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Ministerial statement on Tuesday, 29 November 2011, in the House of Commons, led by George Osborne.

Autumn Statement

Statement on the Autumn Statement 2011.

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536 c799-846 
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2010-12
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Treasury
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Proceeding contributions
George Osborne | 536 c837 (Link to this contribution) I welcome my hon. Friend's support. I hope that this measure will help people living in Orpington wh...
Lord Johnson of Marylebone | 536 c837 (Link to this contribution) Hard-working commuters and others in Orpington who depend on Southeastern trains have for years been...
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George Osborne | 536 c837 (Link to this contribution) First, we are today asking the independent pay bodies—which I think everyone in this House supports—...
Baroness Bray of Coln | 536 c838 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the Chancellor on a statement that is absolutely right for these tough times and, par...
George Osborne | 536 c837-8 (Link to this contribution) I think I had better capture the moment when I get a compliment from the hon. Gentleman. We have act...
Ronnie Campbell | 536 c837 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the Chancellor's statement on the port of Blyth, which is something for which I have been ...
George Osborne | 536 c837 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right. The OECD was absolutely explicit in saying yesterday that we were right to ...
Michael Ellis | 536 c836 (Link to this contribution) I warmly welcome the Chancellor's statement. Can he confirm that, despite the quack economics cited ...
George Osborne | 536 c836 (Link to this contribution) Well, the pay comes out of the health budget, and the official policy of the Labour party is not to ...
Stella Creasy | 536 c836 (Link to this contribution) The Government have today announced plans that take three times as much from families as from banks....
George Osborne | 536 c835 (Link to this contribution) Yes, absolutely. We must get the private sector in our regions growing. It is striking that, through...
Julian Brazier | 536 c836 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my right hon. Friend on focusing firmly on monetary policy. May I urge him to conside...
David Anderson | 536 c836 (Link to this contribution) At a time when inflation is 5% and when the average nurse in this country has had a two-year pay fre...
George Osborne | 536 c836 (Link to this contribution) I want to ensure, in the way that I set out, that the national loan guarantee scheme is available to...
David Mowat | 536 c835 (Link to this contribution) The Chancellor will be aware that in the last year of the previous Government, the discrepancy in gr...
George Osborne | 536 c835 (Link to this contribution) We are keen to make use of European funds where available, but there are issues of affordability wit...
George Osborne | 536 c835 (Link to this contribution) This is evidence of what a powerful campaigner my hon. Friend is on behalf of his constituents and M...
Iain Stewart | 536 c835 (Link to this contribution) Just three weeks ago, I set up an all-party group to campaign for the reopening of the east-west rai...
George Osborne | 536 c835 (Link to this contribution) I very much want the second Mersey crossing to get the go-ahead, and the Government have committed t...
George Osborne | 536 c834 (Link to this contribution) I remember visiting the Falmouth estuary with my hon. Friend and talking to the local harbour master...
Sarah Newton | 536 c834 (Link to this contribution) From his statement, it is clear that my right hon. Friend has listened carefully to businesses in th...
George Osborne | 536 c834 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman should be straight with the House. That was a contract signed by the previous Lab...
Chris Williamson | 536 c834 (Link to this contribution) The Chancellor claims to support the manufacturing industry and told the House at the conclusion of ...
George Osborne | 536 c833-4 (Link to this contribution) It is indeed a plan B for bankruptcy. It is striking that no mainstream or centre-left party in Euro...
Catherine McKinnell | 536 c835 (Link to this contribution) I am concerned that the Chancellor might be missing a trick. Hundreds of millions of pounds of Europ...
Jeremy Lefroy | 536 c832-3 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the Chancellor's statement which includes measures that will really help Staffordshire suc...
George Osborne | 536 c832 (Link to this contribution) It was the Labour Government who let the City explode. They allowed that to happen when the shadow C...
Paul Farrelly | 536 c833 (Link to this contribution) I look forward to meeting the Chancellor over the Prime Minister's broken promise to award an enterp...
George Osborne | 536 c833 (Link to this contribution) I am glad that my hon. Friend welcomes the support that we have given to businesses and families in ...
