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Fiscal Responsibility Bill

Debate on bills and Committee of the Whole House (HC) on Wednesday, 20 January 2010, in the House of Commons, led by Ian Pearson. The answering member was David Gauke.
Fiscal Responsibility bill. Committee stage first day. Clause 1, discussed with new clauses 1, 14 and 15, debated and agreed to. New clause 1 negatived on division (201 votes to 266). Clauses 2 to 6 agreed to. Bill reported without amendment. Third reading debate. Agreed to on division (265 votes to 197). Bill passed.
Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
504 c322-404 
Session
2009-10
Department
Treasury
Legislative stage
Committee stage, Third reading and Report stage
Procedure
New clauses
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Related items
Fiscal Responsibility Bill. Explanatory Notes Bill 13-EN also published.
Wednesday, 9 December 2009
Bills
House of Commons
Proceeding contributions
John McDonnell | 504 c399-400 (Link to this contribution) I have sat through the debates all afternoon; I left the Chamber for only a short time. I hope that ...
Jeremy Browne | 504 c398-9 (Link to this contribution) Wait a second. We have identified specific proposals that other parties have typically been unenthu...

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Jeremy Browne | 504 c398 (Link to this contribution) I do not wish to talk out of turn, but the right hon. Gentleman has not followed every ebb and flow ...
Jeremy Browne | 504 c397-8 (Link to this contribution) Traditionally, at this point in the Bill process, we all thank the Clerks and the others who have co...
Kelvin Hopkins | 504 c398 (Link to this contribution) Was it not the hon. Gentleman's party leader who talked about the need for "savage" cuts? I thought ...
David Gauke | 504 c397 (Link to this contribution) That is a helpful contribution. I am sure that you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, would not want me to be over...
Jeremy Browne | 504 c398 (Link to this contribution) I have said that, and I do not know many people who think that £178 billion a year is not enough. Of...
Lord Reid of Cardowan | 504 c398 (Link to this contribution) That is not the question. The question, if the hon. Gentleman can set aside his displacement concern...
Jeremy Browne | 504 c398 (Link to this contribution) I think it is necessary to cut the deficit—
David Gauke | 504 c322 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move amendment 1, page 1, line 3, after '2016', insert 'the structural element of'.
Andrew Love | 504 c357 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman agree that a double-dip recession is most likely if we remove the fiscal sti...
Jeremy Browne | 504 c357 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes a slightly different point—he is talking about the timing. As there is a re...
David Gauke | 504 c359-60 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to speak on this group of amendments, which essentially brings together various way...
Andrew Love | 504 c360 (Link to this contribution) In the forecasting business, it is easy to look back at previous forecasts and point out the inadequ...
Lembit Opik | 504 c358 (Link to this contribution) Is my hon. Friend basically saying that there is no way we can legislate for unforeseen circumstance...
Jeremy Browne | 504 c358-9 (Link to this contribution) I am put to shame by my hon. Friend's brevity, because that is what I have basically been saying for...
David Gauke | 504 c361 (Link to this contribution) I do not think that the hon. Gentleman has accurately characterised where the debate was a year or s...
Jeremy Browne | 504 c361-2 (Link to this contribution) I am interested in the point that the hon. Gentleman has just made. During my speech, I spoke of the...
David Gauke | 504 c360-1 (Link to this contribution) Of course there are difficulties in forecasting, but when it comes to forecasts for the public finan...
Andrew Love | 504 c361 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for giving way a second time. Let me take a specific example. It is well ...
David Gauke | 504 c362 (Link to this contribution) Those are the allegations that have been made, and I hope that the Minister will be able to dispel t...
David Gauke | 504 c362 (Link to this contribution) I am not going to get into the business of making forecasts on these matters—
David Gauke | 504 c362 (Link to this contribution) Thank you very much. I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for that intervention; he shows good judgme...
Baroness Clark of Kilwinning | 504 c362 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman keeps referring to accusations made by other people, and to reports. Is he making...
David Gauke | 504 c362-3 (Link to this contribution) I am choosing my words carefully. I do not have the evidence that that has happened, but there have ...
Baroness Clark of Kilwinning | 504 c363 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has quoted a number of people who have no doubt made statements for their own rea...
