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The Economy

Opposition day on Wednesday, 22 June 2011, in the House of Commons, led by Ed Balls. The answering member was George Osborne.
Eighteenth opposition day debate. Closure motion. Agreed to on question. Main question negatived on division (305 to 208). Amendment agreed to on division (299 to 206). Main question, as amended, agreed to.
Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
530 c332-443 
Session
2010-12
Department
Treasury
Procedure
Closure motions
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Proceeding contributions
Speaker | 530 c409 (Link to this contribution) Order. To enable more Members to contribute to the debate, the time limit for speeches is now being ...
Speaker | 530 c332 (Link to this contribution) I should notify the House that, as a consequence of the fact that no fewer than 38 right hon. and ho...

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Margot James | 530 c391 (Link to this contribution) I will certainly give way to the Chairman of the Business, Innovation and Skills Committee, of which...
Adrian Bailey | 530 c391 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Lady, as a fellow black country Member of Parliament, for giving way, particularly ...
Margot James | 530 c391 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for his intervention. Clearly, I would not have wanted the hospital not t...
Margot James | 530 c391 (Link to this contribution) I would like to make progress and bring my remarks to a conclusion. Throughout the boom years, near...
Alec Shelbrooke | 530 c391 (Link to this contribution) To expand my hon. Friend's point about wasted money, does she agree that it was an absolute disgrace...
Margot James | 530 c390 (Link to this contribution) ““The economy one year on””: I admire the Opposition's gall in inviting us to recollect the state of...
Margot James | 530 c391 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an extremely good point and I thank him for his intervention.
Alun Cairns | 530 c393 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman focuses on manufacturing, but how does he contrast performance over the past 12 m...
Owen Smith | 530 c393 (Link to this contribution) I answer candidly that we have already said that we need a rebalancing of our economy. On both sides...
Gordon Birtwistle | 530 c393 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman agree that, if the country takes on the debts that the Opposition suggest by...
Owen Smith | 530 c393 (Link to this contribution) We have heard a lot today about learning the lessons of history, but what we heard from the hon. Mem...
Margot James | 530 c392-3 (Link to this contribution) If the hon. Gentleman has those statistics at his disposal, I am sure that he will enlighten the Hou...
Owen Smith | 530 c391 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady cites a number that we have heard many times from Conservative Members. If she cares t...
Margot James | 530 c391 (Link to this contribution) I will take an intervention from the hon. Gentleman, who was a member of the Health and Social Care ...
Kwasi Kwarteng | 530 c396 (Link to this contribution) I will acknowledge that the budget in 1997 was balanced, in that we took in £315 billion of revenue ...
Adrian Bailey | 530 c396 (Link to this contribution) I am following the hon. Gentleman's argument, but it is somewhat incoherent given that, in 2008 I th...
Kwasi Kwarteng | 530 c396-7 (Link to this contribution) The principal point—if the hon. Gentleman will listen—is that Labour gambled with the country's econ...
Adrian Bailey | 530 c397 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Owen Smith | 530 c395-6 (Link to this contribution) Thank you very much, Mr Deputy Speaker. I completely reject that entirely false characterisation of...
Speaker | 530 c395 (Link to this contribution) Order. Before the hon. Member for Pontypridd (Owen Smith) answers that intervention, I ask hon. Memb...
Adrian Bailey | 530 c396 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman talks about the big picture, but will he acknowledge that when the Labour Governm...
Kwasi Kwarteng | 530 c396 (Link to this contribution) I was not expecting to be called so early in this debate, Mr Deputy Speaker, but I am very grateful....
Alun Cairns | 530 c395 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman talks about the number of people looking for jobs in his constituency this year c...
Owen Smith | 530 c393-4 (Link to this contribution) No, I do not agree with that for a moment. A VAT holiday right now would stimulate the economy. We s...
Stephen Twigg | 530 c398-9 (Link to this contribution) I am delighted to follow the hon. Member for Spelthorne (Kwasi Kwarteng). Reflecting on the lack of ...
Nigel Adams | 530 c398 (Link to this contribution) Since the last election, when we got a Conservative-led coalition, unemployment has fallen in my hon...
Kwasi Kwarteng | 530 c398 (Link to this contribution) The only question that the markets were interested in at that point was whether Labour would be re-e...
Owen Smith | 530 c398 (Link to this contribution) I cannot help but point out that if the markets had been so omniscient and all-seeing, surely they w...
Kwasi Kwarteng | 530 c398 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has had his say, but I will give way to him.
Owen Smith | 530 c398 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Kwasi Kwarteng | 530 c397-8 (Link to this contribution) I accept the hon. Gentleman's point about Ireland, but let us look at what happened last year and th...
Toby Perkins | 530 c397 (Link to this contribution) As for the comparison with Greece, does the hon. Gentleman recognise that if we had followed the adv...
Kwasi Kwarteng | 530 c397 (Link to this contribution) This is the third time that the hon. Gentleman has tried to intervene, and I am afraid that I must p...
Stephen Williams | 530 c375 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. coalition colleague for her intervention, which reinforces my points. The Governmen...
Clive Efford | 530 c375 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Stephen Williams | 530 c375-6 (Link to this contribution) I have taken two interventions, so I will take no more until near the end, perhaps. This Government...
Iain Wright | 530 c374 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend represents a seat in the north-east, as I do, and he knows full well that our region ...
Richard Graham | 530 c374 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Iain Wright | 530 c374 (Link to this contribution) No, I am not going to give way, because I do not have long left. There is an acute need for a more ...
Sheila Gilmore | 530 c375 (Link to this contribution) Is the hon. Gentleman concerned that Ireland and Greece, the two countries with the greatest difficu...
Margot James | 530 c375 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend mentions the views of the bond market, and the previous speaker talked about what PIM...
Iain Wright | 530 c374 (Link to this contribution) The growth projections are falling rapidly, and have been downcast three times. When I speak to my c...
David Anderson | 530 c374 (Link to this contribution) Is it not the case that, like me, my hon. Friend has been here before, when the Conservative party d...
Iain Wright | 530 c373-4 (Link to this contribution) I hope that the hon. Lady, who has not listened to the rest of the debate, will take into account th...