Anne Marie Morris | 536 c832 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the Chancellor on his support for micro-businesses, which, as he well knows, I extens...
George Osborne | 536 c832 (Link to this contribution) I know that the previous Government were"““intensely relaxed about people getting filthy rich””." W...
Lilian Greenwood | 536 c832 (Link to this contribution) Why are hard-working families on tax credits, low-paid public sector workers and the thousands of yo...
George Osborne | 536 c832 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is indeed a powerful champion of micro-businesses. She has spoken to me about them on...
George Osborne | 536 c833 (Link to this contribution) Of course I am happy for the hon. Gentleman to be part of those discussions on enterprise zones. Man...
Julie Hilling | 536 c840 (Link to this contribution) Before the general election, growth was increasing, the deficit was being reduced and unemployment w...
George Osborne | 536 c840 (Link to this contribution) I had probably forgotten that we had inherited a golden economic legacy from the Labour party. What ...
Stephen Metcalfe | 536 c839-40 (Link to this contribution) I thank my right hon. Friend for his statement and welcome his announcement of a national infrastruc...
George Osborne | 536 c840 (Link to this contribution) I certainly give that commitment, and I hope that south Essex will benefit from the commitment that ...
George Osborne | 536 c839 (Link to this contribution) We are helping companies to train young people through our apprenticeship programme, and I am happy ...
Mark Pawsey | 536 c841 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Chancellor for listening to the representations of energy-intensive industries, and I we...
Toby Perkins | 536 c840 (Link to this contribution) The last Chancellor to see interest rates go through the roof was not a Labour Chancellor, but the o...
George Osborne | 536 c840-1 (Link to this contribution) We are doing all we can to keep our country safe in a debt storm. We need only look at the Italian b...
Rob Wilson | 536 c840 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the Chancellor on his statement, and in particular on the new tax breaks for private ...
George Osborne | 536 c840 (Link to this contribution) The seed enterprise investment scheme will provide 50% tax relief for all who invest in a qualifying...
George Osborne | 536 c838 (Link to this contribution) I can give my hon. Friend an assurance that we are certainly not going to delay on Crossrail, which ...
Hugh Bayley | 536 c838 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the Chancellor's plan B. It is a small start, but at least it shows that his previous plan...
George Osborne | 536 c838 (Link to this contribution) I explained that, pound for pound and in each year, we were paying for infrastructure spending with ...
Penny Mordaunt | 536 c838 (Link to this contribution) May I welcome the Chancellor's vote of confidence in the space sector today? I hope that Portsmouth,...
George Osborne | 536 c839 (Link to this contribution) Yes, I of course agree with my hon. Friend. Again, another success story at the moment is the car in...
Jim Shannon | 536 c839 (Link to this contribution) One of the biggest problems of modern society is youth unemployment. The Chancellor said that compan...
George Osborne | 536 c838-9 (Link to this contribution) We are giving specific support to new satellite manufacturing, which is a real success story in Brit...
Simon Danczuk | 536 c839 (Link to this contribution) The retail sector is finding it extremely difficult and is being hammered in the current economic cl...
George Osborne | 536 c839 (Link to this contribution) If the hon. Gentleman has specific proposals on credit insurance, I will be very happy to look at th...
Gavin Williamson | 536 c839 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that the Chancellor is aware that Jaguar Land Rover is currently constructing an engine pl...
George Osborne | 536 c831-2 (Link to this contribution) We are addressing the problem of basic need, which was ignored by the previous Government. I know in...
Mary MacLeod | 536 c831 (Link to this contribution) In my constituency in the London borough of Hounslow, we have a real and immediate shortage of schoo...
John McDonnell | 536 c832 (Link to this contribution) In my constituency, religious and community organisations are now providing food parcels to poor fam...
George Osborne | 536 c830 (Link to this contribution) I should pay particular tribute to my hon. Friend, who has led a dogged campaign on behalf of the pe...
Mary Glindon | 536 c831 (Link to this contribution) Will the Chancellor acknowledge that public sector workers are themselves taxpayers who make a massi...
