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HANSARDSpending Review 2025I am grateful to the noble Lord for his question. On the specific question that he asked about whether the manifesto commitments that we have given to working people still stand,…12 Jun 2025HANSARDSpending Review 2025I am grateful to the noble Lord for his kind wishes. He is vastly more experienced and expert in these important matters of defence than I am. To answer his very specific question…12 Jun 2025HANSARDSpending Review 2025I thank my noble friend for his question. He is absolutely right. The Government are providing the biggest boost to social and affordable housing investment in a generation, and…12 Jun 2025HANSARDSpending Review 2025The noble Baroness and I, along with many others in this House, have discussed these issues many times before. I think she knows that what she wants and what I want and what the…12 Jun 2025HANSARDSpending Review 2025I do not have the specific budget for consultants over the next few years to hand. I am more than happy to write to her with that figure if it is available. She is right that we…12 Jun 2025HANSARDSpending Review 2025In the Treasury over the past months I have heard many references to the “Burns stations”, so it is a great privilege to talk to the noble Lord himself about these stations. He is…12 Jun 2025HANSARDSpending Review 2025I agree very much with what my noble friend said to begin with about uncertainty. I think he was talking about the increasing global headwinds we face as a country when it comes…12 Jun 2025HANSARDSpending Review 2025I am grateful to the noble Baroness for what she says, and I agree with her about the importance of pride in place and the difficulties around vandalism, graffiti, fly-tipping and…12 Jun 2025HANSARDSpending Review 2025I absolutely agree with my noble friend—both where she started and indeed where she ended. I completely agree about the importance of innovation and the spending that we have been…12 Jun 2025HANSARDSpending Review 2025The noble Lord started by welcoming nuclear, and then seemed to say that the fiscal position was not what he would like it to be. I feel as if he needs to choose which lane he…12 Jun 2025HANSARDSpending Review 2025Probably because of the inheritance that we faced from the party opposite, which did absolutely nothing to tackle or fund that issue. We have funded it in the spending review on…12 Jun 2025HANSARDEconomic GrowthI am very grateful to the noble Lord for his question. I absolutely will read the report as soon as it is published. I was lucky enough to serve on the Economic Affairs Committee…11 Jun 2025HANSARDEconomic GrowthI agree with the noble Lord’s point, which is exactly why we have embarked on the EU reset and negotiated a new strategic partnership with the EU that is in the national interest.…11 Jun 2025HANSARDEconomic GrowthMy Lords, the noble Baroness says that growth was anaemic under this Government. As I said before, the UK was ranked seventh out of seven for projected 2025 growth when this…11 Jun 2025HANSARDEconomic GrowthI am grateful to the noble Baroness for her question. She mentions the outflows. The outflows in 2024 were less than in any previous year over the last 14 years so, although they…11 Jun 2025HANSARDEconomic GrowthI very much agree with my noble friend on every word that he said. The spending review that we saw this afternoon from the Chancellor set out capital spending that increases…11 Jun 2025HANSARDEconomic GrowthI am grateful to the noble Lord for eventually getting to his question, but I am sorry that he chose to talk down the economy in the way that he did. I remind him that, when this…11 Jun 2025HANSARDEconomic GrowthI completely agree with my noble friend.11 Jun 2025HANSARDEconomic GrowthI am grateful to the noble Lord for his question. He did indeed show his characteristic objectivity. I will simply say that, where GDP per capita fell in the last Parliament, GDP…11 Jun 2025HANSARDEconomic GrowthMy Lords, the Government’s plan for change set out three metrics for the economic growth mission: first, that we will aim for the highest growth in the G7—we are currently the…11 Jun 2025