Alun Cairns | 530 c374 (Link to this contribution) Why should we accept the hon. Gentleman's version of events when the OECD, the CBI, the Institute of...
Andrew Love | 530 c371 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Lady for giving way before she leaves the subject of Project Merlin. She will have ...
Jackie Doyle-Price | 530 c371 (Link to this contribution) We should absolutely encourage more lending to sustainable businesses and business propositions, but...
Speaker | 530 c373 (Link to this contribution) Order. I know that the hon. Lady is an enthusiastic Member, but she should not just walk into the Ch...
Claire O'Neill | 530 c373 (Link to this contribution) I apologise, Mr Deputy Speaker, but I have been tied up with constituency business. I just wanted to...
Iain Wright | 530 c371-3 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Member for Thurrock (Jackie Doyle-Price) mentioned last week's speech by the Chancellor at ...
Claire O'Neill | 530 c373 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving way because I have just joined the debate—
Denis MacShane | 530 c380 (Link to this contribution) In my constituency, according to the National House Building Council, building started on just four ...
Kwasi Kwarteng | 530 c383 (Link to this contribution) Can the hon. Lady tell the House what kind of savings the Labour party would have made in public spe...
Catherine McKinnell | 530 c383-5 (Link to this contribution) No, I will not, because I want to leave time for other Members. It is not just women who are bearin...
Catherine McKinnell | 530 c382-3 (Link to this contribution) One year on, it is now abundantly clear that last year's emergency Budget hit women much harder than...
David Rutley | 530 c380-2 (Link to this contribution) No, it is part of the lamentable legacy of the Labour party. We are cleaning up the mess; you are ju...
Catherine McKinnell | 530 c383 (Link to this contribution) I will give way just this once, as I know that many of my colleagues want to speak.
James Morris | 530 c385 (Link to this contribution) I shall focus my remarks on the challenges faced by the black country economy and the west midlands ...
Geoffrey Robinson | 530 c378 (Link to this contribution) I will give way in a few moments. Those are the facts and that is the situation. If we look at the ...
Geoffrey Robinson | 530 c377-8 (Link to this contribution) All we know at the moment is what has happened and many forward-looking forecasts are no better than...
Richard Graham | 530 c377 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman said that his constituents were desperate for good news. May I refer him to the v...
Geoffrey Robinson | 530 c377 (Link to this contribution) This is a timely economic debate, and I am pleased that the Opposition have tabled this motion for a...
Stephen Williams | 530 c376-7 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a good point. What should we do with RBS and the Lloyd's banking group, which ...
Alec Shelbrooke | 530 c376 (Link to this contribution) If a banker pays 50% income tax on his bonus, does not that represent a greater tax take than if the...
David Rutley | 530 c380 (Link to this contribution) The emergency Budget will certainly be remembered for robustly tackling the record Budget deficit, b...
Geoffrey Robinson | 530 c378-80 (Link to this contribution) I will take the intervention later, if I may. We are now at the stage where we have to make up our ...
Tom Blenkinsop | 530 c388 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry, but I want to continue. I will give way to someone else later. The Tories are creating ...
Tom Blenkinsop | 530 c388 (Link to this contribution) Sorry, no. That is because slower growth and higher unemployment, which means more people claiming ...
Tom Blenkinsop | 530 c388 (Link to this contribution) No. The best way to reduce the deficit in the long term is by focusing on growth and jobs in order ...
Gordon Birtwistle | 530 c388 (Link to this contribution) On that point, will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Tom Blenkinsop | 530 c389 (Link to this contribution) No. This pattern is borne out in my constituency and the local area. Recent figures from the Office...
Speaker | 530 c389 (Link to this contribution) Order. Mr Birtwistle, just to save your legs, I do not think that Mr Blenkinsop is keen on allowing ...
Tom Blenkinsop | 530 c389-90 (Link to this contribution) Figures published on 10 June show that the seasonally adjusted index of production in April 2011 fel...
Owen Smith | 530 c385 (Link to this contribution) May I point the hon. Gentleman to unemployment figures for the west midlands? We have heard a lot ab...
James Morris | 530 c385-6 (Link to this contribution) As I said, one year in, following the policies being implemented by the coalition Government, we are...
James Morris | 530 c386-7 (Link to this contribution) There is huge potential to stimulate growth in the black country. Especially now when public spendin...
Andrew Love | 530 c386 (Link to this contribution) There is a lot of evidence from the 1980s about employment zones, and it shows that the cost of the ...
James Morris | 530 c386 (Link to this contribution) I will not give way. I will make progress. The Government faced a considerable challenge when they ...
Ben Gummer | 530 c388 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Tom Blenkinsop | 530 c388 (Link to this contribution) The estimate will be from the OBR, so it is from a Government-sponsored body that assesses the Gover...
Ben Gummer | 530 c387 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman state the precise source of the 200,000 figure that he has given for the inc...
George Osborne | 530 c360 (Link to this contribution) What I understand is that the system the right hon. Gentleman put in place to ensure financial stabi...
George Osborne | 530 c360 (Link to this contribution) Let me conclude now. The scales have fallen from the eyes of Labour MPs. They realise that they hav...
Alison McGovern | 530 c359 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Chancellor for giving way, and I am proud to be the PPS to my right hon. Friend the Memb...
George Osborne | 530 c359 (Link to this contribution) I think that the hon. Lady is the parliamentary private secretary to the former Prime Minister, and ...
Ed Balls | 530 c360 (Link to this contribution) When we reformed the Bank of England in 1997, we introduced a second deputy governor for financial s...
George Osborne | 530 c359-60 (Link to this contribution) Of course, I welcome the hon. Lady to her—[Interruption.] I will answer the question that she puts. ...
Nick Raynsford | 530 c362 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an important point. These factors are all interrelated. The lower impact of une...
Henry Smith | 530 c362 (Link to this contribution) Does the right hon. Gentleman concede that during the last decade of the Labour Government housing s...
Nick Raynsford | 530 c361 (Link to this contribution) I will not go into a detailed diversion on the whole issue of inflation. The Governor of the Bank of...
Kelvin Hopkins | 530 c362 (Link to this contribution) I am listening to my right hon. Friend with interest, and I agree with what he is saying. While the ...
