Budget Resolutions
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On the subject of levelling up, will the Secretary of State tell the House why he thinks it is ac...
Respectfully, it is quite the opposite. I will get to that point later. Schools will be £1,500 be...
I thank the Secretary of State for giving way; he is always very generous. I draw his attention t...
I am grateful to the hon. Lady, and I am sure the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care w...
Is it not the case that the additional money for adult social care is on a promise that might com...
I am grateful for the hon. Member’s question. I think he may have missed, while trying to catch y...
I detect a hint of complacency on funding for social care. The Secretary of State mentioned £500 ...
I have to respectfully disagree with the hon. Lady. In my time as vaccines Minister, I saw the so...
I thank the Secretary of State for giving way; he is being very generous with his time. He talks ...
I will return to children’s social care later in my speech. Mr Speaker, you will, I hope, recogni...
Yesterday I was speaking with members of the tech industry, and they were lamenting the fact that...
I am grateful for the hon. Member’s question. I know that he cares passionately about this subjec...
I recently visited the university technical college in Warrington, which is a great example of sk...
My hon. Friend is absolutely right that the UTC and the work it is doing with Sellafield is exact...
I welcome what my right hon. Friend is saying. Can he confirm that there is a 42% increase in the...
There is no greater champion of this agenda than my right hon. Friend, the Chairman of the Select...
Will the Secretary of State give way?
I want to make sure that others get a chance to participate in the debate, so I will make some he...
This is a national effort. A lot of attention has quite rightly been placed on the areas in the n...
Levelling up is at the heart of the Government’s agenda. Levelling up means empowering local lead...
Will the Secretary of State give way?
I will make some headway. I have taken many interventions.
Let us not forget that these are...
The Institute for Fiscal Studies has described the increase in education funding over the past de...
I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for that question, but respectfully he is completely wrong. I...
I welcome my right hon. Friend’s commitment to the supporting families scheme. The certainty arou...
My hon. Friend is absolutely right and I thank him, not least because of his deep experience in l...
Let me make some headway, because hon. Members might find this interesting: we are setting aside ...
I am grateful to the Secretary of State. I welcome the Government’s new-found conversion to somet...
The hon. Gentleman will know that, as Children and Families Minister, I tried to follow the evide...
Will the Secretary of State give way?
I know that Mr Speaker is looking at his watch, so perhaps the hon. Lady will forgive me if I mak...
It is not about headway—I think a mere finish might be helpful.
Indeed, Mr Speaker. We are investing £2.7 billion of capital funding to improve provision for pup...
It is a great pleasure to follow the Secretary of State in today’s debate. Our public services ke...
In the Treasury Committee yesterday, we heard evidence from the Office for Budget Responsibility,...
My hon. Friend is absolutely right. The levy to fund social care is one more tax that will hit ha...
Is it not the case that the Labour party still has no plan for social care? When we put forward a...
The hon. Member may not remember the Dilnot plan, which had cross-party support until Conservativ...
I am grateful to my hon. Friend for raising the importance of BTECs, because for many young peopl...
My hon. Friend is absolutely right. Again and again, I have met people who have described their l...
Will my hon. Friend give way?
If my hon. Friend will forgive me, I will make some progress.
OECD data show that the UK ha...
I have totted up all Labour’s uncosted spending plans to about £400 billion. From what I can see,...
I have absolutely no idea where that £400 billion figure comes from. The hon. Member says that it...
The hon. Member for Warrington South (Andy Carter) talks about financial prudence, but this Gover...
My hon. Friend makes the case.
Labour’s plan would deliver the wellbeing and academic suppo...
Will my hon. Friend give way?
I am about to finish my speech, so I hope my hon. Friend will forgive me if I do not.
This ...
Order. I am going to try not to impose a time limit, at least at the beginning, but I will give a...
I will definitely not take my full allocation, Mr Deputy Speaker. I just want to make a few brief...
One group of veterans whom we talk about regularly in the House—I raised this subject with the ho...
