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HANSARDPublic Sector ReformThe Prime Minister has asked me to help drive the Government’s delivery of the public’s priorities: boosting living standards, fixing our NHS and securing our borders. I and the…23 Oct 2025HANSARDTaxesI congratulate the shadow Chancellor on another theatrical performance—one that I know we all enjoyed across the House. I remember fondly his previous attempts to weave the story…15 Jul 2025HANSARDTaxesI roll my eyes because, evidently, all my hon. Friends put themselves forward and stood to serve the country. As my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister has made very clear, he…15 Jul 2025HANSARDTaxesMadam Deputy Speaker, it is because the review is named after the Member, which led to my naming him, but the Timms review will be taking forward that work and coming forward with…15 Jul 2025HANSARDTaxesOf course we engage with businesses, small and large, week in, week out, as Ministers in the Treasury, across Government, and in our constituency capacities. As Members know, the…15 Jul 2025HANSARDTaxesI wholeheartedly agree with my hon. Friend, who is an excellent champion for her constituency. She is right to point out that the investment announced for her constituency was a…15 Jul 2025HANSARDTaxesA working person is someone who goes to work, and in our manifesto we made a very clear commitment to protect working people through the taxes they pay on their pay slips—which is…15 Jul 2025HANSARDTaxesAs the right hon. Gentleman knows, my colleagues in the Department for Work and Pensions, with the Stephen Timms review and other work, are taking those measures forward.15 Jul 2025HANSARDTaxesThat is a slightly odd question, but I can definitely confirm that any tax changes, one way or the other, will be announced by the Chancellor at the Dispatch Box in the normal way…15 Jul 2025HANSARDMajor Projects and Programmes: Business Case PublicationBusiness cases form the basis of UK public spending decisions. They underpin the allocation and approval of billions of pounds of public expenditure and are essential for ensuring…11 Jul 2025HANSARDGovernment Performance against Fiscal RulesI was not at the event, so I cannot comment on those discussions, but I point the hon. Member to record levels of investment in this country. We have £120 billion of investment…07 Jul 2025HANSARDGovernment Performance against Fiscal RulesThis Government recognise that it was because of cuts, especially to capital investment through the austerity years under the Conservative Government, that we had such poor…07 Jul 2025HANSARDGovernment Performance against Fiscal RulesI refer the hon. Lady to my previous answer.07 Jul 2025HANSARDGovernment Performance against Fiscal RulesI am not entirely sure what the question was, but I think the hon. Lady is exhibiting that she has learned some lessons from her party’s performance when she was last in…07 Jul 2025HANSARDGovernment Performance against Fiscal RulesI thank my hon. Friend for demonstrating the real consequences of fiscal discipline, but also the fact that the Chancellor updated the fiscal rules to allow for investment in…07 Jul 2025HANSARDGovernment Performance against Fiscal RulesI agree with my hon. Friend. It will be a benefit to the whole House that the shadow Chancellor will be in his Devon constituency for the whole of August.07 Jul 2025HANSARDGovernment Performance against Fiscal RulesMy hon. Friend is right. Whether it is investors, market traders or our constituents, they got sick to the back teeth of chaos under the Conservatives, whether it was the mess of…07 Jul 2025HANSARDGovernment Performance against Fiscal RulesMy hon. Friend speaks passionately, because his constituents know that they were worse off at the end of 14 years of the Conservatives than when they started. He knows that this…07 Jul 2025HANSARDGovernment Performance against Fiscal RulesBecause the Conservative party had not done a spending review since 2021 and let inflation go through the roof, and the cost of doing business was higher, along with a whole…07 Jul 2025HANSARDGovernment Performance against Fiscal RulesMy hon. Friend knows from her work on the Treasury Committee that the fiscal rules are important because they prove that the Government are in control of the public finances. We…07 Jul 2025