer some employment chances for the people in my c...
Chris Ruane | 526 c216-7 (Link to this contribution) I will deal with that shortly; the hon. Gentleman does not have to worry about that. In my constitu...
Martin Horwood | 526 c216 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman think that the policy of the pupil premium, which is gearing education fundi...
Chris Ruane | 526 c216 (Link to this contribution) I am not giving way. There are 10,000 public sector workers in the neighbouring, Conservative const...
Martin Horwood | 526 c216 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Chris Ruane | 526 c217 (Link to this contribution) What will the figures be in February 2012? I speak from the perspective of a Welsh MP in a seaside ...
Stephen Lloyd | 526 c217 (Link to this contribution) Is the hon. Gentleman aware that according to figures that I received last week on Eastbourne, which...
Lord Darling of Roulanish | 526 c209 (Link to this contribution) The structural deficit was 0.4%. Throughout the past decade, we were spending money but I must say, ...
Iain Duncan Smith | 526 c209 (Link to this contribution) I am listening to the right hon. Gentleman with great interest and respect, but I want to get this a...
Jack Dromey | 526 c212 (Link to this contribution) This is a Budget for growth: growth in insecurity, growth in inequality and growth in unemployment, ...
Andrew Griffiths | 526 c211-2 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for the opportunity to speak in this important debate. I begin by paying tribute to th...
Jack Dromey | 526 c213 (Link to this contribution) Bankers' bonuses and, as our Front-Bench team proposes, among other things, we would have a sensible...
Lord Lilley | 526 c213 (Link to this contribution) What would the hon. Gentleman cut instead?
Jack Dromey | 526 c214 (Link to this contribution) We acted, by way of a range of measures, to help the poorest families, including the poorest familie...
Stephen Lloyd | 526 c213 (Link to this contribution) Is the hon. Gentleman aware that, after 13 years of Labour Government, there are 2 million children ...
Edward Leigh | 526 c207 (Link to this contribution) The slight problem with that is that if we had a similar system here, under whichever Government, th...
Lord Lilley | 526 c207-8 (Link to this contribution) That is slightly unworthy of a former Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee, who at least would ...
Speaker | 526 c206 (Link to this contribution) Order. Please resume your seats. As Members can see, more than 40 colleagues have applied to take pa...
Lord Lilley | 526 c206-7 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my right hon. Friend the Chancellor on sticking to his plan to reduce the Budget defi...
Steve Webb | 526 c206 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for giving way. He tried to frighten disabled people by sa...
Liam Byrne | 526 c206 (Link to this contribution) Well, the Minister will know as well as I do how much he is cutting from DLA, and he knows as well a...
Steve Webb | 526 c205 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?
Liam Byrne | 526 c206 (Link to this contribution) No, because I want to make an important point to the House. The Minister's Department knows that thr...
Liam Byrne | 526 c205 (Link to this contribution) But the challenge from this Budget is that there are simply not enough winners, because the bills fo...
Lord Darling of Roulanish | 526 c208-9 (Link to this contribution) In the short time available, I shall not follow up on any points made by the right hon. Member for H...
Liam Byrne | 526 c203 (Link to this contribution) Precisely right. Indeed, the Secretary of State presented to the House of Commons a Bill that would ...
Mel Stride | 526 c203 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman said that if Labour had won the last election unemployment would, of course...
Liam Byrne | 526 c203-4 (Link to this contribution) All unemployment fell. Then, once the scale of the global recession we confronted became apparent, i...
Richard Drax | 526 c204 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?
Liam Byrne | 526 c202 (Link to this contribution) We have made it quite clear that we support reform of DLA, but what we do not support is a top-down,...
Alec Shelbrooke | 526 c202 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman is most generous in giving way. I have just listened, as has the rest of th...
Liam Byrne | 526 c202 (Link to this contribution) The deficit reduction plan that we put in place is spelt out in 38 pages of the March 2010 Budget. W...
Tom Clarke | 526 c203 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend share my astonishment that the Secretary of State can produce savings figu...
