Main estimates 2017-19. Fourth estimates day (part two). Motion that, for the year ending with 31 March 2019, for expenditure by HM Treasury, so far as it relates to spending decisions and their consequences for grants to the devolved institutions: (1) the resources authorised for use for current purposes be reduced by £294,563,000, as set out in HC 957 of Session 2017–19, (2) the resources authorised for use for capital purposes be reduced by £6,293,934,000 as so set out, and (3) the sum granted to Her Majesty to be issued by the Treasury out of the Consolidated Fund and applied for expenditure on the use of resources authorised by Parliament be reduced by £4,632,925,000. Question deferred. Agreed to on division (239 to 33).
Treasury Spending: Grants to Devolved Institutions
Estimates day on Tuesday, 3 July 2018,
in the House of Commons,
led by Kirsty Blackman.
The answering
members were Elizabeth Truss
and
Peter Dowd.
Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
644 cc250-292
Session
2017-19
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Proceeding contributions
Kirsty Blackman | 644 c250 (Link to this contribution)
I thank the Backbench Business Committee for agreeing to schedule this debate, and I thank my hon...
Chris Elmore | 644 c250 (Link to this contribution)
In addition to the provision of the DUP bung, Wales has lost £1.2 billion, or 7%, since 2010, so ...
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Kirsty Blackman | 644 cc250-1 (Link to this contribution)
I agree. What we should be doing in this debate, and what I will try to do in this debate, is to ...
Bill Grant | 644 c251 (Link to this contribution)
In reference to Donald Trump, the President of the United States, does the hon. Lady not agree th...
Kirsty Blackman | 644 c251 (Link to this contribution)
I do not give a stuff how much Donald Trump has invested in Scotland, because he is separating fa...
John Lamont | 644 c251 (Link to this contribution)
The hon. Lady has criticised the financial transactions as the means by which the UK Government a...
Kirsty Blackman | 644 c251 (Link to this contribution)
I am pleased that the Scottish Government are receiving the financial transactions money. However...
Kirsty Blackman | 644 c252 (Link to this contribution)
I will not give way, because I want to make some progress.
That money cannot be spent on da...
Kirstene Hair | 644 c252 (Link to this contribution)
Will the hon. Lady condemn the parents of her party’s leader—the First Minister—who took advantag...
Kirsty Blackman | 644 c252 (Link to this contribution)
Many people took advantage of the right to buy, because it was the rule that they could do so. I ...
Ian Murray | 644 c253 (Link to this contribution)
I am glad that the hon. Lady and her colleagues have been successful in getting this important es...
Kirsty Blackman | 644 c253 (Link to this contribution)
The Labour party was in charge in Holyrood before and could have cancelled the right to buy then,...
Hugh Gaffney | 644 c253 (Link to this contribution)
Does the hon. Lady agree that if people cannot buy council housing, they need to get social housi...
Kirsty Blackman | 644 cc253-4 (Link to this contribution)
Of the homes that the Scottish Government are building, 35,000 are for social rent. The reality i...
Luke Graham | 644 c254 (Link to this contribution)
The hon. Lady is talking about farmers’ payments. Does she not recognise that over £150 million h...
Kirsty Blackman | 644 cc254-5 (Link to this contribution)
I am very sad that the hon. Gentleman does not recognise that £160 million of EU funding should h...
John Bercow | 644 c255 (Link to this contribution)
Order. I am going to recommend an informal limit of about six minutes per speaker, and colleagues...
Kirstene Hair | 644 cc255-6 (Link to this contribution)
I am grateful for this opportunity to address grants to devolved Administrations. This week we ce...
Jonathan Edwards | 644 cc256-9 (Link to this contribution)
Diolch yn fawr iawn, Mr Speaker. I cannot promise to be equally brief, but I will endeavour to st...
Luke Graham | 644 c258 (Link to this contribution)
The hon. Gentleman is talking about VAT. Given that VAT is a regressive tax, is his party’s posit...
Jonathan Edwards | 644 cc258-260 (Link to this contribution)
The hon. Gentleman has brought to mind my recent visit to the United States: in every state there...
Douglas Ross | 644 c260 (Link to this contribution)
I am shocked—shocked that a debate entitled, “Spending decisions of HM Treasury and their consequ...
