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Budget debate on Monday, 26 March 2012, in the House of Commons, led by Lord Vaizey of Didcot. The answering member was Baroness Harman.

Amendment of the Law

Budget debate (fourth day). Motion on amendment of the law agreed on division (326 to 243). Motion on high income child benefit charge agreed on division (318 to 244). Motion on air passenger duty agreed on division (323 to 13). Motion on future taxation: rates of income tax) agreed on division (319 to 22). Motions to approve ways and means resolutions. Resolved. Other resolutions agreed on question.

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Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
542 c1186-271 
Session
2010-12
Department
Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Proceeding contributions
Speaker | 542 c1198 (Link to this contribution) Order. I thank both Front-Bench speakers for demonstrating time restraint. There is a five-minute li...
Speaker | 542 c1225 (Link to this contribution) Order. I am going to drop the time limit to four minutes, because we have 30 speakers to get in. If ...
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Steve Baker | 542 c1232-3 (Link to this contribution) I refer the House to my interest in Cobden Partners. This is a Budget of fiscal conservatism and mo...
Pat McFadden | 542 c1229-30 (Link to this contribution) The most significant thing about last week's Budget is that it did not move the dial on economic gro...
Margot James | 542 c1228-9 (Link to this contribution) This is a Budget for long-term growth set out in extremely difficult economic conditions. The loweri...
Ian Lucas | 542 c1231-2 (Link to this contribution) I am pleased to follow the hon. Member for Stafford (Jeremy Lefroy), who made some valid points. Th...
Jeremy Lefroy | 542 c1230-1 (Link to this contribution) For me, the most significant figures in the Budget are in tables D.3 and D.4 in the Red Book, which ...
Ian Mearns | 542 c1227 (Link to this contribution) It is clear from today's contributions that the Budget impacts in very different ways in different p...
Harriett Baldwin | 542 c1226-7 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend will also have heard in the Budget that we are abolishing the means test, which has b...
Ian Mearns | 542 c1227-8 (Link to this contribution) I could not agree more, and of course there will also be a depressing effect in the private sector. ...
Nick Smith | 542 c1227 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that it will be people such as police officers, nurses, and fire and other...
Baroness Harman | 542 c1195-6 (Link to this contribution) But it needs to be implemented now, with a clear timetable and a code of conduct so that notificatio...
Lord Foster of Bath | 542 c1195 (Link to this contribution) I have listened to a lot of drivel in my time, but is the right hon. and learned Lady seriously tell...
Baroness Harman | 542 c1194-5 (Link to this contribution) But certainly not to do what this Government have done—without any consultation or any discussion at...
Mary MacLeod | 542 c1197 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. and learned Lady give way?
Baroness Harman | 542 c1197 (Link to this contribution) I am very sad indeed to hear that. Although the Government have squeezed councils, Labour councils u...
Lord Mann | 542 c1197 (Link to this contribution) Before my right hon. and learned Friend moves on to the subject of digital infrastructure, may I ask...
Baroness Harman | 542 c1196 (Link to this contribution) There are many. We need only listen to all the arguments throughout the industry, whether they conce...
Lord Vaizey of Didcot | 542 c1194 (Link to this contribution) To continue the ““homage”” theme, it was the policy of the last Labour Government to merge the Film ...
Baroness Harman | 542 c1197-8 (Link to this contribution) I am going to get on with my speech now, because I know that many other Members wish to speak. Key t...
Harriett Baldwin | 542 c1200 (Link to this contribution) I thank the right hon. Gentleman for making these interesting points. Was he as shocked as I was to ...
Andrea Leadsom | 542 c1201 (Link to this contribution) This has been a great Budget for business growth, for work incentives and, as the Under-Secretary of...
Lord Darling of Roulanish | 542 c1200-1 (Link to this contribution) Inevitably, there is some forestalling and there will be an awful lot more of it this year when peop...
