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Budget Resolutions

Budget debate on Tuesday, 2 November 2021, in the House of Commons, led by Nadhim Zahawi and Simon Clarke. The answering members were Kate Green and Bridget Phillipson.
Budget debate resumed (fourth day). Motion, That income tax is charged for the tax year 2022–23. Agreed to on question.
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Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
702 cc765-886 
Session
2021-22
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Proceeding contributions
Lindsay Hoyle | 702 c862 (Link to this contribution)

I inform the House that I have not selected any amendments to the motion.

12.54 pm

Nadhim Zahawi | 702 c862 (Link to this contribution)

In 2019, we made a promise. We promised to give the people of this country world-class public ser...


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Gareth Thomas | 702 c862 (Link to this contribution)

On the subject of levelling up, will the Secretary of State tell the House why he thinks it is ac...

Nadhim Zahawi | 702 cc862-766 (Link to this contribution)

Respectfully, it is quite the opposite. I will get to that point later. Schools will be £1,500 be...

Emma Hardy | 702 c766 (Link to this contribution)

I thank the Secretary of State for giving way; he is always very generous. I draw his attention t...

Nadhim Zahawi | 702 c766 (Link to this contribution)

I am grateful to the hon. Lady, and I am sure the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care w...

Lloyd Russell-Moyle | 702 c766 (Link to this contribution)

Is it not the case that the additional money for adult social care is on a promise that might com...

Nadhim Zahawi | 702 c766 (Link to this contribution)

I am grateful for the hon. Member’s question. I think he may have missed, while trying to catch y...

Baroness Keeley | 702 c766 (Link to this contribution)

I detect a hint of complacency on funding for social care. The Secretary of State mentioned £500 ...

Nadhim Zahawi | 702 c767 (Link to this contribution)

I have to respectfully disagree with the hon. Lady. In my time as vaccines Minister, I saw the so...

Marsha De Cordova | 702 c767 (Link to this contribution)

I thank the Secretary of State for giving way; he is being very generous with his time. He talks ...

Nadhim Zahawi | 702 c767 (Link to this contribution)

I will return to children’s social care later in my speech. Mr Speaker, you will, I hope, recogni...

Alex Sobel | 702 c767 (Link to this contribution)

Yesterday I was speaking with members of the tech industry, and they were lamenting the fact that...

Nadhim Zahawi | 702 c767 (Link to this contribution)

I am grateful for the hon. Member’s question. I know that he cares passionately about this subjec...

Andy Carter | 702 c768 (Link to this contribution)

I recently visited the university technical college in Warrington, which is a great example of sk...

Nadhim Zahawi | 702 c768 (Link to this contribution)

My hon. Friend is absolutely right that the UTC and the work it is doing with Sellafield is exact...

Robert Halfon | 702 c768 (Link to this contribution)

I welcome what my right hon. Friend is saying. Can he confirm that there is a 42% increase in the...

Nadhim Zahawi | 702 c768 (Link to this contribution)

There is no greater champion of this agenda than my right hon. Friend, the Chairman of the Select...

Emma Hardy | 702 c768 (Link to this contribution)

Will the Secretary of State give way?

Nadhim Zahawi | 702 cc768-9 (Link to this contribution)

I want to make sure that others get a chance to participate in the debate, so I will make some he...

Ben Everitt | 702 c769 (Link to this contribution)

This is a national effort. A lot of attention has quite rightly been placed on the areas in the n...

Nadhim Zahawi | 702 cc769-770 (Link to this contribution)

Levelling up is at the heart of the Government’s agenda. Levelling up means empowering local lead...

Clive Efford | 702 c770 (Link to this contribution)

Will the Secretary of State give way?

Nadhim Zahawi | 702 c770 (Link to this contribution)

I will make some headway. I have taken many interventions.

Let us not forget that these are...

Clive Efford | 702 c770 (Link to this contribution)

The Institute for Fiscal Studies has described the increase in education funding over the past de...

Nadhim Zahawi | 702 cc770-1 (Link to this contribution)

I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for that question, but respectfully he is completely wrong. I...

Ben Bradley | 702 c771 (Link to this contribution)

I welcome my right hon. Friend’s commitment to the supporting families scheme. The certainty arou...

Nadhim Zahawi | 702 c771 (Link to this contribution)

My hon. Friend is absolutely right and I thank him, not least because of his deep experience in l...

