Budget Resolutions

I strongly welcome the measures in the Budget, particularly those to help small shops on our high...

I am grateful to my right hon. Friend for his early intervention. I intend to cover several housi...

If the Secretary of State is serious about house building, where is the funding in the Budget for...

I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for highlighting transport infrastructure. The additional £50...

The Secretary of State repeated what the Chancellor said on Monday—that the wage growth enjoyed i...

I underline to the hon. Gentleman that we have seen that wage growth but there has also been empl...

I want to take the Secretary of State back to what he said about the position the Government foun...

I have to say in the nicest possible way that it is a bit rich for the right hon. Gentleman to ma...

My right hon. Friend is making a typically powerful speech. Will he tell the House how the measur...

My hon. Friend makes an important point. The steps under this Government have led to an increase ...

As a member of the Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee and having been an elected...

If the hon. Gentleman looks at what the Budget is delivering—I have already referenced the additi...

Order. Does the House not want to hear the Secretary of State? [Hon. Members: “No.”] I thank hon....

Thank you very much, Madam Deputy Speaker.

There are serious long-term decisions to be made...

I thank the Secretary of State for giving way, just as I was grateful to him for meeting my const...

I am very conscious of the particular issue the hon. Lady highlights to the House, and indeed I g...

Will the Secretary of State give way?

I will give way to the Chair of the Select Committee.

Obviously the £650 million for social care is welcome, but does the Secretary of State accept the...

There has been a recognition of the important step that has been taken in the Budget with the add...

Does not my right hon. Friend agree that more money has gone into services over the years and int...

As I said at the outset of my speech, we have had to make those difficult decisions and I know so...

I look forward to welcoming my right hon. Friend to Solihull on Friday. Has he seen the report in...

The National House Building Council figures published today are very encouraging about the levels...

A key part of the housing market is the second-hand market, of course. First-time buyers are now ...

My hon. Friend highlights some of the important steps that have been taken and the impact that th...

Will the Secretary of State acknowledge that if we are really going to address the housing crisis...

I am sorry if the hon. Lady does not recognise the important steps that are being taken in the Bu...

My right hon. Friend will be aware that we are attempting to build three new garden communities a...

I very much welcome the authorities that are coming forward with ideas for garden towns and villa...

The Secretary of State mentioned communities. One of the greatest threats to our communities righ...

I will certainly refer that private Member’s Bill to the colleagues who have direct responsibilit...

The Secretary of State is laying out his plan for towns, but does he not agree that the plan need...

I certainly acknowledge the need to ensure that we are inclusive and that we are thinking about t...

The Secretary of State makes a powerful point about maintaining our communities, and he will know...

I am grateful to my right hon. Friend for underlining that arc of opportunity between Oxford and ...

Order. Before I call the Opposition spokesman, I say to Members that it will be obvious that more...

I beg to move an amendment, after “tax year 2019-20” insert

“provided that the condition in...

Will the hon. Gentleman clarify what the Opposition would regard as “the very wealthiest”?

The hon. Gentleman was clearly not listening. It is in our amendment and was in our manifesto at ...

Does the hon. Gentleman accept that the people who are in the income bracket that he describes ar...

It is interesting that Conservative Members seem not to want a fair taxation system whereby those...

Does my hon. Friend agree that the Welfare Reform Act 2012 and the Welfare Reform and Work Act 20...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right. Whatever this Government say, austerity is far from over for ...

This Budget has delivered a tax cut for 32 million people. Can the hon. Gentleman clarify Labour’...

As I was speaking about education, the hon. Gentleman must try harder, go to the back of the clas...

Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

No. Cuts will be hard-wired—[Interruption.]

Order. I said that we would be fair to everyone and that means Mr Gwynne, too.

Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker.

As I was saying, £1.3 billion of cuts next year are hard-w...

Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

No, I am going to make some progress.

After all, by cutting funding to councils, Ministers ...

We see the impact of all those cuts in Derbyshire, where elderly people are not receiving care pa...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right, because all this does is shunt costs on to other parts of the...

I am listening to the hon. Gentleman’s speech with great interest, but he has not answered the qu...

Let me make it very clear. In case the hon. Gentleman has not realised, this is not a Labour Budg...

The police and crime commissioner for Cheshire has written to me to say that austerity is far fro...

If Conservative Members really cared about the safety of our citizens, and about the soaring crim...

I have listened to many Budget speeches but when I listened to this year’s I was taken by surpris...

My right hon. and learned Friend is right to pour cold water on economic forecasts. What did he t...

The Treasury took some welcome measures to ease that shock, stepping in with an emergency cut in ...

It is a pleasure to speak for the SNP on the final day of debating the 2018 Budget and to follow ...

Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

I will in just a minute. I shall give way only a couple of times as I am conscious of the fact th...

