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

Philip Hammond: The liabilities in respect of both Northern Rock and Bradford & Bingley have been taken on by the taxpayer because the elected British Government formed the view that this was the best course of action. The Chancellor has previously taken a robust line on the issue of fiscal sovereignty, insisting that decisions on bank bail-outs that impose a burden on the British taxpayer can be made...

Oral Answers to Questions — Children, Schools and Families: Sale of Government Assets (12 Oct 2009) has video

Philip Hammond: How telling that at the end of the Prime Minister's summer of denial, instead of following the Conservative lead and taking the tough decisions required to get the deficit under control, this morning he has ducked the issue and chosen to peddle the illusion that asset sales can somehow avoid the pain of fiscal adjustment—taking people for fools again. Can the Chief Secretary confirm...

Bill Presented — Constitutional Reform and Governance Bill: Child Poverty Bill (20 Jul 2009) has video

Philip Hammond: It is not sustainable.

Oral Answers to Questions — Treasury: Comprehensive Spending Review (14 Jul 2009) has video

Philip Hammond: I would like to conduct an intragovernmental sight test. The Schools Secretary has claimed to be able to see the spending on schools and hospitals rising in real terms after 2011. If the Chancellor focuses carefully, can he see that too, or is his vision of the future altogether blurrier?

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

Philip Hammond: I realise why it was impossible up until last week for the Chancellor to confirm the details of the comprehensive spending review, but, since the Chancellor has now reasserted control of his Department, will the right hon. Gentleman, on the Chancellor's behalf, confirm that there will indeed be a comprehensive spending review? Will he also confirm the timing of that review and the period that...

Council Tax Capping (Surrey) (9 Jun 2009)

Philip Hammond: I was not intending to speak in this debate, but, as my hon. Friends have been admirably succinct, we have a little time left, so I should like to take the opportunity to make a short contribution. Unfortunately, I have to leave at 12 o'clock, and I apologise in advance for any discourtesy. My hon. Friends have set out very clearly the underlying pressures facing Surrey police. Surrey is a...

Council Tax Capping (Surrey) (9 Jun 2009)

Philip Hammond: I agree with my hon. Friend. I hope that it is not petty political vindictiveness. Let us explore whether it is a kind of institutional vindictiveness. By that I mean a situation in which the centre cannot bear to be ignored or defied, even inadvertently, and has to slap back in a disproportionate response. I hope that the Minister—whether or not he is prepared to say so...

Council Tax Capping (Surrey) (9 Jun 2009)

Philip Hammond: My hon. Friend is absolutely right that such a review would pile insult on to injury. Instead of £1.2 million to deal with a £1.6 million over-billing, we may be talking about a situation in which the total bill has climbed beyond £1.6 million. Although I do not think that anyone on the Conservative Benches would argue that there does not need to be a solution to the...

Council Tax Capping (Surrey) (9 Jun 2009)

Philip Hammond: Does my hon. Friend agree that at a time when public spending will be tightly constrained anyway it is incumbent on Governments to ensure that every penny of public money is carefully used, and that the Government have failed abjectly to do that in the case that is being outlined? First, they have failed to set out clearly what was required of Surrey police authority, so that it could take...

Developing Country Debt (Restriction of Recovery): Finance Bill (6 May 2009) has video

Philip Hammond: I am happy to acknowledge the proper consultation that went on in relation to the foreign profits taxation, but can the Financial Secretary tell us why there was no consultation at all on clause 92?

Developing Country Debt (Restriction of Recovery): Finance Bill (6 May 2009) has video

Philip Hammond: Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

Developing Country Debt (Restriction of Recovery): Finance Bill (6 May 2009) has video

Philip Hammond: I suspect that I know where the hon. Gentleman is heading, but has he not made the case for some form of independent statutory provision of such forecasts as a backdrop to the Budget? Any Chancellor should make forecasts in response to the real situation that the country faces rather than the fantasy situation that he wishes to paint.

Developing Country Debt (Restriction of Recovery): Finance Bill (6 May 2009) has video

Philip Hammond: Let me reassure the hon. Gentleman that the only obstacle in the way of the Chancellor of the day would be that he would have to make his Budget against the backdrop of an objective set of fiscal projections, not a fantasy set of fiscal projections. If the hon. Gentleman regards that as being hamstrung, I do not share his view.

Developing Country Debt (Restriction of Recovery): Finance Bill (6 May 2009) has video

Philip Hammond: The hon. Gentleman has just accused the Opposition of talking the economy down, but he keeps going on about this £175 billion. I am the last person to want to talk down the scale of the Government's debt problem, but when we come to address it in future fiscal policy will he acknowledge that a significant part of it—in fact, the majority—is a cyclical deficit? If we are going...

Developing Country Debt (Restriction of Recovery): Finance Bill (6 May 2009) has video

Philip Hammond: Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

Developing Country Debt (Restriction of Recovery): Finance Bill (6 May 2009) has video

Philip Hammond: I am not sure what that was all about, but the hon. Gentleman knows that the document to which he has referred is not a Conservative party policy document but a discussion paper prepared by a group of people asked to submit ideas and proposals to the party leader. That is a how a serious opposition party goes about its business.

Developing Country Debt (Restriction of Recovery): Finance Bill (6 May 2009) has video

Philip Hammond: I do not know what the hon. Gentleman is going to say.

Developing Country Debt (Restriction of Recovery): Finance Bill (6 May 2009) has video

Philip Hammond: Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

Developing Country Debt (Restriction of Recovery): Finance Bill (6 May 2009) has video

Philip Hammond: On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. One of the weaknesses of our scrutiny of taxation and expenditure is that we do not have any effective say on Government spending. This Bill is about taxation and tax raising. It has nothing to do with the distribution of Government spending.

Developing Country Debt (Restriction of Recovery): Finance Bill (6 May 2009) has video

Philip Hammond: rose—