Andrea Leadsom | 542 c1202-3 (Link to this contribution) I completely agree with the hon. Gentleman. Before Virgin took over Northern Rock, Metro Bank was t...
Ian Lucas | 542 c1201-2 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady is making an interesting speech, and she is talking about the 1990s, when she was at B...
Lord Foster of Bath | 542 c1204-5 (Link to this contribution) I am delighted to follow the right hon. Member for South Shields (David Miliband) who said quite cle...
David Miliband | 542 c1203-4 (Link to this contribution) The Minister did not manage to mention in his speech the export potential of football, but I am happ...
David Ruffley | 542 c1198-9 (Link to this contribution) I believe in low tax. Low tax fosters personal responsibility and generates the incentives that crea...
Lord Foster of Bath | 542 c1207 (Link to this contribution) I do not know whether the hon. Gentleman has looked at the detail of the OBR's calculations, but if ...
Ronnie Campbell | 542 c1207 (Link to this contribution) The only place I could take them is the canteen. I might get something there, but I am sure I would ...
David Anderson | 542 c1207 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps my hon. Friend should get some wealthy Northumberland business men to pay quarter of a milli...
Ronnie Campbell | 542 c1206-7 (Link to this contribution) I received a letter this morning from my local county council, Northumberland, saying how pleased it...
Lord Foster of Bath | 542 c1206 (Link to this contribution) If the hon. Gentleman looks at the figures on applications to our universities, he will see that the...
Tristram Hunt | 542 c1205 (Link to this contribution) Is the right hon. Gentleman happy that as a result of the tuition fees introduced by his Government,...
Lord Foster of Bath | 542 c1205 (Link to this contribution) I will not give way because I want to make progress. I was pleased with the comments of my hon. Fri...
Lord Foster of Bath | 542 c1205 (Link to this contribution) Let me come to that in a moment. First, let me tell the hon. Gentleman what I thought this Budget ne...
Jonathan Edwards | 542 c1205 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is making some pressing points, but in light of everything he has said is he seri...
Simon Danczuk | 542 c1213 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right to mention pensioners and the disadvantages to them of the Chance...
Jim Dowd | 542 c1212 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend mentions tax simplification. What does he make of the tax simplification for pensione...
Jim Cunningham | 542 c1209-11 (Link to this contribution) I will try to be as quick as I can, but I want to highlight some of our concerns. In response to the...
Simon Danczuk | 542 c1212 (Link to this contribution) Much has been said over the past few days about how the Budget will adversely affect pensioners, tho...
Chris Kelly | 542 c1211-2 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker, for calling me to speak in this important Budget debate. It is a pleas...
Ronnie Campbell | 542 c1208 (Link to this contribution) We will just have to wait and see what happens when the country goes to the ballot box and the pensi...
Speaker | 542 c1207 (Link to this contribution) Order. The hon. Gentleman has made his speech and there are many Members who will not get in. It is ...
Speaker | 542 c1209 (Link to this contribution) Before I call Mr Jim Cunningham, let me say that I do not want to drop the time limit any more, but ...
Mary MacLeod | 542 c1208-9 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Blyth Valley (Mr Campbell), who is passionate about h...
Esther McVey | 542 c1213-4 (Link to this contribution) I would like to use my time in this debate to talk about how Wirral and the wider Liverpool city reg...
Jim Dowd | 542 c1215 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Member for Wirral West (Esther McVey) on reading out her speech. I am not su...
Esther McVey | 542 c1215 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Esther McVey | 542 c1214-5 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry, but I will not. The Budget also offers clear support and incentives for firms taking on...
Jim Dowd | 542 c1215 (Link to this contribution) No, I will not—[Interruption.] No.
Speaker | 542 c1215 (Link to this contribution) Order. The hon. Gentleman cannot be made to give way, so the hon. Lady must resume her seat. It is u...
Jim Dowd | 542 c1215 (Link to this contribution) I have reflected upon the error of my ways and will give way. I will not respond to whatever point i...
