Budget Resolutions

That is an extremely important point. For those of us who remember the social fund, it was a reso...

Does the right hon. Gentleman agree that the co-ordinated action that has taken place between the...

That is an extremely valid point. The co-ordination between the Bank of England and the Treasury ...

I agree with much of what the right hon. Gentleman says, but does that not show—because this is s...

The hon. Gentleman makes exactly the right point. Not everybody supported the cut in interest rat...

Before my right hon. Friend moves on from his point about a co-ordinated international response, ...

To give the Government their due, the Chancellor did announce a £150 million contribution to the ...

The right hon. Gentleman is right about the need for collaboration, and he is also right about ne...

I fully concur with the right hon. Gentleman. The various international vehicles that we could mo...

Forgive me if I have misunderstood the right hon. Gentleman, but I think that £13 million is goin...

I just say to the hon. Gentleman that that sum is minuscule in comparison with the cuts that have...

May I take my right hon. Friend back to the issue of domestic abuse? We all welcome the abolition...

We have had no indication about that, but I am pleased that my hon. Friend raised the issue, and ...

Order. There is a lot of interest in this debate. After the two Front Benchers, contributors shou...

I thank the right hon. Member for Hayes and Harlington (John McDonnell) for his opening remarks. ...

Is the Secretary of State not prepared to concede that within a year of that emergency Budget Geo...

I do not have to look back. I can look at the present, which is record levels of employment. As I...

Does my right hon. Friend share my concern that there was nothing in the Budget to support our av...

I will talk about the discussions I have had with business groups and business representatives, i...

Does my right hon. Friend agree that the acid test of how productive an economy is and how well i...

My hon. Friend makes an incredibly important point. He has had a very successful business career ...

The right hon. Gentleman mentioned 2010. I had a look back at the Red Book from 2010, which warne...

The right hon. Gentleman knows that I have a huge amount of respect for him—we have had very good...

The absolute imperative was to eradicate the deficit by 2015. Today, the right hon. Gentleman is ...

I am a modest man. I do not like to boast—I just like to state facts, and the fact is that we hav...

The Humber is one of the areas that have been put forward for the carbon capture pilot. As the Hu...

In the spirit of bipartisan friendship, I would be very happy to sit down and talk with the hon. ...

This is a Budget in two parts: the urgent response required on covid-19 and the other actions the...

It is, I think, a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Glasgow Central (Alison Thewliss), who s...

It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for West Worcestershire (Harriett Baldwin).

This...

I ask for the usual courtesies for maiden speeches, of which we have three this afternoon.

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Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker, for calling me to give my maiden speech, which is something I have ...

I congratulate the hon. Member for Hastings and Rye (Sally-Ann Hart) on a confident and optimisti...

I am very pleased to call Andy Carter to make his maiden speech.

2.32 pm

We are, I think, drawing to the end of maiden speech season. Over the past few weeks, I have hear...

It is a privilege to follow the hon. Member for Warrington South (Andy Carter) and to congratulat...

It is a great pleasure to call, to make his maiden speech, Mr James Grundy.

2.47 pm

Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. It is a great pleasure to speak in this Budget debate, and I do ...

It is a great pleasure to follow a north-west colleague, the hon. Member for Leigh (James Grundy)...

Budgets must take account of immediate circumstances, but they must also address the pattern of t...

It has been a great pleasure to hear the maiden speeches of three new hon. Members this afternoon...

It is an absolute privilege to see you in the Chair, Madam Deputy Speaker, and to be called to sp...

Order. After the next speaker, I will reduce the time limit to six minutes.

3.22 pm

I congratulate all Members who made their maiden speeches today, but particularly the hon. Member...

It is helpful to break this Budget down into three separate Budgets: the coronavirus emergency Bu...

I congratulate all new hon. Members on their excellent maiden speeches.

This Budget is clea...

I start by congratulating my hon. Friends the Members for Hastings and Rye (Sally-Ann Hart), for ...

The announcement in the Budget of additional funds for the NHS is to be welcomed and will provide...

Does my hon. Friend agree that the very serious issue of health inequalities is intimately linked...

It is about all those things coming together, and about trying to understand what health inequali...

It was a pleasure to listen to the three maiden speeches given by my new colleagues this afternoo...

I want to begin by acknowledging the Chancellor’s response to the international crisis we now fac...

May I congratulate all my hon. Friends who have made such excellent maiden speeches in this debat...

Of course the big topic of this Budget had to be the coronavirus. We are facing the gravest healt...

Order. The hon. Lady can finish her sentence.

Thank you. I appreciate that I have gone over my time, but I have waited a long time to speak.