George Osborne | 536 c831 (Link to this contribution) Of course people who work in the public sector pay taxes and make an enormous contribution to the Br...
Charlie Elphicke | 536 c831 (Link to this contribution) I give a wholehearted welcome to the announcement concerning the lower Thames crossing, which will m...
George Osborne | 536 c831 (Link to this contribution) I am very happy to look at ideas to enhance the business growth fund, which is principally operated ...
Mark Durkan | 536 c831 (Link to this contribution) The Chancellor has proclaimed support for business and jobs in the present climate. He also puts at ...
George Osborne | 536 c831 (Link to this contribution) I am not sure that I agree with the hon. Gentleman that austerity measures are to blame, but I certa...
Robert Halfon | 536 c830 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Chancellor for listening to millions of hard-pressed motorists and the Fair Fuel UK camp...
George Osborne | 536 c830 (Link to this contribution) We are basing our pension reforms on the report from Lord Hutton. He particularly focused on the ben...
Geraint Davies | 536 c830 (Link to this contribution) The Chancellor has already announced 500,000 job cuts in the public sector alongside pay freezes, bo...
George Osborne | 536 c829 (Link to this contribution) I do not think that a decision has been taken on stations, but I agree with my hon. Friend that we n...
David Rutley | 536 c829 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the Chancellor's statement and the announcement today that the Manchester airport A6 link ...
George Osborne | 536 c830 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right. As my constituency is affected by that road link, I very much we...
Naomi Long | 536 c829 (Link to this contribution) The Chancellor stressed the importance economically both of regional connectivity and infrastructure...
George Osborne | 536 c829 (Link to this contribution) It will be up to the devolved Administration to choose how to spend the money that is allocated to t...
Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton | 536 c829 (Link to this contribution) Mr Speaker, you, I and many other hon. Members have campaigned long and hard for east-west rail and ...
George Osborne | 536 c828 (Link to this contribution) Absolutely. We are doing a huge amount to support small businesses through our rate policy, the nati...
James Morris | 536 c828 (Link to this contribution) May I welcome the Chancellor's statement today, especially in its support for small business? I rece...
George Osborne | 536 c829 (Link to this contribution) I can give that confirmation. This is additional money that has come from savings in current spendin...
Louise Ellman | 536 c829 (Link to this contribution) The announcement of new investment in transport infrastructure is very welcome. Can the Chancellor c...
Baroness Morgan of Cotes | 536 c828 (Link to this contribution) Did my right hon. Friend hear Opposition Members laughing when he initially mentioned help with the ...
George Osborne | 536 c828 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right. Low interest rates are helping to keep people in their homes, mortgage paym...
Andrew Love | 536 c828 (Link to this contribution) Will the Chancellor now take the opportunity to admit at the Dispatch Box that £158 billion is the d...
George Osborne | 536 c828 (Link to this contribution) I said that the borrowing forecast had deteriorated, and—unlike the Labour party—I set up an indepen...
George Osborne | 536 c828 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps I can explain to the hon. Gentleman that taxes come from people working in the public and pr...
Barry Gardiner | 536 c827-8 (Link to this contribution) The £5 billion programme of capital infrastructure is to be welcomed. What is not to be welcomed is ...
George Osborne | 536 c827 (Link to this contribution) I had the opportunity yesterday, with my hon. Friend and the Mayor of London, to visit one of the de...
Jane Ellison | 536 c827 (Link to this contribution) I warmly welcome the Chancellor's announcements on infrastructure. In particular, there is a hugely ...
George Osborne | 536 c827 (Link to this contribution) The Government's capital spending plans are higher than those that the Labour party put forward in M...
Jack Dromey | 536 c827 (Link to this contribution) Last year, the Chancellor cut £4 billion from housing investment. Does he accept responsibility for ...
George Osborne | 536 c827 (Link to this contribution) As I said, the future jobs fund meant that 50% of people who went on it were unemployed within 12 we...
Simon Kirby | 536 c827 (Link to this contribution) With the UK 10-year market interest rates at record lows, does the Chancellor agree that the rest of...
