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Budget Responsibility and National Audit Bill [HL]

Debate on bills on Monday, 8 November 2010, in the House of Lords, led by Lord Sassoon. The answering member was Lord Eatwell.

Budget Responsibility and National Audit Bill (HL). Lords second reading debate. Agreed on question and Bill committed to a Grand Committee.

About these Parliamentary proceedings

Reference

722 c11-52

Session

2010-12

Legislative stage

Second reading

Chamber / Committee

House of Lords chamber

Budget Responsibility and National Audit Bill (HL). Explanatory notes also published (HL Bill 23-EN)
Thursday, 21 October 2010
Bills
House of Lords

Proceeding contributions

Lord Sassoon | 722 c11 (Link to this contribution) Moved By That the Bill be now read a second time.

Lord Sassoon | 722 c11-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the Budget Responsibility and National Audit Bill makes provision to enhance the transpare...

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Lord Eatwell | 722 c19 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, would the noble Lord like to make it clear that the independent structure of the Office fo...

Lord Eatwell | 722 c15-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am most grateful to the Minister for his introduction to the Bill. I shall begin by refe...

Lord Newby | 722 c19 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I, too, welcome the Bill. When the proposal first came forward for the Office for Budget R...

Lord Sassoon | 722 c46 (Link to this contribution) I think that the noble Lord was also quoting remarks that I made in my opening speech this afternoon...

Lord Barnett | 722 c45 (Link to this contribution) The Chancellor, in his comprehensive spending review speech, referred to the previous forecasts as d...

Lord Sassoon | 722 c45 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank noble Lords for their contributions to a stimulating and interesting debate on bot...

Lord Tunnicliffe | 722 c43-5 (Link to this contribution) I apologise to the noble Lord to the extent that I misinterpreted his words. I certainly agreed with...

Lord Higgins | 722 c43 (Link to this contribution) The noble Lord was right to say that that is what the noble Lord, Lord Barnett, said. I do not think...

Lord Eatwell | 722 c47-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, before the noble Lord leaves the issue of independence, I wonder whether he can help me. C...

Lord Sassoon | 722 c48 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, rather than discussing the primacy of the wording in Clause 5(2) in the abstract it will b...

Lord Myners | 722 c46 (Link to this contribution) My recollection of the words that the noble Lord, Lord Barnett, used was ““official forecasts””. So ...

Lord Sassoon | 722 c46-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I have made it completely clear that there is no question of my making any criticism of of...

Lord Turnbull | 722 c20-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, several justifications have been given to the budget responsibility half of this Bill. Ori...

Lord Myners | 722 c26-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I will confine my comments to the Bill’s first 10 clauses, which refer to the Office for B...

Baroness Noakes | 722 c23-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the Bill before us this afternoon is really two Bills dealing with the quite separate matt...

Lord Barnett | 722 c39-41 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am delighted to participate in a debate which has been largely non-party political and i...

Lord Tunnicliffe | 722 c41-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Sassoon, for introducing the Bill so clearly—he confirmed tha...

Baroness Browning | 722 c29-31 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I support both parts of the Bill, but there are issues which I hope my noble friend on the...

Lord Touhig | 722 c31-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am delighted to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Browning. She and I served for a number ...

Lord Burns | 722 c34-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I propose to address my remarks to those parts of the Bill that deal with budget responsib...

Lord Higgins | 722 c38-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the speakers list today includes a number of the usual suspects involved in Treasury and e...

Lord Sassoon | 722 c48-9 (Link to this contribution) Indeed. While the Bill makes it clear that the charter may include guidance to the OBR on how it sho...

Lord Higgins | 722 c49 (Link to this contribution) Are we to understand that there will be two sets of forecasts? In that case, which will prevail?

Lord Sassoon | 722 c49 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, at the moment separate forecasts are made by the Treasury and the Bank of England in the c...

Lord Barnett | 722 c50 (Link to this contribution) Before the Minister does that, he said that the Freedom of Information Act applies. The Chancellor r...

Lord Sassoon | 722 c50 (Link to this contribution) I have already said that the next forecast will be produced by the OBR before the end of this month....

Lord Myners | 722 c50 (Link to this contribution) Before the Minister concludes, would he like to have a second try at answering the question asked by...

Lord Eatwell | 722 c50 (Link to this contribution) At the end of my speech I made a formal offer of co-operation on behalf of the Official Opposition. ...

Lord Sassoon | 722 c50 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am conscious of the time and of the conventions of this House. I have explained at some ...

Lord Sassoon | 722 c50-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, in my next sentence I was about to say that I will of course respond to the challenge from...

Lord Newby | 722 c19-20 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the structure was implemented by the Labour Government but, if it had not been for this Ho...

Subjects

Audit

Forecasts

National Audit Office

Public finance

Wales

Office for Budget Responsibility

Legislation

Budget Responsibility and National Audit Bill (HL) 2010-12

Link

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