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That seemed like a speech in search of a question. The right hon. Gentleman cannot deny the fact that when we discussed electoral funding and political reform, the Labour party and the Liberal party agreed on the means to reform the political funding system. There was an agreement between our two parties. The Conservative party pulled out of the agreement, and it pulled out on the recommendation of one person: the person who funds the Conservative party, the person who has given £10 million to the Conservative party, the person who has been offshore for many years—Lord Aschroft.
Answered by
Gordon Brown (Labour)
Answering body
Prime Minister
Type
Oral answers to questions
Date
7 April 2010
Reference
508 c965
House
House of Commons
We cannot cut our way to recovery, and that is why to withdraw £6 billion from the economy now is the wrong thing to do. Let us be clear: the Conservative policies would put jobs at risk immediately, would put businesses at risk immediately, and would put growth at risk immediately. As far as 2011 is concerned, we have to make a decision. Do we want to maintain the improvement in our policing, our public services and our health service guarantees, and maintain investment in the schools? We say that that will cost that extra money on national insurance; they say no. The public must make up their minds. Do they want the public services to be maintained, or do they want the traditional Tory policy of putting our public services at risk?
Answered by
Gordon Brown (Labour)
Answering body
Prime Minister
Type
Oral answers to questions
Date
7 April 2010
Reference
508 c963-4
House
House of Commons
I do not accept that in any operation to which we sent our troops our commanding officers gave wrong advice; they told us that they were properly equipped. Every time, in every operation, we ask our commanding officers, "Are we able to do this operation?" and our commanding officers have said yes, they can. So I have to say to the right hon. Gentleman that we have done our best to equip our troops, and we will continue to do so. It is right that I take full responsibility, but I take the advice of our commanding officers, and the advice of our commanding officers is very clear.
Answered by
Gordon Brown (Labour)
Answering body
Prime Minister
Type
Oral answers to questions
Date
7 April 2010
Reference
508 c961
House
House of Commons
As long as there are children suffering, as long as there are mothers dying in childbirth unnecessarily, and as long as young people are not getting education in schools, we have a duty as a country to act. I am proud—and my right hon. Friend the International Development Secretary has done a great deal to push this forward—of the fact that we as a Government have doubled the expenditure in real terms on overseas aid from 0.26 per cent. of GDP, which we inherited from the previous Government, to 0.52 per cent. today. That doubling of our investment in overseas aid is unparalleled in the past 20 years in any country, and I would hope that there would be an all-party consensus that spending on overseas aid can continue.
Answered by
Gordon Brown (Labour)
Answering body
Prime Minister
Type
Oral answers to questions
Date
7 April 2010
Reference
508 c964-5
House
House of Commons
It is the same old Conservative party— [Interruption.] Once again, the right hon. Gentleman said nothing about the future; it is the same old Tories. To think he was the future once! We have the shortest ever waiting lists in the health service; 2.5 million more jobs since 1997; a Sure Start centre in every community in our country; more pupils than ever staying on at school; more students going to university; more pensioners out of poverty; and more dignity and security in retirement. We are the Government who have plans for the future. The Opposition have nothing to offer. Only a Labour Government can do it.
Answered by
Gordon Brown (Labour)
Answering body
Prime Minister
Type
Oral answers to questions
Date
7 April 2010
Reference
508 c964
House
House of Commons
I am grateful to my hon. Friend; he has always been a persistent advocate of the ports and the jobs they create. I am very happy to meet him to talk about this issue and what we have done—the equal interest-free payments paid in instalments over an unprecedented eight years. I am happy to talk to him about what more we can do to help.
Answered by
Gordon Brown (Labour)
Answering body
Prime Minister
Type
Oral answers to questions
Date
7 April 2010
Reference
508 c967-8
House
House of Commons
The big issue is whether we can secure and assure the economic recovery. To withdraw £6 billion from the recovery now would put jobs at risk, put businesses at risk and put our growth at risk. We cannot cut our way to recovery—but we could cut our way to double-dip recession. In 2011 we will use the rise in national insurance to guarantee that we fund our policing and our schooling, and to make sure that the health services guarantees of cancer care and of being able to see a GP at weekends and in the evenings are kept. Those guarantees will be kept, because of the decisions that we make.
Answered by
Gordon Brown (Labour)
Answering body
Prime Minister
Type
Oral answers to questions
Date
7 April 2010
Reference
508 c961
House
House of Commons
The right hon. Gentleman said that there was no answer to the last question, but it is he who has never given an answer on any single policy. As far as pension funds are concerned, we debated the matter in this House two years ago, and the shadow Chancellor put the case that the dividend tax credit had affected the ability of pension funds to have money. I showed at that time that during the period before the stock market crash, what had actually happened was that the resources of the pension funds had doubled. He lost his case when he put it to the House of Commons; it is no use trying to put it again. What we have done over these last 12 years is give a pensioners' winter allowance, initially opposed by the Conservative party. What we are saying that we will do is link pensions to earnings—a link taken away by a Conservative Government. What we have done is give 2 million pensioners a pension tax credit, and have given them dignity in retirement—again, that was opposed by the Conservative Government. What we now have is a national concessionary fare scheme that gives pensioners the chance to travel the country; that would be at risk under a Conservative Government.
