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

George Osborne: Once again, Mr. Speaker, the Chancellor tells the House of Commons what he already has spun to every national newspaper—last night, long before any market notices were put out. Let us separate fact from Government fiction. First, we welcome the modest break-up of some of those large banking conglomerates—a break-up that the Chancellor wholly opposed when the Conservatives proposed...

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

George Osborne: The Chancellor shakes his head. Does he not remember what he said in the pre-Budget report last year? He said that "consolidation"— of banks— "results in stronger and better-capitalised...institutions, which will lead to greater financial stability; more protection for consumers; and better availability of competitive financial products." Is that still his view? Does he think that...

Oral Answers to Questions — Treasury: UK Economic Growth (3 Nov 2009) has video

George Osborne: Given that all the other major economies are now growing, what exactly did the Prime Minister mean when he said: "This Chancellor is leading...the world...out of recession"?—[ Official Report, 3 June 2009; Vol. 493, c. 268.]

Oral Answers to Questions — Treasury: UK Economic Growth (3 Nov 2009) has video

George Osborne: I am sorry that the Chancellor does not remember the compliment the Prime Minister paid to him, but the Prime Minister said in June 2009—which was, in fact, also the month in which he was trying to sack his Chancellor—that the "Chancellor is leading...the world...out of recession." The problem is that the British Government do not have a simple answer to the simple question why...

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

George Osborne: May I ask the Chancellor about the forthcoming pre-Budget report? Everyone knows that the date keeps being put back, presumably because the Government cannot agree on what to put in it. The Bank Governor says that the country cannot afford another fiscal stimulus while the Prime Minister is busy briefing Sunday newspapers that he is planning a new spending splurge. As the third person in this...

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

George Osborne: The Chancellor says that lending in the economy is lower than he expected. Perhaps that is something to do with the fact that half his schemes are not working. When he launched the asset-backed securities guarantee scheme, he said that it would "increase confidence and capacity to lend, and...support the recovery". Can he tell us how many major banks have made use of that scheme?

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

George Osborne: I remind the Chancellor that almost a year ago we proposed a national loan guarantee scheme, which would have solved many of these problems. The answer to my question is zero—not a zero per cent. rise, but simply zero. Indeed, the Communities and Local Government Committee has today produced a report saying that although the asset-backed securities guarantee scheme is "one of the most...

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

George Osborne: I thank the Chancellor for his statement, although frankly almost all of it was splashed over the front pages of today's newspapers. Once again, Parliament comes last, instead of coming first. Of course, there are some elements of the White Paper that we welcome: the improved consumer advice; David Walker's report on corporate governance, to which we look forward; a much better resolution...

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

George Osborne: I know he got off to a shaky start, but let me welcome the new Chief Secretary to the Treasury to his job. He is the fifth Chief Secretary I have faced—and hopefully the last before the general election. I hope he enjoys his move from No. 10 to the Treasury, and that the coffee is up to his exacting standards. At least he knows he will not be hit on the head by a flying mobile phone....

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

George Osborne: I am sorry, but I must press the Chief Secretary on this. He gave us the current spending figures; I am asking about total Government spending, which is what the Prime Minister was asked about. The Treasury figures clearly show that that is going to be cut in 2011, 2012 and 2013. That is why the Chancellor of the Exchequer said on the radio, the day after the Budget, that he had cut overall...

Oral Answers to Questions — Treasury: Topical Questions (28 Apr 2009) has video

George Osborne: As the Chancellor knows, the growth forecasts that he gave us in the Budget last week, which predicted a return to boom levels of growth in just two years, and that the economy would stay at those boom levels, were greeted with near-universal derision, yet they were the fiction on which he constructed every other Budget forecast. When he gave those forecasts, did he know that the IMF was...

Oral Answers to Questions — Treasury: Topical Questions (28 Apr 2009) has video

George Osborne: Frankly, I do not think the Chancellor is in any position to lecture anyone else about downgrading their forecasts after last week. Is not the truth this—that the dishonest Budget has completely unravelled in the space of just a week? We have seen the IMF produce those growth forecasts, which were wholly different from the ones given an hour earlier to the House of Commons. We have the...

Amendment of the Law (23 Apr 2009)

George Osborne: His ambition might be higher.

Amendment of the Law (23 Apr 2009)

George Osborne: We support in a recession getting money to the front line from the waste that the Government have identified. They say that there is £15 billion of waste sloshing around Whitehall. If the right hon. Gentleman thinks that those schemes are so good, he should use the money from that waste and not add to the national debt.

Amendment of the Law (23 Apr 2009)

George Osborne: indicated dissent.

Amendment of the Law (23 Apr 2009)

George Osborne: Will the right hon. Gentleman concede that, using his formulation, there are £84 billion of cuts off previously published Labour spending plans? Yes or no?

Amendment of the Law (23 Apr 2009)

George Osborne: Let me ask the question again, because it is very important. The definition of cuts that the right hon. Gentleman used is money that comes off previously published spending plans. Will he now concede that that means that, on his definition, there are £84 billion-worth of cuts in the Budget and the pre-Budget report, because they have come off previously published Labour spending plans?...

Amendment of the Law (23 Apr 2009)

George Osborne: The Secretary of State said something pretty significant about future spending plans. During the Budget speech, the Chancellor announced from that Dispatch Box that current spending would grow by 0.7 per cent. from 2011 onwards. The Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change now says that those spending plans are not valid because there might be a spending review before then. That is...

Amendment of the Law (23 Apr 2009)

George Osborne: So that we are fully in command of the facts, will the Secretary of State confirm that the Labour Government cut inheritance tax from the beginning of this tax year?

Amendment of the Law (23 Apr 2009)

George Osborne: indicated dissent.