Baroness Sherlock: ...individuals for their poverty when they have set them up to fail by refusing to address these structural shortcomings. I have no doubt that these benefit cuts were forced on a reluctant DWP by George Osborne’s Treasury, but now that we are living under a new dispensation I encourage the Minister to beat a well-worn path to the Treasury and urge his Government, as the right reverend...
...of companies in the UK is actually public. It is not private. In fact, I think another weakness of the Bill, and of the unexplained wealth orders, is that until we bring into legislation the George Osborne commitment that there would be a register of beneficial ownership of properties in the UK, it will be very difficult to administer the unexplained wealth order power. I hope the...
Kevin Stewart: Instead of carping from the sidelines, Labour members should be joining us in fighting Tory austerity. Instead, Labour members’ Westminster colleagues marched through the lobbies to sign up to George Osborne’s austerity compact—they should be ashamed of that.
Gil Paterson: On 9 June, a Conservative MSP appeared alongside the former Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, when he highlighted a Treasury analysis suggesting that unemployment could rise by about 43,000 in the two years following a Brexit vote. That MSP said: “Thousands of Scottish jobs are reliant on the exports we sell within the EU. I’ll be voting to remain in order to ensure we can...
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Lord Grocott: ...that the Prime Minister is not nearly as keen on making directly elected mayors compulsory for areas engaged in devolution as was the case with the enthusiastic support they got constantly from George Osborne? If it is the case that the Prime Minister is a little bit more open-minded on this, should not the Government at least let those local authorities know, in areas where they are...
Gillian Martin: ...the phrase “recognises the positive impact that being part of the UK has had on climate change in Scotland”, I had to take a wee moment to calm myself, remembering how former Tory chancellor George Osborne swept aside the CCS projects and diverted the money elsewhere. I am also nervous of a UK Government that has allowed fracking contracts to be awarded under national parks with no...
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Máirtín Ó Muilleoir: ..., he can be my guest. Let the British get the 23 November statement out of the way. Will they commit to 17% or something else? I think that there may be no change, neither that suggested by George Osborne nor by the papers at the weekend. We will do our bit, and I am committed and confident. We will make it affordable, because that is in the Fresh Start Agreement as well. We will...
Richard Fuller: I know that there is little chance of that. George Brown, the noble Lord Heseltine, the noble Lord Mandelson, Vince Cable—to this hallowed series of greats we should now add the names of the Minister for Universities, Science, Research and Innovation and the Secretary of State as the people who will champion industrial strategy for our country. There are no two better minds in this House...
Lord Stoneham of Droxford: ...shreds. Page 3 of their manifesto said that the Conservatives would, “give you the freedom to use your pension savings as you want”. No. Now they will not. There was a flagship announcement by George Osborne in March 2015 of another government initiative. It had a good headline, and a total lack of follow-through once Steve Webb the Pensions Minister was no longer in government....
Lord Sharkey: ...to do this and if we are not to neglect those who will never be able to afford to buy, we must involve local authorities and housing associations. However, housing associations are constrained by George Osborne’s cuts to social rent. Local authorities are constrained by their legal inability to borrow to build houses. It is absurd that local authorities are free to borrow to build...
Julie Morgan: Would the First Minister be able to tell us what progress has been made on preparations for the introduction of the apprenticeship levy, which was proposed by the former Chancellor, George Osborne? And what are the consequences of that for Wales?
Business, Innovation and Skills: Industrial strategy.
Witnesses: Sir Vince Cable Baron Michael Heseltine Rt Hon George Osborne MP
Jenny Rathbone: I just wonder whether you could explain to us why George Osborne wasn’t mindful of this absolutely correct analysis that housing could’ve boosted the economy instead of shoving it all into the banks who then kept it to themselves.
Gail Ross: ...support the abolition of VAT on sanitary products. No other manifesto contained that commitment and we have led opposition to the tampon tax at Westminster. In his autumn statement last year, Mr Osborne announced that the £15 million that is raised each year from the tampon tax would, in future, be used to support women’s charities and services until the EU was persuaded to allow the UK...
Ken Skates: ...deal and to discuss other matters, and I will keep Members informed of progress. But I’ve also decided, because I think it would be valuable, to meet with the former Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, because I’ve said on a number of occasions my fear at his leaving the Treasury is that the Northern Powerhouse project could stall. For that reason, I think, in spite of the...
Neil Findlay: ...that, in this debate, the Tory party would have shown some uncharacteristic humility. However, members of the party that has cut public spending with relish, who have cheered on David Cameron and George Osborne’s every budget, now have the brass neck to come to the chamber and pose as the great defenders of the NHS. In moving the motion, Donald Cameron should have had the common decency...
Peter Dowd: ...about inequality and a better balance between fiscal and monetary policy. He said that the unintended consequences of QE must be a focus of attention. Finally, the hon. Member for East Lothian (George Kerevan) also talked about the unintended consequences of QE. In response to a question about his confidence in the efficacy of quantitative easing, Ben Bernanke, the former chairman of the...