With respect, I have spoken a lot about nuclear test veterans. I was the only Minister who met th...
indicated dissent.
The hon. Lady can shake her head, but I did actually review the nuclear test programme medical se...
Politics is a remarkable thing, is it not? The theme for today is stronger public services. We ha...
The hon. Gentleman is speaking eloquently about taxation. Could he just clarify whether, as a res...
I welcome that intervention from the former Minister. I have enjoyed our previous debates on all ...
It is a pleasure to be called on the final day of the Budget debate. I thought it was a good Budg...
Mr Deputy Speaker, in the light of the point of order from a Government Member earlier, which I t...
Will the hon. Gentleman remind the House what the national debt as a percentage of GDP was in 199...
As the phrase goes, I will take no lectures from the right hon. Gentleman, who served on the Trea...
I remind everybody to keep speeches to round about the six-minute mark; otherwise, I will have to...
I hope the House will forgive me if I do not follow the hon. Member for Bootle (Peter Dowd) in be...
Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?
No, because I am only allowed six minutes.
I use the NHS. I do not have private health insu...
In recent weeks, the Chancellor has been promising us a Budget that would look to the future, a B...
I very much welcome this Budget and spending review. Were the Chief Secretary to the Treasury, my...
Last week’s Budget shows just how out of touch this Government are with reality. They are complet...
I commend the opening comments of my right hon. Friend the Education Secretary, particularly the ...
I just remind everyone that if they take part in today’s debate, they will be expected to be here...
One of my favourite quotes of all time is from Henry Kissinger to, I think, the US press corps. H...
I strongly welcome this Budget. We should acknowledge that over the past 18 months, this country ...
Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?
I am always honoured to give way to—not to ruin her career—one of my favourite Labour Members.
Does the right hon. Gentleman, who I call my friend, agree that although the investment in T-leve...
I absolutely believe that BTECs should not go until T-levels have fully come on board. As a hard-...
It has been a good Budget for Beatles’ fans with the Chancellor’s £2 million for preliminary work...
I welcome the opportunity to speak in the debate and endorse everything said by my right hon. Fri...
The problems with recruiting were raised by East Riding of Yorkshire Council, and one reason why ...
I thank the hon. Member for that intervention, which pre-empts something I will come to. In effec...
I would like to comment on some of the points made in the debate so far.
We all support lev...
It is a pleasure to speak in this debate and to commend the Budget to the House. I think it is a ...
I think the right hon. Member for Harlow (Robert Halfon) summed up the issues for many of us. The...
Perhaps you will indulge me, Mr Deputy Speaker, and cast your mind back to the last Budget in Mar...
It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Milton Keynes North (Ben Everitt), and I wish him ...
I want to start by paying tribute to my right hon. Friend the Member for Gainsborough (Sir Edward...
Will the hon. Lady give way?
I will not, because I have moved on from that point.
I particularly want to look at what th...
Does the hon. Lady not recognise that fruit ciders have been linked to alcoholism in children, an...
I would say that it is a good thing to be cutting tax in general, but that has to be alongside a ...
It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Bishop Auckland (Dehenna Davison), but I am sure s...
Last week’s Budget marked an important step in preparing and supporting the UK in a post-Brexit a...
It is a pleasure to follow my constituency neighbour, the hon. Member for Ynys Môn (Virginia Cros...
It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Arfon (Hywel Williams). I wish I could say I disag...
It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Isle of Wight (Bob Seely). I echo his support for ...
It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Nottingham East (Nadia Whittome). It is fitting th...
While the Chancellor presented his Budget as the best Budget in 10 years, he seemed to forget wha...
I refer Members to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests. It is a pleasure to ...
On Wednesday, the Chancellor said in his speech that a good education is the birth right of every...
The subject of the River Wye has already been raised by my right hon. Friend the Member for Heref...
It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for North Herefordshire (Bill Wiggin). I think that mu...
It is a real pleasure to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Sheffield, Hallam (Olivia Blake) an...