Esther McVey | 542 c1215 (Link to this contribution) I appreciate the hon. Gentleman giving way. As the Wirral is somewhere I have lived all my life, and...
Jim Dowd | 542 c1215-6 (Link to this contribution) Yes, indeed, and as for the next bit, I do not know. None the less, I will go on to make a few point...
Glyn Davies | 542 c1216-7 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the Under-Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, my hon. Friend t...
Jonathan Edwards | 542 c1217 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman agree with me and his party's own economic commission in Wales that what we ...
Glyn Davies | 542 c1217-8 (Link to this contribution) I do not believe that that is the right way for us to go at this stage. There is an ongoing discussi...
Anne McGuire | 542 c1218-9 (Link to this contribution) During the Minister's opening speech, I asked him about a community, running along one of the spiral...
Alun Cairns | 542 c1219 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the right hon. Member for Stirling (Mrs McGuire) and, I hope, to support ...
Karl Turner | 542 c1219 (Link to this contribution) If the hon. Gentleman believes that his Government's policy is working, why has the Chancellor borro...
Alun Cairns | 542 c1220 (Link to this contribution) I cannot believe that the hon. Gentleman asks that question, bearing in mind the scale of the debt t...
Graeme Morrice | 542 c1223-4 (Link to this contribution) I thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker, and my hon. Friend the Member for East Lothian (Fiona O'Donnell). O...
Paul Uppal | 542 c1222-3 (Link to this contribution) The Budget and the coalition Government will ultimately be judged on how well we recover from the ec...
Jim Shannon | 542 c1221 (Link to this contribution) With the prices of diesel and petrol in Northern Ireland at the highest ever level and rising even h...
Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick | 542 c1221-2 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for that useful intervention. I agree with him and will come on to that. ...
Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick | 542 c1220-1 (Link to this contribution) This Budget will not deliver on growth and it will not deliver on fairness, and it does not surprise...
Jim Shannon | 542 c1224 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Stephen Lloyd | 542 c1224 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman agree that the Liberal Democrat policy of increasing the personal tax allowa...
Graeme Morrice | 542 c1224 (Link to this contribution) I have been told that I am not getting an extra minute, so I will just press on with my speech. I w...
Graeme Morrice | 542 c1224-5 (Link to this contribution) I agree with the hon. Gentleman. The aspect of the Budget that has undoubtedly caused the most ange...
Harriett Baldwin | 542 c1225-6 (Link to this contribution) This is a Budget that rewards work from a Government who are making work pay, and I want to express ...
Graeme Morrice | 542 c1224 (Link to this contribution) Do I get an extra minute, Mr Deputy Speaker?
Speaker | 542 c1224 (Link to this contribution) Yes, but somebody else will end up losing it.
Graeme Morrice | 542 c1224 (Link to this contribution) I will give way if the hon. Gentleman is very brief.
Jim Shannon | 542 c1224 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman. Does he feel, as I and many people outside the House do, that as the thr...
Steve Baker | 542 c1226 (Link to this contribution) Did my hon. Friend, like me, hear the shadow Chancellor appearing on the Vine show during the week? ...
Baroness Harman | 542 c1194 (Link to this contribution) Let me begin with a double congratulation: to the Secretary of State and Lucia on the birth of their...
Lord Vaizey of Didcot | 542 c1193-4 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for that intervention, which I know the Chief Secretary to the Treasury will ...
Lord Vaizey of Didcot | 542 c1193 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for that intervention—I hesitate to say that it is good to hear from some...
Sarah Newton | 542 c1193 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for my hon. Friend's cue. Creative industries are vital to Cornwall, but so is creatin...
Lord Vaizey of Didcot | 542 c1192-3 (Link to this contribution) They cannot make their minds up. On the one hand, the success of the UK's creative industries is dri...