George Osborne | 536 c826 (Link to this contribution) I absolutely will. We have had a startling admission by the shadow Chancellor that he wants interest...
Gemma Doyle | 536 c827 (Link to this contribution) The Chancellor is wrong to deny that the Government's policies are making long-term youth unemployme...
Andrea Leadsom | 536 c817 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the Chancellor's statement. It is a great shame that the shadow Chancellor appears to be l...
George Osborne | 536 c817 (Link to this contribution) Let me explain to the right hon. Lady that what we are seeking to do is to get the pension funds inv...
Baroness Hodge of Barking | 536 c817 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the announcement of more investment in infrastructure, but the more I hear about the propo...
George Osborne | 536 c817 (Link to this contribution) I agree with the Chair of the Treasury Committee that the impact of the financial crisis and the del...
Lord Tyrie | 536 c816-7 (Link to this contribution) The whole country, I think, will welcome the supply-side measures announced today, which are an esse...
George Osborne | 536 c815-6 (Link to this contribution) As far as I can tell, the shadow Chancellor complains that we are borrowing too much—and then propos...
Ed Balls | 536 c813-5 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr Speaker. They do not like it, but this is the truth. The Government set up the OBR, so...
Speaker | 536 c812 (Link to this contribution) Order. The situation is very simple: however long it takes, the shadow Chancellor will be heard. Tha...
George Osborne | 536 c817-8 (Link to this contribution) I agree with my hon. Friend that that is a very important part of making sure that customers get the...
David Miliband | 536 c818 (Link to this contribution) The Chancellor has recognised that 260,000 young people have been unemployed for more than 12 months...
George Osborne | 536 c800-8 (Link to this contribution) The Treasury today estimates that borrowing by 2014-15 would have been running at well over £100 bil...
Speaker | 536 c800 (Link to this contribution) Order. I am sorry, I know that the Chancellor is proceeding, but his statement must be heard. There ...
George Osborne | 536 c808-10 (Link to this contribution) Planning laws need reform, and so too do employment rules. We know many firms are afraid to hire new...
Speaker | 536 c808 (Link to this contribution) Order. The House needs to calm down. One hon. Member has probably shouted enough for one day.
George Osborne | 536 c799 (Link to this contribution) Statement Let me start by placing squarely before the House of Commons and the British public the ec...
George Osborne | 536 c800 (Link to this contribution) Secondly, the OBR today has shown new evidence that an even bigger component of the growth that prec...
Speaker | 536 c800 (Link to this contribution) Order. The statement by the Chancellor must be heard, and he should not have to fight to be heard.
Ed Balls | 536 c810 (Link to this contribution) Let me start by thanking the Chancellor—[Interruption.]
Speaker | 536 c811 (Link to this contribution) Order. I ask the right hon. Gentleman to resume his seat. I said very clearly that people should not...
Ed Balls | 536 c811-2 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr Speaker. Let me start by thanking the Chancellor of the Exchequer for advance notice ...
Elfyn Llwyd | 536 c820 (Link to this contribution) With regard to the capital infrastructure investment, will the Chancellor confirm that the whole fig...
George Osborne | 536 c820 (Link to this contribution) I pay tribute again to my hon. Friend and the other MPs in the area, including my hon. Friend the Me...
Andrew Percy | 536 c820 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Chancellor for his announcement about the Humber bridge and commend the work of the Tran...
George Osborne | 536 c820 (Link to this contribution) We absolutely will apply the Barnett formula to the infrastructure spending. I can confirm that. We ...
John Baron | 536 c820-1 (Link to this contribution) I know that the Chancellor will ignore the pleas of the Labour party, given that it more than double...
George Osborne | 536 c820 (Link to this contribution) I suggest to the hon. Gentleman that a fairly stark difference between me and the right hon. Member ...
George Osborne | 536 c820 (Link to this contribution) Absolutely, I happily pay tribute to all the MPs of north Lincolnshire and Humberside who have campa...
George Osborne | 536 c818 (Link to this contribution) We have worked with the business groups and businesses to make sure that the youth contract is going...
