Scotland (Poverty) — [Mr John Robertson in the Chair]

Part of the debate – in Westminster Hall at 3:50 pm on 30 November 2011.

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Photo of William Bain William Bain Shadow Minister (Scotland) 3:50, 30 November 2011

My hon. Friend is entirely right. Yesterday, the OBR’s figures revealed that if we had followed the public spending plans of my right hon. Friend Mr Darling, borrowing would be £37 billion less. There is an alternative—based around growth and job creation—that would not have visited the damaging effects of increased poverty and inequality which this Government is waging on the people of Scotland.