Statement on the pre-budget report (Cm 7747).
Pre-Budget Report
Ministerial statement on Wednesday, 9 December 2009,
in the House of Commons,
led by Lord Darling of Roulanish.
Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
502 c359-86
Session
2009-10
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Pre-Budget report December 2009: Securing the recovery: growth and opportunity.
Wednesday, 9 December 2009
Command papers
House of Commons
Wednesday, 9 December 2009
Command papers
House of Commons
Proceeding contributions
Lord Darling of Roulanish | 502 c359-71 (Link to this contribution)
Statement. Today's pre-Budget report takes place at a critical time for our economy and for our coun...
Sammy Wilson | 502 c382 (Link to this contribution)
I fully recognise the constraints placed on the Chancellor in balancing and restoring public finance...
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Lord Darling of Roulanish | 502 c382 (Link to this contribution)
These things sometimes happen with the Liberal Democrats, but I am grateful to my hon. Friend for wh...
Roberta Blackman-Woods | 502 c382 (Link to this contribution)
I thank the Chancellor for listening to those of us who were pressing for an extension to the free s...
Lord Darling of Roulanish | 502 c381 (Link to this contribution)
Yes, but the OECD is not arguing for going far faster and therefore damaging jobs and the fabric of ...
Lord Darling of Roulanish | 502 c383 (Link to this contribution)
First, as I said in the statement, we are making available further sums to the Ministry of Defence. ...
Rob Marris | 502 c383 (Link to this contribution)
Does the Chancellor agree with the leader of the Conservative party that the problem is big Governme...
Lord Darling of Roulanish | 502 c382 (Link to this contribution)
I understand that concern, and I can tell my hon. Friend that the Secretary of State for Work and Pe...
Andrew Murrison | 502 c382 (Link to this contribution)
The Chancellor has announced increased funding for current operations, but after the increased costs...
Lord Darling of Roulanish | 502 c382 (Link to this contribution)
I hope that, one way or another, the Government have recognised Northern Ireland's special needs, no...
Jeremy Corbyn | 502 c382 (Link to this contribution)
I note that the Chancellor's statement included the welcome reference to the fact that anyone who mo...
Lord Darling of Roulanish | 502 c380 (Link to this contribution)
My right hon. Friend should bear it in mind that if—when—banks return to profitability, which must b...
Lord Darling of Roulanish | 502 c380 (Link to this contribution)
I said in my statement that, yes, national insurance will go up, and that is necessary because we wa...
Brooks Newmark | 502 c380 (Link to this contribution)
How much worse off will constituents of mine who earn £25,000 be as result of the Chancellor's natio...
Lord Field of Birkenhead | 502 c381 (Link to this contribution)
May I compliment the Chancellor of the Exchequer on how he has acquitted himself not only today but ...
Lord Darling of Roulanish | 502 c381 (Link to this contribution)
First, I am grateful to my right hon. Friend. On quantitative easing, the Monetary Policy Committee ...
Richard Caborn | 502 c380 (Link to this contribution)
I welcome the statement, particularly for the wealth-creating sectors and manufacturing up north—in ...
Lord Darling of Roulanish | 502 c381 (Link to this contribution)
My right hon. Friend represents a part of the country that was at the wrong end of the 1980s recessi...
Julia Goldsworthy | 502 c381 (Link to this contribution)
The Chancellor applauded the flexibility of working tax credits, but no additional support has been ...
Lord Darling of Roulanish | 502 c381 (Link to this contribution)
We have tried over a number of years to improve the help that we give to people who lose their jobs ...
Rob Wilson | 502 c385 (Link to this contribution)
Will the Chancellor confirm that manufacturing has contracted more under this Government than it did...
Lord Darling of Roulanish | 502 c384-5 (Link to this contribution)
I do not know whether the proposals from the hon. Member for Twickenham are to be found in an EDM, b...
Justine Greening | 502 c386 (Link to this contribution)
The return to growth that is forecast in later years is predicated on consumers generating more GDP ...
Lord Darling of Roulanish | 502 c385-6 (Link to this contribution)
I believe that, certainly over the past 12 years, Wales has seen a significant increase in funding b...
Adam Price | 502 c385 (Link to this contribution)
In the month when the Holtham commission, which the Labour-led Administration in the National Assemb...
Lord Darling of Roulanish | 502 c385 (Link to this contribution)
I am glad to hear that there is common ground on this issue, because, certainly in my first 10 years...
Lord Darling of Roulanish | 502 c386 (Link to this contribution)
The figure I mentioned is our estimate of what we will get after behavioural changes in terms of bot...
