🗣️ Speeches and Debates
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Will the hon. Lady confirm that on the statistical measure she has just cited, between the first quarter of 2010 and the first quarter of this year—from the beginning to the end of the Parliament—living standards have fallen not risen, on the basis of those numbers?
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The only way is up.
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The Business Secretary fought the last election on a promise to stop the Tory VAT bombshell and a promise to abolish tuition fees. Which does he think was the bigger mistake of the two?
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Will the Business Secretary confirm that because of measures such as the bedroom tax and what has happened to tax credits—things that have happened only because of Liberal Democrat votes—the quintile that has made the second biggest contribution is the poorest 20% of families in our country? Does he feel proud of that?
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So when a year ago the Chancellor of the Exchequer announced his goal of a £7 minimum wage, did the Business Secretary think that was equally an error?
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It is an honour to open today’s Budget debate. Less than 24 hours after the Budget statement, the truth is becoming clear. For all the Chancellor’s hubris, yesterday’s Budget has changed nothing for working people in our country. He spent an hour telling people that they have never had it so good, but working people are still, on average, £1,600 a year worse off after five years of the...
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To give way or not to give way, that is the question.
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People say that empty vessels make the loudest noise. I will set out clearly our approach to deficit reduction, but before I do let us go back to the ineffective right-hand man, who apparently is now standing in front of Downing street holding a yellow Budget box—less reality, more “Midsummer Night’s Dream”. What a shambles! Yesterday we had the Budget, today we had the farce of the...
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✍️ Written Questions and Answers
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) if he will publish or place in the Library the self-assessment reports, attachments and appendices that were submitted in spring 2010 to the National Specialised Commissioning Team by the 11 hospital trusts that wished to be considered as future providers of children's cardiac surgery; which such documents were considered by the Independent...
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To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer with reference to table 2.3 of his autumn statement (1) what (a) assumptions and (b) methodologies underlie the £50 million saving shown for the Get Britain Building investment fund in 2014-15; (2) what (a) assumptions and (b) methodologies underlie the profile of the costings shown for the Get Britain Building investment fund in (i) 2012-13, (ii)...
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To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what he has made of (a) the level of take-up and (b) the effectiveness of the Get Britain Building investment fund.
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To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what meetings he has had with the Association of British Insurers since the March 2011 Budget.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what estimate his Department has made of the cost to the public purse of introducing weekly signing for all 18 to 24-year-olds in receipt of jobseeker's allowance from the fifth month of their claim.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what assessment he has made of the likely take-up by businesses of the wage incentives announced in the autumn forecast.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what discussions he has had with Work programme providers since the publication of the most recent unemployment forecasts by the Office for Budget Responsibility.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what assessment he has made of the effect of the most recent forecast by the Office for Budget Responsibility of levels of unemployment on the capacity of Work programme providers to deliver their existing contracts.
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