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HANSARDGovernment Performance against Fiscal RulesI think the hon. Member is referring to employer’s national insurance contributions, which—as I have set out to the House—were designed to limit the burden on smaller businesses,…07 Jul 2025HANSARDGovernment Performance against Fiscal RulesI know that the hon. Member and colleagues in Birmingham are in correspondence and communication with relevant Ministers in the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local…07 Jul 2025HANSARDGovernment Performance against Fiscal RulesI might suggest to my hon. Friend that the public are grateful not to hear very much from the Conservative party after 14 years of failure, but if Conservatives Members wish to be…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 RulesI do not disagree with this Government’s fiscal policies, no.07 Jul 2025HANSARDGovernment Performance against Fiscal RulesMy hon. Friend is right. If any party on the Opposition Benches wants to be competitive in the next election, it needs to set out what it proposes to do with the country and how…07 Jul 2025HANSARDGovernment Performance against Fiscal RulesI congratulate my hon. Friend on being so successful. The amount of investment that he has secured for his constituency is clearly a testament to his ability to represent it. He…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 RulesI can reassure my hon. Friend that we are taking no advice from the Conservative party on our approach to the economy, given their dismal record.07 Jul 2025HANSARDGovernment Performance against Fiscal RulesI congratulate my hon. Friend on securing investment in his constituency from this Labour Government. He is right to point out that in the past his constituents have been given…07 Jul 2025HANSARDGovernment Performance against Fiscal RulesLet me point to the fact that wages are now increasing faster than costs—for the first time in many years. He also invited me to comment on childcare provision, which the…07 Jul 2025HANSARDGovernment Performance against Fiscal RulesI do. It is good that my hon. Friend has been able to raise that testimony from the Transport Committee, because it reminds us why the British people were so angry with the…07 Jul 2025HANSARDGovernment Performance against Fiscal RulesThe hon. Lady will know that when the changes in national insurances contributions for employers were implemented, the scheme was designed so as to protect smaller businesses, in…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 RulesI agree. As the House knows, when the Chancellor presented the Budget last year, she said that this Government “chooses investment over decline” for Britain. That was reflected in…07 Jul 2025HANSARDGovernment Performance against Fiscal RulesI think the House knows what losing control of the public finances looked like, because under the previous Conservative Government interest rates went through the roof, families…07 Jul 2025HANSARDBritish Coal Staff Superannuation SchemeMy hon. Friend the Minister for Industry recently met the trustees of the British Coal staff superannuation scheme to consider their proposals, and I have been monitoring the…01 Jul 2025HANSARDBarnett Formula: ScotlandOne thing I can tell the Scottish people, and indeed the House, is that it is this Labour Government who have given the largest real-terms increase in spending to the Scottish…01 Jul 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsThis Labour Government in Westminster are delivering for the people of Scotland. As a consequence of our spending review, Scotland will receive an average of £50.9 billion per…01 Jul 2025HANSARDTen-year Infrastructure StrategyThe 10-year infrastructure strategy is a key part of this Government’s growth mission, committing to a minimum of £725 billion of investment over the next 10 years in local…01 Jul 2025