Therese Coffey | 530 c361 (Link to this contribution) I recognise that the low interest rate is one of the reasons that the number of repossessions was so...
Nick Raynsford | 530 c360-1 (Link to this contribution) May I draw attention to my interests as registered in the Register of Members' Financial Interests? ...
George Osborne | 530 c360 (Link to this contribution) The shadow Chancellor is a man with a past, but no ideas for the future. The Leader of the Oppositio...
George Osborne | 530 c360 (Link to this contribution) I am not giving way. Let me conclude my speech. That is because the shadow Chancellor is a man—
Chris Ruane | 530 c357 (Link to this contribution) He would do—it is his report.
Ed Balls | 530 c358 (Link to this contribution) I set out our position on these matters very clearly on Sunday. We agree that we need pensions refor...
George Osborne | 530 c358 (Link to this contribution) Let me take that answer and dissect it. First, the shadow Chancellor deliberately confuses the state...
Ed Balls | 530 c358 (Link to this contribution) The tripartite system was put in place following the repeated failure of self-regulation and of the ...
George Osborne | 530 c358 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman did not apologise for the tripartite system; he defended it. That is what h...
Nadhim Zahawi | 530 c357 (Link to this contribution) On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. Should not the hon. Member for Rhondda retract the dispar...
George Osborne | 530 c357 (Link to this contribution) John Hutton said that he would like the leader of the Labour party"““to endorse the report I produce...
Speaker | 530 c357 (Link to this contribution) Nothing has been said that is unparliamentary, but some of the behaviour in the Chamber could be a l...
Nadhim Zahawi | 530 c359 (Link to this contribution) That goes to the heart of this debate—the credibility that the shadow Chancellor talks about. The pu...
George Osborne | 530 c359 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right, and I am glad that I gave way to him so that he could make that ...
Nadhim Zahawi | 530 c359 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. Friend give way?
George Osborne | 530 c359 (Link to this contribution) And he says that he is really worried about them. So, there we have it: the shadow Chancellor is ag...
Pamela Nash | 530 c366-7 (Link to this contribution) It is said that there are three stages of a Government's life. First, they blame their predecessors ...
Sajid Javid | 530 c365-6 (Link to this contribution) I absolutely agree with my hon. Friend. If we want to make the cuts less painful, that is possible....
Margot James | 530 c367 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Lady not accept that there is bound to be restraint on the part of consumers consideri...
Sajid Javid | 530 c363 (Link to this contribution) I found many of the comments in the shadow Chancellor's speech absolutely astounding. He began by ta...
Lord Wharton of Yarm | 530 c363-4 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is making an excellent point about the levels of debt that the Government inherited. ...
Sajid Javid | 530 c364 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right. There are some very reliable estimates of unfunded liabilities o...
David Anderson | 530 c364 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has gone through the figures. Will he say what they will mean in reality for publ...
Sajid Javid | 530 c364 (Link to this contribution) What it will mean for all workers in Bromsgrove, including public sector and private sector workers,...
Henry Smith | 530 c365 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a powerful point about the United States, where unemployment is falling because...
Jackie Doyle-Price | 530 c370-1 (Link to this contribution) I shall press on, if that is okay. The Government's measures will encourage more people to fill new...
Pamela Nash | 530 c367-9 (Link to this contribution) I cannot explain why, but I hope that our shadow team will answer the hon. Gentleman's query at the ...
Jackie Doyle-Price | 530 c369 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Airdrie and Shotts (Pamela Nash), who spoke with cons...
Pamela Nash | 530 c367 (Link to this contribution) I would argue that the Government's policies in the past year have done nothing to increase the conf...
Jonathan Edwards | 530 c367 (Link to this contribution) I agree with many of the points that the hon. Lady is making in her thoughtful speech. However, my r...
Owen Smith | 530 c370 (Link to this contribution) The latest manufacturing output numbers show a clear decline, not an increase. There was an increase...
Lilian Greenwood | 530 c369 (Link to this contribution) I understand what the hon. Lady is saying, but does she not share our concern that although we are s...
Jackie Doyle-Price | 530 c369-70 (Link to this contribution) I was just getting to the explanation for that, which is the one that my right hon. Friend the Chanc...
Angela C Smith | 530 c356 (Link to this contribution) It is emerging that there has been a 17% increase in home repossessions. How can the Chancellor just...
George Osborne | 530 c356 (Link to this contribution) We have extended the mortgage interest relief scheme—I inherited a plan for it, too, to end—and of c...
George Osborne | 530 c357 (Link to this contribution) I will make some progress. All those policies involved difficult decisions, but they have been oppo...
George Osborne | 530 c357 (Link to this contribution) Right, what is the hon. Gentleman's view of John Hutton's report?
George Osborne | 530 c357 (Link to this contribution) We are engaged in those negotiations, which the Chief Secretary and the Minister for the Cabinet Off...
Kevin Brennan | 530 c357 (Link to this contribution) The Chancellor is not asking the questions; I am intervening. Where is the Chief Secretary to the Tr...
George Osborne | 530 c357 (Link to this contribution) Will he answer my question? No? I am not taking an intervention. [Interruption.] The question we hav...
George Osborne | 530 c355 (Link to this contribution) The truth is that the whole country has paid the price for the disastrous economic policies of the p...
George Osborne | 530 c356 (Link to this contribution) I have just taken an intervention from that side. The first requirement to fix the mess is a plan t...
George Osborne | 530 c355 (Link to this contribution) We put forward in the Budget targeted cuts for business. We are cutting corporation tax by 2% this y...
Mark Durkan | 530 c355 (Link to this contribution) The Chancellor will be aware that Ireland is locked into a serious deficit reduction plan. He may al...
George Osborne | 530 c355 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right. The debt interest payments would have increased to £180 million a day if we...
Aidan Burley | 530 c355 (Link to this contribution) Is the truth not that the Opposition's two policies—cutting VAT and halving the structural deficit o...
George Osborne | 530 c356 (Link to this contribution) Let me make some progress before taking any more interventions.
George Osborne | 530 c356 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman says that they supported it, but the plans I inherited from Labour's March ...
Kate Green | 530 c355 (Link to this contribution) Who is paying the price for this approach to reducing the deficit? The Institute for Fiscal Studies ...
