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HANSARDGrowing the UK EconomyWell, I thank my hon. Friend for coming to the House today to inform us of those interesting statistics—I am sure Opposition Members are listening closely. He is right: behind the…29 Jan 2025HANSARDGrowing the UK EconomyI am afraid I cannot give the hon. Gentleman a date, because negotiations are, as he will know, negotiations. They are ongoing, but I am hopeful that we will be able to come back…29 Jan 2025HANSARDGrowing the UK EconomyI support my hon. Friend’s encouraging words on the Chancellor’s announcement on the lower Thames crossing. The Treasury is working with the Department for Transport and the…29 Jan 2025HANSARDGrowing the UK EconomyAs the hon. Member will know, at the Budget, in our design of the national insurance contribution scheme for employers, we protected small businesses to ensure that over 50% of…29 Jan 2025HANSARDGrowing the UK EconomyI absolutely agree with my hon. Friend. This is a Government who are willing to act in the interests of the UK economy. Investors around the world are taking note, as the…29 Jan 2025HANSARDGrowing the UK EconomyI thank my hon. Friend, who is a strong advocate for the economy in the East Midlands and for his constituency. He will know that I visited the region last week and met businesses…29 Jan 2025HANSARDGrowing the UK EconomyThe right hon. Member has been down this path before because it was his Government who went down it and blocked all these developments over the past 14 years. This Government are…29 Jan 2025HANSARDGrowing the UK EconomyI thank the Chair of the Science, Innovation and Technology Committee for her question. She and her Committee know the huge advantage we have in the UK with our brilliant…29 Jan 2025HANSARDGrowing the UK EconomyThank you. I thought it was “EU” again—I could not read my own handwriting. The whole premise of the growth corridor is that we will have a transport spine through that corridor…29 Jan 2025HANSARDGrowing the UK EconomyAs the hon. Lady knows, this Government committed in their manifesto to not rejoin the single market or the customs union. We will honour that promise, but the trade deal that the…29 Jan 2025HANSARDGrowing the UK EconomyI thank the Chair of the Treasury Committee for her question. This is an important test of turning policy into real-world delivery. Through our infrastructure and industrial…29 Jan 2025HANSARDGrowing the UK EconomyThe House is indebted to the shadow Chancellor—Mr Melmentum himself—for his lecture on the need for speed from this Government. Let me tell him that we have done more in the last…29 Jan 2025HANSARDGrowing the UK EconomyWith your permission, Mr Speaker, I would like to update the House on the Government’s work to unlock investment and secure economic growth. That is the No. 1 mission of this…29 Jan 2025HANSARDGrowing the UK EconomyThat sounds like an excellent initiative that will benefit from the huge untapped potential in the Greater Manchester and regional economy, which we are trying to stimulate with…29 Jan 2025HANSARD Charter for Budget ResponsibilityThat is a great question. All these infrastructure opportunities will go through both value-for-money assessments and growth assessments. The argument that we have been making…29 Jan 2025HANSARD Charter for Budget ResponsibilityI thank the right hon. Member for his question, because he invites me to talk the House through our infrastructure strategy. For the first time, we are bringing together…29 Jan 2025HANSARD Charter for Budget ResponsibilityThe Health Secretary is actively working on this. There are huge opportunities, not just in the NHS but in the Department for Work and Pensions where my right hon. and hon.…29 Jan 2025HANSARD Charter for Budget ResponsibilityThat is a very strong accusation, which I refute in the strongest terms. The Chancellor was very clear that debt would be falling as a share of the economy. That is the fiscal…29 Jan 2025HANSARD Charter for Budget ResponsibilityI thank right hon. and hon. Members for this afternoon’s debate. I will reflect on some of their questions and comments in winding up the debate. To begin, I can provide assurance…29 Jan 2025HANSARD Charter for Budget ResponsibilityIt is important. I think we should reflect on what some of the drivers are behind the increased spend in the welfare budget, because the evidence is very clear. For people who can…29 Jan 2025