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Written Ministerial Statements — Prime Minister: Official and Charity Receptions: 10 Downing Street (16 Jul 2009)

Gordon Brown: ...Minister 17/03/2009 Charity - London Jewish Museum 80 Mrs Brown 12/03/2009 Government - Health Taskforce 100 Prime Minister and Mrs Brown 10/03/2009 Charity - Mentoring and Befriending Foundation 120 Mrs Brown 10/03/2009 Charity - RNIB Reception 80 Mrs Brown 05/03/2009 Government - LGBT History Month 150 Prime Minister 03/03/2009 Charity - McAslan Family...

Written Ministerial Statements — Prime Minister: Official and Charity Receptions: 10 Downing Street (22 Jul 2008)

Gordon Brown: ... 150 Prime Minister and Mrs Brown 12/07/2007 Government - Police Bravery Awards 150 Prime Minister 04/07/2007 TUC Women's Academy 25 Mrs Brown 26/06/2007 Charity - Prostate Cancer Research Foundation 40 Mrs Blair 25/06/2007 Government - NHS Military Hospital Staff Reception 150 Prime Minister 20/06/2007 Charity — Scope 40 Mrs Blair 19/06/2007...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (9 Jan 2008)

Gordon Brown: .... That is an important element of the next stage of the development of the health service. However, it is also important for patients to have information about what is happening in their local hospitals and health areas. One of the next stages of reform—and Professor Darzi is looking into exactly this—is how more information can be made available to patients, and how more...

Orders of the Day — Ways and Means: Financial Statement (21 Mar 2007)

Gordon Brown: ...employment and rising investment, continuing low inflation, and low interest and mortgage rates. This is a Budget to expand prosperity and fairness for Britain's families, and it is built on the foundation of the longest period of economic stability and sustained economic growth in our country's history. I am told that in the past two centuries only one Chancellor before now has delivered...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Pre-Budget Report (6 Dec 2006)

Gordon Brown: ...its fiscal rules in this economic cycle and the next. So we build for the future from the fundamentals of a recession-free decade of stability and growth with low inflation, and this is the strongest foundation from which to address the great challenges ahead. Let me summarise: Asia is already out-producing Europe. China alone is manufacturing half the world's computers, half the worlds...

Pre-Budget Report (5 Dec 2005)

Gordon Brown: ...pay bill will be just 2.8 per cent. These are both signals of our determination to keep public pay costs under control and to contribute to continued low inflation in this country. On this foundation of stability, our task is to match investment with reform in science and skills, infrastructure and housing, and to show that working in partnership with the private sector, we can best meet...

Introduction (16 Mar 2005)

Mr Gordon Brown: Britain is today experiencing the longest period of sustained economic growth since records began in 1701. And the foundation of this Budget is our determination to maintain British stability and growth. Facing a future of intense global competition, Britain must be prepared and be equipped: long-term prosperity secured only if we make the right decisions to be world leaders in science,...

Spending Review (12 Jul 2004)

Mr Gordon Brown: ...increased funds nationally and regionally for sports and sports facilities—the budget of the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport will rise from £1.4 billion this year to more than £1.6 billion by 2007–08—a real-terms average annual rise of 2.3 per cent. Looking ahead, and to ensure far better co-ordination of national sports effort and resources, Pat...

Introduction (17 Mar 2004)

Mr Gordon Brown: ...as an island nation are a global reach wider than that of almost every other country, a historical record of scientific achievement that is longer than that of almost any other country, and a foundation of political and now economic stability that goes deeper than that of almost any other country. And this Budget's judgment is that to be a world economic leader in this new global era, we...

Economic and Monetary Union (9 Jun 2003)

Mr Gordon Brown: ...England independent, and to cut debt substantially, and it has given us low inflation, low interest rates and low unemployment. That commitment to long-term stability, growth and employment is the foundation of our decisions today. Central to the pursuit of stability, growth and employment by Governments of both parties has been our membership of the European Union. Our assessment shows...