George Osborne | 530 c354-5 (Link to this contribution) So it is a Tory plot, is it, and the Bank of England is part of it? What about the IMF; is it part o...
Charlie Elphicke | 530 c354 (Link to this contribution) The Opposition not only want to hold back the growth agenda; they also have a series of unfunded spe...
George Osborne | 530 c354 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right that a crucial element of our strategy must be to undertake struc...
George Osborne | 530 c354 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right. In the last week alone, not only has the shadow Chancellor made ...
George Osborne | 530 c353 (Link to this contribution) I have already been asked that question three times, and I have answered it, explaining that—[Interr...
Lilian Greenwood | 530 c353 (Link to this contribution) I hear what the Chancellor says, but just before the collapse of Northern Rock in 2007 did he not wr...
William Cash | 530 c354 (Link to this contribution) The Chancellor's analysis of what went wrong under the Labour Government is completely right. Howeve...
George Osborne | 530 c353 (Link to this contribution) Let me just make the following point before taking another intervention. The majority of Labour Memb...
George Osborne | 530 c353 (Link to this contribution) The entire economic record of the previous Government was negligent, which is why no one is going to...
Andrew Selous | 530 c353 (Link to this contribution) At that point in 2007, what did the then Government do? They increased spending by £90 billion, far ...
George Osborne | 530 c352-3 (Link to this contribution) I have taken several interventions, and I will take some more after I have made a little progress. ...
George Osborne | 530 c352 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend draws attention to the fact that although we have had to take very difficult de...
John Redwood | 530 c352 (Link to this contribution) The Red Book says that current public spending will rise 3.8% this year in cash terms and it is runn...
George Osborne | 530 c352 (Link to this contribution) Of course there are economists, including Lord Skidelsky, who have made their views clear, but there...
Kelvin Hopkins | 530 c351 (Link to this contribution) I hope the Chancellor will not describe me as a henchman. Writing yesterday, Lord Skidelsky said tha...
George Osborne | 530 c351 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman may not have voted for it, but the rest of his colleagues did. That is the absolu...
George Osborne | 530 c351 (Link to this contribution) We all read those papers in The Daily Telegraph. They revealed that the shadow Chancellor knew befor...
Richard Graham | 530 c421 (Link to this contribution) No, we have had enough of the hon. Lady's discussion of the past. I welcome this Government's commi...
Richard Graham | 530 c421-2 (Link to this contribution) All of us including the hon. Lady. We can do nothing, we can say, ““It won't work,”” and we can let ...
Chris Evans | 530 c422 (Link to this contribution) It is always a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Gloucester (Richard Graham), whose constituenc...
Chris Evans | 530 c422 (Link to this contribution) A voice from Wales. I hope that it is sensible.
Alun Cairns | 530 c422 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving way, but the conclusion that Labour got it wrong was ...
Chris Evans | 530 c422-3 (Link to this contribution) Why did I bother giving way? That is another complacent attitude. When the Government talk about de...
John Hemming | 530 c423 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman acknowledge that Tony Blair said in his memoirs that it was the Labour Gover...
Chris Evans | 530 c423 (Link to this contribution) No, he did not. This debate would be far more honest if we said that it was the banks. This is like ...
Chris Evans | 530 c423 (Link to this contribution) We have heard about the FSA, and we have admitted that that did not work, but before that, there was...
Matt Hancock | 530 c423 (Link to this contribution) I am listening to the hon. Gentleman trying to blame everything on the banks. The question is, who d...
Bob Stewart | 530 c424 (Link to this contribution) This is not particularly my field, but when the hon. Gentleman says that the key to it is spending, ...
Chris Evans | 530 c424 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend. After the debacle of the intervention by the hon. Member for Vale of Glamorg...
Speaker | 530 c424 (Link to this contribution) Order. I think that the hon. Gentleman has got the point.
Susan Elan Jones | 530 c423-4 (Link to this contribution) Conservative Members seem to forget what the Prime Minister said. In speech to the CBI, he said that...
Angela Eagle | 530 c424-5 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for giving way. To clarify the issue, the vote on the Finance Bill happen...
Chris Evans | 530 c424 (Link to this contribution) That is just a PR question. As I say, consumer spending is about giving people the confidence to spe...
Charlie Elphicke | 530 c424 (Link to this contribution) It is a real privilege and an honour to follow the hon. Member for Islwyn (Chris Evans), who has spo...
Richard Graham | 530 c420-1 (Link to this contribution) First, the hon. Lady is inaccurate, and secondly no Government Member believes that we can abolish b...
Alison McGovern | 530 c420 (Link to this contribution) If the hon. Gentleman thinks that the previous Government's economic policy over a decade lacked cre...
Speaker | 530 c421 (Link to this contribution) That is certainly something that you could find out from Hansard, but it is not something that you c...
Thomas Docherty | 530 c421 (Link to this contribution) On a point of order, Mr Deputy Speaker. Could you clarify whether I could find out from Hansard whet...
Richard Graham | 530 c421 (Link to this contribution) I am glad to see that Opposition Members are focused on the topic of today's debate. As I was sayin...
Toby Perkins | 530 c418 (Link to this contribution) I have given way to the hon. Gentleman once. I am grateful for the fact that he has turned up, but I...
Ben Gummer | 530 c418 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is factually wrong. The OBR says that unemployment will peak at the end of this y...
Toby Perkins | 530 c419 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman did not hear what I said. The OBR suggests that unemployment will be higher in ev...
Richard Graham | 530 c419-20 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Chesterfield (Toby Perkins). He, I and all of us in t...
Kwasi Kwarteng | 530 c417 (Link to this contribution) I believe in debate—it is good that interventions are taken. If the problem was global, why was our ...
Toby Perkins | 530 c417 (Link to this contribution) Because the hon. Gentleman was so generous to me, I will allow him to intervene.
John Hemming | 530 c418 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Toby Perkins | 530 c418 (Link to this contribution) I think I have given way enough. I am grateful for the fact that the hon. Lady has turned up for the...
Claire O'Neill | 530 c418 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
John Hemming | 530 c417 (Link to this contribution) I simply point out to the hon. Gentleman that we have not changed our policies. He is asking for mor...