As politicians, we should always try to understand the argument from the other side. On that basi...
I hope my hon. Friend is going to point out—maybe he is not, so I will—that the Scottish Tories s...
I have trimmed my speech and have just trimmed that point out a wee bit, so I thank my hon. Frien...
It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Kilmarnock and Loudoun (Alan Brown). I agree with<...
My own council in Dorset tells a similar story. Does the hon. Lady agree that it would be helpful...
I absolutely agree; the hon. Gentleman is completely right. We do often forget all those people w...
As my hon. Friend the Member for Sheffield, Hallam (Olivia Blake) said earlier, we have heard an ...
You would not know from the Budget that our health and care system is in crisis, made worse by th...
It is a pleasure to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Worsley and Eccles South (Barbara Keeley...
It is always a pleasure to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Liverpool, West Derby (Ian Byrne)...
Last week, the Chancellor came into this Chamber with great optimism, but many of us needed to he...
It is a pleasure to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Bolton South East (Yasmin Qureshi).
<...It is a pleasure to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Leeds North West (Alex Sobel). I am grat...
This Budget was a big disappointment for the millions of people who are worried about the cost-of...
It is an honour to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Wirral West (Margaret Greenwood).
T...
I refer to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests.
After a decade of aust...
I am pleased to be able to speak to some of the ways in which this Budget will impact on my const...
It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Rutherglen and Hamilton West (Margaret Ferrier). I...
It is a privilege to respond for the Opposition as we conclude our debate on last week’s Budget.<...
I have heard some of the contributions from the Opposition this afternoon. I just wonder what pla...
Let me say to the hon. Gentleman that sometimes when the Whips come calling and they have a piece...
Just before the hon. Lady concludes her remarks, I just wanted to give her the opportunity to wel...
Absolutely. I supported the bid, so of course I welcome it; that is hardly a revelation. I will a...
I absolutely agree that we need to take another look at the Leamside line, but I would like to co...
My hon. Friend the Member for Bristol North West (Darren Jones), the Labour Chair of the Business...
Will the hon. Member give way?
I will happily give way again, but when I do, will the hon. Gentleman tell me whether he will wor...
I absolutely will work with the hon. Member. I have already made appointments to talk to Transpor...
Order. I am not sure that this discussion is entirely appropriate.
I will make a little progress, Madam Deputy Speaker. I will happily work with the hon. Gentleman....
While we are on the subject of railways, is my hon. Friend as frustrated as I am that we have yet...
Absolutely; 60 times we have had announcements on the plan, but not a single spade in the ground....
It is a privilege to bring the past four days of Budget debate to a close. Over that time we have...
I am aware that the Minister is very familiar with the area I represent, and indeed the local cou...
I thank the hon. Lady; hers was one of the more thoughtful speeches in this debate. We have commi...
Unless there are pay increases for care staff, the small dribbles in amounts of training, and bit...
Again, I thank the hon. Lady for raising that point. I do take this point seriously. We have comm...
I have listened with interest to the Minister’s points about the national health service. If the ...
This Government remain fully committed to great care, free at the point of need, which of course ...
I welcome the positive interventions in early years and for young people in the Budget in particu...
I absolutely will, because there is sometimes said to be ambiguity about levelling up. It is clea...
Will the Minister give way?
Yes, I will. It is always a pleasure to give way to the hon. Gentleman.
So much for intergenerational levelling up—why have the Government cut the youth budget? It is th...
The Government stand fully behind our youth budget. From the National Citizen Service to youth hu...
I reiterate my right hon. Friend’s point about research and development, which is important. Does...
My hon. Friend is absolutely right. We are investing smart so that we seed the growth of the futu...
I am now required under Standing Order No. 51(3) to put successively, without further debate, the...
On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. I think we are all aware that a number of Members have...
I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for giving notice of his point of order. May I first sa...
Further to that point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. May I advertise the fact that the Procedure...
I thank the right hon. Lady for confirming the process that is being undertaken. I am sure that m...