Budget Resolutions

Order. I call the Chair of the Treasury Committee.

1.57 pm

There is no doubt that this Budget has been framed against one of the most challenging moments in...

Does my right hon. Friend not accept that in these very exceptional circumstances the rules have ...

My right hon. Friend is absolutely right that we flex the rules to accommodate the circumstances....

Once again the OBR figures show a downgrade, so do today’s Budget announcements not mask a decade...

Quite the reverse. I began by pointing out that the fundamentals of the economy are strong. They ...

Will my right hon. Friend reflect on the significant temptation that the Government can now borro...

My right hon. Friend intervenes exactly as I am about to move on to just that point. I assume tha...

There has been plenty of green rhetoric in the Budget for sure, but Treasury decisions continue t...

I am afraid I have to completely disagree. To give them credit, the Government were in the vangua...

I am very grateful to the right hon. Gentleman, a fellow member and Chair of the Treasury Committ...

On where the investment is going, I have yet to pore over the granular detail, as the hon. Lady s...

Does the right hon. Gentleman share my concerns that the Chancellor is not doing enough to tackle...

The Prime Minister has been consistently clear that we will engage with other parties over the is...

Order. Just before I call the leader of the Scottish National party, who, I remind the House, wil...

Before I begin, I pass on my best wishes and those of my colleagues to the hon. Members for Mid B...

Will the right hon. Gentleman take an intervention?

I will not.

We believe that that is the only adequate and prudent response to this unpreced...

The only threat the Scottish people face is the SNP!

I remind the Prime Minister that we have just had an election. He went into that election with th...

Order. Has the House forgotten that I said that the leader of the Scottish nationalists would be ...

Thank you for the advice, Madam Deputy Speaker, but I was simply responding to the chuntering by ...

He interrupted.

Indeed, he did interrupt.

Despite all the money that has been spent, there is still not an ...

Order. Do not worry; if the Prime Minister needs to be calmed down, I will calm him down. He seem...

I am nearly there, Madam Deputy Speaker, but I care for the health of everybody, and I certainly ...

Order. Before I call the Father of the House, I have to put on a time limit of 10 minutes, which ...

I think the most challenging speech after the Chancellor’s was the one by the Leader of the Oppos...

I pay tribute to the Father of the House for his work. I want to raise a point that came through ...

I agree. I also think it would be a good idea in the medium term if the Government and the invest...

It is a pleasure to follow the Father of the House. I agree with his view that we are on the cusp...

I echo the hon. Lady’s comments. The announcements on support for small businesses are welcome, b...

I certainly hope the banks will recognise the Government’s generosity to them on lending and buff...

There is no doubt that, as my right hon. Friend the Chancellor and other speakers have acknowledg...

I wonder whether, like me, my right hon. Friend would like to congratulate the Chancellor, partic...

I thank my hon. Friend for her intervention. She is right to refer to the hospitality sector and ...

Will my right hon. Friend join me in welcoming the Chancellor of the Exchequer’s announcement abo...

I thank my hon. Friend for intervening. That is important—one of the interesting and exciting asp...

I thank the right hon. Member for giving way. She spent an awful lot of time working to get the N...

Obviously, the hon. Gentleman is absolutely right that commitments were made in that agreement. I...

rose—

I will not give way. If I allow the right hon. Gentleman to intervene, the time will be taken out...

It is a pleasure to call Kim Johnson to make her maiden speech.

3.26 pm

Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to make my maiden speech during th...

It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Liverpool, Riverside (Kim Johnson). I congratulate...

There is a £6.6 billion saving this year on interest on Government debt anyway, but of course the...

My right hon. Friend is, characteristically, absolutely right to make that observation. I think h...

As someone who longs for lower taxes and smaller government, what assessment has my right hon. Fr...

I was pleased to hear the Chancellor say that this Budget is within the fiscal rules, but as my r...

Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?

I will not give way.

The British people have responded to the coronavirus crisis with stoic...

