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Budget Debate

Budget debate on Monday, 28 June 2010, in the House of Commons, led by Iain Duncan Smith. The answering member was Yvette Cooper.
Budget debate (fourth day): work and pensions. Motion on capital gains tax agreed. Motion on increasing the standard rate of VAT agreed on division (346 to 270). Motion on pensions agreed on division (366 to 247). Other resolutions agreed.
Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
512 c600-87 
Session
2010-12
Department
Department for Work and Pensions
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Proceeding contributions
Sam Gyimah | 512 c628-30 (Link to this contribution) Thank you very much, Mr Deputy Speaker, for the opportunity to make my maiden speech on this emergen...
Jackie Doyle-Price | 512 c645-7 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Airdrie and Shotts (Pamela Nash) who has just given h...

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Stuart Andrew | 512 c654-5 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful, Mr Deputy Speaker, for the opportunity to make my maiden speech. I congratulate my h...
Pamela Nash | 512 c643-5 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker, for allowing me this opportunity to make my maiden speech, and I would...
Helen Grant | 512 c638-40 (Link to this contribution) Thank you very much for giving me the opportunity to speak in this debate, Mr Deputy Speaker. Paying...
Anas Sarwar | 512 c659-61 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to you, Mr Deputy Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to make my maiden speech in t...
Sarah Newton | 512 c657-9 (Link to this contribution) I think that I will be the last person this evening to make their maiden speech—[Interruption.] No, ...
Speaker | 512 c621 (Link to this contribution) Order. Considerable numbers of Members wish to take part in this debate, as I am sure you can all se...
David Rutley | 512 c665-7 (Link to this contribution) Thank you for giving me the opportunity to speak in this debate, Mr Deputy Speaker. We have heard so...
Liam Byrne | 512 c672 (Link to this contribution) I will give way in a moment, because I want Government Members to hear this: far from the absence of...
Geoffrey Robinson | 512 c626 (Link to this contribution) It does seem strange that the House cannot debate the amendment in the names of the hon. Member for ...
Bob Russell | 512 c626 (Link to this contribution) Colchester, for God's sake. [Laughter.]
Lyn Brown | 512 c625 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Andrew George | 512 c625-6 (Link to this contribution) I shall not give way any more, I am afraid, because of the limit on time. The motion refers to the ...
Geoffrey Robinson | 512 c627-8 (Link to this contribution) I note also that when the Governor was still an economist, before he converted to being a banker, he...
Speaker | 512 c628 (Link to this contribution) Order. We are expecting a few maiden speeches this evening, and I am sure the House will want to ens...
Geoffrey Robinson | 512 c626-7 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Member for Colchester (Bob Russell)—I am so sorry—and other very distinguished honourable d...
Jim Cunningham | 512 c627 (Link to this contribution) Has my hon. Friend noticed that the same Governor of the Bank of England who backed the stimulus und...
Lord Jackson of Peterborough | 512 c634 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right to draw the House's attention to that statistic. Likewise, the nu...
Edward Leigh | 512 c634 (Link to this contribution) The worst statistic of all is that last year, of the 85,000 children in receipt of free school meals...
Lord Jackson of Peterborough | 512 c633 (Link to this contribution) I will not at the moment. A modicum of humility or contrition from Labour would surely be appropria...
Maria Eagle | 512 c633 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Lord Jackson of Peterborough | 512 c632-3 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure, as always, to follow the hon. Member for Foyle (Mark Durkan). I pay tribute to my ...
Mark Durkan | 512 c631-2 (Link to this contribution) I am not sure if that was the least worst defence of a significant U-turn on a significant campaign ...
Simon Hughes | 512 c631 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman's views are much respected, but may I say that I was always clear on this point? ...
Mark Durkan | 512 c630-1 (Link to this contribution) It is a privilege to follow the hon. Member for East Surrey (Mr Gyimah). He not only reflected on th...
Maria Eagle | 512 c636 (Link to this contribution) Did my hon. Friend see the analysis in The Observer at the weekend that suggested that the Chancello...
Glenda Jackson | 512 c636 (Link to this contribution) You really have to get another club to beat us with. I would have thought that there were a couple, ...
Damian Collins | 512 c635 (Link to this contribution) In my constituency, the number of people in receipt of disability living allowance doubled under the...
Glenda Jackson | 512 c635 (Link to this contribution) May I say what a pleasure it is to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Deputy Speaker? It is such a pl...
