Budget Resolutions

Order. We have to be able to hear the hon. Lady. Rachel Reeves.

So as well as having the highest death toll in Europe, Britain has suffered the worst economic hi...

I broadly welcome the Budget, which is the first my right hon. Friend the Chancellor has delivere...

Order. One moment. It is too noisy down here. It is not fair —the right hon. Gentleman has to be ...

I was saying that in the first phase of this crisis, between the huge contraction in the economy ...

My right hon. Friend mentions levelling up. Does he not agree that this is a real workers’ budget...

My right hon. Friend is absolutely correct about skills. He, of course, through his Committee, ha...

I am listening intently. I do believe that the Government have done extraordinarily well in raisi...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right. I will come to the matter of wages and wage growth momentaril...

Does my right hon. Friend agree that we need to be very careful about believing any of these fore...

It is certainly the case that the Bank of England’s projections on inflation have been under-bake...

Order. I call the Westminster leader of the Scottish national party, who will be heard without in...

Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. I think that we are used to the Prime Minister perhaps being fas...

Who does not have a mask on.

Who does not have a mask on, despite the fact that Members of this House are falling ill with cov...

I think the right hon. Member for Ross, Skye and Lochaber (Ian Blackford) was saying thank you fo...

Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

I will not at the moment.

The hon. Member for Leeds West (Rachel Reeves) spoke for the Oppo...

I hope we can manage the rest of today’s debate without a formal time limit. We have plenty of ti...

It is always a pleasure to follow the Father of the House.

This Budget could be described a...

I thank my hon. Friend for the Public Accounts Committee’s report on the spending of NHS Test and...

I completely agree with my hon. Friend, and I hope the Chancellor does, too. I hope the Treasury ...

The hon. Lady mentions having read the Red Book and says there is no new money for housing, but t...

It is not clear to me that it is new money. I have acknowledged the figures for housing on brownf...

I refer the House to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests.

First, I com...

I am grateful to the right hon. Lady for giving way and even more grateful that she is mentioning...

The hon. Lady has always spoken passionately on these issues in this House, but I think she has o...

It is a pleasure and indeed an honour to follow the right hon. Member for Maidenhead (Mrs May) in...

May I take the right hon. Gentleman back to those halcyon days when he enjoyed lectures on moneta...

If the right hon. Gentleman would let me make a little more progress, I was going to quote Mrs Th...

It is a pleasure to follow the right hon. Member for Newcastle upon Tyne East (Mr Brown). He is r...

Order. I remind everybody that Dame Eleanor suggested contributions of between seven and eight mi...

We will see whether the Chancellor’s optimistic forecasts for the economy come true. I believe we...

What a fantastic Budget. It is fantastic for all sorts of reasons. It demonstrates how incredibly...

Order. The right hon. Member for Richmond (Yorks) (Rishi Sunak) and the right hon. Member for Str...

Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker. I should know that by now.

Of course, those Ministers have go...

There was a Sure Start programme that did exactly what the right hon. Lady is talking about. Does...

I am glad that the hon. Lady, whom I consider a friend, has given me a chance to tackle that, bec...

I might not be as gushing as the right hon. Member for South Northamptonshire (Dame Andrea Leadso...

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

Grow...

As always, it is a pleasure to follow the right hon. Member for Wokingham (John Redwood), who I a...

Two brief points. First, it is worth saying that the legacy benefits system that we inherited, be...

While I agree with the right hon. Gentleman that benefit tapers have been a long-running problem ...

Will the hon. Lady give way?

No.

Does this Budget meet the formidable long-term structural challenges before us? In the ...

It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Wallasey (Dame Angela Eagle). Unlike her, having r...

My right hon. Friend is making a powerful speech about productivity. Does he share my delight tha...

I agree entirely with my hon. Friend. At the end of the day, the way we boost productivity is by ...

The right hon. Gentleman has had a position at a senior level of Government overseeing local gove...

Absolutely; I do not demur from that, but we have to find the right balance in our country betwee...

Will my right hon. Friend give way?

I really should not, because—

It is very pertinent to him.

How can I refuse?

I want to say a fantastic big thank you to my right hon. Friend personally, because it has just b...

I am grateful to my right hon. Friend for ending on such a positive note. I know Gainsborough wel...

It is a pleasure to follow the right hon. Member for Newark (Robert Jenrick), although I cannot e...

My hon. Friend is making a powerful speech on behalf of children, parents and teachers across our...

Order. If people are going to intervene, they should at least have the good grace to come in a fe...

I thank my right hon. Friend the Member for Kingston and Surbiton (Ed Davey) for his intervention...

The hon. Lady agreed with the point made by the right hon. Member for Kingston and Surbiton (Ed D...

I thank the hon. Gentleman for his point, but I do not want to get involved in nit-picking. [Inte...

As chair of the all-party parliamentary group on beer and brewing, I welcome the measures that th...

I commend my hon. Friend for his speech. He is making a wonderfully nuanced exposition of the ben...

My hon. Friend is absolutely spot on. The wider hospitality sector employs around 3 million peopl...

I have often found myself wondering what levelling up means and how we know that we have got ther...

It is a privilege to follow the hon. Member for Eltham (Clive Efford). Although I may disagree wi...

It is a pleasure to speak in the debate and follow many important contributions from Members acro...

Order. We were suggesting eight minutes; the hon. Lady has now taken 16 minutes.

On youth services, No Shame in Running, Project TurnOver and other Hounslow youth services have s...

It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Feltham and Heston (Seema Malhotra), although I ha...

On the universal credit taper rate change, my hon. Friend says it is not a tax cut. It will cost ...

I am grateful to my hon. Friend for his intervention. I agree with his point, but actually we can...

Owing to the extensive trailing that went on in the press beforehand, this Budget contained far f...

What has happened with the Acorn project is doubly galling, given that Scotland’s carbon assets h...

My hon. Friend makes a powerful point. There has been £350 billion from the North sea since oil b...

What I have heard from several Members, particularly Opposition Members, suggests that they do no...

Surely levelling up should be something very simple, and simply understood. It is a product of UK...

I took an intervention from the hon. Gentleman because I anticipated what he might say. I listene...

Will my right hon. Friend give way?

Let me make a little more progress, then I will of course give way to my right hon. Friend.