Toby Perkins | 530 c417 (Link to this contribution) It is interesting that the hon. Gentleman assumes what I am going to say already. I am only three se...
Toby Perkins | 530 c417 (Link to this contribution) It is so good to see a Liberal Democrat turn up that I have to let him in. It will encourage him to ...
Alec Shelbrooke | 530 c416-7 (Link to this contribution) Absolutely, and I am very grateful to my hon. Friend for making that point. I have said in the House...
John Hemming | 530 c416 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman agree that by reducing the rate of interest and the amount of interest paid,...
Alec Shelbrooke | 530 c415 (Link to this contribution) I am not sure that I quite understand the hon. Lady's point.
Sheila Gilmore | 530 c415 (Link to this contribution) I do not dispute that the Conservative party went into the election with those things in its manifes...
Alec Shelbrooke | 530 c415-6 (Link to this contribution) Absolutely. It is a salutary lesson in the history of British politics that it has taken two parties...
John Hemming | 530 c415 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady claims that the Liberal Democrats fought the election on the basis of not dealing with...
David Anderson | 530 c414-5 (Link to this contribution) I am not going any further. I am proud of what we did. We put record investment into the national h...
Alec Shelbrooke | 530 c415 (Link to this contribution) I want to start by putting an end to the myth that the Government have no mandate for the action the...
David Anderson | 530 c414 (Link to this contribution) I was not going to discuss the Liberal Democrats because they are obviously not relevant to this cou...
Lord Hanson of Flint | 530 c414 (Link to this contribution) May I remind my hon. Friend that at the last election the Liberal Democrats wanted to spend more tha...
David Anderson | 530 c414 (Link to this contribution) Sit down and shut up. The Tories have made deliberate decisions and claimed that there are no alter...
David Anderson | 530 c414 (Link to this contribution) My party's policy is not to borrow more money—it is to increase taxes on bankers and make those peop...
John Hemming | 530 c414 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman's party's solution is to borrow more money. From whom is it going to borrow it an...
David Anderson | 530 c413 (Link to this contribution) The past 13 months have been framed by Conservative Members talking about deficit denial, but the tr...
Therese Coffey | 530 c412-3 (Link to this contribution) No, I have already given way a couple of times to Opposition Members. It is absolutely key to ensur...
Ben Gummer | 530 c407-9 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is entirely right. In my constituency manufacturing fell more quickly in the 1970s th...
Nicholas Dakin | 530 c409-10 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Ipswich (Ben Gummer), who enriched us by deploying su...
Speaker | 530 c410 (Link to this contribution) Order. I call Dr Thérèse Coffey.
Therese Coffey | 530 c410-1 (Link to this contribution) I always enjoy these occasions and think that it was a very good birthday present from the Oppositio...
Thomas Docherty | 530 c411 (Link to this contribution) I suspect that the hon. Lady was not here in May, but I certainly recall President Obama making it a...
Therese Coffey | 530 c411-2 (Link to this contribution) Well, perhaps he did not, but he seems to have changed his mind and is stepping up the pace of defic...
Alison McGovern | 530 c412 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady cannot mention our home city of Liverpool without acknowledging the previous Governmen...
Therese Coffey | 530 c412 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady is absolutely right. I am very proud of my home city, but I hope that she will also cr...
Kwasi Kwarteng | 530 c406 (Link to this contribution) Will my hon. Friend remind the House about the consequences of the 1981 Budget and what happened at ...
Ben Gummer | 530 c406 (Link to this contribution) I do not know what position my hon. Friend took against the 1981 Budget, but all that I can say is t...
Ben Gummer | 530 c405-6 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the right hon. Member for Oldham West and Royton (Mr Meacher). He spoke a...
Alison McGovern | 530 c407 (Link to this contribution) I am going to skate briefly over the hon. Gentleman's comments about Labour Members never having see...
Ben Gummer | 530 c407 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady makes a perfectly reasonable point, but it is not one that she has conveyed to Opposit...
Thomas Docherty | 530 c406 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Ben Gummer | 530 c406-7 (Link to this contribution) I have taken one intervention; I will not take any more. I am afraid that the Opposition are fallin...
Andrew Griffiths | 530 c407 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that manufacturing declined more sharply under the previous Government tha...
Andrew Griffiths | 530 c407 (Link to this contribution) Returning to the point about manufacturing, is my hon. Friend aware that under the premiership of To...
Speaker | 530 c407 (Link to this contribution) Order. The hon. Gentleman must refer to another hon. Member by his constituency.
Michael Meacher | 530 c403 (Link to this contribution) We were treated to a typically Panglossian picture by the Chancellor, as though there were nothing c...
Michael Meacher | 530 c403 (Link to this contribution) I will give way only once. As the hon. Member for Burton (Andrew Griffiths) has had plenty of opport...
Priti Patel | 530 c402-3 (Link to this contribution) I have said that I will take only one intervention, because of pressure of time; other Members want ...
Louise Mensch | 530 c403 (Link to this contribution) Is the right hon. Gentleman not a little put out by the fact that the IMF, the OECD and every major ...
Michael Meacher | 530 c403-4 (Link to this contribution) I am afraid that the hon. Lady is behind the curve. The fact is that there has been a major change i...
Michael Meacher | 530 c404-5 (Link to this contribution) I have not got time, I am afraid. Incredible as it might seem, the last straw that the Chancellor i...
Stephen Twigg | 530 c399-400 (Link to this contribution) I will not take any more interventions, for reasons of time. We have seen a small increase over the...
Stephen Twigg | 530 c399 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for that intervention, but it is the only one that I will take. I want to...
Ben Gummer | 530 c399 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Kwasi Kwarteng | 530 c399 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman talks about the human cost of economic mismanagement. Could he tell us more about...
Priti Patel | 530 c402 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for that comment. The 1970s was also the era of strikes, and as we all know, ...
Priti Patel | 530 c402 (Link to this contribution) I will take one intervention, from my hon. Friend there.
Alec Shelbrooke | 530 c402 (Link to this contribution) I am most grateful to my hon. Friend for giving way. Labour Members like to harp on about the '80s, ...
Stephen Twigg | 530 c400-1 (Link to this contribution) I am not taking any more interventions. As I say, there are 33 JSA claimants chasing each vacancy i...