Sam Gyimah | 512 c636 (Link to this contribution) What is progressive about leaving the country without any money, as the former Chief Secretary to th...
Glenda Jackson | 512 c635-6 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps that is one of those areas—this was briefly touched on in an earlier contribution—that, like...
Lord Jackson of Peterborough | 512 c634-5 (Link to this contribution) No, I will not give way; I do not have time. More than 6,000 of my constituents languish on disabil...
Glenda Jackson | 512 c637 (Link to this contribution) No. The idea that you have allowed children to languish in that state in Peterborough for all these ...
Brian Binley | 512 c637 (Link to this contribution) I am most grateful to the hon. Lady. Does she not have any regrets at all about the massive rise in ...
Glenda Jackson | 512 c637 (Link to this contribution) This is a kind of psychobabble. When we get to the age of 18 and become adults, we really cannot bla...
David Ward | 512 c637 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Lady believe that it was a question of 30 pieces of silver when Clem Attlee, Herbert M...
Glenda Jackson | 512 c636-7 (Link to this contribution) It is neither progressive nor fair. What is depressing about the path that the coalition Government ...
Speaker | 512 c638 (Link to this contribution) Order. This might be an appropriate time to remind Members that, when they use the word "you", they ...
Eric Illsley | 512 c640-1 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Member for Maidstone and The Weald (Mrs Grant) on her maiden speech. As she ...
Ian Swales | 512 c641 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Glenda Jackson | 512 c637 (Link to this contribution) May I just point out to the hon. Gentleman that, when his party was last in government, it was not c...
Glenda Jackson | 512 c637-8 (Link to this contribution) You did not have to go through a rubbish dump to find things to sell. And I am a working-class girl....
Glenda Jackson | 512 c638 (Link to this contribution) Don't shake your head. In every soundbite you give, you are running with the idea that the people wh...
Edward Timpson | 512 c641-3 (Link to this contribution) In the limited time available to me, I want to concentrate on some specific areas of the Budget that...
Eric Illsley | 512 c641 (Link to this contribution) No, I will not. As we have heard time and again this evening, housing benefit cuts will throw peopl...
David Anderson | 512 c649 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Lady disagree with the OECD, which said that the previous Government's actions prevent...
Baroness Burt of Solihull | 512 c649 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes a fair point. Indeed, the Liberal Democrats supported some of the steps tha...
Iain Wright | 512 c647-9 (Link to this contribution) It has been a pleasure to participate in a debate that has included so many excellent maiden speeche...
Baroness Burt of Solihull | 512 c649 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Members for Thurrock (Jackie Doyle-Price), for Airdrie and Shotts (Pamela Na...
Baroness Burt of Solihull | 512 c651 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right and I am grateful for his helpful intervention. We must put all these things...
Baroness Burt of Solihull | 512 c651 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry but I cannot take any more interventions. We have talked about welfare throughout today'...
Maria Eagle | 512 c651-2 (Link to this contribution) In March, before the election, the Chancellor told the News of the World:""We are all in this togeth...
Lord McCrea of Magherafelt and Cookstown | 512 c649 (Link to this contribution) But can the hon. Lady and her colleagues wash their hands of the fact that although they opposed a r...
Baroness Burt of Solihull | 512 c650 (Link to this contribution) I am glad that the hon. Gentleman raises the issue of VAT. If he has a little patience, I shall addr...
Anne McGuire | 512 c652 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree with the Essex Coalition of Disabled People, which has indicated that the ...
Maria Eagle | 512 c652-4 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend is correct. She, like me, is a former Minister with responsibility for disabled...
David Anderson | 512 c656 (Link to this contribution) I remember a similar situation. Does my hon. Friend remember also that in the 1980s people continual...
Baroness Clark of Kilwinning | 512 c655-6 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker. I warmly welcome you to your position. I congratulate the hon. Member...
Baroness Clark of Kilwinning | 512 c656-7 (Link to this contribution) I agree. I listened with care to the hon. Member for Solihull (Lorely Burt), who basically said that...
Brian Binley | 512 c661-2 (Link to this contribution) May I first pay tribute to my hon. Friend the Member for Truro and Falmouth (Sarah Newton)? She is n...
George Mudie | 512 c664-5 (Link to this contribution) No, we have no time, as the hon. Member for Northampton South said. Those on the Liberal Benches—th...
Andrew Bingham | 512 c664 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Brian Binley | 512 c662 (Link to this contribution) I will gave way to my hon. Friend, if the right hon. Lady will forgive me. Time is limited to only s...
