Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Treasury – in the House of Commons at 11:30 am on 25 June 2013.
David Gauke
The Exchequer Secretary
11:30,
25 June 2013
We do not accept those figures. What I will say is that we have been prepared to tackle the biggest deficit in our peacetime history. We have taken measures to put the public finances back on a sustainable footing, with no help from the Labour party, which has opposed every measure that we have taken to do that.