Stephen Kerr | 644 c260 (Link to this contribution)
Will my hon. Friend confirm that because of our hard-nosed lobbying of the Treasury,
Douglas Ross | 644 c261 (Link to this contribution)
Absolutely. The Chancellor said at the Dispatch Box during that Budget debate that his ear had be...
Martin Whitfield | 644 c261 (Link to this contribution)
Is it not also the case that as the ministerial burden has increased with the SNP Government, the...
Douglas Ross | 644 c261 (Link to this contribution)
Absolutely, and I want to finish on that point because it is important. My Moray Council has suff...
Ian Murray | 644 c261 (Link to this contribution)
I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for pointing out some home truths, but could we not sum up hi...
Douglas Ross | 644 c261 (Link to this contribution)
That is amazing from a Member of the party that brought about the collapse in the financial marke...
Douglas Ross | 644 c262 (Link to this contribution)
No, I will not give way to someone who comes in halfway through a debate. I must finish because a...
Luke Graham | 644 c262 (Link to this contribution)
In her opening speech, the hon. Member for Aberdeen North (Kirsty Blackman) made a number of asse...
Pete Wishart | 644 c262 (Link to this contribution)
On financial issues, will the hon. Gentleman explain from who the Scottish Conservatives got the ...
Luke Graham | 644 cc262-3 (Link to this contribution)
This debate is about devolved funding for our constituents. If the hon. Gentleman wants to talk a...
Luke Graham | 644 c263 (Link to this contribution)
It is the SNP Government’s No. 1 priority and yet our schools are plunging in the international r...
Stephen Kerr | 644 c263 (Link to this contribution)
My hon. Friend has pre-empted my point. Will he remind the House what has happened to Scottish ed...
Luke Graham | 644 cc263-4 (Link to this contribution)
The performance has been lamentable. Scotland’s schools have fallen in the rankings in reading, m...
Andrew Bowie | 644 c264 (Link to this contribution)
I rise to speak as a Conservative MP proud of what my Government are doing and delivering for Sco...
Kirsty Blackman | 644 c264 (Link to this contribution)
Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Andrew Bowie | 644 c264 (Link to this contribution)
I should be delighted.
Kirsty Blackman | 644 c264 (Link to this contribution)
I was very pleased to hear the hon. Gentleman mention the Aberdeen city region deal. I was a huge...
Andrew Bowie | 644 cc264-5 (Link to this contribution)
I welcome the contribution of the Scottish Government to the Aberdeen city region deal, but the h...
Stephen Kerr | 644 cc265-7 (Link to this contribution)
It seems to me that we often get carried away when we speak about money in this place. We speak a...
Patrick Grady | 644 c267 (Link to this contribution)
I understand that there are hordes of people around London this evening looking for 90 minutes of...
Douglas Ross | 644 c267 (Link to this contribution)
I was fully aware of the illness of the hon. Member for Glasgow South and I understood that that ...
Patrick Grady | 644 cc267-8 (Link to this contribution)
I was watching the parliamentary private secretary passing notes around the back of the Chamber e...
Philippa Whitford | 644 c268 (Link to this contribution)
To give the House an example, the NHS in England got £337 million for winter pressures last year,...
Patrick Grady | 644 c268 (Link to this contribution)
Exactly. I do not know how many Scottish Tories took part in the health estimates debate last nig...
David Linden | 644 c268 (Link to this contribution)
Why are there no protestations from the party opposite about Lord Duncan of Springbank, who was d...
Patrick Grady | 644 cc268-9 (Link to this contribution)
Precisely. If we want to talk about wasting public expenditure, we have only to look up the corri...
Pete Wishart | 644 c269 (Link to this contribution)
The one thing that the Scottish Tories did not want to talk about is where they are in control in...
Patrick Grady | 644 c269 (Link to this contribution)
There is no danger of a penalty shoot-out this evening; the goals are quite clearly being scored ...
Patrick Grady | 644 c270 (Link to this contribution)
I do not think that intervening would be wise. The hon. Gentleman should probably take a seat.
Peter Dowd | 644 cc270-3 (Link to this contribution)
I am not quite sure whether I need a wee dram after that speech by the hon. Member for Glasgow No...