It is a pleasure to call Sam Tarry to make his maiden speech.

3.45 pm

Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. If that is okay, I would just like to pay tribute to my hon. Fri...

I have declared my business interests in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests, although I...

I was not allowed to intervene on the leader of the SNP, but surely any sensible person would com...

My right hon. Friend and I think that, but more importantly, that is what the Scottish people vot...

On the very low costs of borrowing, does my right hon. Friend recognise that there is enormous de...

Let us hope that that is right, yes. We hope that the City gets better at managing the gap betwee...

I should declare an interest in the Budget as a leaseholder in a block that needs cladding removi...

Will my hon. Friend give way?

I will not, I am afraid, because of the time.

Another issue that I am very concerned about ...

It is a pleasure to call Matt Vickers to make his maiden speech.

4.17 pm

I am delighted to deliver my maiden speech on the day that my long-standing friend and constituen...

It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Stockton South (Matt Vickers). Like him, I want to...

Order. It is a pleasure to call Gareth Davies to make his maiden speech.

4.32 pm

Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker, for allowing me to make my maiden speech as the new Member of Pa...

It is a joy to follow the hon. Member for Grantham and Stamford (Gareth Davies), who has reminded...

The broad criticism that has been levelled at this Budget is that we surely needed a plan to deca...

The right hon. Gentleman has missed my point. All decarbonisation—whether we decarbonise energy, ...

It is a great pleasure to follow the right hon. Member for East Antrim (Sammy Wilson), who has ve...

The World Health Organisation pronounced today that the coronavirus is now a pandemic, so it is n...

The growth figures the right hon. Gentleman quite rightly draws the House’s attention to are afte...

The right hon. Gentleman is absolutely right. It is the failure to invest in skills and the failu...

I thank the right hon. Gentleman for his strong points about the economic forecast and the seriou...

I agree with everything the hon. Lady said. Although the Government are trying to say that Brexit...

It is a pleasure to follow the right hon. Member for Kingston and Surbiton (Sir Edward Davey). I ...

It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Mid Norfolk (George Freeman) and to have spoken at...

As someone who likes to speak on the first day of the Budget debate, sometimes I have a bit of tr...

It is a pleasure to speak in this Budget debate. I am only sorry that the former Chancellor and t...

Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?

I will in a moment.

We cannot build the new homes we need unless we start investing in reme...

It is a great pleasure to follow the right hon. Member for Birmingham, Hodge Hill (Liam Byrne), b...

It is not a financial interest.

I was teasing. It is also a great pleasure because one would not know from listening to the right...

The right hon. Gentleman is a sophisticated thinker, so I will give him a sophisticated intervent...

I fundamentally do not agree with the right hon. Gentleman on that, and I will come on to say a l...

I just want to say that the Conservative party backed our spending plans up until November 2009.<...

I do not agree with that either. We had to make some difficult decisions when the crash happened ...

Might it be worth my reminding my right hon. Friend that bank leverage, which had been 20 times c...

Following on from what the right hon. Member for Birmingham, Hodge Hill (Liam Byrne) said, that w...

Order. Eight people are trying to catch my eye. I want to get everyone in, but, as Members can se...

Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker. May I begin by welcoming you back to your rightful place in the Cha...

It is always a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Islwyn (Chris Evans), who made some very im...

I want to start by echoing a number of comments in commending the Chancellor on what was not an e...

There have been some fine maiden speeches, and I particularly congratulate my hon. Friend the Mem...

rose—

I cannot give way; I have less than eight minutes to speak.

Secondly, there is High Speed 2...

Whether or not Harold Macmillan actually said, “Events, dear boy,” it is events that define the t...

It is a pleasure to participate in this important debate. I congratulate the Chancellor on a form...

I thank the right hon. Member for Bournemouth East (Mr Ellwood), with whom I agree on so many iss...

It is a privilege to conclude the first day of the debate on the Budget, and it is a pleasure to ...

I will not give way.

I also strongly welcome the measures on statutory sick pay to protect ...