Budget: Pre-announcement of Provisions

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 12:35 pm on 26 October 2021.

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Photo of Simon Clarke Simon Clarke The Chief Secretary to the Treasury 12:35, 26 October 2021

I thank the hon. Lady for her points. Clearly, as a former Treasury Minister herself, she would never have engaged in any activity of this kind. The point is that there is absolutely no question of our commitment to observing all the proprieties, reflecting the Macpherson review, which was an internal review conducted by Sir Nicholas, the then permanent secretary, to work out what was sensible in advance of the Budget. We have not commented on any of the substantive tax measures and there will be a raft of full information in both the Budget documents and the documents provided by the OBR, which obviously provides a level of detail that the last Labour Government never provided in terms of their equivalent events.