David Gauke | 504 c363-4 (Link to this contribution) No, I do not agree with the hon. Lady. She quoted HSBC. Let me quote what was said by a representati...
Jeremy Browne | 504 c364 (Link to this contribution) Was not the hon. Member for North Ayrshire and Arran (Ms Clark) talking about two separate issues? T...
Ian Pearson | 504 c348 (Link to this contribution) I have given way to all the hon. Members who are standing up. Given that the next group of amendment...
Kelvin Hopkins | 504 c347 (Link to this contribution) I am pleased that my hon. Friend has pointed out the dangers of dealing with debt too rigorously. Do...
Ian Pearson | 504 c348 (Link to this contribution) I believe that growth is the best way to cut debt, which is why we should not jeopardise the recover...
William Cash | 504 c347 (Link to this contribution) Is the Minister aware that arguments about RBS demonstrate that what the Government are doing now is...
Ian Pearson | 504 c347 (Link to this contribution) I do not want to go over the history of the Royal Bank of Scotland, but I do not believe that the ho...
Chair of Committees of the Whole House | 504 c347 (Link to this contribution) Order. Before the hon. Member intervenes, I repeat that interventions should be as brief as possible...
Baroness Clark of Kilwinning | 504 c348 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend must accept that many of us feel that this approach is simply far too radical a respo...
Ian Pearson | 504 c348 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is the exception to the rule, because she has not yet made an intervention, so I am h...
Ian Pearson | 504 c348 (Link to this contribution) I understand what my hon. Friend says. As a Government, we have to make a judgment as to what is in ...
David Gauke | 504 c350-1 (Link to this contribution) This has been a useful debate, and I thank the following right hon. and hon. Friends for their contr...
Chair of Committees of the Whole House | 504 c355 (Link to this contribution) I have now to announce the result of the Division deferred from a previous day on the question relat...
Jeremy Browne | 504 c355 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move amendment 4, page 1, line 14, at end add—
Chair of Committees of the Whole House | 504 c355-6 (Link to this contribution) With this it will be convenient to take the following:
Kelvin Hopkins | 504 c349 (Link to this contribution) With respect, may I say to my hon. Friend that what he is suggesting is contradictory? If, as he is ...
Ian Pearson | 504 c349 (Link to this contribution) Again, I understand my hon. Friend's point. However, we still need to take action to ensure that we ...
Lord Tyrie | 504 c349-50 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Minister for giving way—he is being extremely generous. In my remarks, I said t...
Jeremy Browne | 504 c356-7 (Link to this contribution) I and my colleagues tabled amendments 4 and 5. To follow on from the observations of the hon. Member...
Ian Pearson | 504 c373 (Link to this contribution) I know that some of my colleagues believe we might be going slightly too fast. I am happy to give wa...
Ian Pearson | 504 c373 (Link to this contribution) The Treasury will always be concerned about the impact of public spending on growth. As part of its ...
Baroness Clark of Kilwinning | 504 c373 (Link to this contribution) I look forward to that debate. Obviously growth will be the most important thing in the coming peri...
Ian Pearson | 504 c370 (Link to this contribution) I must confess that I have not read The Irish Times, but the hon. Gentleman will be aware of the int...
Andrew Pelling | 504 c370 (Link to this contribution) I assure the Minister that this will be my only turn during this section of our proceedings. He is r...
Ian Pearson | 504 c370-2 (Link to this contribution) I think that it was Francis Bacon who talked about dreams and predictions being subjects only for a ...
Ian Pearson | 504 c372 (Link to this contribution) Germany has already introduced similar legislation, and the IMF, in a report that I believe was publ...
David Gauke | 504 c372 (Link to this contribution) Has the Treasury received any representations telling it what a good idea the Bill is? In particular...
Stewart Hosie | 504 c381-2 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman's last point is absolutely right. That is why I have been critical of the Labour ...
Kelvin Hopkins | 504 c381 (Link to this contribution) We could have a debate about what is or is not a prudent level of debt, but we should all focus on h...
Stewart Hosie | 504 c380-1 (Link to this contribution) It is forecast to grow; the Minister conceded that earlier. It will go up to about 77 per cent. of G...
Jeremy Browne | 504 c374 (Link to this contribution) The amendment would allow the Bill's suspension for a year. I am all in favour of not having the Bil...
