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HANSARDSpring StatementIn total, more than 220,000 new homes were built last year. That is the highest total in all but one of the past 31 years. This is not about money. This is about the capacity of…13 Mar 2019HANSARDSpring StatementScotland will benefit from the £100 million that I announced today through the Barnett formula. At the request of a group of my hon. Friends, we looked at the question of VAT and…13 Mar 2019HANSARDSpring StatementAs I have said, the benefits freeze will end at the end of the forthcoming year. We have no intention of renewing or prolonging it. Those were difficult decisions, but ones that…13 Mar 2019HANSARDSpring StatementI am committed, as I have been since 2016, to delivering a deal that allows us to continue our complex and long-established trading relationships with the European Union—our…13 Mar 2019HANSARDSpring StatementI am all in favour of early-intervention approaches where they can be shown to be effective. My hon. Friend will know that at the Budget I announced an extra £410 million next…13 Mar 2019HANSARDSpring StatementThe money that we have announced today—exceptionally, because this is not a fiscal event—is targeted at overtime, because police chiefs are telling us that is the tool immediately…13 Mar 2019HANSARDSpring StatementAt the risk of being repetitive: we will have a spending review later this year. The question of local government funding and how business rates retention interacts with other…13 Mar 2019HANSARDSpring StatementThe environmental reviews that I have announced today do not involve the distribution of further money. Of course, under the devolution settlement, where matters are devolved, any…13 Mar 2019HANSARDSpring StatementAs I have said many times, the most important thing for under-25s is to ensure that they get into the workforce and establish a pattern of work.13 Mar 2019HANSARDSpring StatementThere is nothing ideological about getting a deficit down from £150 billion a year to enable us to fund our public services sustainably in future.13 Mar 2019HANSARDSpring StatementI am sorry—I did not hear which freeze the hon. Lady asked about.13 Mar 2019HANSARDECOFIN 12 March 2019A meeting of the Economic and Financial Affairs Council (ECOFIN) will be held in Brussels on 12 March 2019. The UK will be represented by Mark Bowman (Director General,…12 Mar 2019HANSARDTopical QuestionsHMRC does take action against errant employers. It is always pleased to receive information on suspected non-compliance and will investigate any such cases. I am sorry that the…05 Mar 2019HANSARDTopical QuestionsI cannot give my hon. Friend a clear answer on a specific date, but soon as we are in a position to publish the tariff schedule, we will do so.05 Mar 2019HANSARDTopical QuestionsAs the Prime Minister has explained to the House many times, the deal that we have negotiated with the European Union provides for most of the benefits of a customs union, while…05 Mar 2019HANSARDTopical QuestionsI am not in a position to comment on private conversations that the hon. Gentleman may have had with my right hon. Friend the Environment Secretary, but I can tell him that I…05 Mar 2019HANSARDTopical QuestionsWe regard the UK shared prosperity fund as very important, and we will launch a consultation this year on plans for the fund.05 Mar 2019HANSARDTopical QuestionsAs I have told the House many times—I will elaborate more at the spring statement next week—in what I now think is the unlikely event of a no-deal exit, the Government have both…05 Mar 2019HANSARDTopical QuestionsAs my hon. Friend is aware, because I have said it already this afternoon, the spring statement is not a fiscal event, but I will update the House on the Office for Budget…05 Mar 2019HANSARDTopical QuestionsOh dear, oh dear. As the right hon. Gentleman knows very well, I have been working tirelessly to ensure that we avoid a no-deal exit—that we leave the European Union in a smooth…05 Mar 2019