Ways and Means — Budget Statement (9 Apr 2003)

Mr Gordon Brown: ...difficult world conditions—is able to meet our military and security costs abroad and at home, to meet the costs of building peace, and to do so while maintaining in full our record investment in schools, hospitals, transport and policing and providing new help in this Budget today also for British business, industry and commerce. And, Mr. Deputy Speaker, as the major economies look...

Economy and Trade and Industry (18 Nov 2002)

Mr Gordon Brown: ...spending to #90 billion by 2008. We also announced that spending on social services would increase. As the Queen's Speech makes clear, resources will be matched by reform. That includes: NHS foundation hospitals with growing devolution of money; multi-year budgets; flexibility down to primary care trusts and hospital trusts; payment by results; new and streamlined audit and inspection,...

Orders of the Day — Ways and Means — Budget Statement (17 Apr 2002)

Mr Gordon Brown: ...all, with a new child tax credit paid to mothers for all families with incomes up to £58,000; the challenge of renewing our public services, with, for a reformed NHS, a secure long-term financial foundation. And with those whose priority is fairness recognising the need for enterprise, and those whose priority is enterprise accepting the need for fairness with strong public services,...

Pre-Budget Report (27 Nov 2001)

Mr Gordon Brown: The task of this pre-Budget report is to rise to the global economic challenge facing this country and to set out how, upon a foundation of stability and growth, we can and will build a stronger and fairer Britain even in an uncertain world. I start with the state of the world economy. America is in recession, as are Japan and other Asian economies such as Singapore, Taiwan and Hong Kong. The...

The Economy, Trade and Industry (25 Jun 2001)

Mr Gordon Brown: ...for public services. One day, the Tories will have to address their fundamental problem. Britain cannot be served by a party hijacked 20 years ago and still imprisoned by a wholly out-of-date and socially divisive dogma. For our part, stability is the foundation. Our policy is investment, not cuts. We say yes to targeted tax cuts for families, pensioners and work, we say no to...

Orders of the Day — Ways and Means: Budget Statement (7 Mar 2001)

Mr Gordon Brown: .... It is a new-won and hard-won stability, which Britain must not take for granted but which we must entrench—and, because there is still much to do, the stability built in the first years will be our foundation for building opportunity and prosperity for all in the years to come. We know as a nation that, after a generation of under-investment in both industry and our public...

Pre-Budget Statement (8 Nov 2000)

Mr Gordon Brown: ...inflation for 30 years, mortgages 4 per cent.—£1,000—below the average of the previous 20 years, and a Budget discipline that has enabled us to cut borrowing and to invest more every year in hospitals, schools and public services. This hard won and newly won stability now gives Britain an opportunity that we can either seize or squander. It is the opportunity to achieve...

Spending Review (18 Jul 2000)

Mr Gordon Brown: ...Today, with the assistance of the new deal, unemployment is at its lowest for 20 years, and almost 28 million people—more people than ever before—are in work in our country. Now, building on that foundation of stability and strengthened economic fundamentals, we can move to the next stage in creating a better future: to make good the damage done by the legacy of decades of...

Orders of the Day — Ways and Means: Budget Statement (21 Mar 2000)

Mr Gordon Brown: ...does not want a return to boom and bust. That is why the Bank of England has been right to take pre-emptive action on interest rates and to be vigilant on wage inflation. It is because the foundations on which we build are strong that the economy can both meet our inflation target and achieve steady growth. Our forecast is that growth this year will rise to 2.75 to 3.25 per cent., and...

Pre-Budget Statement (9 Nov 1999)

Mr Gordon Brown: ...Only by pursuing enterprise and fairness together—enterprise and fairness for all—can we equip all of Britain for our future and secure rising living standards for all. Having laid the foundations with our monetary and fiscal reforms, Britain can now aspire to a new economic ambition for the next decade: a faster rise in productivity than our main competitors, as we close the...