Jeremy Browne | 504 c373-4 (Link to this contribution) When talking about amendment 4, the Economic Secretary recognised that there were circumstances—he c...
Kelvin Hopkins | 504 c380 (Link to this contribution) I am interested in what the hon. Gentleman says. He talks about a prudent level of debt, but in fact...
Stewart Hosie | 504 c379-80 (Link to this contribution) I hope to speak to the amendments and new clauses in a fashion that makes sense in the short time av...
Chair of Committees of the Whole House | 504 c378-9 (Link to this contribution) With this it will be convenient to discuss the following:
Stewart Hosie | 504 c378 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move amendment 6, page 1, line 14, at end add—
Baroness Clark of Kilwinning | 504 c366 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman referred to the Fitch report that has just been published. Does he accept that it...
David Gauke | 504 c366 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is right to caution against a simplistic understanding of the fiscal stimulus, bu...
Andrew Love | 504 c365 (Link to this contribution) An important point has to be made here. I think that the public will agree with the view of Governme...
David Gauke | 504 c365 (Link to this contribution) Before I go on to discuss the parliamentary procedure, I shall give way to the hon. Gentleman.
Stewart Hosie | 504 c366 (Link to this contribution) There is indeed a question as to when one withdraws the fiscal stimulus, but this debate is taking p...
David Gauke | 504 c365 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes an interesting point. It is not particularly relevant to the argument that ...
Baroness Clark of Kilwinning | 504 c364 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has provided a range of quotations from different individuals and organisations, ...
David Gauke | 504 c364 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes a helpful intervention; there are two separate points there. If the Bill is...
David Gauke | 504 c364-5 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for that intervention, which repeated a point made on Second Reading by the right hon....
Ian Pearson | 504 c369-70 (Link to this contribution) I do not know whether it was because of something that hon. Friends of the hon. Member for South-Wes...
William Cash | 504 c369 (Link to this contribution) I want to add one point, which I tried to make in an intervention. I am not easily put off. Clause ...
Stewart Hosie | 504 c368 (Link to this contribution) I am about to finish. I am conscious that it is almost 5 pm and we are only on the second group of a...
Stewart Hosie | 504 c368 (Link to this contribution) That is absolutely right, and it is the fundamental case that I am trying to make. Nobody believes t...
Andrew Pelling | 504 c368 (Link to this contribution) As the Government are asking us to support the Bill, is it not important that they provide informati...
Stewart Hosie | 504 c368 (Link to this contribution) Yes, on balance I suspect that it would be right for such a report to be placed before the House, or...
William Cash | 504 c368 (Link to this contribution) I have enormous sympathy with the hon. Gentleman's objectives in this regard. The Chancellor has pre...
Stewart Hosie | 504 c367 (Link to this contribution) It is instructive that 18 new clauses and 21 amendments have been tabled to this six-clause Bill. Th...
David Gauke | 504 c366 (Link to this contribution) But the report still warns that if no credible cuts in public spending are made after the next gener...
Chair of Committees of the Whole House | 504 c389 (Link to this contribution) I ask the Serjeant at Arms to investigate the delay in the No Lobby.
Ian Pearson | 504 c383-4 (Link to this contribution) I think the hon. Gentleman is in danger of returning to the debate that we have just had. As I said ...
Kelvin Hopkins | 504 c384 (Link to this contribution) I am pleased to hear that the Government continue to support growth to support expansion, at least f...
Ian Pearson | 504 c384 (Link to this contribution) As my hon. Friend will be aware, we already have significant public investment plans for 2010-11, wh...
Ian Pearson | 504 c382 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Member for Dundee, East (Stewart Hosie) for tabling the amendments, becaus...
Ian Pearson | 504 c382 (Link to this contribution) Before I do so, however, I shall give way to the hon. Member for Croydon, Central (Mr. Pelling).
Andrew Pelling | 504 c383 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Minister for helpfully elucidating some of those principles. One of the princip...
Ian Pearson | 504 c384-5 (Link to this contribution) I hope my hon. Friend will not mind my not giving way to him again, because I wish to conclude and g...
Stewart Hosie | 504 c385 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister for his answer. He relied heavily on, and prayed in aid, the draft code for fis...
