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Social Security (25 Feb 2002): Mr David Willetts: .... Miraculously, the Secretary of State will be able to claim that he has saved money on the social security budget and that the Government are cutting taxes. It will have been done entirely with smoke and mirrors. What about the other features of the system? Will the benefits be available, have the circumstances changed, what constitutes a significant change in circumstances, will people...
Orders of the Day — Teaching and Higher Education Bill [Lords] (16 Mar 1998): Mr David Willetts: ...funding for higher education. Yet, the measures that they have brought forward, which are supposed to deliver such ambitious promises, are what: the provision of £165 million this year, which is entirely financed by smoke and mirrors. It is a shameless piece of accountancy manipulation. I do not know how many hon. Members have followed this ingenious manoeuvre—[Interruption.]...
Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation (3 Jul 1997): Mr David Willetts: ...If this measure does not deliver what the Chancellor claims for it, and if people in the City work out ways to get around this enormous tax hit that he is trying to impose on them, all the calculations in his Red Book will go up in smoke. He will have nothing else to turn to. The evidence is that the Chancellor may well find that the ingenuity of the City is such that he fails to raise...

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