Nadhim Zahawi | 702 c772 (Link to this contribution)

Let me make some headway, because hon. Members might find this interesting: we are setting aside ...

Andrew Gwynne | 702 c772 (Link to this contribution)

I am grateful to the Secretary of State. I welcome the Government’s new-found conversion to somet...

Nadhim Zahawi | 702 c772 (Link to this contribution)

The hon. Gentleman will know that, as Children and Families Minister, I tried to follow the evide...

Yasmin Qureshi | 702 c772 (Link to this contribution)

Will the Secretary of State give way?

Nadhim Zahawi | 702 c772 (Link to this contribution)

I know that Mr Speaker is looking at his watch, so perhaps the hon. Lady will forgive me if I mak...

Lindsay Hoyle | 702 c772 (Link to this contribution)

It is not about headway—I think a mere finish might be helpful.

Nadhim Zahawi | 702 cc772-4 (Link to this contribution)

Indeed, Mr Speaker. We are investing £2.7 billion of capital funding to improve provision for pup...

Kate Green | 702 c774 (Link to this contribution)

It is a great pleasure to follow the Secretary of State in today’s debate. Our public services ke...

Emma Hardy | 702 c774 (Link to this contribution)

In the Treasury Committee yesterday, we heard evidence from the Office for Budget Responsibility,...

Kate Green | 702 c774 (Link to this contribution)

My hon. Friend is absolutely right. The levy to fund social care is one more tax that will hit ha...

Jacob Young | 702 c774 (Link to this contribution)

Is it not the case that the Labour party still has no plan for social care? When we put forward a...

Kate Green | 702 cc774-5 (Link to this contribution)

The hon. Member may not remember the Dilnot plan, which had cross-party support until Conservativ...

Andrew Gwynne | 702 c775 (Link to this contribution)

I am grateful to my hon. Friend for raising the importance of BTECs, because for many young peopl...

Kate Green | 702 c775 (Link to this contribution)

My hon. Friend is absolutely right. Again and again, I have met people who have described their l...

Kate Green | 702 cc775-6 (Link to this contribution)

If my hon. Friend will forgive me, I will make some progress.

OECD data show that the UK ha...

Andy Carter | 702 c776 (Link to this contribution)

I have totted up all Labour’s uncosted spending plans to about £400 billion. From what I can see,...

Kate Green | 702 c776 (Link to this contribution)

I have absolutely no idea where that £400 billion figure comes from. The hon. Member says that it...

Yasmin Qureshi | 702 c777 (Link to this contribution)

The hon. Member for Warrington South (Andy Carter) talks about financial prudence, but this Gover...

Kate Green | 702 c777 (Link to this contribution)

My hon. Friend makes the case.

Labour’s plan would deliver the wellbeing and academic suppo...

Kate Green | 702 cc777-8 (Link to this contribution)

I am about to finish my speech, so I hope my hon. Friend will forgive me if I do not.

This ...

Nigel Evans | 702 c778 (Link to this contribution)

Order. I am going to try not to impose a time limit, at least at the beginning, but I will give a...

Johnny Mercer | 702 cc778-9 (Link to this contribution)

I will definitely not take my full allocation, Mr Deputy Speaker. I just want to make a few brief...

Carol Monaghan | 702 c780 (Link to this contribution)

One group of veterans whom we talk about regularly in the House—I raised this subject with the ho...

Johnny Mercer | 702 c780 (Link to this contribution)

With respect, I have spoken a lot about nuclear test veterans. I was the only Minister who met th...

Johnny Mercer | 702 c780 (Link to this contribution)

The hon. Lady can shake her head, but I did actually review the nuclear test programme medical se...

Stephen Flynn | 702 cc780-2 (Link to this contribution)

Politics is a remarkable thing, is it not? The theme for today is stronger public services. We ha...

Jesse Norman | 702 c782 (Link to this contribution)

The hon. Gentleman is speaking eloquently about taxation. Could he just clarify whether, as a res...

Stephen Flynn | 702 c782 (Link to this contribution)

I welcome that intervention from the former Minister. I have enjoyed our previous debates on all ...

Stephen Crabb | 702 cc782-5 (Link to this contribution)

It is a pleasure to be called on the final day of the Budget debate. I thought it was a good Budg...

Peter Dowd | 702 c785 (Link to this contribution)

Mr Deputy Speaker, in the light of the point of order from a Government Member earlier, which I t...