Priti Patel | 530 c401-2 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Opposition for this debate, which provides Government Members with the opportunity to re...
Kevin Brennan | 530 c346 (Link to this contribution) What estimate is the Chancellor using for the time lag between his fiscal actions and their effect o...
Nadhim Zahawi | 530 c347 (Link to this contribution) I can inform the Chancellor that, in the west midlands, unemployment has fallen by 28,000 this quart...
George Osborne | 530 c347 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes two good points. First, there was a very welcome recent reduction in unemployme...
Margot James | 530 c344-5 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman referred to the previous Government's policies when they embarked on a very...
Ed Balls | 530 c344 (Link to this contribution) I have taken lots of interventions and I am coming to my conclusion. That is why we have consistent...
Ed Balls | 530 c345 (Link to this contribution) I have taken loads of interventions and I am not going to do doubles. The fact is that the path tha...
Ed Balls | 530 c345 (Link to this contribution) I have been, in a friendly way, critical of the Chancellor's engagement and participation in interna...
George Osborne | 530 c345-6 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move an amendment, to leave out from ““House”” to the end of the Question and add:"““welcom...
Ed Balls | 530 c345 (Link to this contribution) No, I am going to conclude. At the very least, it looks set to be a path of slower growth and highe...
Lord Austin of Dudley | 530 c348 (Link to this contribution) I want to apologise to the Chancellor for something that I said yesterday. On who said what in 2008,...
George Osborne | 530 c348 (Link to this contribution) Of course, I give way to one of the henchmen.
Toby Perkins | 530 c347 (Link to this contribution) If the Chancellor feels that the economy was so unbalanced, can he explain why he was still saying i...
George Osborne | 530 c347 (Link to this contribution) I will give way, and then I will come on to the shadow Chancellor.
George Osborne | 530 c348 (Link to this contribution) It went beyond that—my hon. Friend makes a good point—not only did the shadow Chancellor attack the ...
Alec Shelbrooke | 530 c348 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend agree that it says everything that we need to know about the Opposition's ...
George Osborne | 530 c347 (Link to this contribution) I will take a couple of interventions in a short while, but let me make the point that, since the sh...
George Osborne | 530 c347 (Link to this contribution) We fought the 2005 election and, sadly, lost it, saying that Labour's plans were unaffordable. In 20...
Lord Evans of Rainow | 530 c350 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Chancellor. Does he agree that manufacturing is the key to the long-term prospe...
George Osborne | 530 c350 (Link to this contribution) Indeed. The share of manufacturing as a proportion of our economy halved as well. That is how unbala...
George Osborne | 530 c349 (Link to this contribution) I give way to the former forestry tsar.
George Osborne | 530 c349 (Link to this contribution) The figure is calculated like this: if we implemented it, we would be in a fiscal crisis. That would...
George Osborne | 530 c349-50 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman draws attention to the 520,000 net private sector jobs that are being created. It...
Barry Gardiner | 530 c349 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman will recall that a year ago the predictions in terms of unemployment did no...
George Osborne | 530 c348-9 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman should get better handouts if he is one of the shadow Chancellor's close advisers...
Ed Balls | 530 c349 (Link to this contribution) The previous Chancellor was the last man to cut VAT temporarily to get the economy moving. What is t...
George Osborne | 530 c349 (Link to this contribution) I will take interventions, but let me make this point. Since this is an Opposition day, let us exam...
Ed Balls | 530 c351 (Link to this contribution) To follow up the question from my hon. Friend the Member for Cardiff West (Kevin Brennan), and becau...
George Osborne | 530 c351 (Link to this contribution) The interesting thing is that in the United States the debate in the Congress has turned to discussi...
Alec Shelbrooke | 530 c351 (Link to this contribution) Is it not also telling that after the Opposition have spent a year banging on about the American mod...
George Osborne | 530 c351 (Link to this contribution) This is a debate about the economy. We all enjoyed reading those papers in The Daily Telegraph. To ...
Kevin Brennan | 530 c351 (Link to this contribution) While the Chancellor is on that subject, can he give a simple answer to a question—yes or no? Did he...
George Osborne | 530 c350 (Link to this contribution) Let me make this point, then I will take interventions. The position is worse even than that. Hon. ...
George Osborne | 530 c350 (Link to this contribution) Let me make a little progress and then take some more interventions. We are all being asked to vote...
Ed Balls | 530 c338 (Link to this contribution) The irony of a Conservative MP opposing tax cuts in VAT for families while allowing a tax cut, compa...
Angela Eagle | 530 c431 (Link to this contribution) VAT is up, wages are frozen, hours are falling and real standards of living are sinking fast. It is ...
Andrea Leadsom | 530 c338 (Link to this contribution) Does the right hon. Gentleman recognise that when the Government took office, our country was on cre...
Ed Balls | 530 c339 (Link to this contribution) No, no, no. Three months before the general election, the polls said that the Conservatives would g...
Kwasi Kwarteng | 530 c339 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman spoke about responsibility earlier, but does he take responsibility for the...
Ed Balls | 530 c339 (Link to this contribution) Not again. I will make a little more progress. [Interruption.]
Andrea Leadsom | 530 c339 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?
Angela Eagle | 530 c430 (Link to this contribution) No. The Chancellor's choice meant breaking promises that he made before the general election by scr...
Angela Eagle | 530 c430 (Link to this contribution) No, I will not give way. The Chancellor's choice to cut further and faster than was economically ne...
Angela Eagle | 530 c430 (Link to this contribution) No. How strange, then, that the Liberal Democrat election slogan was, ““No more broken promises””.
Angela Eagle | 530 c430 (Link to this contribution) No, I am not giving way, especially not to the hon. Gentleman, who has not even deigned to be presen...
Angela Eagle | 530 c430-1 (Link to this contribution) The Chancellor's choice meant that only Ireland and Iceland have been expected to deliver more auste...
Ed Balls | 530 c338 (Link to this contribution) I have plenty more; we will come to them in a second. Just think, ““Good publicity, good publicity, ...
Speaker | 530 c430 (Link to this contribution) Order. Government Back Benchers must not engage in rhetorical stalking. The hon. Lady has made it cl...