Lord Darling of Roulanish | 502 c386 (Link to this contribution)
I think that many members of the public will be reducing the amount of debt that they carry, and tha...
Andrew Pelling | 502 c386 (Link to this contribution)
As politicians are to blame, like bankers, perhaps the top 25 per cent. of our salaries should also ...
Lord Darling of Roulanish | 502 c383 (Link to this contribution)
Despite being posed such a difficult question, I am probably more on my hon. Friend's side than the ...
Lord Darling of Roulanish | 502 c383 (Link to this contribution)
Of course I am aware of the tax treatment of losses, but the hon. Gentleman will be aware of the way...
Peter Bone | 502 c383 (Link to this contribution)
The Chancellor was incorrect in saying that when the banks return to profit, they will pay corporati...
Lord Darling of Roulanish | 502 c383 (Link to this contribution)
I know that our right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families is very ...
Helen Southworth | 502 c383 (Link to this contribution)
Will my right hon. Friend make sure that services to safeguard and protect vulnerable children who a...
Stewart Hosie | 502 c383-4 (Link to this contribution)
Even if the deficit falls as planned, based on pretty heroic growth forecasts, the national debt wil...
Lord Darling of Roulanish | 502 c384 (Link to this contribution)
I say this to the hon. Gentleman: yes, we did bring capital spending forward, and the situation in S...
Dari Taylor | 502 c384 (Link to this contribution)
I warmly welcome the Chancellor's announcement of the innovation investment fund for research into t...
Lord Darling of Roulanish | 502 c384 (Link to this contribution)
I understand that the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills will make the situation...
Richard Younger-Ross | 502 c384 (Link to this contribution)
I congratulate the Chancellor on adopting the proposal that I included in an early-day motion on the...
John Redwood | 502 c379 (Link to this contribution)
Why has growth been non-existent so far, when the Chancellor's policy is meant to be about promoting...
Speaker | 502 c379 (Link to this contribution)
Order. Twenty-two hon. and right hon. Members are seeking to catch my eye. As usual, I should like t...
Hazel Blears | 502 c379 (Link to this contribution)
Politics is clearly the language of priorities, and I am delighted that my right hon. Friend has set...
Lord Darling of Roulanish | 502 c379 (Link to this contribution)
There has been no growth in the last year for perfectly obvious reasons. Because of the crisis in th...
Edward Leigh | 502 c379-80 (Link to this contribution)
The previous Gershon efficiency savings were found, after independent audit by the National Audit Of...
Lord Darling of Roulanish | 502 c379 (Link to this contribution)
Yes is the short answer. It is important that we carry on expanding the number of apprenticeships be...
Michael Meacher | 502 c380 (Link to this contribution)
Does my right hon. Friend really believe that a one-off, short-term bonus tax is sufficient to achie...
Lord Darling of Roulanish | 502 c380 (Link to this contribution)
I do not accept the general premise underlying the hon. Gentleman's question that efficiencies canno...
Lord McFall of Alcluith | 502 c378-9 (Link to this contribution)
It is right for the Government to use this pre-Budget report to maintain investment in the economy. ...
Lord Darling of Roulanish | 502 c379 (Link to this contribution)
My right hon. Friend is absolutely right. The priority is to deal with the aftermath of this downtur...
Lord Darling of Roulanish | 502 c378 (Link to this contribution)
I disagree with the hon. Gentleman. We have set out a plan to reduce the country's deficit over a fo...
Speaker | 502 c374 (Link to this contribution)
Order. I apologise for interrupting the shadow Chancellor. Mr. Prentice, you must calm down. You mig...
George Osborne | 502 c371-4 (Link to this contribution)
Today, confronted with the biggest budget deficit in our peacetime history, the right hon. Gentleman...
Vincent Cable | 502 c376-7 (Link to this contribution)
I thank the Chancellor for sending me his statement, even though it was missing 43 paragraphs.
What...
Speaker | 502 c375 (Link to this contribution)
Order. I am sorry to have to interrupt the Chancellor of the Exchequer. I must say, Mr. Blunt, that ...
Lord Darling of Roulanish | 502 c374-6 (Link to this contribution)
I have listened to the shadow Chancellor speak for the past 10 minutes or so, and there is one word ...
Speaker | 502 c370 (Link to this contribution)
Order. I apologise for interrupting the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Mr. Bellingham, we have, on a r...
Lord Jackson of Peterborough | 502 c381 (Link to this contribution)
The OECD believes that early and ambitious fiscal consolidation will strengthen the recovery. Why do...
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