Ian Pearson | 504 c394-5 (Link to this contribution) I will return directly to the Bill, Mr. Deputy Speaker. Our judgment is that it is better to engage...
Sally Keeble | 504 c395 (Link to this contribution) What if the Government were to start fiscal tightening earlier? When—roughly—would redundancy notice...
Ian Pearson | 504 c393-4 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That the Bill be now read the Third time. I thank all hon. Members who participated ...
David Drew | 504 c394 (Link to this contribution) Can the Minister assure us that the Governor of the Bank of England is also bound-in to those statem...
Andrew Pelling | 504 c397 (Link to this contribution) That is an excellent idea. Could it not be taken further to improve Parliament itself by having that...
David Gauke | 504 c322 (Link to this contribution) That might be one explanation. It is probably a better explanation than the one we heard in the wind...
David Gauke | 504 c322 (Link to this contribution) It is a great pleasure to be here this afternoon. I shall bear in mind your comment, Sir Alan. The ...
Jeremy Browne | 504 c323 (Link to this contribution) I strongly support the hon. Gentleman's sentiments. Does it not appear that the Prime Minister, havi...
David Gauke | 504 c323-4 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes an excellent point. That is exactly right. We do not accept the argument th...
Ian Pearson | 504 c322 (Link to this contribution) Let me have a stab at an answer. Perhaps my hon. Friends realise that I do not have any difficulty i...
David Gauke | 504 c323 (Link to this contribution) We shall see whether the Minister requires any help, but it is good to see such confidence early on....
Chair of Committees of the Whole House | 504 c322 (Link to this contribution) With this it will be convenient to discuss the following: amendment 2, page 1, line 5, after '2014,'...
Andrew Pelling | 504 c324 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is making an excellent contribution. Is this not a treacherous debate for all pol...
John Redwood | 504 c326 (Link to this contribution) I rise to support the amendment tabled by my hon. Friend the Member for South-West Hertfordshire (Mr...
Jeremy Browne | 504 c326-7 (Link to this contribution) My understanding of the Bill is that the deficit does not need to be cut in every year until 2014 bu...
John Redwood | 504 c327-8 (Link to this contribution) That is set out right at the beginning of clause 1, which clearly states that""for each of the finan...
Lord Tyrie | 504 c328-9 (Link to this contribution) There is an Alice in Wonderland quality about the Bill, and particularly about clause 1. One particu...
Michael Fallon | 504 c329 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend hits on a very good point. Has he noticed the fatuity of clause 1? It states that the...
Lord Tyrie | 504 c329-31 (Link to this contribution) Of course the Bill is gibberish, and it is very difficult to examine clause 1 without examining clau...
Mark Todd | 504 c331 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
David Gauke | 504 c324-5 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his kind words and for raising that issue, because I want to...
Jeremy Browne | 504 c325-6 (Link to this contribution) The lead amendment in the next group, amendment 4, stands in my name and that of my colleagues, so I...
Lord Tyrie | 504 c331 (Link to this contribution) I will not give way, if the hon. Gentleman will forgive me, because I am about to finish. Clause 1 ...
William Cash | 504 c331-2 (Link to this contribution) I am pleased to follow the excellent speech of my hon. Friend the Member for Chichester (Mr. Tyrie),...
William Cash | 504 c332-3 (Link to this contribution) I was waiting for that. My right hon. Friend and I, and my hon. Friend the Member for Braintree—I wi...
John Redwood | 504 c332 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a very powerful case. Does he agree that one problem with the Government is tha...
William Cash | 504 c332 (Link to this contribution) Absolutely. I would simply add that the House is sometimes accused, by the public, on the "Today" pr...
Lord Tyrie | 504 c332 (Link to this contribution) When trying to assess the credibility of this measure, is it not worth bearing in mind what happened...
William Cash | 504 c332 (Link to this contribution) I will in a moment. Every single thing the Government have done by way of fiscal activity is down t...
Kelvin Hopkins | 504 c332 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Kelvin Hopkins | 504 c333 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for his comment but he may not think I am so honourable when I have made ...
William Cash | 504 c333 (Link to this contribution) I will certainly give way to the very honourable Gentleman.
William Cash | 504 c334-5 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right. I could not emphasise that more strongly. What my right hon....
