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Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation

Budget debate on Wednesday, 24 March 2010, in the House of Commons, led by Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton.
Budget debate (first day) and motion for amendment of the law.
Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
508 c265-346 
Session
2009-10
Department
Treasury
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Proceeding contributions
David Heath | 508 c327 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that there are also middle-class, articulate children in those schools who are receiving t...
David Heath | 508 c328 (Link to this contribution) I can tell that the more I speak, the more interventions I shall take and the longer other speakers ...

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David Heath | 508 c330 (Link to this contribution) That is absolutely the case. [Interruption.] I hear the hon. Member for Wolverhampton, South-West (R...
Lembit Opik | 508 c330 (Link to this contribution) I applaud my hon. Friend for his erudite and insightful observations. Does he agree that the injusti...
David Heath | 508 c328-9 (Link to this contribution) That is precisely the point. In my area, although perhaps not in the hon. Gentleman's, the ratio in ...
Stewart Hosie | 508 c328 (Link to this contribution) The Chancellor has removed stamp duty from homes costing less than £250,000 for first-time buyers. D...
David Heath | 508 c329-30 (Link to this contribution) Not at the moment. On council tax, let me quickly mention a case involving a constituent of mine, a...
Lynne Jones | 508 c329 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Lord Tyrie | 508 c344 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has the figures in front of him, but I have not. However, I think he will find th...
Rob Marris | 508 c344-5 (Link to this contribution) My understanding is that the recession has been deeper in Germany and Japan, for example. In fact, G...
William Cash | 508 c343 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Rob Marris | 508 c343-4 (Link to this contribution) I am afraid I do not have time. Table 2.3 also states that public sector net borrowing would peak a...
Lynne Jones | 508 c345 (Link to this contribution) I have a leaflet here from the Conservative candidate for Birmingham, Hall Green. On one side it say...
William Cash | 508 c338 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend has enormous experience of these economic matters, and I wonder whether he has a view...
Rob Marris | 508 c342-3 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Chichester (Mr. Tyrie). I often disagree with most of...
Lord Tyrie | 508 c339-42 (Link to this contribution) I will not, if the hon. Gentleman will forgive me. The Prime Minister is not just responsible for t...
Lord Stunell | 508 c339 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Lord Tyrie | 508 c338-9 (Link to this contribution) I am familiar with these arguments and with the £3.2 trillion figure. I think that there is probably...
David Heath | 508 c331-2 (Link to this contribution) I am not saying that I want another monument—what I want is equity and fairness for the cider makers...
Stewart Hosie | 508 c334-7 (Link to this contribution) It has been a pleasure to hear some of today's valedictory speeches. It has also been a pleasure to ...
Lord Tyrie | 508 c337-8 (Link to this contribution) I agree with quite a bit of the analysis by the hon. Member for Dundee, East (Stewart Hosie), but no...
Lord Tyrie | 508 c338 (Link to this contribution) I will just this once, although I know that another Member is waiting to speak.
Barry Gardiner | 508 c330 (Link to this contribution) I only mean to assist the hon. Gentleman. Does he agree that one thing that would go a long way to r...
David Heath | 508 c330 (Link to this contribution) This will be the very last intervention.
David Heath | 508 c330-1 (Link to this contribution) There is a lot to be said for that, but we are not there yet. I am suggesting a cheap and easy solut...
Rob Marris | 508 c345-6 (Link to this contribution) Sadly, 'twas ever thus, was it not, with certain Janus-faced politicians in certain local authoritie...
Michael Jack | 508 c303 (Link to this contribution) That was an interesting trip down memory lane, organised, I think, by the hon. Member for Middlesbro...
Lord Willis of Knaresborough | 508 c301-2 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman and I were fellow teachers in Leeds, so I have much sympathy with many of the poi...
Mark Todd | 508 c307 (Link to this contribution) Presumably the right hon. Gentleman dissents from the rather angst-ridden part of the Leader of the ...
Michael Jack | 508 c306 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for that comment, because it raises a wider issue about economic man...
Lord Tyrie | 508 c306 (Link to this contribution) Has my right hon. Friend noticed that according to page 173 of the Red Book, although the Government...
Michael Jack | 508 c303-6 (Link to this contribution) I smile at what the hon. Gentleman has said, because I really could not see my right hon. Friend lin...
Mark Todd | 508 c303 (Link to this contribution) Did not the right hon. Gentleman find surprising the comments of the right hon. Member for Wokingham...
Michael Jack | 508 c303 (Link to this contribution) Before I get started, of course I give way to the hon. Gentleman.
Michael Fabricant | 508 c310 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend agree that it always seemed very strange when the previous Chancellor of t...
Michael Jack | 508 c307-10 (Link to this contribution) I am most grateful to the hon. Gentleman, because he has made my point for me, although I did not th...
Ian Taylor | 508 c310 (Link to this contribution) Of course the former Chancellor, the present Prime Minister, did very well when he first took office...
