Autumn Budget 2024

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I thought that noble Lords opposite would be pleased. I could go on. There are so many other area...

My Lords, it is a great pleasure to speak in this debate and to welcome the noble Lord, Lord Boot...

I thank the Minister for his introduction to the debate. The first Budget of a new Government is ...

My Lords, I will focus on the Budget in the context of criminal justice, and declare my interest ...

My Lords, I must start by drawing attention to my entries in the register of interests. I also wa...

My Lords, as the first Labour Budget for 14 years, this was bound to be a very big occasion, and ...

My Lords, the advisory speaking time for this debate is five minutes. I urge all noble Lords to k...

My Lords, no pressure there then.

Let me first say, in contrast to the noble Lord, Lord Lam...

My Lords, the Minister, in his speech, criticised the previous Government’s record on growth. Wel...

My Lords, the challenge faced by the Chancellor was to change the economy and to achieve a decent...

My Lords, the Government, the Chancellor and the Prime Minister keep talking about growth, but to...

My Lords, I am speaking from the Back Benches today about productivity, but I want to start with ...

My Lords, listening to the Benches opposite, from the comedy turn at the beginning and onwards, t...

My Lords, the Government are hoping to launch innovative companies into exports, growth and wealt...

My Lords, the Chancellor’s mission to deliver sustained growth brings a sense of purpose that the...

My Lords, I welcome my noble friend Lord Booth-Smith to his place. I very much look forward to he...

My Lords, having trussed themselves into a fiscal straitjacket to get elected, the Government are...

My Lords, I add my congratulations to the noble Lord, Lord Livermore, on his coherent and brillia...

My Lords, it is an immense privilege to be able to speak today. I am incredibly grateful to the m...

My Lords, I draw attention to my register of interests.

It is a huge privilege to congratul...

My Lords, there was much comment about the new Government’s first Budget not being delivered unti...

My Lords, as speaker number 22 of 75, can I open with a quick observation? Over eight long hours,...

My Lords, no one in the Chamber should be in any doubt over how much of a challenge setting the B...

My Lords, I add my welcome and congratulations to the noble Lord, Lord Booth-Smith, on a very wis...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to be able to welcome, with that wonderful maiden speech, my new noble...

I welcome the Budget. I give it about two cheers, not three, for reasons I shall describe.

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My Lords, I declare my interest as chief executive of United Against Malnutrition and Hunger. I c...

My Lords, I welcome a Budget with a notable change in direction for our nation’s finances. This G...

My Lords, I am very pleased to be able to participate in today’s debate. I congratulate the noble...

My Lords, Ministers, in trying to defend the Budget, keep saying in a rather pained way that they...

My Lords, in my contribution to this debate, a debate so well led by my noble friend Lord Livermo...

My Lords, my comments will be more nuanced than some of those from this side of the Chamber. It m...

My Lords, I declare my agricultural interests as detailed in the register. My concern about the B...

My Lords, this first Budget from a woman has some good news for women, as we have already heard, ...

My Lords, I feel my B in GCSE maths is challenging my ability to speak with any fiscal authority ...

My Lords, like others, I welcome the maiden speech of my noble friend Lord Booth-Smith. It had th...

My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Howell of Guildford, reminds us that we are living in very dangero...

My Lords, I am glad to follow the noble Lord, Lord Shipley, because he reminds us that solving th...

My Lords, I note my interests as a board member of the Bank of England and Taylor Wimpey, but spe...

My Lords, I welcome the opportunity to speak in this extremely important Budget debate. I start b...

My Lords, I start with a few notes of welcome to the noble Lord, Lord Booth-Smith.

On the B...

My Lords, as my noble friend Lord Johnson of Lainston said in his opening remarks, this is, in it...

My Lords, in many years as a Member of this House, I have never dreamed of speaking in a Budget d...

My Lords, I wish to identify with some of the comments of the noble Lord, Lord Monks, who is not ...

I welcome this Budget, which represents a fundamental transformation in our nation’s fiscal prior...

My Lords, my focus tonight is squarely on health and social care. As we have heard, the Chancello...

My Lords, I refer to my entry in the register of interests.

This Government say that their ...

My Lords, I congratulate the Minister on his clarity and stamina and the noble Lord, Lord Booth-S...

I begin by noting the economic background to the Budget. The economy is growing, albeit modestly....

My Lords, I declare my interests as in the register.

I broadly and warmly welcome this firs...

I thank the Minister for hosting this debate, for listening so carefully to so many speakers one ...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to take part in this Budget debate with so many distinguished speakers...

My Lords, I, too, congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Booth-Smith, on his excellent maiden speech. ...

Literally.

Literally—yes, indeed. However, as the Campaign for the Arts says:

“Realising the full ambi...

My Lords, I will speak briefly about alternative finance. The Treasury defines alternative financ...

My Lords, I will focus my comments about the Budget on local government funding. I served as a un...

My Lords, this Budget makes history for the wrong reason. It is the first ever Budget to place a ...

My Lords, I congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Booth-Smith, on an absolute humdinger of a maiden s...

My Lords, to follow on from that remark, Budgets normally have a pattern. On the day they come ou...

I thank the noble Lord, Lord Booth-Smith, for his maiden speech; I welcome him to the House, and ...

My Lords, I want to start by welcoming measures in the Budget that support the vulnerable in our ...

First, I declare my property and land interests, as per the register.

When voters returned ...

My Lords, poverty and inequalities hold back economic development and prevent people living fulfi...

My Lords, in 1961 Viv Nicholson won £152,319—the equivalent of about £4.3 million today. She, or ...

My Lords, the UK economy has been in structural decline for many years; that analysis is absolute...

My Lords, the economic nostrums of the Thatcher era still dominate the minds of many politicians ...

My Lords, this is the first speech I have made in your Lordships’ House in the presence of the pr...

My Lords, I make no apology for dedicating my allotted five minutes to the situation facing farme...

My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Northbrook, referred to a recent article in the Times. Yesterday, ...

My Lords, there are many things to welcome in this Budget, particularly on the spending side. I a...

My Lords, I would like to address the issue of sport and the recent Budget. I declare my interest...

My Lords, let me begin by congratulating the noble Lord, Lord Booth-Smith, on his maiden speech i...

My Lords, we have had a long debate today, where, as usual, your Lordships’ House has brought its...

My Lords, it is a privilege to close today’s debate on the Budget. I am grateful to all 75 noble ...

I did not speak against the rise in the living wage. If the Minister goes through Hansard, he wil...

I will check, but it did sound very much like it to me.

The noble Baroness, Lady Neville-Ro...