Andrew Pelling | 504 c334 (Link to this contribution) Just before the hon. Gentleman responded to the hon. Member for Luton, North (Kelvin Hopkins), he wa...
William Cash | 504 c333-4 (Link to this contribution) Let me finish my reply to the hon. Member for Luton, North (Kelvin Hopkins). It is not that we Cons...
Andrew Pelling | 504 c333 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
William Cash | 504 c333 (Link to this contribution) I am extremely grateful to the hon. Gentleman for that. He is a good friend and we have a lot in com...
Mark Todd | 504 c335 (Link to this contribution) I had not expected to catch the Chair's eye this afternoon, but someone suggested that I might have ...
Mark Todd | 504 c335-6 (Link to this contribution) In that case, I congratulate the hon. Gentleman on his consistency. However I would be surprised if ...
John Redwood | 504 c336 (Link to this contribution) It is wonderful that one Labour Back Bencher does have the time to talk about the odd £100 billion i...
John Redwood | 504 c336 (Link to this contribution) If that is the case, why does the public sector decide to fund some of those liabilities inadequatel...
Mark Todd | 504 c336 (Link to this contribution) The most obvious answer is that a country is not a company. One of the difficulties in company accou...
William Cash | 504 c336 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Mark Todd | 504 c336 (Link to this contribution) I have not answered the previous question yet. The principles of how we fund public sector pensions...
Chair of Committees of the Whole House | 504 c337 (Link to this contribution) Order. I wonder whether the hon. Gentleman could get to the point of the intervention, which, as he ...
Mark Todd | 504 c337-8 (Link to this contribution) How kind of the right hon. Gentleman to say so. Others have judged otherwise, though. I shall turn ...
John Redwood | 504 c337 (Link to this contribution) I would like to assure the hon. Gentleman that the minds to which he refers might be more powerful, ...
Mark Todd | 504 c337 (Link to this contribution) I am not an accountant, but I have never considered accountancy to be purely about the truth or fact...
William Cash | 504 c337 (Link to this contribution) I accept your strictures, Mrs. Heal. Proper accounting principles are based on the truth—that is wh...
Mark Todd | 504 c338 (Link to this contribution) I suppose that point goes back to my initial remarks about whether such matters are best addressed t...
Andrew Pelling | 504 c338 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman's comments are useful and instructive. I imagine that at the time the Labour Gove...
Mark Todd | 504 c338 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman is nodding. That was a perfectly reasonable political objective and one tha...
Ian Pearson | 504 c341-2 (Link to this contribution) I will go through all those areas in my speech. Before that, I want to refute suggestions that the ...
David Gauke | 504 c342 (Link to this contribution) The Minister says that the Government are taking action now and already addressing the problem. May ...
Mark Todd | 504 c339-40 (Link to this contribution) Which the Government have sought to distance themselves from, at least in part, by not joining the c...
Mark Todd | 504 c340 (Link to this contribution) I, too, am sorry that the hon. Gentleman missed the start of my speech, because I touched on that po...
Ian Pearson | 504 c340-1 (Link to this contribution) We have had a wide-ranging debate. I agree with those hon. Members who said that clause 1 is a cruci...
John Redwood | 504 c338-9 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is making a valuable contribution. The reason why things went wrong in the early ...
Mark Todd | 504 c339 (Link to this contribution) I was in no position of responsibility at that time, so I cannot disagree with the right hon. Gentle...
William Cash | 504 c339 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is making a thoughtful speech, as my right hon. Friend the Member for Wokingham (...
Lord Tyrie | 504 c343 (Link to this contribution) It is very kind of the Minister finally to give way. I want to take him back to his suggestion that ...
Ian Pearson | 504 c343 (Link to this contribution) I will give way in a moment. It is also right that Parliament should be given a role in setting and...
Ian Pearson | 504 c343 (Link to this contribution) Let me get on and make the point about why we are here today discussing this legislation; then I wil...
Ian Pearson | 504 c342 (Link to this contribution) I am not going to tell the House what will be in the Budget. We are working on it at the moment, but...
Ian Pearson | 504 c342 (Link to this contribution) I will give way again, but if the hon. Gentleman is just going to make selective quotations, he will...