Michael Jack | 508 c310 (Link to this contribution) I pay tribute to my hon. Friend, who is my former Parliamentary Private Secretary and oft-time advis...
Lynne Jones | 508 c321-5 (Link to this contribution) Indeed. The lack of investment in our transport infrastructure puts us to shame, compared with simil...
Rob Marris | 508 c321 (Link to this contribution) Would my hon. Friend, like me, welcome an early and positive decision on a major expansion of the tr...
Mark Todd | 508 c311-5 (Link to this contribution) It is a great pleasure to follow the right hon. Member for Fylde (Mr. Jack), but let me say, kindly ...
Michael Jack | 508 c310-1 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend has made a telling point. The Treasury advises the Chancellor to do certain things. ...
Lynne Jones | 508 c320-1 (Link to this contribution) This may well be my last speech to the House, although there are a few days left of this Parliament....
Ian Taylor | 508 c315-20 (Link to this contribution) Because any business activity is inevitably impacted, for good or ill, by a Budget, may I begin by d...
Speaker | 508 c326 (Link to this contribution) Order. I have allowed the hon. Lady some latitude, but I know that a number of other Members are wai...
Lynne Jones | 508 c325-6 (Link to this contribution) I know of at least one other parliamentary colleague who is my constituent. It is a wonderfully dive...
John Hemming | 508 c325 (Link to this contribution) I have been one of the hon. Lady's constituents since 1982 when she defeated me in Kings Norton ward...
Lynne Jones | 508 c325 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. I am going somewhat off the subject.
David Heath | 508 c327 (Link to this contribution) I will, very briefly. I do not want to speak for as long as some other Members have.
Barry Gardiner | 508 c327 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
David Heath | 508 c326-7 (Link to this contribution) This afternoon's debate has had a somewhat timeless quality about it—inevitably, given that respecte...
Lynne Jones | 508 c326 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. I was drawing my remarks to a close. I look forward to hearing a re...
Barry Gardiner | 508 c327 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman. Let me offer him an explanation. In the schools in my constitue...
Ian Taylor | 508 c282 (Link to this contribution) I am trying to follow the hon. Gentleman's argument. There is no disagreement between the two main p...
Stuart Bell | 508 c282-3 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for the hon. Gentleman's intervention, but the Chancellor of the Exchequer has laid do...
Stuart Bell | 508 c281-2 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to be called so early in the debate, and to follow the right hon. Member for Hitchin a...
Anne Main | 508 c279 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend agree with the businesses of St. Albans that as the Prime Minister was not...
Lord McFall of Alcluith | 508 c276-8 (Link to this contribution) I agree with the hon. Gentleman. As he knows, our Committee and others did some work on the Post Off...
Robert Smith | 508 c276 (Link to this contribution) I would like to take this opportunity to thank the right hon. Gentleman for his service to the House...
Lord McFall of Alcluith | 508 c275-6 (Link to this contribution) That is an idealistic position. I do not know enough about the statistics in terms of three months o...
Chris Huhne | 508 c275 (Link to this contribution) I entirely agree with the importance of ensuring that we do not throw a whole generation on the scra...
Lord McFall of Alcluith | 508 c273-5 (Link to this contribution) The Treasury Committee has persistently focused on that issue, and this morning I was at a business ...
Speaker | 508 c269 (Link to this contribution) Order. The House should also hear the response of the leader of the Liberal Democrat party. Can I sa...
Nick Clegg | 508 c269-72 (Link to this contribution) This Budget has been billed as the preface to the Labour manifesto. Based on what we have seen today...
John Redwood | 508 c273 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Chairman of the Treasury Select Committee for giving way. Is the right hon. Gen...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 508 c267 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman slept through the Chancellor's statement; I am glad to see that he has woken up f...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 508 c268-9 (Link to this contribution) Sit down. The Prime Minister and the Chancellor faced a choice between bold action in an election y...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 508 c265-7 (Link to this contribution) So there we have it—Labour's big idea is a stamp duty cut on homes worth less than £250,000. Where o...
John Redwood | 508 c293-5 (Link to this contribution) I think our prime requirement in this House is to look after the interests of the taxpayers who have...
Stuart Bell | 508 c295 (Link to this contribution) I am listening to the right hon. Gentleman with great interest. He speaks with great fluency and kno...
Michael Jack | 508 c300 (Link to this contribution) I am listening to the hon. Gentleman's argument with care, but will he help me on one point? Is it n...
Colin Burgon | 508 c300-1 (Link to this contribution) I am not sure that I have always bought into that analysis, but I will try to deal with the state an...
John Redwood | 508 c296-8 (Link to this contribution) There are so many of them to suggest, but I do not want to take up the whole afternoon. I would cert...
Colin Burgon | 508 c298-300 (Link to this contribution) May I preface my remarks by paying tribute to my right hon. Friend the Member for West Dunbartonshir...
John Redwood | 508 c296 (Link to this contribution) I agree: a stitch in time saves nine. The policy of the hon. Member for Middlesbrough would take us ...
