Budget Resolutions

As I am sure the hon. Gentleman is about to remind us, we are going to create a new, deep and spe...

Given that even the Foreign Secretary does not have the power to change geography, what is he goi...

I think that most hon. Members who are listening to the exordium of my speech will appreciate tha...

In terms of grasping opportunities, does my right hon. Friend acknowledge that one in 12 people o...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right, and I might point out to him as well that India is just one o...

Will the Foreign Secretary give way?

I will give way in a moment, as I am sure the right hon. Gentleman will want to hear these points...

On the subject of something the Foreign Secretary can realistically achieve in the Budget, will h...

With pleasure. As the right hon. Gentleman knows full well, when we leave the European Union, the...

If I may, I will make a little more progress.

The right hon. Gentleman will be pleased to k...

Last week I returned from the border of Bangladesh and Myanmar, where I heard of unspeakable crim...

I must, I am afraid, correct the hon. Lady. The budget of the Foreign Office is rising from £1.2 ...

Will the Foreign Secretary meet me?

May I invite the hon. Lady to write to me about the matter and I will certainly do my best to giv...

Order. Hon. Members must not shout at the Foreign Secretary. He has given an answer to a question...

It pains me to give any kind of negative answer to the hon. Lady, but I must tell her that my dia...

I am concerned that the Foreign Secretary might be moving on from the aid budget without mentioni...

I am delighted that my hon. Friend has made that valuable point. The emphasis that she places on ...

Does the Foreign Secretary not recognise that there is a £20 billion to £30 billion black hole in...

As the hon. Gentleman knows full well, we are one of the few countries in Europe, or indeed in th...

As we are responsible for so much of the world’s oceans, is it really a good idea for the Royal N...

I refer my hon. Friend to the answer I gave a moment or two ago in respect of the colossal invest...

I will, if I may, complete my point about the penguins. The penguins have their British status by...

Will the Foreign Secretary give way?

I think I know what my hon. Friend is going to say, and I will happily give way to him on this po...

My right hon. Friend is making some extremely important points, particularly about the Antarctic ...

My hon. Friend brilliantly anticipates the point I was going to make. As he rightly guesses, the ...

Brilliant.

Thank you.

The House will know that the careless disposal of plastic waste poses one of the...

With great respect, I will not give way.

As well as taking such actions, we should invest i...

I am delighted to join the Foreign Secretary in congratulating Prince Henry of Wales and Meghan M...

Will the right hon. Lady join me and the rest of the House in welcoming the announcement of two m...

Of course I welcome that, but I am concerned that we still have no answer from the Government on ...

Will the right hon. Lady give way?

I will of course give way to the right hon. Gentleman, but I wonder whether we could do it this w...

rose—

Order. Let me just point out that it is not normal practice to ask questions of Back Benchers fro...

If the right hon. Lady wants me to become her adviser, I am very happy to do so, although of cour...

It is such a shame that during those 20 seconds or so the right hon. Gentleman did not answer the...

Order. I stopped people shouting at the Foreign Secretary, and I will stop people shouting at the...

The table on page 82 shows that only one of the 32 taxes listed will fall, and that is the bank l...

Will the right hon. Lady give way?

I am not going to.

In 2016 that section of the Red Book ran to a full 10 paragraphs, beginn...

Is my right hon. Friend aware that in the past 35 minutes the Secretary of State for Exiting the ...

My hon. Friend makes a very serious and important point. It is a shame that such an important and...

I have already made my point about the armed forces, and in that sense I agree with the right hon...

The national debt, as I understand it, has more than doubled under this Government, so we take no...

Does my right hon. Friend believe that the Government are doing enough, as set out in the Budget,...

My hon. Friend makes a very important point. Studies have been made, have they not, of the amount...

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I will give way to the Chair of the Defence Committee.

In the past, it has been possible to make common cause between the Government and Labour Benches ...

I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for that question and I will come on to answer it if he...

Will the right hon. Lady give way?

I gave way to the right hon. Gentleman once before. I am sure he will be able to cover any points...

I am a little bit concerned that the right hon. Lady might be misleading the House. The 0.7% figu...

I simply refer the hon. Lady to the Red Book, where she will see that there is less money being s...

Does my right hon. Friend agree that what the Government and the Conservative party do not recogn...

So in conclusion, here we are debating Britain’s place in the world, in respect of a Budget that ...

Order. It will be obvious to the House that this is a very popular debate, with well over 50 coll...

First, I wish to take a brief moment to correct the record: the economy is growing, unemployment ...

Does the hon. Gentleman accept that while the Government have shown generosity towards the other ...

My hon. Friend—I do consider him a friend—will know extremely well that I think the UK’s generous...

My hon. Friend mentions the continuous at-sea deterrent. Given the necessary upfront investment i...

My right hon. Friend knows extremely well that before 2010 that was exactly where it was met from...

Let me begin by associating myself with those who have sent messages of congratulations to Prince...

I am genuinely grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving way. Scotland is part of the United King...

I suspect that I have much more confidence in the world-class quality of the food and drink that ...

The hon. Gentleman referred to the intervention in Yemen in a castigating way. Will he at least a...

I entirely agree that it is more complicated than it is often presented as being. I have not said...

Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

No, I will not give way just now.

When we look at Conservative Members’ responses to statem...

Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

No. Time is short and I do not want any other hon. Members to miss a chance to speak. [Hon. Membe...

It is very difficult to follow that speech, but on an upbeat note, I welcome this measured, balan...

As my hon. Friend might know, the Foreign Office has 274 posts in 168 countries, and they are per...