Charlie Elphicke | 512 c662 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend also regret the fact that child poverty has increased by 300,000 since 2004-05? ...
Brian Binley | 512 c662 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the Government's pledge to ensure that child poverty does not increase in the next two yea...
Brian Binley | 512 c663 (Link to this contribution) I will not give way because time is very limited. One thing that makes me most angry is the idea th...
George Mudie | 512 c663-4 (Link to this contribution) This is one of those occasions that Members dread, when they write a very calm speech but then have ...
Andrew George | 512 c625 (Link to this contribution) As far as I recall, none of the three main parties ruled out the prospect of VAT increasing. It is o...
Roger Williams | 512 c625 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for giving way and I agree with the sentiments he is expressing. Does he agre...
Malcolm Wicks | 512 c623-4 (Link to this contribution) I want to make a specific contribution about the assumptions that underlie Government policy on rais...
Edward Leigh | 512 c622 (Link to this contribution) Nobody doubts the hon. Gentleman's commitment to relieving poverty, but does he think that the syste...
Lord Beamish | 512 c624-5 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is showing by his demeanour that he is not very enthusiastic for his coalition. H...
Andrew George | 512 c624 (Link to this contribution) I wish to approve the headline description of the emergency Budget and what it is intended to achiev...
Emily Thornberry | 512 c619 (Link to this contribution) Given that the Secretary of State seems to think that we are exaggerating the position, does my righ...
Yvette Cooper | 512 c619 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right to raise concerns, particularly as many people who receive housing benefit a...
Glenda Jackson | 512 c619 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State cited a four-bedroom house in the private sector. My constituency is served b...
Yvette Cooper | 512 c619 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right that those proposals will have an impact on families and on entire communiti...
Yvette Cooper | 512 c620-1 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend is right. When one takes account of what the Government are doing to housing be...
Anne McGuire | 512 c620 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend recognise that the Child Poverty Action Group has said that this is a disa...
Yvette Cooper | 512 c619-20 (Link to this contribution) That is a very generous invitation, which I shall pass on to the right hon. Gentleman. Where are th...
Edward Leigh | 512 c621 (Link to this contribution) I welcome this Budget because I believe that it is an honest Budget. I have now sat through nearly 3...
David Anderson | 512 c621 (Link to this contribution) I understand the long and proud record that the Secretary of State has in this House. Does the hon. ...
Iain Duncan Smith | 512 c617 (Link to this contribution) I tell the right hon. Lady that the coalition gave a commitment. We are paying the winter fuel payme...
Yvette Cooper | 512 c617 (Link to this contribution) I do not think that was right. That is why it was right to increase the support for pensioners, to i...
Yvette Cooper | 512 c617 (Link to this contribution) I hope that meant for this year, next year and future years. [Interruption.] The right hon. Gentlema...
David Anderson | 512 c617-8 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend share the concerns of the Royal College of Nursing, which, in relation to ...
Edward Timpson | 512 c618 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Lady give way?
Yvette Cooper | 512 c618 (Link to this contribution) I want to make some progress before I do. The Secretary of State also said that he wants to make wo...
Andy Slaughter | 512 c618 (Link to this contribution) There are clearly no poor people left in Southwark—certainly none on housing benefit, or the hon. Me...
Iain Duncan Smith | 512 c606 (Link to this contribution) Before I give way—I will give way in due course—I want to make a bit more progress, and I want Oppos...
Chris Bryant | 512 c606 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?
Iain Duncan Smith | 512 c606 (Link to this contribution) I am very sad that the right hon. Lady chose not to answer the question. When I give way to an inter...
Iain Duncan Smith | 512 c607 (Link to this contribution) The reality is that the grant came far too late and had no effect on improving women's health, which...
Chris Leslie | 512 c607 (Link to this contribution) I certainly disagree with the reduction to the maternity allowance, but can the right hon. Gentleman...
Iain Duncan Smith | 512 c606-7 (Link to this contribution) I will give way in a second; I think that I have been reasonable. Our action to increase benefits i...
Iain Duncan Smith | 512 c607 (Link to this contribution) I want to move on to housing fairness and work incentives, but I shall give way in due course. I hav...
Iain Duncan Smith | 512 c607 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for that example. We have put £2 billion into the child tax credit because we...
Lord Jackson of Peterborough | 512 c607 (Link to this contribution) Did my right hon. Friend read last week that the media commentator Stephen Pollard had spent his fam...