Lynne Jones | 508 c296 (Link to this contribution) If there are so many easy ways in which to save money, would the right hon. Gentleman like to tell u...
John Redwood | 508 c295-6 (Link to this contribution) I do wish the hon. Gentleman would try to follow the debate a little—he can do better than that. I h...
Graham Stuart | 508 c296 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend is coming to the nub of the point on the debt. Our point about the debt is not ...
Mark Todd | 508 c293 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps the right hon. Gentleman could develop this point a little further and set out his view of o...
Speaker | 508 c288 (Link to this contribution) Order. I do not know about yielding to American habits in this House, but visual aids are certainly ...
Stuart Bell | 508 c290 (Link to this contribution) And what will the right hon. Gentleman say when the club is relegated?
John Redwood | 508 c290-2 (Link to this contribution) What we need is new management to stop further relegation. The hon. Gentleman should understand how ...
Mark Todd | 508 c292 (Link to this contribution) I am intrigued by the right hon. Gentleman's analysis. I share some of his thoughts, but by extensio...
John Redwood | 508 c292 (Link to this contribution) I would be very happy to make a positive recommendation because I would like my country to recover q...
Stuart Bell | 508 c288-90 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, although I managed to get my little flash in before you ro...
John Redwood | 508 c290 (Link to this contribution) I remind the House that I have declared in the Register of Members' Financial Interests that I provi...
Stewart Hosie | 508 c290 (Link to this contribution) Have the Government's horizons not shrunk even further, if one considers that the total managed expe...
John Redwood | 508 c290 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is quite right. I also agree with the hon. Member for Middlesbrough (Sir Stuart ...
Stuart Bell | 508 c287-8 (Link to this contribution) I thought it was the battle of Blenheim. Regardless of what Browning's good news was, however, there...
Lord Lilley | 508 c287 (Link to this contribution) It was a new Conservative Government.
Barry Gardiner | 508 c285 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that it would have been better for the car scrappage scheme to focus on ma...
Stuart Bell | 508 c285-6 (Link to this contribution) That concept might well have produced a better scheme, but the fact remains that the scrappage schem...
Stewart Hosie | 508 c284 (Link to this contribution) I agree with the hon. Gentleman that it is unfair to expect him to have read the Red Book. He will, ...
Stuart Bell | 508 c284-5 (Link to this contribution) I do not think it is necessary to refer to a speech made by a junior Treasury Minister on 5 January,...
Stuart Bell | 508 c287 (Link to this contribution) That is another wild and woolly forecast far removed from reality from the Conservative Benches. We ...
Lord Tyrie | 508 c286 (Link to this contribution) Is the hon. Gentleman aware that the sum total of this year's bond issue almost exactly matches the ...
Stuart Bell | 508 c286 (Link to this contribution) And the economy moves ever onwards. The economy moves: people buy; people sell; people borrow. So wh...
Mark Hoban | 508 c284 (Link to this contribution) Paragraph 2.57 states that the Government will reduce spending by £38 billion. Will all that come fr...
Stuart Bell | 508 c284 (Link to this contribution) If I may say so, it is a bit offensive for the hon. Gentleman, in this House of Commons, to read fro...
Stewart Hosie | 508 c283 (Link to this contribution) Will we not also be able to tell the nation, quite clearly, that the Chancellor was explicit about t...
Stuart Bell | 508 c283 (Link to this contribution) I can tell the hon. Gentleman that there is not the slightest prospect of a Labour Government in the...
Greg Mulholland | 508 c283 (Link to this contribution) I do not think I am the only Member present who is a little confused by the hon. Gentleman's argumen...
Stuart Bell | 508 c283 (Link to this contribution) I will follow the argument of the right hon. Member for Hitchin and Harpenden. The economy requires ...
Michael Jack | 508 c283 (Link to this contribution) Is the hon. Gentleman aware that the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has already ...
Stuart Bell | 508 c284 (Link to this contribution) What I accept as a fact is the statement made by the Chancellor of the Exchequer that we shall be lo...
Mark Hoban | 508 c284 (Link to this contribution) I wonder whether the hon. Gentleman has read the Government's Red Book.
Colin Burgon | 508 c302-3 (Link to this contribution) I share the hon. Gentleman's analysis. Indeed, we share a common analysis of the problems at Leeds U...
Lord Lilley | 508 c278-9 (Link to this contribution) It is a great privilege to follow the right hon. Member for West Dunbartonshire (John McFall), who h...
Lord Lilley | 508 c280-1 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right. Many of the businesses in her constituency employ people who liv...
Lord McFall of Alcluith | 508 c272-3 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the Budget and commend the Chancellor for his stewardship over the past year. Not only the...
Lord Tyrie | 508 c286-7 (Link to this contribution) I hope that the hon. Gentleman understands that this is the world of funny money and this programme ...
Barry Gardiner | 508 c332-4 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Somerton and Frome (Mr. Heath). I cannot say that I w...
Speaker | 508 c325 (Link to this contribution) Order. I hesitate to interrupt the hon. Lady, but I know that she is well aware that this afternoon'...
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