Ed Balls | 530 c340 (Link to this contribution) Well, at least that was not an animal noise. Something has been puzzling me in recent months. Why d...
Ed Balls | 530 c339 (Link to this contribution) Give me five minutes. The Chancellor has clearly been paying some attention. There is no plan B yet...
Alison McGovern | 530 c428-9 (Link to this contribution) In the very short time available, I want to focus on three brief points. First, we have a lot of dis...
Christopher Pincher | 530 c339 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?
Angela Eagle | 530 c429-30 (Link to this contribution) We have had an interesting debate. On this very day a year ago, the Chancellor came to the House to ...
Speaker | 530 c340 (Link to this contribution) Order. I am glad that the exchanges so far have been good-natured, but may I remind colleagues of th...
Christopher Pincher | 530 c340 (Link to this contribution) A man is known by his friends, and I think the shadow Chancellor has just proved that. The right ho...
Geraint Davies | 530 c427-8 (Link to this contribution) No, I will not. In March, the forecasts for growth over the next five years were increased by £46 b...
Ben Gummer | 530 c427 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Geraint Davies | 530 c427 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady will know that long-term interest rates hit an all-time low shortly after we made the ...
Claire O'Neill | 530 c427 (Link to this contribution) The facts also show that interest rates, and particularly the spread over German interest rates—the ...
Geraint Davies | 530 c339 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend accept that one reason for the remarkable fact that the world economy is g...
Geraint Davies | 530 c428 (Link to this contribution) No, I will not. Let me give an example. Every business in Germany is tied into a chamber of commerc...
Ed Balls | 530 c339 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that was one of the proposals in the so-called strategy in the Chancellor's Budget. As I ...
Matt Hancock | 530 c428 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Geraint Davies | 530 c428 (Link to this contribution) The situation there is that the Germans are very focused on ensuring that their economy is focused o...
Ed Balls | 530 c339 (Link to this contribution) I give way to my hon. Friend the Member for Swansea West (Geraint Davies).
Ben Gummer | 530 c428 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes an interesting point about Germany and the involvement of the private secto...
John Redwood | 530 c342 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman is making a very important point. The United Kingdom can make an important ...
Ed Balls | 530 c342 (Link to this contribution) Now I will give way to the right hon. Gentleman.
John Redwood | 530 c341 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?
Ed Balls | 530 c341 (Link to this contribution) No. I am making a serious point. In every crisis since 1997—the Asian crisis, the dotcom crisis, th...
Charlie Elphicke | 530 c426 (Link to this contribution) No. Time is pressing, and I need to allow time for the wind-ups. Youth unemployment has also starte...
Geraint Davies | 530 c426-7 (Link to this contribution) I know that the parliamentary soul from Dover hoped that the Back-Bench speeches would end at half p...
Ed Balls | 530 c341 (Link to this contribution) In one second. For the first time in 14 years we have a Chancellor and a Prime Minister who are on ...
Ed Balls | 530 c340-1 (Link to this contribution) I think the question that people will be asking in the hon. Gentleman's local newspaper is this: why...
Charlie Elphicke | 530 c425-6 (Link to this contribution) No. We already have a situation in which our debt interest costs us £49 billion a year. We cannot a...
John Redwood | 530 c341 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?
Sheila Gilmore | 530 c425 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Ed Balls | 530 c341 (Link to this contribution) No. What happened this week when there was the chance to show some leadership? Throughout the crisi...
Charlie Elphicke | 530 c426 (Link to this contribution) Employment has gone up in my constituency, and unemployment has been falling, which is welcome. We a...
John Redwood | 530 c341 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?
Lilian Greenwood | 530 c426 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is fond of statistics, so is he not concerned that while in 2010 there were 3.9 j...
Speaker | 530 c425 (Link to this contribution) Order. An hon. Member has been accused of misleading the House. I assume that the hon. Lady meant un...
Charlie Elphicke | 530 c425 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Lady for the U-turn she has announced. When I intervened on the shadow Ch...
Angela Eagle | 530 c425 (Link to this contribution) I am happy to withdraw it, but the hon. Gentleman is presenting the House with a narrative that is s...
Ed Balls | 530 c344 (Link to this contribution) ““I'll protect border services, blasts Elphicke””, reads the headline."““The UK Border Agency will n...
Charlie Elphicke | 530 c343 (Link to this contribution) I put it to the shadow Chancellor that this is not just about the business of the unfunded VAT cut t...
Ed Balls | 530 c343 (Link to this contribution) The IMF is there to help countries through situations like this. We are a shareholder and a contribu...
Barry Gardiner | 530 c343 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend will know that the UK taxpayer will still be contributing to any bail-out of Gr...
Ed Balls | 530 c343 (Link to this contribution) No, no, no. A year ago, we had a balanced plan: people paid their fair share, there were spending c...
Stephen Metcalfe | 530 c343 (Link to this contribution) Whichever number we use—the £12 billion or the £51 billion unfunded tax cut—can the right hon. Gentl...
Ed Balls | 530 c343 (Link to this contribution) I have just made it absolutely clear that if we do not have a credible plan that works, it makes it ...
Ed Balls | 530 c342-3 (Link to this contribution) Let me deal with precisely that point by returning to the subject of the United Kingdom. Notwithstan...
Ed Balls | 530 c342 (Link to this contribution) In a moment I will deal with the parallel with the United Kingdom. Let me say first, however, that t...
Ed Balls | 530 c336 (Link to this contribution) I give way to my hon. Friend first.
Lord Austin of Dudley | 530 c336 (Link to this contribution) Why does the shadow Chancellor think the Government are so surprised that he has announced a policy ...
Ed Balls | 530 c336 (Link to this contribution) I find that baffling as well. The fact is that cutting VAT was an effective stimulus, as the IFS sai...
Harriett Baldwin | 530 c336 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman says that he likes to do his politics on the record. On the ““Daily Politic...
Ed Balls | 530 c337 (Link to this contribution) If that was written by the Whips, they will have to do better. What I said was that it would be comp...
Barry Sheerman | 530 c337 (Link to this contribution) Is it not the fact that the deniers here today are the Government who deny the collapse in consumer ...