Does the hon. Gentleman agree with the chief executive of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, who wel...

Of course, what the hon. Gentleman does not mention is that before the Budget the Joseph Rowntree...

Given what the hon. Gentleman has said, will the Scottish National party support the Lib Dems and...

The hon. Gentleman will see what we do later this evening. He will also see what we do with our r...

rose—

I am just about to wind up.

Business investment has continued to slow since 2016. The Offic...

I want to refer to some of the local issues that I hope this Budget can address for my own commun...

I am glad to follow the right hon. Member for Putney (Justine Greening). I want to focus on housi...

Does the right hon. Gentleman not agree that the Macmillan era was post-war, when Britain was bom...

I will get to the question of funding and whether it is an investment in the future. The figures ...

My right hon. Friend is making a valuable point. I think it was the last Housing Minister but fou...

My hon. Friend makes an important point.

The second principle is that we need to acknowledg...

Order. I am afraid that I have to reduce the time limit to five minutes.

1.37 pm

It is a pleasure to follow the right hon. Member for Doncaster North (Edward Miliband). He made a...

I think that my hon. Friend is talking about productivity. Does he recognise that if we are to en...

I completely agree—the central theme of my speech is exactly that. We have to recognise the succe...

This is a Government fiddling around the edges when comprehensive reform is needed, and announcin...

Morecambe has had more money given under this Conservative-led Government since 2010 than it has ...

As I understand the overall spending figures in the Budget, apart from for the NHS, there is no r...

It is a pleasure to speak in this debate and to highlight the measures in the Budget that will be...

I want to develop a point that was made by the right hon. and learned Member for Rushcliffe (Mr C...

On the schools point, does my right hon. Friend agree that the wording the Chancellor used in rel...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right. I am amazed that the Chancellor is not even aware of this. Ma...

The test of any Budget is: does it take us closer to where we want to get to in 10 years’ time? I...

Does my hon. Friend recognise that the recent reduction in corporation tax oxymoronically produce...

My hon. Friend is right: if we cut the rate we up the take. We must support small businesses most...

Order. As colleagues can see, a great number of Members still wish to get in, so after the next s...

This is a deeply uncertain time for our politics and economics, and as my right hon. Friend the L...

The Budget contains many good measures for families in my constituency. I am grateful to be able ...

This Budget reflects traditional Tory values that will deepen poverty and inequality and do nothi...

I am very pleased to be called to speak in this important debate.

I welcome the Budget very...

Could my hon. Friend illuminate the House by saying what he fears would happen to small businesse...

I am grateful to my hon. Friend for that intervention. The wholesale economic devastation that wo...

I understand that Alf Turner served for 20 years in the Royal Army Service Corps—in complete and ...

I am very grateful for that intervention. Absolutely—it puts those two sets of values into stark ...

It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Aldershot (Leo Docherty). I think it would be fair...

Knowsley is one of the most poorly resourced areas in the country. Indeed, it suffers from one of...

I very much agree, and if I have time, I will come on to say more about that.

This is not j...

It is a pleasure to speak in the debate. First, I would like to address the measures in the Budge...

Does my hon. Friend agree that the Budget’s tax cuts will also help the high street by ensuring t...

I thank my hon. Friend for that intervention. I was coming to tax cuts because, particularly in r...

Order. As colleagues will have noticed, there have been a number of interventions, which have ext...

It is a privilege to speak in this Budget debate and to represent my constituents in Barnsley and...

The Budget of Monday past has been welcomed by many but clearly not by all. I have been asking my...

Will the hon. Gentleman give way on that point?

I am sorry; no. That measure means that 117,000 of the lowest paid in Scotland will enjoy an incr...

Order. Can we not have that conversation across the Chamber? We all want to be included.

Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. The measure is very much to be welcomed and, thanks to an earlie...

The hon. Member for Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock (Bill Grant) touched on universal credit and I want ...

The Budget is tactically clever and, indeed, wise, but it may be strategically dangerous. That is...

The Tories have a habit of announcing policies that are backed by arguments that, in a sentence, ...

In the Budget the Government have managed to increase the minimum wage for apprentices to just £3...

Funnily enough, I could not agree more, and I have to say as a 24-year-old that I would challenge...

Will the hon. Lady give way?

I will not.

Life does not happen like that. There is no telling how or when an individual’s...

It looks like our economy is once again defying the naysayers. UK growth has an inexorably upward...

After listening to the rosy picture painted by the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities an...

This Budget is good for communities and families in the west midlands. On top of the £250 million...

Will my hon. Friend give way?

I have only a few seconds.

The measures announced on Monday—a freeze in beer duty and a thi...

At the 2010 general election, the Conservative party promised to eradicate the deficit by 2015. N...