George Osborne | 536 c818 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right. We are uprating out-of-work benefits and the basic state pension. The coali...
Stephen Williams | 536 c818 (Link to this contribution) I welcome what the Chancellor has said about protecting our economy from the external pressures that...
George Osborne | 536 c819 (Link to this contribution) As I said in my statement, I believe, particularly in a debt crisis, that monetary policy is the mos...
Michael Meacher | 536 c818 (Link to this contribution) What is the right hon. Gentleman's precise estimate of the overall growth, if any, that will arise f...
George Osborne | 536 c819 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right. That is why we have made a particular commitment to two roads in...
Brandon Lewis | 536 c819 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend agree that the welcome opportunity for private pension funds to invest in ...
George Osborne | 536 c819 (Link to this contribution) As I said, we are not cutting tax credits, but uprating the child tax credit. The hon. Lady should h...
Helen Goodman | 536 c819 (Link to this contribution) The Chancellor ended his statement by talking about quack doctors. Of course, in the book ““George's...
Claire O'Neill | 536 c819 (Link to this contribution) I am confused and am hoping that the Chancellor can help me to sort something out. On page 82 of its...
George Osborne | 536 c823 (Link to this contribution) I completely understand why the hon. Lady is fighting hard for her constituency and her city. In the...
Harriett Baldwin | 536 c823-4 (Link to this contribution) There were many measures in the statement that will help businesses with their cash flow, which is t...
George Osborne | 536 c823 (Link to this contribution) I completely agree with my hon. Friend. What was really striking in the shadow Chancellor's response...
Joan Walley | 536 c823 (Link to this contribution) Can the Chancellor confirm that it is ““rest in peace”” for the ““greenest Government ever””? As far...
George Osborne | 536 c823 (Link to this contribution) We are undertaking an ambitious programme of credit easing, and I hope to get it running in the next...
George Freeman | 536 c823 (Link to this contribution) I warmly welcome the statement on behalf of families and businesses in my constituency, particularly...
George Osborne | 536 c822-3 (Link to this contribution) Not only was the future jobs fund primarily aimed at the Government employing people in the public s...
Stewart Hosie | 536 c823 (Link to this contribution) There were two key announcements today. One was the national loan guarantee scheme and the £20 billi...
George Osborne | 536 c822 (Link to this contribution) We absolutely want to support carbon capture and storage technology in this country. I confirm that ...
Baroness Burt of Solihull | 536 c822 (Link to this contribution) There is so much to welcome in this statement, and I especially welcome the £1 billion increase in t...
Margot James | 536 c822 (Link to this contribution) The Black Country chamber of commerce reports that 400 new businesses started in our region this yea...
George Osborne | 536 c822 (Link to this contribution) I think it will help new businesses borrow, but of course we have also announced today the seed ente...
Tom Greatrex | 536 c822 (Link to this contribution) On 20 October, the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change said in the House that there wou...
David Evennett | 536 c821 (Link to this contribution) I welcome my right hon. Friend's statement and in particular the announcements on rail fares and the...
George Osborne | 536 c821 (Link to this contribution) I absolutely agree with my hon. Friend. We have been able to take action on fuel duty so that taxes ...
Dennis Skinner | 536 c821 (Link to this contribution) If we are all in it together, why has the Chancellor announced further restrictions on pay for worki...
George Osborne | 536 c821-2 (Link to this contribution) I think the hon. Gentleman will find that it is half of the last Labour Cabinet who are working in t...
George Osborne | 536 c821 (Link to this contribution) We have negotiated the first real freeze in the EU budget. Important negotiations are coming on the ...
Caroline Lucas | 536 c821 (Link to this contribution) Will the Chancellor explain why he is taking £250 million from hard-pressed families and giving it t...
George Osborne | 536 c826 (Link to this contribution) First, I am happy and keen to work with the devolved Administration in Belfast on how the scheme wil...
Mark Spencer | 536 c826 (Link to this contribution) Today, we have seen a clear difference between a Chancellor who wants to manage and invest in our ec...