Jim Dowd | 542 c1193 (Link to this contribution) I am not sure whether my hon. Friend the Member for Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland (Tom Blen...
Lord Vaizey of Didcot | 542 c1192 (Link to this contribution) I give way to an hon. Gentleman who normally does not spout drivel. I hope that will remain the case...
Lord Mann | 542 c1192 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister for generously giving way. I would not regard his speech as drivel at all. It i...
Lord Vaizey of Didcot | 542 c1191-2 (Link to this contribution) I have just spent two or three minutes talking about the success of the UK music, animation, film an...
Danny Alexander | 542 c1261 (Link to this contribution) I will give way to the hon. Gentleman in a moment, but first I wish to mention some of the other con...
Danny Alexander | 542 c1261 (Link to this contribution) I can certainly confirm that, as a result of the measures in this Budget and the measures that we an...
Baroness Coffey | 542 c1261 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. Friend confirm what corporation tax rate companies will be paying in this country...
Elizabeth Truss | 542 c1262 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend agree that investing in physical infrastructure is vital and is being done...
Danny Alexander | 542 c1262 (Link to this contribution) If the hon. Gentleman had studied the Budget resolutions, he would know that there is no vote on tha...
Andrew Miller | 542 c1261-2 (Link to this contribution) Talking about omissions, will the right hon. Gentleman explain to the House why it is to the advanta...
Danny Alexander | 542 c1261 (Link to this contribution) We have confirmed that we will get to that rate by 2014. The hon. Gentleman should know, as I am sur...
Stuart Bell | 542 c1261 (Link to this contribution) Does the right hon. Gentleman believe the corporation tax reduction will lead to growth or to shareh...
Danny Alexander | 542 c1262-3 (Link to this contribution) First, I am very grateful to the hon. Lady for at least agreeing that we are going considerably furt...
Helen Goodman | 542 c1262 (Link to this contribution) It is clear that the Government are going further on personal income tax cuts, but it is equally cle...
Danny Alexander | 542 c1263 (Link to this contribution) We have argued for measures to ensure that people on low and middle incomes are taken out of income ...
Sheila Gilmore | 542 c1263 (Link to this contribution) While he was arguing for the rise in the tax threshold, did the right hon. Gentleman at any time arg...
Danny Alexander | 542 c1262 (Link to this contribution) I certainly share the hon. Lady's joy that the new A11 is being built by this Government. It has bee...
Danny Alexander | 542 c1264 (Link to this contribution) I will give way to the shadow Chancellor.
Danny Alexander | 542 c1263 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right that the decommissioning relief and the additional field allowanc...
Brandon Lewis | 542 c1263 (Link to this contribution) I thank my right hon. Friend for giving way and being so generous with his time. Does he agree that ...
Ed Balls | 542 c1263 (Link to this contribution) Will the Chief Secretary give way?
Danny Alexander | 542 c1263 (Link to this contribution) No, I will not give way. I will make some progress.
Baroness Chapman of Darlington | 542 c1252-3 (Link to this contribution) I am afraid I will not. The Government have managed to do something quite staggering in the north-e...
Baroness Chapman of Darlington | 542 c1252 (Link to this contribution) I want to use the brief time that I have to talk about the effect that regional pay will have on my ...
Emma Reynolds | 542 c1251-2 (Link to this contribution) No. As the Institute for Fiscal Studies has said, it is impossible to judge the effectiveness of th...
Seema Malhotra | 542 c1256-7 (Link to this contribution) This Budget comes at a crucial time for the British economy—at a crossroads, when business and famil...
Nia Griffith | 542 c1255-6 (Link to this contribution) Time is short, so I shall not repeat what my hon. Friends have said about the disgraceful robbing of...
Jonathan Edwards | 542 c1254-5 (Link to this contribution) Any speech on the Budget must begin by reminding Members of what was not mentioned in last Wednesday...
Michael Connarty | 542 c1253-4 (Link to this contribution) We had a culture-themed—if not cultured—introduction to the debate, and this is a remake Budget. It ...