My hon. Friend anticipates my next point. I am delighted that the Chancellor chose to freeze the ...

Britain is producing excellent white wine, but there is a real problem with increased alcoholism ...

No, I think the answer is to encourage people to drink wisely and in a balanced and responsible w...

Order. Before I bring the next speaker in, it might help those who are higher up the list to know...

Over the past 50 years, the United Kingdom has had a proud history of leading the world in protec...

There is much to praise in this Budget. It contains something like 300 measures, many of which fo...

As a Labour MP who wants to leave Europe, I am a rare animal. I am a non-believer in the undemocr...

Coming at a time when we are exiting the EU, this is a prudent Budget. Obviously, we would have l...

My right hon. Friend mentioned the British Council, which recently noted that one in seven world ...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right, and I will come to that in a minute. When I used to travel ar...

Order. I call Alex Cunningham.

7 pm

The future of global Britain will start with Britain facing greater isolation in the world. We ar...

There is much to welcome in the Budget, not least when we talk about Britain on the global stage....

I do not remember saying that Britain does not have a role to play in the world. What I said, and...

Order. The Front Benchers have had a good go tonight. If they are going to intervene, it has to b...

My Conservative colleagues simply do not recognise what the hon. Member for Glenrothes has just s...

Unlike my hon. Friend the Member for Stockton North (Alex Cunningham), this is my first Budget sp...

Order. I call Sir Robert Syms.

7.13 pm

I sat in this House for 13 years when the Labour party was in government and listened to many spe...

Thanks to the banks.

Well, you were the people who regulated the banks and you were the people in charge for 13 years....

This is a debate on Britain in the world but, as hon. Members know, all politics is local, so I w...

The right hon. Gentleman makes an incredibly important point about sheep farming and exports. Doe...

The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right. His is a sheep-producing area. Alongside tourism, and the...

I wish to follow on from what my hon. Friend the Member for Poole (Sir Robert Syms) said. This ha...

A minute?

Yes, it was increasing by £300,000 a minute.

The central point for the Opposition is that t...

The Chancellor spoke for more than an hour last Wednesday, but he did not mention several of the ...

Will the hon. Lady give way?

I apologise, but I am short of time and lots of people want to speak.

The theme of this deb...

This Budget is outward looking and is designed not only to weather any potential storms from Brex...

This Budget was a huge wasted opportunity as well as an acknowledgement of failure. Those of us w...

I am grateful for the chance to contribute to a debate about the kind of country that we seek to ...

In 2011, the Conservative-led Government imposed a two-year pay freeze on public sector pay. In 2...

It is a privilege to have the opportunity to speak. I congratulate the Chancellor on the Budget. ...

Today’s debate on the Budget started with a focus on foreign affairs but, in the light of the fac...

Global Britain can be built only on the foundation of sound public finances. That is why, for me,...

I would like to return to a subject very much on the minds of my constituents: the vexed and high...

I am pleased to be able to contribute to tonight’s debate on the Budget. I want to highlight thre...

Will the hon. Lady give way?

No, because I am short of time.

Secondly, on health and social care, I, like other Conserva...

It never ceases to amaze me just how complacent many Government Ministers and those in the politi...

Does my hon. Friend share my disappointment that the Budget did very little on pay for those who ...

Indeed I do. That was the third observation that I wanted to make about how people might see us—h...

I am grateful for the opportunity to make a brief contribution on the Budget, which sets out that...

Whatever else we might have expected in the Chancellor’s Budget statement, the significant infras...

The delivery of the British Budget is one of the most important political events of the year. As ...

Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

No.

The Budget has introduced a new railcard for 26 to 30-year-olds, helping those already ...

The Government’s central economic strategy and industrial strategy have, in conjunction with the ...

It is true that there has been a good story for lower unemployment, and it shows that the Governm...

Given the amount of influence that the hon. Gentleman says the Scottish Conservatives have at Wes...

That is not the topic for this debate. We have seen such influence, and we have delivered. We hav...

As I listened to the Chancellor talk about driverless cars in the Budget speech last week, what s...

Order.

8.28 pm

Britain’s future is indeed a global one. As the Foreign Secretary made clear today, we are leavin...

Order. I call Angela Smith.

8.32 pm

Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. I think this is the first time I have spoken in the Chamber whil...

This was a good Budget: strong on housebuilding; fair to young people wanting to travel and to yo...

I wish to focus on three areas of deficiency in the Budget: education, social care and the public...

I start by welcoming the news from India about the Chennai Six. I very much hope that those men w...

The big story from last week’s Budget was clear: there is little room for manoeuvre on the econom...

In leaving the European Union, we are re-joining the rest of the world. Our trade with the EU is ...

The Prime Minister spoke in Florence of a

“new era of co-operation and partnership”

f...

On Friday, I was in my constituency office reflecting on a Budget that is building a Britain fit ...

I suppose that nobody in the Chamber should be surprised that the Foreign Secretary was more comf...

It is a great pleasure to follow so many hon. Members. They have spoken on a range of topics, one...

The most striking features of the Budget are the parts the Chancellor tried to ignore: growth and...

Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

I will not, because we have only a short time left and other Members want to speak.

It is d...

The hon. Member for Witney (Robert Courts) might have Downton Abbey in his constituency, but at t...

I wish to use the next few minutes to set out an alternative Budget—one that the UK, as a leader ...

It is great to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Colne Valley (Thelma Walker).

In the bu...

It is an honour to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Leigh (Jo Platt).

This Budget will ...

I would like to take this opportunity to raise transport and housing budget-related issues.