Stephen Lloyd | 526 c205 (Link to this contribution) In my constituency, the average family household earns £27,500. According to the BBC's calculator, i...
Liam Byrne | 526 c204-5 (Link to this contribution) No. Why are the Government not doing more to help? Because the cost of economic failure is sending ...
Iain Duncan Smith | 526 c201 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?
Iain Duncan Smith | 526 c201 (Link to this contribution) Okay, now we are into this specifically. DLA reform has a line item in the Budget of about £1.4 bill...
Iain Duncan Smith | 526 c201 (Link to this contribution) Now that the right hon. Gentleman is into the Darling plan, will he specify what those cuts are, wha...
Liam Byrne | 526 c201 (Link to this contribution) I have just gone through them. They involved £57 billion-worth of discretionary action—[Interruption...
Iain Duncan Smith | 526 c202 (Link to this contribution) I have a very simple question. The shadow Chancellor said that he supported the reform, which has a ...
Liam Byrne | 526 c202 (Link to this contribution) No, because we have not specified—[Hon. Members: ““Ah!””] We have not specified the level of cuts or...
Richard Drax | 526 c251-2 (Link to this contribution) It is a great pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Swansea West (Geraint Davies) and other Members...
Mary MacLeod | 526 c247-9 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker, for allowing me the opportunity to speak in this Budget debate, whi...
Geraint Davies | 526 c249-51 (Link to this contribution) I am pleased to say that this morning we had a coalition ground force moving into Swansea in a dawn ...
Graeme Morrice | 526 c245-6 (Link to this contribution) Thank you for calling me to speak, Madam Deputy Speaker—although I am from Scotland, I can get your ...
Stephen Lloyd | 526 c246 (Link to this contribution) Is the hon. Gentleman aware that recent research showed that 50% of people who had been placed throu...
Cathy Jamieson | 526 c242-4 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Madam Deputy Presiding Officer. [Interruption.] I am sorry, Madam Deputy Speaker; I knew ...
Bob Blackman | 526 c244-5 (Link to this contribution) It is a privilege to follow the hon. Member for Kilmarnock and Loudoun (Cathy Jamieson). Every Budg...
Catherine McKinnell | 526 c239-40 (Link to this contribution) Last week, the Chancellor delivered a Budget and promised a ““Plan for Growth””. There is no doubt t...
Emma Reynolds | 526 c235 (Link to this contribution) I ask the question for the third time in this debate, as I have yet to receive an answer from Conser...
Kwasi Kwarteng | 526 c235 (Link to this contribution) With respect to the hon. Lady, that is entirely irrelevant. Her party was in office; her party had t...
George Freeman | 526 c235-6 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that the honest answer to the question put thrice by the hon. Member for W...
Kwasi Kwarteng | 526 c236 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is exactly right. I think there was an element of delusion in the country inasmuch as...
Lord Field of Birkenhead | 526 c236-7 (Link to this contribution) Labour Members have already expressed the deep anxiety that is felt in not just Labour households bu...
John Leech | 526 c237-9 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the right hon. Member for Birkenhead (Mr Field), who made some very measu...
Emma Reynolds | 526 c235 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman blame Labour Members for the recession in Germany, for the recession in Fran...
Kwasi Kwarteng | 526 c235 (Link to this contribution) Let me point out to the hon. Lady that in Germany the deficit to GDP ratio was 3.3%; our deficit to ...
Frank Dobson | 526 c232-4 (Link to this contribution) In the debates in the run-up to the last general election, I was in the habit of saying that there w...
Kwasi Kwarteng | 526 c234-5 (Link to this contribution) I am glad to have been called—a happy outcome for me. It seems to me that Labour Members are ostric...
Ian Lavery | 526 c230 (Link to this contribution) No. Quite frankly, the Deputy Prime Minister is controlled like a sycophant—a political Buzz Lighty...
Tobias Ellwood | 526 c230-1 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to participate in this debate, and I am pleased to see so many hon. Members who als...