This Budget is good news for our United Kingdom, good news for Scotland and good news for Angus, ...

What does the hon. Lady have to say about House of Commons Library figures showing that the Conse...

I thank the hon. Gentleman for his intervention, but it is as false as the SNP Twitter feed, beca...

Just two weeks ago, a group of Ministers sat on the Treasury Bench and launched the Government’s ...

The oil and gas industry, not just in Scotland but across the length and breadth of our United Ki...

Just a few weeks ago, during the Conservative party conference, the Prime Minister told us that a...

Before I come to my main speech, I wish to refer to some comments made by my hon. Friend the Memb...

The Chancellor of the Exchequer said that his Budget was for the strivers, the grafters and the c...

I am delighted to support this Budget, which delivers for my constituents in the Scottish borders...

On Tuesday, I attended the Westminster Hall debate on a five-year plan for mental health, which r...

I rise to support this Budget—a Budget that allows our country to say with confidence, after star...

The thing that struck me while listening to the Chancellor on Monday and to Government Members to...

This is a Budget that delivers: it delivers for the country, for the people of West Oxfordshire a...

The hon. Member for Brighton, Pavilion (Caroline Lucas) has already pointed out that the environm...

As you return to your Chair, Mr Speaker, I return to the 1950s. There has been a lot of talk abou...

I speak as co-chair of the cross-party drugs, alcohol and justice group, and as a member of the a...

I rise to support the Budget. I will start with two points on the criticism and rebuttals we have...

A lot of Opposition Members have talked about how austerity is not over and about how the Governm...

It is a pleasure to be called early in the debate, Mr Speaker—or at least a little earlier than I...

It is a pleasure to follow my parliamentary neighbour, the hon. Member for Walsall North (Eddie H...

It is a great pleasure to follow the right hon. Member for Wolverhampton South East (Mr McFadden)...

Today is exactly two years after the Government promised to introduce a timetable to ratify the I...

It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Rotherham (Sarah Champion), who made a powerful sp...

I am pleased to follow the hon. Member for North East Derbyshire (Lee Rowley).

This Budget ...

I should like to speak about the Budget by referring to a number of tests. The first test is to a...

Order. If colleagues wish to help each other, it is not obligatory for them to speak for the full...

The Chancellor spoke—I hope that this was a throwaway phrase—about “little extras”. For me, the B...

The Chancellor said on Monday that this was

“an economy working for everyone.”—[Official Re...

When the Prime Minister addressed the Conservative party conference, she said that austerity was ...

The Chancellor had the opportunity to strengthen the economy, invest in jobs and guide us towards...

Order. I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman. Very well done.

4.32 pm

I rise primarily to raise on behalf of my constituents a glaring injustice: the lack of funds for...

Order. The shadow Chief Secretary will be called no later than 4.40 pm, so the two remainers—the ...

Austerity is not over for those who are terminally ill. Those with pancreatic cancer, three out o...

Stephen Lloyd, very briefly.

4.36 pm

Thank you very much, Mr Speaker. In the short time allocated, I will focus on the universal credi...

I am glad to see the Chief Secretary to the Treasury in her seat today, as she could not get one ...

Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

No, I will not.

There is nothing in the Budget for teachers, police officers and local gove...

I am delighted to be here to close the Budget debate. We have had a very good debate over the pas...

rose—

I am afraid that I only have 10 minutes. The hon. Member for Bootle (Peter Dowd) did not give way...

This is a good Budget and I will, without any question, support it enthusiastically tonight. Howe...

I thank my right hon. Friend for his point. We have brought the date forward for FOBTs by six mon...

rose—

They are driven by pessimism, by envy and by spite. The reality is that they would rather see peo...

rose—

Order. The hon. Lady knows as well as I do that you cannot stay on your feet if the Minister is n...

I have only two minutes left, Mr Deputy Speaker, and I am afraid I cannot give way. Labour’s tax ...

I am now required under Standing Order No. 51(3) to put successively, without further debate, the...

On a point of order, Mr Deputy Speaker. There are sad reports that the Minister for Sport, the ho...

As the hon. Lady is well aware, that is not a point of order for the Chair, but it is now on the ...

On a point of order, Mr Deputy Speaker. On Tuesday, the Home Office told the Home Affairs Committ...

There are a couple of things to say. First, that matter is now on the record, ensuring that every...

Further to that point of order, Mr Deputy Speaker. This is not the first time that the Home Affai...

There are obviously many alternative options and avenues to go down, such as an urgent question o...

On a point of order, Mr Deputy-Speaker. The hon. Member for Bootle (Peter Dowd) complained of not...

The Government decided not to provide an advance copy, so that was a Government decision. What pe...

Mr Deputy Speaker, you have given me some information that I did not know before.

Excellent. At least I can be helpful to the House.