Iain Duncan Smith | 512 c608 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps not in the hon. Gentleman's view, but he has never been reasonable in my view, so good luck ...
Sheila Gilmore | 512 c608 (Link to this contribution) Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that the biggest reason behind the increase in housing benefit is ...
Iain Duncan Smith | 512 c608 (Link to this contribution) I will give way in a minute. We have also introduced size restrictions to the social rented sector ...
Iain Duncan Smith | 512 c608 (Link to this contribution) Oh dear me; there is no stopping Labour Members sometimes. I must say to the hon. Lady: whose fault ...
Mary Creagh | 512 c609 (Link to this contribution) I can tell the right hon. Gentleman that there are no fat ducks in Wakefield. What we do have is a l...
Iain Duncan Smith | 512 c608 (Link to this contribution) I give way to the hon. Member for Wakefield (Mary Creagh).
Iain Duncan Smith | 512 c609 (Link to this contribution) I must say to the hon. Lady that that is a pretty poor intervention. The grant of over £500 for ever...
Iain Duncan Smith | 512 c604-5 (Link to this contribution) I give my hon. Friend absolute confirmation that we shall consult widely. As he knows, we are planni...
Simon Hughes | 512 c604 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend agree that although the welfare state is obviously necessary to protect th...
David Lammy | 512 c605 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?
Yvette Cooper | 512 c606 (Link to this contribution) In fact, as the right hon. Gentleman will be aware, the additional support that we have put in to he...
Iain Duncan Smith | 512 c605-6 (Link to this contribution) I will give way in a second; I think that I have been reasonably generous. I should like to return ...
Andy Slaughter | 512 c605 (Link to this contribution) When will the right hon. Gentleman publish more details of the proposals for the cuts in housing ben...
Iain Duncan Smith | 512 c605 (Link to this contribution) Excuse me; I am answering the hon. Member for Hammersmith (Mr Slaughter) if hon. Members do not mind...
Iain Duncan Smith | 512 c605 (Link to this contribution) In fact, over a third of all the properties available for rent are available below the 30th percenti...
Kwasi Kwarteng | 512 c614 (Link to this contribution) To what degree does the right hon. Lady believe that the previous Labour Government were responsible...
Chris Bryant | 512 c614 (Link to this contribution) Is there not also a real danger that the Government are presenting us with a straw man on housing be...
Yvette Cooper | 512 c614 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right that the key is helping people into jobs, yet the Budget cuts the number of ...
Elizabeth Truss | 512 c613 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Lady tell us exactly what the maximum level of housing benefit should be? Does s...
Yvette Cooper | 512 c613 (Link to this contribution) No, I do not, which is why we introduced cuts in support for the highest rents as a result of the pr...
Yvette Cooper | 512 c613 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman has not answered the question. He has not explained why he claims to help t...
Simon Hughes | 512 c614 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Lady's attack appears to be that the measures introduced by the Government are ideolo...
Yvette Cooper | 512 c614 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is right that there are many members of the Government who have indeed campaigned...
Clive Efford | 512 c613 (Link to this contribution) On page 33 of the Red Book, paragraph 1.102 makes it quite clear that the Government intend to reduc...
Yvette Cooper | 512 c614 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an important point, and I am happy to accept an intervention from the Secretary...
Ian Swales | 512 c617 (Link to this contribution) Can the right hon. Lady remind me, a new Member, which Government it was who gave pensioners a 75p a...
Steve Webb | 512 c616 (Link to this contribution) As a new Minister, I have had to reply to many letters complaining about what the previous Governmen...
Yvette Cooper | 512 c616-7 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman will struggle to defend his progressive history if he quotes selectively from the...
Yvette Cooper | 512 c615 (Link to this contribution) We have been through the greatest global recession for many generations. That has had an impact on e...
Bob Russell | 512 c615 (Link to this contribution) Does the right hon. Lady agree with the study by the Fabian Society and the Webb Memorial Trust that...
Yvette Cooper | 512 c615-6 (Link to this contribution) As the hon. Gentleman knows, the level of child poverty is some 600,000 lower than it was in 1997 as...
Yvette Cooper | 512 c616 (Link to this contribution) I will give way to the hon. Gentleman because I know he has a history of supporting people on low in...
Steve Webb | 512 c616 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the right hon. Lady. Will she confirm a fact for us about the pension rise that she...
Yvette Cooper | 512 c616 (Link to this contribution) As the hon. Gentleman knows, the old uprating rules are that the pension should go up by either RPI ...