George Osborne | 536 c826 (Link to this contribution) The Transport Secretary sitting next to me has just genuinely volunteered to meet my hon. Friend. We...
Lord Dodds of Duncairn | 536 c826 (Link to this contribution) On credit easing, how will the Chancellor's announcement today apply in Northern Ireland? He knows t...
George Osborne | 536 c825 (Link to this contribution) I would certainly like to see even more money coming from British pension funds, but £20 billion is ...
Nadhim Zahawi | 536 c825 (Link to this contribution) I commend my right hon. Friend for his statement and for doing so much for hard-pressed families and...
George Osborne | 536 c826 (Link to this contribution) We have introduced, for the first time, an entitlement for disadvantaged two-year-olds to get 15 hou...
Jessica Lee | 536 c826 (Link to this contribution) Erewash is at the heart of the manufacturing base in the east midlands. I therefore welcome the comm...
George Osborne | 536 c825 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right. Let us look at the Italian bond auction this morning—that is the...
Sharon Hodgson | 536 c825-6 (Link to this contribution) The giving with one hand and taking away with the other for child care plays with children's lives a...
Fiona Mactaggart | 536 c824 (Link to this contribution) In view of the fact that the published Treasury tables suggest that the poorest fifth of the populat...
George Osborne | 536 c824 (Link to this contribution) The Treasury is very clear that in the precise way in which child poverty is measured against the ba...
Lord Harrington of Watford | 536 c825 (Link to this contribution) I commend the Chancellor on his statement, particularly the parts about young people and small busin...
George Osborne | 536 c825 (Link to this contribution) Despite the deterioration in the borrowing forecast, the debt interest payments that we are making a...
Stuart Bell | 536 c825 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the Chancellor's statement on the 100% capital allowances for the enterprise zones in the ...
George Osborne | 536 c824 (Link to this contribution) We are helping businesses with their cash flow, but it is not a subsidy to those businesses, more a ...
Adrian Bailey | 536 c824 (Link to this contribution) The Chancellor has announced a number of supply-side measures designed to help small businesses. How...
George Osborne | 536 c824 (Link to this contribution) I would argue that we are not squeezing incomes. We have frozen fuel duty in January and taken measu...
Marcus Jones | 536 c824 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend agree that measures such as extending the above-the-line research and deve...
George Osborne | 536 c824 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is a powerful champion for Nuneaton, and I am glad that the enterprise zone is going ...
Alun Cairns | 536 c844 (Link to this contribution) The Chancellor's statements of support in favour of energy-intensive industries will be welcomed in ...
George Osborne | 536 c844 (Link to this contribution) Yes, I think that we all want to see a move to a banking system that is more responsive to local bus...
Neil Carmichael | 536 c844 (Link to this contribution) There are many substantial measures to welcome in this package, but I wish to focus on the national ...
George Osborne | 536 c844 (Link to this contribution) I do not have the specific details in front of me, but I will certainly engage with my hon. Friend o...
Julian Sturdy | 536 c844 (Link to this contribution) As a Yorkshire MP, I strongly welcome the Government's decision to electrify the trans-Pennine rail ...
George Osborne | 536 c845-6 (Link to this contribution) I can absolutely assure my hon. Friend that we are going ahead with the cap on housing benefit, whic...
George Osborne | 536 c845 (Link to this contribution) From memory, I think it is going to help 100,000 people, and that is a real boost. With the other ho...
George Osborne | 536 c844 (Link to this contribution) We are going to provide specific compensation for electricity-intensive businesses affected by the E...
Stephen Hammond | 536 c845 (Link to this contribution) I warmly welcome my right hon. Friend's statement, the many measures in it and, in particular, the r...
Speaker | 536 c846 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Chancellor and to colleagues, whose succinctness has enabled 96 Back-Bench Memb...
George Osborne | 536 c846 (Link to this contribution) We should not be having a strike tomorrow. Negotiations are ongoing and we want those negotiations t...
Lord Evans of Rainow | 536 c846 (Link to this contribution) Mrs Evans informs me that my three children will be on an unforeseen holiday tomorrow and I wondered...