David Gauke | 504 c342 (Link to this contribution) The Minister worries about my making selective quotations, but I think that all quotations are selec...
Ian Pearson | 504 c342 (Link to this contribution) I have read the Governor's speech as well, and I agree with him: we do need to take action to cut th...
John Redwood | 504 c345-6 (Link to this contribution) Does the Minister accept that the Government, like a rake, have taken out the biggest ever mortgage ...
Ian Pearson | 504 c345 (Link to this contribution) I shall give way first to the right hon. Member for Wokingham (Mr. Redwood).
Ian Pearson | 504 c343 (Link to this contribution) I am tempted to say that perhaps the hon. Gentleman should look at the amendment that those on the O...
Stewart Hosie | 504 c343 (Link to this contribution) The Minister has been very generous in giving way. I hope that it was a slip of the tongue when he s...
Ian Pearson | 504 c344 (Link to this contribution) It may have been a slip of the tongue. The figures that the hon. Gentleman has read out sound very f...
Ian Pearson | 504 c344 (Link to this contribution) Let me make some more progress. I have already given way a good many times. As I have explained, Pa...
Ian Pearson | 504 c344 (Link to this contribution) I give way to the hon. Member for Sevenoaks (Mr. Fallon).
Michael Fallon | 504 c344 (Link to this contribution) I am most grateful to the Minister. He has been generous in giving way. May I return to the subject ...
Ian Pearson | 504 c344 (Link to this contribution) Let me explain what we are trying to achieve through the clause, and through the rest of the Bill, b...
Ian Pearson | 504 c344-5 (Link to this contribution) I want to address the points about pace and flexibility before I give way again. First, however, I w...
Brooks Newmark | 504 c346 (Link to this contribution) I beg to differ. I think that the Minister, whom I know to be an intelligent and thoughtful individu...
Ian Pearson | 504 c346 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman heard what I said when I recounted my experiences before I entered the House. I d...
Ian Pearson | 504 c346 (Link to this contribution) I give way to the hon. Gentleman, who will undoubtedly engage in another political point-scoring exe...
Ian Pearson | 504 c347 (Link to this contribution) I am not sure whether the hon. Gentleman is arguing that we should not have intervened as we did wit...
Ian Pearson | 504 c346 (Link to this contribution) I give way to the hon. Member for Croydon, Central (Mr. Pelling), but then I really want to make som...
Andrew Pelling | 504 c346 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Minister and I shall not make a party political point. In reality, the Governme...
John Redwood | 504 c322 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend think that Labour Back Benchers are not present because the Bill says that they ...
Angus Brendan MacNeil | 504 c362 (Link to this contribution) According to the PBR, the United Kingdom is going to be borrowing £403 million each and every day ov...
Ian Pearson | 504 c346 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman is merely engaging in political rhetoric. It is clear that different accoun...
Ian Pearson | 504 c395 (Link to this contribution) I do not particularly want to speculate on that, other than to say that it is difficult to take acti...
David Gauke | 504 c395-6 (Link to this contribution) It has been striking, in the brief course of this Bill, just how embarrassed the Labour party and th...
Brooks Newmark | 504 c340 (Link to this contribution) I apologise for missing the beginning of the hon. Gentleman's speech. I am sure that this point has ...
Ian Pearson | 504 c350 (Link to this contribution) The Opposition can decide what they want to do and whether they want to force a vote. Amendment 2 is...
William Cash | 504 c370 (Link to this contribution) Is the Minister able to distinguish between forecasting and soothsaying?
Ian Pearson | 504 c394 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend may have heard some earlier exchanges about the Governor and his views on cutting the...
Speaker | 504 c394 (Link to this contribution) Order. I am sorry to interrupt the Minister, but he places me in a difficulty. On Third Reading, he ...
Mark Todd | 504 c336 (Link to this contribution) That is a fair point, but it is not quite the methodology that is to be used, although I do not want...
William Cash | 504 c336-7 (Link to this contribution) I am extremely grateful to the lone white knight who has come forward from the Labour Benches—as was...
Stewart Hosie | 504 c341 (Link to this contribution) The Minister has mentioned reducing the debt. However, at the end of this deficit-consolidation phas...
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Economic situation
Economic policy
Economic growth
National income
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Taxation
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Fiscal Responsibility Bill 2009-10
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