Jesse Norman | 702 c785 (Link to this contribution)

Will the hon. Gentleman remind the House what the national debt as a percentage of GDP was in 199...

Peter Dowd | 702 cc786-7 (Link to this contribution)

As the phrase goes, I will take no lectures from the right hon. Gentleman, who served on the Trea...

Nigel Evans | 702 c787 (Link to this contribution)

I remind everybody to keep speeches to round about the six-minute mark; otherwise, I will have to...

Edward Leigh | 702 cc787-8 (Link to this contribution)

I hope the House will forgive me if I do not follow the hon. Member for Bootle (Peter Dowd) in be...

Jonathan Edwards | 702 c788 (Link to this contribution)

Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?

Edward Leigh | 702 cc788-9 (Link to this contribution)

No, because I am only allowed six minutes.

I use the NHS. I do not have private health insu...

Imran Hussain | 702 cc789-790 (Link to this contribution)

In recent weeks, the Chancellor has been promising us a Budget that would look to the future, a B...

Jesse Norman | 702 cc790-2 (Link to this contribution)

I very much welcome this Budget and spending review. Were the Chief Secretary to the Treasury, my...

Marsha De Cordova | 702 cc792-3 (Link to this contribution)

Last week’s Budget shows just how out of touch this Government are with reality. They are complet...

Andy Carter | 702 cc793-5 (Link to this contribution)

I commend the opening comments of my right hon. Friend the Education Secretary, particularly the ...

Nigel Evans | 702 c795 (Link to this contribution)

I just remind everyone that if they take part in today’s debate, they will be expected to be here...

Clive Lewis | 702 cc795-6 (Link to this contribution)

One of my favourite quotes of all time is from Henry Kissinger to, I think, the US press corps. H...

Robert Halfon | 702 cc796-8 (Link to this contribution)

I strongly welcome this Budget. We should acknowledge that over the past 18 months, this country ...

Emma Hardy | 702 c798 (Link to this contribution)

Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?

Robert Halfon | 702 c798 (Link to this contribution)

I am always honoured to give way to—not to ruin her career—one of my favourite Labour Members.

Emma Hardy | 702 c798 (Link to this contribution)

Does the right hon. Gentleman, who I call my friend, agree that although the investment in T-leve...

Robert Halfon | 702 c798 (Link to this contribution)

I absolutely believe that BTECs should not go until T-levels have fully come on board. As a hard-...

Yvonne Fovargue | 702 cc798-800 (Link to this contribution)

It has been a good Budget for Beatles’ fans with the Chancellor’s £2 million for preliminary work...

Ben Bradley | 702 cc800-1 (Link to this contribution)

I welcome the opportunity to speak in the debate and endorse everything said by my right hon. Fri...

Emma Hardy | 702 c801 (Link to this contribution)

The problems with recruiting were raised by East Riding of Yorkshire Council, and one reason why ...

Ben Bradley | 702 cc801-2 (Link to this contribution)

I thank the hon. Member for that intervention, which pre-empts something I will come to. In effec...

John McDonnell | 702 cc802-4 (Link to this contribution)

I would like to comment on some of the points made in the debate so far.

We all support lev...

Bim Afolami | 702 cc803-6 (Link to this contribution)

It is a pleasure to speak in this debate and to commend the Budget to the House. I think it is a ...

Carol Monaghan | 702 cc805-7 (Link to this contribution)

I think the right hon. Member for Harlow (Robert Halfon) summed up the issues for many of us. The...

Ben Everitt | 702 cc807-9 (Link to this contribution)

Perhaps you will indulge me, Mr Deputy Speaker, and cast your mind back to the last Budget in Mar...

Gareth Thomas | 702 cc809-810 (Link to this contribution)

It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Milton Keynes North (Ben Everitt), and I wish him ...

Dehenna Davison | 702 cc810-1 (Link to this contribution)

I want to start by paying tribute to my right hon. Friend the Member for Gainsborough (Sir Edward...

Dehenna Davison | 702 c811 (Link to this contribution)

I will not, because I have moved on from that point.

I particularly want to look at what th...

Carol Monaghan | 702 c811 (Link to this contribution)

Does the hon. Lady not recognise that fruit ciders have been linked to alcoholism in children, an...

Dehenna Davison | 702 cc811-2 (Link to this contribution)

I would say that it is a good thing to be cutting tax in general, but that has to be alongside a ...