Sheila Gilmore | 536 c841 (Link to this contribution) The Government have made a virtue of wanting to make work pay. How does it make work pay first to re...
George Osborne | 536 c841 (Link to this contribution) We are uprating the child care element of child tax credit, along with other elements of child tax c...
George Osborne | 536 c841 (Link to this contribution) We have not made an exact estimate of the number of jobs that will be saved, but I am certain that t...
George Osborne | 536 c842 (Link to this contribution) The issue of the Severn bridge tolls is different. There will come a point later in the decade when ...
Jessica Morden | 536 c842 (Link to this contribution) The Chancellor referred earlier to the Severn bridge tolls. Can he be more specific about what he ca...
George Osborne | 536 c841-2 (Link to this contribution) We hope to get it up and running in the next couple of months. We must clear the state aid hurdles—I...
Richard Graham | 536 c841 (Link to this contribution) Last week I met members of the committee of the Federation of Small Businesses in my constituency to...
Heidi Alexander | 536 c842 (Link to this contribution) In the first nine months of this year, on the Chancellor's watch, long-term youth unemployment in my...
George Osborne | 536 c842 (Link to this contribution) It does. It is an illegal policy, which is a novel thing for an Opposition to advance. As I have sai...
Rehman Chishti | 536 c842 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the Chancellor's statement, and, in particular, the help given to commuters in my constitu...
George Osborne | 536 c842 (Link to this contribution) Unfortunately, the young people the hon. Lady refers to are paying the price for the biggest boom an...
Philip Hollobone | 536 c842-3 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Chancellor for his £110 million vote of confidence in Kettering with the approval of two...
George Osborne | 536 c843 (Link to this contribution) If I may, I will write to my hon. Friend with a specific answer on when the diggers will start on th...
Speaker | 536 c843 (Link to this contribution) We look forward to hearing about the dates for the diggers, as I am sure do the people of Kettering....
George Osborne | 536 c843 (Link to this contribution) I set out the borrowing figures to Parliament and what the hon. Gentleman should admit is that the p...
Jonathan Ashworth | 536 c843 (Link to this contribution) May I push the Chancellor a little further on borrowing, because so far in the exchanges he has not ...
George Osborne | 536 c843 (Link to this contribution) I am always keen that Parliament is kept fully informed.
Peter Bone | 536 c843 (Link to this contribution) I am slightly concerned about whether the health of the shadow Chancellor is in order, as he has spe...
George Osborne | 536 c843-4 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend absolutely has my assurance. If he wants to contact me with specific proposals that w...
Martin Vickers | 536 c843 (Link to this contribution) On behalf of my constituents, I thank the Chancellor for the many initiatives that he has introduced...
Richard Burden | 536 c837 (Link to this contribution) The Chancellor will be aware of the widespread calls from manufacturing businesses to increase the r...
George Osborne | 536 c836 (Link to this contribution) That is a pretty ludicrous question. We have tried to help families through the freeze in fuel duty ...
George Osborne | 536 c836 (Link to this contribution) First, we have committed to real increases in the health budget, and the official—
Andrew Bridgen | 536 c833 (Link to this contribution) Does the Chancellor agree that the Government must continue to oppose the calls from the Labour part...
Speaker | 536 c830 (Link to this contribution) Order. I may or may not be economically illiterate, but I gently, tentatively and courteously point ...
George Osborne | 536 c819-20 (Link to this contribution) Because we have earned credibility for this country. That is what this Government have done. That ha...
Barry Sheerman | 536 c820 (Link to this contribution) The Chancellor's statement reminded me of the Budgets not of the last Chancellor of the Exchequer bu...
George Osborne | 536 c821 (Link to this contribution) As I said, we have introduced and funded the green investment bank, and we are supporting the green ...
Derek Twigg | 536 c834 (Link to this contribution) In view of the decision that the Chancellor has announced regarding the reduction in tolls on the Hu...
Bob Blackman | 536 c845 (Link to this contribution) One of the key inflationary pressures on the cost of housing is the level of housing benefit availab...
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