Ed Balls | 530 c337 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right, and that is why the Chancellor must break out of his current state of growt...
Ed Balls | 530 c337 (Link to this contribution) I will give way in a second. The fact is that the scale of the fiscal hit to demand and growth in B...
Ben Gummer | 530 c337 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman has already mentioned the OBR, the IMF, the EU, the OECD and the CBI, each ...
Ed Balls | 530 c337-8 (Link to this contribution) It is good to see the IMF supporting the Government of the day. The IMF not supporting the Governmen...
Nadhim Zahawi | 530 c335 (Link to this contribution) I thank the shadow Chancellor for finally giving way. I must push him a little bit harder. When did ...
Ed Balls | 530 c335 (Link to this contribution) I happily give way to the hon. Gentleman.
Ed Balls | 530 c335-6 (Link to this contribution) I do my politics on the record. I am not going to comment on that kind of trash. [Interruption.] In ...
Ed Balls | 530 c335 (Link to this contribution) Who shall we have? The hon. Gentleman.
Charlie Elphicke | 530 c335 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for giving way. On that particular point, why is the right...
Ed Balls | 530 c336 (Link to this contribution) I will give way in a few seconds. The test for the Treasury is not whether it can eventually get ba...
Ed Balls | 530 c332 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move,"That this House notes that on 22 June 2010 the Chancellor announced his first Budget ...
Ed Balls | 530 c333 (Link to this contribution) I will take as many interventions as hon. Members want me to, but I am going to establish my argumen...
Nadhim Zahawi | 530 c333 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Ed Balls | 530 c333 (Link to this contribution) I will give way in a moment. The Chancellor claimed that he would cut faster than any other major c...
Ed Balls | 530 c333 (Link to this contribution) No; perhaps I need to say this to the hon. Gentleman again. I will take his intervention after I hav...
Speaker | 530 c333 (Link to this contribution) Order. I know that I have done this many times before, but I appeal to right hon. and hon. Members t...
Ed Balls | 530 c333-4 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr Speaker. In the Budget debate, I took 16 interventions from Members on the Government...
Michael Fallon | 530 c334 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the shadow Chancellor for giving way so early in his speech. While we are on the is...
Ed Balls | 530 c334 (Link to this contribution) The former Labour Chancellor is not in the shadow Cabinet, as the hon. Gentleman will know—[Interrup...
Christopher Pincher | 530 c334 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for giving way. He says he talks to his leader, so will he...
Ed Balls | 530 c334 (Link to this contribution) I have to say that that is a ridiculous question. At a time when the economy has flat-lined, confide...
Ed Balls | 530 c334-5 (Link to this contribution) I am not giving way to the hon. Gentleman again now; I might do later. The reason why the VAT cut i...
Toby Perkins | 530 c335 (Link to this contribution) The Chancellor said yesterday that he does not want to comment regularly on the OBR's updates. Given...
Speaker | 530 c433 (Link to this contribution) Order. The Minister must be heard by the Opposition, and also, one would hope, with some respect by ...
Justine Greening | 530 c433-4 (Link to this contribution) Most importantly of all, the private sector has created half a million jobs, and I would have hoped ...
Ed Balls | 530 c434 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Lady clarify something for the House? During Prime Minister's questions today the hon....
Alan Campbell | 530 c435 (Link to this contribution) claimed to move the closure (Standing Order No. 36). Question put forthwith, That the Question be n...
Angela Eagle | 530 c432 (Link to this contribution) A temporary VAT cut could help kick-start our stalling economy and the Government should certainly c...
Justine Greening | 530 c432-3 (Link to this contribution) This has been an important and excellent debate, with good contributions from both sides of the Hous...
Kwasi Kwarteng | 530 c398 (Link to this contribution) I can give my hon. Friend a very short answer: there is no way that any businessman in Spelthorne—[I...
Stephen Williams | 530 c374-5 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Member for Hartlepool (Mr Wright) rightly set much of his speech in the international conte...
Stephen Williams | 530 c375 (Link to this contribution) I specifically mentioned Greece, and those who have been following events in Greece from afar will k...
George Osborne | 530 c357 (Link to this contribution) It is his report, Labour's former Work and Pensions Secretary, and I want to know whether the Labour...
Ed Balls | 530 c359 (Link to this contribution) I am really worried about them.
Nick Raynsford | 530 c362-3 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman should be aware that during the period leading up to the recession we saw a conti...
Toby Perkins | 530 c417 (Link to this contribution) I think the hon. Member for Elmet and Rothwell (Alec Shelbrooke) forgets that the reason why he sits...
Nadhim Zahawi | 530 c338 (Link to this contribution) On that point, will the right hon. Gentleman give way?
Ed Balls | 530 c335 (Link to this contribution) Whether or not the Chancellor comments, the fact remains that since the last OBR forecast, Britain's...
Justine Greening | 530 c434-5 (Link to this contribution) Well, there is a cross-party consensus, because his party agrees with it. We are now in government, ...
Catherine McKinnell | 530 c383 (Link to this contribution) This is not the opportunity for me to set out what the shadow Chancellor has already set out—the way...
Tom Blenkinsop | 530 c387 (Link to this contribution) It is encouraging to see so many Members wearing ““Yes to High-Speed Rail”” badges. That is a much-n...
Speaker | 530 c360 (Link to this contribution) Order. Can we be a little calmer? Mr Bryant, I know you are very excited, but I am sure that people ...
Jackie Doyle-Price | 530 c370 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman wilfully ignores what I just said. I gave one illustration of inward investment a...
Toby Perkins | 530 c418 (Link to this contribution) Each country was in a different situation. Our ratio was much lower than Japan's. There are a number...
George Osborne | 530 c346 (Link to this contribution) The decisions that we took in the first few weeks on coming to office provided stability for the eco...
Ed Balls | 530 c339 (Link to this contribution) It is fine for the hon. Gentleman to be thinking of his intervention rather than listening to the an...
Toby Perkins | 530 c426 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Kelvin Hopkins | 530 c342 (Link to this contribution) I entirely agree with what my right hon. Friend has said about both Greece and the need for a plan, ...
Ed Balls | 530 c335 (Link to this contribution) That tells you, Mr Speaker, how on the defensive Conservative Members are about the economy. The sha...
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