Emma Reynolds | 526 c232 (Link to this contribution) I want to put the same question to the hon. Gentleman that I put to the Secretary of State. Up until...
Tobias Ellwood | 526 c232 (Link to this contribution) I was not in government then. The spending commitments that we backed did not take into account the ...
Frank Dobson | 526 c231 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman accept that the issues to which the Leader of the Opposition referred all ha...
Tobias Ellwood | 526 c231-2 (Link to this contribution) I did not receive my invitation. Perhaps I shall find it in my office when I go back there. The bot...
Danny Alexander | 526 c276 (Link to this contribution) As I was saying, the right hon. Gentleman should look at page 55 of the Red Book, which states:"““As...
Tom Clarke | 526 c276 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the fact that the right hon. Gentleman has referred to the important mobility component of...
Danny Alexander | 526 c275 (Link to this contribution) Let me answer the intervention before I give way again. We have abolished the regional development a...
Geraint Davies | 526 c275 (Link to this contribution) If the right hon. Gentleman is creating an environment for inward investment and enterprise, how doe...
Danny Alexander | 526 c275 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for that intervention, but I disagree with the point that the hon. Gentleman makes.
Anne Begg | 526 c276 (Link to this contribution) Which oil and gas companies said that they would enjoy a lower tax take as a result of the Budget?
Danny Alexander | 526 c276 (Link to this contribution) I will mention the oil and gas sector in the course of my speech, but it is worth observing at this ...
Chris Ruane | 526 c275 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Chief Secretary for giving way. Has he read the article in The Guardian today, which rep...
Danny Alexander | 526 c275 (Link to this contribution) I am afraid I have not read The Guardian today. I will turn to green issues later in my speech. I di...
Angela Eagle | 526 c273-4 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a very important point. We will have to look at precisely how the stabiliser me...
Anne Begg | 526 c273 (Link to this contribution) The offshore oil and gas industry, which was a growing industry and could have been the driver that ...
Danny Alexander | 526 c274-5 (Link to this contribution) There has been a good debate today and over the past four days. Today the debate was graced in parti...
Priti Patel | 526 c267-8 (Link to this contribution) I am delighted to contribute to what has been a quite well-subscribed Budget debate, particularly be...
Glenda Jackson | 526 c268-9 (Link to this contribution) I must tell the hon. Member for Witham (Priti Patel) that her speech was a bit like ““all our yester...
Speaker | 526 c269 (Link to this contribution) One more Member wishes to speak, but unfortunately I cannot call him. I apologise for that. The Chan...
Angela Eagle | 526 c270-2 (Link to this contribution) I am gutted that the Chancellor is not present to listen to the winding-up speeches on his Budget. ...
Anne Begg | 526 c273 (Link to this contribution) What does my hon. Friend make of today's announcement that Statoil, a Norwegian company—from a count...
Angela Eagle | 526 c273 (Link to this contribution) This smash-and-grab raid on the oil companies to pay for the tax cut appears to be unravelling. Cert...
Danny Alexander | 526 c278 (Link to this contribution) No, I am sorry; I am going to press on. I referred to page 55. I gave an answer to the right hon. Ge...
Speaker | 526 c278 (Link to this contribution) Order. The right hon. Member for Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill (Mr Clarke) is well able to look...
Angela Eagle | 526 c278 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?
Danny Alexander | 526 c278 (Link to this contribution) I will give way to the hon. Lady.
Danny Alexander | 526 c278 (Link to this contribution) I am not going to give way to the right hon. Gentleman. I must press on. I have answered his point. ...
Speaker | 526 c278 (Link to this contribution) Order. I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman, but he has been in this House long enough to know ...
Tom Clarke | 526 c278 (Link to this contribution) On a point of order, Mr Speaker. It is patently obvious that the right hon. Gentleman is having trou...
Tom Clarke | 526 c277 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?
Sheila Gilmore | 526 c276 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?