Valerie Vaz | 702 cc812-4 (Link to this contribution)

It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Bishop Auckland (Dehenna Davison), but I am sure s...

Virginia Crosbie | 702 cc814-6 (Link to this contribution)

Last week’s Budget marked an important step in preparing and supporting the UK in a post-Brexit a...

Hywel Williams | 702 cc816-7 (Link to this contribution)

It is a pleasure to follow my constituency neighbour, the hon. Member for Ynys Môn (Virginia Cros...

Bob Seely | 702 cc817-9 (Link to this contribution)

It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Arfon (Hywel Williams). I wish I could say I disag...

Nadia Whittome | 702 cc819-820 (Link to this contribution)

It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Isle of Wight (Bob Seely). I echo his support for ...

Jacob Young | 702 cc820-1 (Link to this contribution)

It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Nottingham East (Nadia Whittome). It is fitting th...

Lloyd Russell-Moyle | 702 cc821-3 (Link to this contribution)

While the Chancellor presented his Budget as the best Budget in 10 years, he seemed to forget wha...

Richard Drax | 702 cc823-5 (Link to this contribution)

I refer Members to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests. It is a pleasure to ...

Munira Wilson | 702 cc824-7 (Link to this contribution)

On Wednesday, the Chancellor said in his speech that a good education is the birth right of every...

Bill Wiggin | 702 cc827-9 (Link to this contribution)

The subject of the River Wye has already been raised by my right hon. Friend the Member for Heref...

Olivia Blake | 702 cc829-830 (Link to this contribution)

It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for North Herefordshire (Bill Wiggin). I think that mu...

Chi Onwurah | 702 cc830-2 (Link to this contribution)

It is a real pleasure to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Sheffield, Hallam (Olivia Blake) an...

Alan Brown | 702 cc832-3 (Link to this contribution)

As politicians, we should always try to understand the argument from the other side. On that basi...

Carol Monaghan | 702 c833 (Link to this contribution)

I hope my hon. Friend is going to point out—maybe he is not, so I will—that the Scottish Tories s...

Alan Brown | 702 c833 (Link to this contribution)

I have trimmed my speech and have just trimmed that point out a wee bit, so I thank my hon. Frien...

Emma Hardy | 702 cc833-5 (Link to this contribution)

It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Kilmarnock and Loudoun (Alan Brown). I agree with<...

Simon Hoare | 702 c835 (Link to this contribution)

My own council in Dorset tells a similar story. Does the hon. Lady agree that it would be helpful...

Emma Hardy | 702 cc835-6 (Link to this contribution)

I absolutely agree; the hon. Gentleman is completely right. We do often forget all those people w...

Sam Tarry | 702 cc836-8 (Link to this contribution)

As my hon. Friend the Member for Sheffield, Hallam (Olivia Blake) said earlier, we have heard an ...

Baroness Keeley | 702 cc837-9 (Link to this contribution)

You would not know from the Budget that our health and care system is in crisis, made worse by th...

Ian Byrne | 702 cc839-841 (Link to this contribution)

It is a pleasure to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Worsley and Eccles South (Barbara Keeley...

Mohammad Yasin | 702 cc841-2 (Link to this contribution)

It is always a pleasure to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Liverpool, West Derby (Ian Byrne)...

Yasmin Qureshi | 702 cc842-3 (Link to this contribution)

Last week, the Chancellor came into this Chamber with great optimism, but many of us needed to he...

Alex Sobel | 702 cc843-5 (Link to this contribution)

It is a pleasure to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Bolton South East (Yasmin Qureshi).

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Ruth Jones | 702 cc844-6 (Link to this contribution)

It is a pleasure to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Leeds North West (Alex Sobel). I am grat...

Margaret Greenwood | 702 cc846-8 (Link to this contribution)

This Budget was a big disappointment for the millions of people who are worried about the cost-of...

Kate Osborne | 702 cc848-9 (Link to this contribution)

It is an honour to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Wirral West (Margaret Greenwood).

T...

Rachel Hopkins | 702 cc849-850 (Link to this contribution)

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

After a decade of aust...

Margaret Ferrier | 702 cc850-1 (Link to this contribution)

I am pleased to be able to speak to some of the ways in which this Budget will impact on my const...

Richard Burgon | 702 cc851-3 (Link to this contribution)

It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Rutherglen and Hamilton West (Margaret Ferrier). I...

