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Debate on the Address: Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs and Defence (23 Nov 2009)

Michael Fallon: Why did the Prime Minister allow himself to be outwitted by the French into conceding the key internal market and financial services job, with the result that a French Commissioner will be regulating the City of London while Baroness Ashton just hands out the Ferrero Rocher?

Oral Answers to Questions — Treasury: Banking Reform (3 Nov 2009) has video

Michael Fallon: Does not the new contingent capital guarantee provided to RBS show that the Governor's concern about the amount of moral hazard remaining in the system is still unanswered?

Oral Answers to Questions — Treasury: Unemployment (3 Nov 2009) has video

Michael Fallon: Given rising unemployment, and the fact that this country has been in recession for longer than any of its major competitors, how can Ministers still claim that we were better prepared?

Business of the House (29 Oct 2009) has video

Michael Fallon: Will there be a follow-up statement on the lessons of the Nimrod disaster, and how many of the named individuals do the Government expect to accept responsibility and resign?

Oral Answers to Questions — Work and Pensions: Children's Commissioner (19 Oct 2009) has video

Michael Fallon: Does the right hon. Gentleman accept that he has form here, as he was the chief adviser to the then Chancellor when they both brushed aside the Treasury Committee's rejection of the appointment of Christopher Allsopp within hours of the recommendation being made? What is the point of having pre-appointment hearings if Government Ministers are going to ignore them completely?

Oral Answers to Questions — Justice: Equitable Life (21 Jul 2009)

Michael Fallon: Why will the Chief Secretary not announce a long-stop date by which the Government expect the bulk of those ex gratia payments to have been made? Does he expect it to be in this financial year?

Oral Answers to Questions — Treasury: Bank Lending (Small and Medium Businesses) (14 Jul 2009) has video

Michael Fallon: Can the Chancellor confirm that lending to business under the small firms loan guarantee scheme and the enterprise finance guarantee scheme was only £178 million in the year just finished—less than half the original target—and that despite the taxpayer billions and all the Government's promises, new lending to business is still falling in this financial year? Why?

Business of the House (9 Jul 2009) has video

Michael Fallon: Given that a clear majority of those who can sign early-day motions have signed the motion on Equitable Life, why does not the Leader of the House simply list it as the subject of the topical debate next week? Or does she think that 307 Members of this House can be persistently and consistently ignored?

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Reforming Financial Markets (8 Jul 2009)

Michael Fallon: The Chancellor seems to have trebled the confusion over responsibility for financial stability by spreading it between the Bank of England, the FSA and the new council for financial stability. Will he explain what powers the new council will have? Page 138 of the White Paper seems to give it three new statutory duties just to discuss risk.

Oral Answers to Questions — Health: European Council (23 Jun 2009)

Michael Fallon: Beyond the need for more co-operation and closer financial surveillance, has not the Prime Minister now conceded that the mediation proposed on cross-border supervision will in fact now be binding on our national regulator?

Oral Answers to Questions — Treasury: Savings (9 Jun 2009) has video

Michael Fallon: How can the Treasury properly promote a savings culture when it is led by a Chancellor who last week was scheduled to be sacked? [Hon. Members: "Where is he?"] If the Prime Minister does not have any confidence in the head of the Treasury, why should the rest of us?

Amendment of the Law (23 Apr 2009)

Michael Fallon: I remind the House of my interests recorded in the register. This year's Budget had to meet three crucial tests: to focus real help on those hardest hit by the recession; to start to rebalance our economy and put it back on a path towards sustainable growth; and, of course, to put the public finances back under control. Some of the Budget's measures to give real help to the hardest hit are...

Amendment of the Law (23 Apr 2009)

Michael Fallon: My hon. Friend is right. The word "investment" has been stretched far too wide. This Government have not balanced the Budget since March 2002, which is seven long years ago. In the March 2003 Budget, they said that they would balance the Budget by March 2006. Two years ago, in the March 2007 Budget, the forecast slipped to March 2009. Three years ago, they forecast that we would be back in...

Royal Assent: G20 Summit (2 Apr 2009) has video

Michael Fallon: Would the Chancellor explain more fully why the Prime Minister said at his press conference that there had been an agreement on a common approach to the toxic assets, when that is not in the communiqué? Some countries are isolating their assets, others are trying to sell them off, and here at home the right hon. Gentleman is trying to insure them. Where is the common approach?

Council Tax Rebate: The Economy (31 Mar 2009) has video

Michael Fallon: A few hours ago the Chancellor was asked what had happened to the working capital scheme and why it had not been put into effect by the end of March, which is today, as promised. Can the Minister tell us why?

Council Tax Rebate: The Economy (31 Mar 2009) has video

Michael Fallon: I remind the House of the interests recorded in the register. I want to say something about the origins of this crisis, the structure of the economy that we are now left with and the state of our public finances. So far as the origins of the crisis are concerned, I fundamentally agree with my hon. Friend the Member for Stratford-on-Avon (Mr. Maples). It is not a crisis of markets; it is a...

Council Tax Rebate: The Economy (31 Mar 2009) has video

Michael Fallon: My right hon. Friend the Member for Hitchin and Harpenden (Mr. Lilley) has already reminded us exactly what he said from the Front Bench at that time. It was a huge mistake to take banking supervision away from the Bank of England and give it to a supervisory authority that employs 2,500 people and will cost us £415 million a year from 1 April, but which assigned only three of those...

Council Tax Rebate: The Economy (31 Mar 2009) has video

Michael Fallon: If my hon. Friend will forgive me, I will not give way because of time. We have to rebalance our economy. I hope that there might now be support across the House for the view that we cannot build a long-term, sustainable, wealth-creating and reskilling economy on the back of an over-inflated housing market, an over-exuberant financial services sector and a bloated public sector, because over...

Oral Answers to Questions — Defence: Dunfermline Building Society (30 Mar 2009) has video

Michael Fallon: Is it not extraordinary that the provision of another £1.6 billion of public money to rescue another failed institution no longer seems extraordinary? Can the Chancellor explain why the regulator allowed the Dunfermline building society to over-commit itself so recklessly in 2006 and 2007 in commercial property and sub-prime?

Oral Answers to Questions — Treasury: Economic Growth (26 Mar 2009) has video

Michael Fallon: Why did it take the Governor to warn the Prime Minister that this country simply cannot afford to borrow any more money? Why does the Chancellor not stand up for taxpayers' interests, resist the banging on the wall from his neighbour next door, and start the long haul of getting our public finances under proper control?