David Lammy | 512 c611 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman has confirmed that he believes that there will be an exodus from central to...
Iain Duncan Smith | 512 c611 (Link to this contribution) I have already given way to the hon. Gentleman. If he will forgive me, I want to make some progress....
Chris Bryant | 512 c610 (Link to this contribution) I am very grateful to the Secretary of State. My constituency has one of the highest levels of those...
Iain Duncan Smith | 512 c610-1 (Link to this contribution) That is a very reasonable question. As I said earlier, we did not want to be here in the first place...
Iain Duncan Smith | 512 c610 (Link to this contribution) As the hon. Member for Rhondda (Chris Bryant) has been standing up so often, I will give way to him....
Russell Brown | 512 c610 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the right hon. Gentleman to his new post. He will recollect that towards the end of the la...
Iain Duncan Smith | 512 c610 (Link to this contribution) We will give that guarantee. We will be laying the regulations for that this week, so there is defin...
Iain Duncan Smith | 512 c609-10 (Link to this contribution) The IFS talked about it being debatable whether the Budget was regressive or progressive. I say hone...
Yvette Cooper | 512 c612-3 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State told us in May in his first speech that he would work to improve the quality ...
Yvette Cooper | 512 c613 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps the right hon. Gentleman can answer this point as well if he is going to respond. Was it his...
Iain Duncan Smith | 512 c613 (Link to this contribution) I should be grateful if the right hon. Lady answered the original question. She was in government no...
Iain Duncan Smith | 512 c611-2 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend has to recognise that one needs to see the Budget in the round, over the lifetime of ...
Iain Duncan Smith | 512 c612 (Link to this contribution) I am going to continue. We have to seize the long-term prospectus for reform, and I shall introduce...
John Howell | 512 c612 (Link to this contribution) A vulnerable group that my right hon. Friend has not yet mentioned is pensioners. Will he say someth...
Iain Duncan Smith | 512 c612 (Link to this contribution) I was going to come on to that, but I shall deal with it now. As my hon. Friend knows, the Minister...
Iain Duncan Smith | 512 c611 (Link to this contribution) I am happy to consider a race impact assessment—that is reasonable—and if the right hon. Gentleman w...
David Ward | 512 c611 (Link to this contribution) The Chancellor ended his Budget speech by saying that it""laid the foundations for a more prosperous...
Iain Duncan Smith | 512 c603 (Link to this contribution) If the right hon. Lady wants to go on fighting past elections, she can; it will not change the resul...
Iain Duncan Smith | 512 c603 (Link to this contribution) I will give way in a minute; I want to make a bit of progress first. Universal child benefit will b...
Emily Thornberry | 512 c604 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman talked about making sure that the most vulnerable did not pay disproportion...
Iain Duncan Smith | 512 c604 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady is looking at things in a rather doom-laden way. The reality is that the changes to ho...
Lord Tyrie | 512 c604 (Link to this contribution) May I take the Secretary of State back to child poverty? Page 34 of the Red Book makes it clear that...
Iain Duncan Smith | 512 c604 (Link to this contribution) Indeed, we will. We shall launch a strategy in March next year and I promise my hon. Friend that I s...
Iain Duncan Smith | 512 c602-3 (Link to this contribution) Directly in terms of this Budget, there will be no increase at all; that figure is approved by the O...
Yvette Cooper | 512 c603 (Link to this contribution) Will the Secretary of State confirm that the number of children living in workless households has fa...
Iain Duncan Smith | 512 c602 (Link to this contribution) It is not just the Government who are listening to them; it seems that the rest of the world is as w...
Bob Russell | 512 c602 (Link to this contribution) On that point, will my right hon. Friend advise me whether the current level of 3.9 million children...
Glenda Jackson | 512 c602 (Link to this contribution) Will the Secretary of State tell the House how many credit rating agencies made that judgment? My kn...
Iain Duncan Smith | 512 c601-2 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Lady is assuming that the economy is static, and that nothing changes in it. We belie...
Yvette Cooper | 512 c601 (Link to this contribution) Does the fact that the Secretary of State thinks he will be able to help more people to return to wo...
Iain Duncan Smith | 512 c601 (Link to this contribution) We are continuing with the programme that the right hon. Lady left. We thought it a good programme, ...
Yvette Cooper | 512 c600-1 (Link to this contribution) Will the Secretary of State confirm that his timetable is the one that we proposed for the roll-out ...
Iain Duncan Smith | 512 c600 (Link to this contribution) I was not going to deal with that at this point, but while we are on it, I can tell my hon. Friend t...