Danny Alexander | 526 c277 (Link to this contribution) No, no. I am not going to give way. [Hon. Members: ““Give way!””] I am not going to give way. [Hon. ...
Tom Clarke | 526 c277 (Link to this contribution) On a point of order, Mr Speaker. You will have heard the Minister refer me to page 44 of the Red Boo...
Danny Alexander | 526 c277 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman misheard me; I referred to page 55. It is the right decision—
Danny Alexander | 526 c277 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry, but I must press on and make some progress. As well as a competitive tax system, we nee...
Angus Brendan MacNeil | 526 c277 (Link to this contribution) When might the European Commission give the green light to the rural fuel derogation for the islands...
Danny Alexander | 526 c277 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman and I agree about the importance of that point. We have submitted the formal appl...
Tom Clarke | 526 c277 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?
Speaker | 526 c298 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his exhortation to read out the name of each motion individu...
Jeremy Corbyn | 526 c298 (Link to this contribution) Read them out—every one of them.
Speaker | 526 c298 (Link to this contribution) With the leave of the House, I propose to take motions 11 to 52 together—
Speaker | 526 c280 (Link to this contribution) That is a matter of debate, and it is for Ministers to decide whether and when to explain their posi...
Catherine McKinnell | 526 c280 (Link to this contribution) In one section of this Budget, Mr Speaker, it says that the disability living allowance mobility com...
Danny Alexander | 526 c279 (Link to this contribution) I will not give way. The second step that we are taking is to create the green investment bank, as ...
Danny Alexander | 526 c279 (Link to this contribution) I will not give way. That leads me to our fourth ambition for growth—a better educated work force w...
Catherine McKinnell | 526 c280 (Link to this contribution) On point of order, Mr Speaker. There appears to be a fundamental anomaly in this Budget, which hon. ...
Danny Alexander | 526 c279-80 (Link to this contribution) No, I am about to finish. Listening to many of the contributions made by Opposition Members, it see...
Speaker | 526 c280 (Link to this contribution) Order. If it is a point of order, let us hear it.
Angela Eagle | 526 c278 (Link to this contribution) Will the Chief Secretary turn his attention to page 44 of the Red Book, and the ““Measures announced...
Danny Alexander | 526 c279 (Link to this contribution) As I said in answer to the right hon. Member for Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill (Mr Clarke), tha...
Steve Barclay | 526 c225 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman mentioned productivity, but I urge him to read what the independent National Audi...
Martin Horwood | 526 c214-5 (Link to this contribution) The cornerstone of this Budget is undoubtedly the need to tackle the deficit. Spending £50 billion a...
Lord Darling of Roulanish | 526 c209-11 (Link to this contribution) I think there are many measures in the Budget, such as the reduction in corporation tax, the reform ...
Edward Leigh | 526 c240-2 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Newcastle upon Tyne North (Catherine McKinnell), and ...
Danny Alexander | 526 c278 (Link to this contribution) Our second ambition is for Britain to become the best place in Europe to start, finance and grow a b...
Danny Alexander | 526 c280 (Link to this contribution) I have already explained this point in answers to interventions. It is a measure of the Opposition'...
Stephen Metcalfe | 526 c217-9 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for the opportunity to speak in this important and wide-ranging debate. As many people...
Mary MacLeod | 526 c209 (Link to this contribution) Does the right hon. Gentleman agree that many measures in the Budget will stimulate growth in future...
Liam Byrne | 526 c201-2 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State put in place a programme to make the cut before he figured out what reform wa...
Iain Duncan Smith | 526 c202 (Link to this contribution) I am intrigued by this. The right hon. Gentleman now seems to be at odds with his shadow Chancellor,...
Graeme Morrice | 526 c246-7 (Link to this contribution) And 50% of those people continued in full-time employment. The Centre for Cities report also said t...
Notes
Daily Part printing error: In Division 239, column 294, in the Noes, delete "Osborne, rh Mr George" and insert "Osborne, Sandra". (corrected at 30 March 2011, 526 c492)
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