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Outlawries Bill: Debate on the Address — [1st Day] (18 Nov 2009)

John Redwood: I advise an industrial group and an investment company and have declared that in the Register of Members' Financial Interests. Listening to the previous speaker, one might forget that we have had a Labour Government for 12 years and one might forget that equality had risen to new highs. One might also have been led to believe that we had not been through our worst recession since the 1930s,...

Outlawries Bill: Debate on the Address — [1st Day] (18 Nov 2009)

John Redwood: There were rather more newspapers selling rather more copies in those days, as there was plenty of competition and choice in newspapers-less so in the media, as the hon. Gentleman says-but this is one of the myths of modern politics and why modern politics is, I think, so broken. The myth has arisen that it is the job of Her Majesty's Ministers to entertain the media and that it is their job...

Outlawries Bill: Debate on the Address — [1st Day] (18 Nov 2009)

John Redwood: What it means is that anyone who thinks that a Government of this country can continue to borrow at the current rate will experience a rude awakening. I remind the hon. Gentleman what happened to a previous Labour Government in the 1970s. They thought that they could go on borrowing. They had perfectly good things on which to spend the money, or so they thought. The hon. Gentleman may recall...

Outlawries Bill: Debate on the Address — [1st Day] (18 Nov 2009)

John Redwood: I fear not. I have been probing the issue in questions, and I think that even the Government admit that a fair amount of the money that they have tipped into the banks they have lost. I am the one Member of Parliament who has consistently said "Do not buy shares in these banks." There were other ways of avoiding a catastrophe. I have always thought that we would lose all or most of the money...

Outlawries Bill: Debate on the Address — [1st Day] (18 Nov 2009)

John Redwood: Yes, of course I am. The Bank of England occasionally made mistakes-it did so with BCCI and in two other cases that I can remember-but it never made systemic errors and it never made a mistake in respect of one of the major clearing banks that affects everybody in the country. What has happened on this most recent occasion was that mistakes were made with a whole series of banks-several of...

Outlawries Bill: Debate on the Address — [1st Day] (18 Nov 2009)

John Redwood: Australia and India had no downturn. What did they do right and what did we do wrong?

Outlawries Bill: Debate on the Address — [1st Day] (18 Nov 2009)

John Redwood: What did the regulators get wrong during the banking crisis? After all, they were new regulators, established by this Government with extra regulation. Why did that fail?

Outlawries Bill: Debate on the Address — [1st Day] (18 Nov 2009)

John Redwood: indicated assent.

Outlawries Bill: Debate on the Address — [1st Day] (18 Nov 2009)

John Redwood: Would that mean that a retail bank could not offer a business customer a forward currency contract?

Outlawries Bill: Debate on the Address — [1st Day] (18 Nov 2009)

John Redwood: I am grateful to the leader of the Liberal Democrats for giving way. How big a reduction in the deficit would he recommend and what should be the balance between expenditure cuts and tax rises?

Outlawries Bill: Debate on the Address — [1st Day] (18 Nov 2009)

John Redwood: The Prime Minister is proposing a Bill to cut public spending by between 6 and 7 per cent. of GDP over, I believe, a four-year period. What are the main ways in which he would recommend that we do that?

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Skills for Growth (11 Nov 2009)

John Redwood: How much will these administrative changes cost and how many jobs will be lost?

Olympics: FOI Request (Immigration) (9 Nov 2009) has video

John Redwood: Why did the Government change policy in a way that led to such a huge increase in inward migration?

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

John Redwood: Why have the authorities lurched from boom regulation, involving too little cash and capital for excessive lending, to bust regulation, which wants too much cash and capital for too little lending?

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

John Redwood: Is there any prudential limit to how much the Government can and should borrow?

Oral Answers to Questions — Defence: European Council (2 Nov 2009) has video

John Redwood: Will any British bank be cancelling bonuses this year in the light of the decision on banking bonuses?

Opposition Day — [20th Allotted Day]: Local Spending Reports (28 Oct 2009) has video

John Redwood: Do Ministers know what these data would reveal? Are they therefore embarrassed for others to know about them? Or do they want to be in ignorance?

Opposition Day — [20th Allotted Day]: Local Spending Reports (28 Oct 2009) has video

John Redwood: The Secretary of State has just said something very encouraging: he says he wants to publish more information than he is currently able to publish. Why then does he not just get on and publish all the information on the basis set out by my right hon. Friend the Member for West Dorset (Mr. Letwin)? Is the Secretary of State not aware that if he is given a "Yes Minister" script by his...

Economic Recovery (22 Oct 2009) has video

John Redwood: I remind the House that I have business interests in manufacturing and investment management, but I am obviously not speaking on their behalf today. In the debate on Monday, I said that we needed to make the banks more competitive and change banking regulation at the bottom of the cycle, which is where we are now. Unless we make the banks work, we will not have a sustainable recovery. I drew...

Economic Recovery (22 Oct 2009) has video

John Redwood: I am sure that that is one of the constraints. Businesses always need more skilled people at all levels. A better system for apprenticeships might well help. One of the additional constraints at the moment is that businesses cannot raise money. They cannot borrow cash or get working capital out of the banks because we have a lopsided banking system that is channelling huge sums of money into...