Rachel Reeves | 542 c1258-9 (Link to this contribution) I said earlier that the big story about the Budget was what was missing in it rather than what was i...
Tom Greatrex | 542 c1258 (Link to this contribution) While my hon. Friend is dealing with some of the measures that are not specified in the Budget, woul...
Rachel Reeves | 542 c1259 (Link to this contribution) This is not just about freezing an allowance; it is about freezing an allowance this year, next year...
Alun Cairns | 542 c1259 (Link to this contribution) Did the hon. Lady make the same protests when her right hon. Friend the Member for Edinburgh South W...
Rachel Reeves | 542 c1259 (Link to this contribution) I agree. These are hard times for the charitable sector, and the VAT increase has hit it hard. That ...
Ian Lucas | 542 c1259 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend rightly stresses the importance of VAT. Charities are among the types of business tha...
Rachel Reeves | 542 c1260 (Link to this contribution) I suggest that after this debate the hon. Gentleman should sit down and read an economics textbook. ...
Ian Swales | 542 c1259 (Link to this contribution) VAT cuts most benefit those who spend the most. Does the hon. Lady think that now is the right time ...
Danny Alexander | 542 c1260-1 (Link to this contribution) This has been a fascinating debate and some excellent contributions have been made by Members from b...
Danny Alexander | 542 c1266 (Link to this contribution) You are quite right, Mr Speaker. I could not hear my right hon. Friend, but I am happy to give way t...
David Davis | 542 c1266 (Link to this contribution) I will start by saying that I entirely support the growth orientation of the Budget, which is much b...
Danny Alexander | 542 c1264 (Link to this contribution) It is no surprise that Labour Members want to drown out any reference to their record in government....
Danny Alexander | 542 c1264 (Link to this contribution) I am going to make some progress—[Interruption.]
Speaker | 542 c1264 (Link to this contribution) Order. The House needs to calm down a bit. I was listening intently, because I wanted to hear the Ch...
Ed Balls | 542 c1264 (Link to this contribution) Will the Chief Secretary explain why it is fair to take away the personal allowance from low and mid...
Danny Alexander | 542 c1264 (Link to this contribution) I will take no lessons on the treatment of elderly people from the man who was responsible for the 7...
Ed Balls | 542 c1264 (Link to this contribution) Will the Chief Secretary explain to the House how it is consistent with Liberal Democrat values to g...
Danny Alexander | 542 c1264 (Link to this contribution) So not one word of apology for the 75p increase in the basic state pension, not one word of apology ...
Ed Balls | 542 c1264 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?
David Davis | 542 c1265 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. Friend give way?
Danny Alexander | 542 c1265 (Link to this contribution) The Budget is fair. It raises additional taxes from the wealthiest and asks the wealthiest in this c...
Speaker | 542 c1265 (Link to this contribution) Order. There is so much noise that I am not sure the Chief Secretary can even hear that his right ho...
Danny Alexander | 542 c1264 (Link to this contribution) But I will give way to my right hon. Friend first.
Simon Hughes | 542 c1264 (Link to this contribution) Given that the shadow Chancellor is so keen to talk about pensioners, will the Chief Secretary remin...
Danny Alexander | 542 c1265 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend is, as usual, absolutely spot on. From next month, pensioners will see the larg...
David Davis | 542 c1265 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. Friend give way?
Danny Alexander | 542 c1265 (Link to this contribution) The full depths of the economic incompetence of the Labour party have been revealed in the course of...
Tom Harris | 542 c1265 (Link to this contribution) When the Chief Secretary meets the Chancellor every morning at the Treasury to receive his instructi...
Danny Alexander | 542 c1265 (Link to this contribution) There we see it again—a party in denial about the mess it got this country into. [Interruption.] I k...
Michael Meacher | 542 c1245-6 (Link to this contribution) The central aim of this Budget should clearly have been to get growth going again in this country at...