Iain Duncan Smith | 512 c600 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer has delivered our first coalition Budget, makin...
Chris Heaton-Harris | 512 c600 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. Friend kindly clarify the rate at which the Department for Work and Pensions can ...
Speaker | 512 c677 (Link to this contribution) Order. [Interruption.] Order. There is extensive gesticulation from some very senior and experienced...
Danny Alexander | 512 c676-7 (Link to this contribution) I thought that the right hon. Lady was going to do better than that. We have relinked pensions to ea...
Yvette Cooper | 512 c676 (Link to this contribution) I thank the right hon. Gentleman for giving way. Will he confirm that pensioners will pay hundreds o...
Danny Alexander | 512 c676 (Link to this contribution) I will give way to the right hon. Lady.
Danny Alexander | 512 c676 (Link to this contribution) That is not fairness. We have taken nearly 1 million people out of income tax altogether. That is fa...
Speaker | 512 c676 (Link to this contribution) It is for the Chief Secretary to decide. He is not giving way at the moment.
Michael Connarty | 512 c675 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?
Yvette Cooper | 512 c676 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?
Danny Alexander | 512 c675-6 (Link to this contribution) No, I want to press on. Thirdly, this is a Budget for fairness. Fairness underpins this Budget, and...
Yvette Cooper | 512 c676 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?
Danny Alexander | 512 c676 (Link to this contribution) I will not give way. The irresponsible Opposition, when in government, caused many of the problems t...
Danny Alexander | 512 c676 (Link to this contribution) I will not; I must press on. The previous Government abolished the 10p rate of income tax. [Interru...
Danny Alexander | 512 c675 (Link to this contribution) I shall press on. I have already given way. In response to the points raised by my hon. Friend the ...
Danny Alexander | 512 c675 (Link to this contribution) No party went into the election promising to increase VAT, but the hon. Gentleman should make no mis...
Huw Irranca-Davies | 512 c675 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?
David Anderson | 512 c675 (Link to this contribution) Does the right hon. Gentleman agree with his colleague, the hon. Member for Bermondsey and Old South...
Danny Alexander | 512 c674-5 (Link to this contribution) I will press on, if hon. Members do not mind. At the weekend, President Obama praised the action th...
Alec Shelbrooke | 512 c673 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. Friend give way?
Danny Alexander | 512 c673 (Link to this contribution) And this from the man who wrote the note saying, "There's no money left", the most infamous letter i...
Matt Hancock | 512 c672 (Link to this contribution) Does the right hon. Gentleman think that there is no money left, or does he no longer agree with him...
Liam Byrne | 512 c672 (Link to this contribution) I will give way to the hon. Gentleman. Does he accept that the nonsense about there being no plan th...
Ivan Lewis | 512 c667-9 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Members for East Surrey (Mr Gyimah) and for Maidstone and The Weald (Mrs Gra...
Ian Swales | 512 c651 (Link to this contribution) Is my hon. Friend aware that after Thursday, when Spain increases its VAT rate by 2%, only Cyprus an...
Iain Duncan Smith | 512 c617 (Link to this contribution) I shall tell the right hon. Lady what I am going to do. I am going to answer questions when she answ...
Chris Leslie | 512 c606 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?
Liam Byrne | 512 c672-3 (Link to this contribution) We can see at whose feet the hon. Gentleman has been training. Our plan was different from the one ...
Liam Byrne | 512 c669-71 (Link to this contribution) We have had some excellent debates in the Chamber since the Chancellor presented his Budget to the H...
Matt Hancock | 512 c672 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?
Andrew George | 512 c625 (Link to this contribution) I am very grateful to my hon. Friend for that comment. There is not just a new coalition Government,...
Yvette Cooper | 512 c617 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman has gone £40 billion further. He has proposed an additional £40 billion of ...
Yvette Cooper | 512 c618 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right that the Government's proposals do not even include the consequences of the ...
Clive Betts | 512 c609 (Link to this contribution) Does the right hon. Gentleman accept that the Institute for Fiscal Studies, in its report on the Bud...
Subjects
Disability
Children
Child benefit
Allowances
Housing benefit
Employment schemes
Economic situation
Incapacity benefit
Economic growth
Medical examinations
Poverty
Pensions
Older people
Lone parents
Public sector debt
Pregnancy
Social security benefits
VAT
Unemployment
Uprating
Cuts
Employment and support allowance
Budget June 2010
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