Answered by
Gordon Brown (Labour)
Answering body
Prime Minister
Type
Oral answers to questions
Date
7 April 2010
Reference
508 c962
House
House of Commons
By the time I met them they were all staunch Labour supporters, as a result of the message that we put to them. Yesterday I visited a number of places in Kent and asked people what the major issue affecting them was, and they said that they wanted to secure the recovery. I had to tell people that the Conservative party taking £6 billion out of the economy would put the recovery at risk. The issue is very clear: jobs with Labour, unemployment under the Conservatives.
Answered by
Gordon Brown (Labour)
Answering body
Prime Minister
Type
Oral answers to questions
Date
7 April 2010
Reference
508 c966
House
House of Commons
I have said that the country has to make a choice. The Conservative party has made its choice, but I say to the country that if we want to maintain and improve our schools and policing, including the record numbers of police and neighbourhood policing in this country, and if we want to ensure the cancer guarantee, the GP guarantee and the other guarantees in our national health service, that has to be paid for. I believe that the country will make the choice in favour of maintaining and improving our public services, and I think that, once again, the Conservative party is exposed as the party that opposed public service improvements in our country.
Answered by
Gordon Brown (Labour)
Answering body
Prime Minister
Type
Oral answers to questions
Date
7 April 2010
Reference
508 c968
House
House of Commons
Net migration to this country has been falling as a result of actions that we have been taking, and it has fallen in the last three years. It is falling because there are more people here locally getting the jobs that are available. The Conservatives should think twice about their policy on quotas for migration, because the very businesses that they are quoting want to be able to bring people into this country to do the jobs that are necessary. We propose the Australian points system on migration. The Conservatives' policy of a quota for immigration, without giving a number, would do great damage to British business.
Answered by
Gordon Brown (Labour)
Answering body
Prime Minister
Type
Oral answers to questions
Date
7 April 2010
Reference
508 c969
House
House of Commons
The hon. Gentleman came down to this Parliament and he spent most of his time voting with the Conservative party. He should go back to Scotland and explain why, instead of voting for jobs, he is voting with the Conservative party in Parliament.
Answered by
Gordon Brown (Labour)
Answering body
Prime Minister
Type
Oral answers to questions
Date
7 April 2010
Reference
508 c970
House
House of Commons
I'll tell the Conservative party about jobs. Jobs mean helping young people to get into work, including the 200,000 jobs created by the future jobs fund now and over the next few months; jobs means helping young people to stay in work and with getting work experience and education, including the summer school leavers guarantee that we are giving; and jobs means helping small businesses through this difficult time, with the time to pay, the reduction of business rates and the help that we are giving them now. Take £6 billion out of the economy now, and we would put the recovery at risk. Take £6 billion out of the economy, and thousands of jobs would go.
Answered by
Gordon Brown (Labour)
Answering body
Prime Minister
Type
Oral answers to questions
Date
7 April 2010
Reference
508 c967
House
House of Commons
We have given every patient a guarantee that they will receive treatment within 18 weeks of seeing their doctor. That is a guarantee that we give personally to every patient, and in the next Parliament they can enforce it and go private, or go to another health authority if it is not met. The Opposition party refuses to back that guarantee. We have given a guarantee to cancer patients that they will see a specialist within two weeks, and in the next Parliament they will be able to have their diagnostic test within one week. That is a guarantee that we have given; the Conservative party will not support that guarantee, even to cancer patients. We have given a guarantee that general practitioners must see people in the weekends or in the evenings as well as during ordinary working hours, and that is a guarantee that we are giving but the Conservative party refuses to support. People will make up their minds in whose hands the health service is safe—and it is in the Labour party's hands.
Answered by
Gordon Brown (Labour)
Answering body
Prime Minister
Type
Oral answers to questions
Date
7 April 2010
Reference
508 c966
House
House of Commons
Asked by
Michael Fabricant (Conservative)
Answering body
Prime Minister
Prime Minister's questions - Lead
Status
Answered
Notes
Lead question not printed
Date
7 April 2010
Reference
508 c968; 325644
House
House of Commons
Asked by
John Mason (Scottish National Party)
Answering body
Prime Minister
Prime Minister's questions - Lead
Status
Answered
Notes
Lead question not printed
Date
7 April 2010
Reference
508 c970; 325647
House
House of Commons
Asked by
Doug Naysmith (Labour)
Answering body
Prime Minister
Prime Minister's questions - Lead
Status
Answered
Notes
Lead question not printed
Date
7 April 2010
Reference
508 c969-70; 325646
House
House of Commons
Asked by
Bernard Jenkin (Conservative)
Answering body
Prime Minister
Prime Minister's questions - Lead
Status
Answered
Notes
Lead question not printed
Date
7 April 2010
Reference
508 c967; 325642
House
House of Commons
Asked by
Greg Hands (Conservative)
Answering body
Prime Minister
Prime Minister's questions - Lead
Status
Answered
Notes
Lead question not printed
Date
7 April 2010
Reference
508 c967; 325643
House
House of Commons
Asked by
Stephen Hammond (Conservative)
Answering body
Prime Minister
Prime Minister's questions - Lead
Status
Answered
Notes
Lead question not printed
Date
7 April 2010
Reference
508 c966; 325641
House
House of Commons