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HANSARDTopical QuestionsWhile the Leader of the Opposition is talking down the British economy, we are setting our sights on growing the economy and making working people better off. No, we will not be…09 Sept 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsIn the Budget last year, we got rid of the non-dom tax status, we put up capital gains tax, we started treating carried interest as income—not as capital gains—we introduced new…09 Sept 2025HANSARDInfrastructure Strategy: Economic GrowthThis Government back a third runway at Heathrow. We are a country that is open to global trade and investment—we have done three trade deals with countries around the world and…09 Sept 2025HANSARDInfrastructure Strategy: Economic GrowthI thank the right hon. Gentleman for his question relating to his constituency. It is a shame that the Conservative party did not invest in extending those platforms when it was…09 Sept 2025HANSARDInfrastructure Strategy: Economic GrowthI have huge respect for the hon. Gentleman, and no one in this House would want to do anything to upset Mr Speaker. I am very happy to look at investment opportunities in the hon.…09 Sept 2025HANSARDInfrastructure Strategy: Economic GrowthMy hon. Friend has been a good advocate for his constituents. He and I, as well as the Labour Mayor Kim McGuinness, know that investing in roads, cycleways and the metro will make…09 Sept 2025HANSARDGovernment Debt Interest PaymentsThe best way to make sure that we continue to have confidence in the gilt markets is to keep the Tories and Liz Truss as far away from running the economy as possible. We have…09 Sept 2025HANSARDGovernment Debt Interest PaymentsWe are investing in Britain’s future and putting in place the plans needed to get Britain building again after 14 years of Tory failure. Since the election, we have had five…09 Sept 2025HANSARDPlanning Reform: Economic GrowthThat cannot be an excuse, though, for blocking developments and blocking people who own land from building more homes on that land. In the end, the simple law of supply and demand…09 Sept 2025HANSARDInfrastructure Strategy: Economic GrowthMy hon. Friend is a great champion for the people of West Dunbartonshire, and I know he is working very closely with the Ministry of Defence at the moment to secure defence…09 Sept 2025HANSARDInfrastructure Strategy: Economic GrowthThe Government are currently consulting on a landfill tax. It is a consultation, and it is open for comments from right across industry, but this Government are investing in…09 Sept 2025HANSARDGovernment Debt Interest PaymentsI will not take any lectures from the SNP, which has put up taxes on ordinary working people in Scotland. The SNP Scottish Government had the biggest settlement since devolution…09 Sept 2025HANSARDGovernment Debt Interest PaymentsThe Office for Budget Responsibility forecasts that debt is going to fall during the course of this Parliament—something that never happened under the Conservative Government—and…09 Sept 2025HANSARDGovernment Debt Interest PaymentsLet me just check—oh yeah, it went through the roof! At the same time that our debt levels went up, we have seen our public services—whether that is our schools, our hospitals,…09 Sept 2025HANSARDGovernment Debt Interest PaymentsI very much agree with my hon. Friend. That is why we published the spending review earlier this year. The review set out plans for day-to-day spending for the next three years…09 Sept 2025HANSARDGovernment Debt Interest PaymentsThe only person that carpet bombed our economy was Liz Truss and the Conservative party. The hon. Gentleman supported Liz Truss in leadership contest and throughout her time—09 Sept 2025HANSARDInfrastructure Strategy: Economic GrowthMy hon. Friend is a proud champion of the people of Altrincham and Sale West. Investment through the transport for city regions fund will allow the Mayor of Greater Manchester,…09 Sept 2025HANSARDGovernment Debt Interest PaymentsThe spread on our gilts over the central bank rate is lower in the UK than it is in Greece, so maybe the right hon. Gentleman should look again at his evidence. The truth is that…09 Sept 2025HANSARDGovernment Debt Interest PaymentsHe says he did not, but he served in her Cabinet, so I will take no lectures from Conservative Members. The country will have heard what the Leader of the Opposition said today:…09 Sept 2025HANSARDPlanning Reform: Economic GrowthIn the spending review, we put significant money into building more houses as part of our commitment to build 1.5 million homes during the course of this Parliament. The Planning…09 Sept 2025