Speaker | 542 c1245 (Link to this contribution) I am not in power. I call Michael Meacher.
Fiona O'Donnell | 542 c1243-4 (Link to this contribution) In my area the greatest inhibition to young people gaining work is the lack of work—the lack of avai...
Fiona O'Donnell | 542 c1244 (Link to this contribution) That is even more unfair. Two parents earning just over the threshold will be disadvantaged compared...
Lord Mann | 542 c1244-5 (Link to this contribution) Mr Speaker, can you believe it? I do not mean the fact that the price of my petrol is going up and t...
Fiona O'Donnell | 542 c1243 (Link to this contribution) I am delighted to have the opportunity to speak in today's debate, having been out yesterday in sunn...
Fiona O'Donnell | 542 c1243 (Link to this contribution) I will, but I will not take the extra time.
Danny Alexander | 542 c1243 (Link to this contribution) I agree wholeheartedly with what the hon. Lady just said. Does she agree with me that the increasing...
Richard Burden | 542 c1249-50 (Link to this contribution) In my constituency at the weekend, I found that the thing that really stuck in the craw of my consti...
Paul Blomfield | 542 c1248 (Link to this contribution) No, I will not give way. The Liberal Democrats would not give way to me on this point earlier. The ...
Debbie Abrahams | 542 c1248-9 (Link to this contribution) Last week's Budget did little to address the current issues of a flatlining economy and rising unemp...
Paul Blomfield | 542 c1248 (Link to this contribution) No, I will not give way. What happened to the party of Paddy Ashdown, who I remember celebrating ta...
Ian Swales | 542 c1248 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Paul Blomfield | 542 c1247-8 (Link to this contribution) No, I will not give way—any more than the right hon. Member for Bath (Mr Foster) did when I tried to...
Paul Blomfield | 542 c1247 (Link to this contribution) This Budget is based on the old Tory adage, ““If you want to make the rich work harder, pay them mor...
Ian Swales | 542 c1247 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Tristram Hunt | 542 c1246-7 (Link to this contribution) The preamble to the Budget was brilliantly set out by the Business Secretary, the right hon. Member ...
Yvonne Fovargue | 542 c1242-3 (Link to this contribution) I would like to address an area that has been eagerly awaited since it was heralded by the Chief Sec...
Michael McCann | 542 c1241-2 (Link to this contribution) I am very grateful for this chance to speak, Mr Deputy Speaker, as I was beginning to lose the power...
Gemma Doyle | 542 c1239-41 (Link to this contribution) Like so many in the country, I had hoped for a Budget that would put jobs and growth first. Instead,...
Steve Baker | 542 c1233-4 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend, as this is a critical problem. It is a problem of expectations; it ...
Mary Glindon | 542 c1234-5 (Link to this contribution) Last Wednesday, the Chancellor began his Budget statement by saying:"““This Budget supports working ...
Karl McCartney | 542 c1233 (Link to this contribution) Will my hon. Friend give us an idea of when he thinks this bubble might burst—in the near or the dis...
Pamela Nash | 542 c1238-9 (Link to this contribution) It may surprise Members to learn that I shall begin by saying something positive about the Budget. I...
James Morris | 542 c1235-6 (Link to this contribution) I believe that this Budget will support the economy of the black country, part of which I represent,...
Stuart Bell | 542 c1236-7 (Link to this contribution) Given the shortage of time and the fact that some of my colleagues wish to contribute, I will confin...
Speaker | 542 c1186 (Link to this contribution) Before I call Mr Vaizey, may I implore both Front Benchers to show incredible time restraint due to ...
Lord Vaizey of Didcot | 542 c1186-7 (Link to this contribution) Your instructions have been noted, Mr Deputy Speaker. May I begin by apologising to the House for t...
Anne McGuire | 542 c1189 (Link to this contribution) Would the Minister like to come to the village of Balquhidder in my constituency and tell people tha...