Elizabeth Truss | 644 c271 (Link to this contribution)
We have had a fantastic debate, in which we have heard from some of our top talents from right ac...
Stephen Kerr | 644 c274 (Link to this contribution)
Will my right hon. Friend take this opportunity to confirm to the House that the UK Government co...
Elizabeth Truss | 644 c274 (Link to this contribution)
I can indeed confirm that the money allocated by the UK Government to the Stirling and Clackmanna...
Pete Wishart | 644 c274 (Link to this contribution)
Will the Chief Secretary tell us when the Tay cities deal is finally going to be agreed and concl...
Elizabeth Truss | 644 c274 (Link to this contribution)
I have already had some discussions about the Tay cities deal with the Secretary of State for Sco...
Peter Dowd | 644 c274 (Link to this contribution)
Will the Chief Secretary join me in congratulating the hon. Member for Stirling (Stephen Kerr) on...
Elizabeth Truss | 644 c274 (Link to this contribution)
My hon. Friend the Member for Stirling is an extremely effective Member of Parliament from whom M...
Luke Graham | 644 c274 (Link to this contribution)
I have two questions. First, SNP Members regularly question this, so will my right hon. Friend co...
Elizabeth Truss | 644 cc274-5 (Link to this contribution)
It was very good to meet my hon. Friend to discuss the Clackmannanshire and Stirling city region ...
Kirsty Blackman | 644 cc275-6 (Link to this contribution)
I appreciate the chance to have a minute at the end of this debate. On the debate and the way it ...
Baroness Laing of Elderslie | 644 c276 (Link to this contribution)
I ask the Serjeant at Arms to investigate the delay in the No Lobby.
Bernard Jenkin | 644 c276 (Link to this contribution)
On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker.
Baroness Laing of Elderslie | 644 c276 (Link to this contribution)
Does the hon. Gentleman’s point of order relate to the Division?
Baroness Laing of Elderslie | 644 c276 (Link to this contribution)
The hon. Gentleman may make his point of order.
Bernard Jenkin | 644 c276 (Link to this contribution)
Madam Deputy Speaker, do you suppose that the Scottish National party would be calling so many Di...
Baroness Laing of Elderslie | 644 c276 (Link to this contribution)
I appreciate that the hon. Gentleman’s point of order relates to the Division, but it is not of c...
Baroness Laing of Elderslie | 644 c280 (Link to this contribution)
I think the Ayes have it. [Interruption.] I think the Ayes have it. [Hon. Members: “No!”] Order. ...
Ian Blackford | 644 c290 (Link to this contribution)
On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. May I thank you for your forbearance this evening? Per...
Baroness Laing of Elderslie | 644 c290 (Link to this contribution)
Order. I will hear Mr Blackford’s point of order.
Ian Blackford | 644 c290 (Link to this contribution)
Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. Voting this evening was the only opportunity we have had to spea...
Baroness Laing of Elderslie | 644 c290 (Link to this contribution)
Order. I have heard the right hon. Gentleman’s point of order, but I have to say that although it...
Douglas Ross | 644 c290 (Link to this contribution)
On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. Further to what the right hon. Member for Ross, Skye a...
Baroness Laing of Elderslie | 644 c290 (Link to this contribution)
The hon. Gentleman’s final point is a point of debate, and we have had a full debate on those poi...
Baroness Laing of Elderslie | 644 c291 (Link to this contribution)
The hon. Gentleman must allow me to finish answering the point of order. Nothing disorderly has o...
David Linden | 644 c291 (Link to this contribution)
On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. The House spent more than an hour this evening voting ...
Baroness Laing of Elderslie | 644 c291 (Link to this contribution)
No. The hon. Gentleman asked a reasonable question, to which I can only give a straight answer.
Pete Wishart | 644 c291 (Link to this contribution)
Further to that point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. I very much concur with my hon. Friend the ...
Baroness Laing of Elderslie | 644 c291 (Link to this contribution)
I appreciate the hon. Gentleman’s point, but I have already answered it. I have had no notice of ...
Simon Hoare | 644 c291 (Link to this contribution)
On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. Given the faux outrage from one of the Opposition part...
Baroness Laing of Elderslie | 644 cc291-2 (Link to this contribution)
I appreciate the hon. Gentleman’s point, and I have every confidence that the defibrillators—I do...
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