Bridget Phillipson | 702 cc853-5 (Link to this contribution)

It is a privilege to respond for the Opposition as we conclude our debate on last week’s Budget.<...

Duncan Baker | 702 c855 (Link to this contribution)

I have heard some of the contributions from the Opposition this afternoon. I just wonder what pla...

Bridget Phillipson | 702 cc855-6 (Link to this contribution)

Let me say to the hon. Gentleman that sometimes when the Whips come calling and they have a piece...

Jacob Young | 702 c856 (Link to this contribution)

Just before the hon. Lady concludes her remarks, I just wanted to give her the opportunity to wel...

Bridget Phillipson | 702 c856 (Link to this contribution)

Absolutely. I supported the bid, so of course I welcome it; that is hardly a revelation. I will a...

Paul Howell | 702 c856 (Link to this contribution)

I absolutely agree that we need to take another look at the Leamside line, but I would like to co...

Bridget Phillipson | 702 c856 (Link to this contribution)

My hon. Friend the Member for Bristol North West (Darren Jones), the Labour Chair of the Business...

Bridget Phillipson | 702 c856 (Link to this contribution)

I will happily give way again, but when I do, will the hon. Gentleman tell me whether he will wor...

Paul Howell | 702 c856 (Link to this contribution)

I absolutely will work with the hon. Member. I have already made appointments to talk to Transpor...

Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 702 c856 (Link to this contribution)

Order. I am not sure that this discussion is entirely appropriate.

Bridget Phillipson | 702 c856 (Link to this contribution)

I will make a little progress, Madam Deputy Speaker. I will happily work with the hon. Gentleman....

Emma Hardy | 702 c856 (Link to this contribution)

While we are on the subject of railways, is my hon. Friend as frustrated as I am that we have yet...

Bridget Phillipson | 702 c857 (Link to this contribution)

Absolutely; 60 times we have had announcements on the plan, but not a single spade in the ground....

Simon Clarke | 702 cc857-8 (Link to this contribution)

It is a privilege to bring the past four days of Budget debate to a close. Over that time we have...

Emma Hardy | 702 c858 (Link to this contribution)

I am aware that the Minister is very familiar with the area I represent, and indeed the local cou...

Simon Clarke | 702 c858 (Link to this contribution)

I thank the hon. Lady; hers was one of the more thoughtful speeches in this debate. We have commi...

Baroness Keeley | 702 c859 (Link to this contribution)

Unless there are pay increases for care staff, the small dribbles in amounts of training, and bit...

Simon Clarke | 702 c859 (Link to this contribution)

Again, I thank the hon. Lady for raising that point. I do take this point seriously. We have comm...

Margaret Greenwood | 702 c859 (Link to this contribution)

I have listened with interest to the Minister’s points about the national health service. If the ...

Simon Clarke | 702 c860 (Link to this contribution)

This Government remain fully committed to great care, free at the point of need, which of course ...

Ben Bradley | 702 c860 (Link to this contribution)

I welcome the positive interventions in early years and for young people in the Budget in particu...

Simon Clarke | 702 c860 (Link to this contribution)

I absolutely will, because there is sometimes said to be ambiguity about levelling up. It is clea...

Simon Clarke | 702 c860 (Link to this contribution)

Yes, I will. It is always a pleasure to give way to the hon. Gentleman.

Lloyd Russell-Moyle | 702 c860 (Link to this contribution)

So much for intergenerational levelling up—why have the Government cut the youth budget? It is th...

Simon Clarke | 702 cc860-1 (Link to this contribution)

The Government stand fully behind our youth budget. From the National Citizen Service to youth hu...

Dehenna Davison | 702 c861 (Link to this contribution)

I reiterate my right hon. Friend’s point about research and development, which is important. Does...

Simon Clarke | 702 cc861-2 (Link to this contribution)

My hon. Friend is absolutely right. We are investing smart so that we seed the growth of the futu...

Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 702 c862 (Link to this contribution)

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

Ian Blackford | 702 c886 (Link to this contribution)

On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. I think we are all aware that a number of Members have...

Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 702 c886 (Link to this contribution)

I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for giving notice of his point of order. May I first sa...

Karen Bradley | 702 c886 (Link to this contribution)

Further to that point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. May I advertise the fact that the Procedure...

Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 702 c886 (Link to this contribution)

I thank the right hon. Lady for confirming the process that is being undertaken. I am sure that m...

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