Andrea Leadsom | 542 c1187 (Link to this contribution) I am delighted about that, because it was made in my constituency.
Lord Vaizey of Didcot | 542 c1187 (Link to this contribution) Is it not a wonderful coincidence that I also get to suck up to one of the most important Back Bench...
Tristram Hunt | 542 c1187 (Link to this contribution) Is it because the Department for Culture, Media and Sport is no longer interested in art and culture...
Lord Vaizey of Didcot | 542 c1187-8 (Link to this contribution) That gives me a chance to respond to one of the Labour party's most important Back Benchers. If he t...
Ian Lucas | 542 c1188 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman tell the House where the aerodynamics centre is to be based?
Lord Vaizey of Didcot | 542 c1188 (Link to this contribution) May I congratulate the hon. Gentleman on his iPad cover, which is the same colour as a ministerial r...
Lord Vaizey of Didcot | 542 c1188-9 (Link to this contribution) Oh, it was the Budget book. It looked like an iPad cover. Forgive me; I keep mistaking the hon. Gent...
Jim Dowd | 542 c1189 (Link to this contribution) On that subject, will the Minister have a word with the London borough of Bromley—it is allegedly in...
Lord Vaizey of Didcot | 542 c1189 (Link to this contribution) First, that is why we are spending the money that we are, and secondly, we are working in partnershi...
Lord Vaizey of Didcot | 542 c1190-1 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a very good point. Because we believe in devolution and localism, the implement...
David Miliband | 542 c1191 (Link to this contribution) I was actually wondering how many more pages of this drivel we had to sit through. The hon. Gentlema...
Lord Vaizey of Didcot | 542 c1190 (Link to this contribution) I first need to get the hon. Gentleman an iPad—[Interruption.] He has one. At last he has an iPad! W...
Alun Cairns | 542 c1190 (Link to this contribution) Following the point made by the hon. Member for Wrexham (Ian Lucas), does my hon. Friend the Ministe...
Lord Vaizey of Didcot | 542 c1189-90 (Link to this contribution) Ultrafast broadband will of course benefit London, and across the 10 cities that I mentioned, the Ch...
Ian Lucas | 542 c1190 (Link to this contribution) Virgin broadband is not available in north Wales. The problem, as the Minister will hear from Govern...
Lord Vaizey of Didcot | 542 c1189 (Link to this contribution) Without adopting the hon. Gentleman's language—I would certainly never describe Bromley or its counc...
Bob Blackman | 542 c1189 (Link to this contribution) Will the Minister elucidate further on the benefits to the whole of London of the roll-out of ultraf...
Alun Cairns | 542 c1196 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. and learned Lady says that creative industries are struggling to gain access to capit...
Lord Darling of Roulanish | 542 c1199-200 (Link to this contribution) I want to return to the ““nascent recovery”” in just a moment, but first I should say that I was par...
Speaker | 542 c1224 (Link to this contribution) Order. If you want to put your name on the speaking list, do so by all means, but interventions have...
Rachel Reeves | 542 c1257-8 (Link to this contribution) This has been an important debate—one that will prove, I believe, to be a turning-point in the histo...
Danny Alexander | 542 c1266 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend will know that all these measures are consulted on, but I think the measure is ...
Speaker | 542 c1271 (Link to this contribution) Before I put the questions on the remaining Budget resolutions, I must inform the House that motion ...
Emma Reynolds | 542 c1250-1 (Link to this contribution) Let me be clear from the outset that this is a Budget from a Government who are intent on dividing B...
Penny Mordaunt | 542 c1237-8 (Link to this contribution) My constituents welcome many measures in the Budget, particularly the raising of the personal allowa...
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Capital investment Budgets Culture Broadband ICT Innovation Intellectual property Welfare tax credits State retirement pensions Research Tax rates and bands Cuts Budget March 2012 High income child benefit tax charge
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