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HANSARDPoverty ReductionIn the spending review, we invested an additional £29 billion every year for day-to-day spending in the national health service, as well as a record uplift in capital spending in…01 Jul 2025HANSARDTransport Infrastructure FundingThe Government recognise the critical contribution that transport makes to our growth mission. The Government increased the capital envelope by over £100 billion at the autumn…01 Jul 2025HANSARDPoverty ReductionMy hon. Friend will know that nobody currently receiving personal independence payments will see any reduction in the support they get. In terms of supporting women into work,…01 Jul 2025HANSARDPoverty ReductionThe Government are committed to ensuring that there are fewer sick and disabled people in poverty by helping them into work and getting them off NHS waiting lists. That is why at…01 Jul 2025HANSARDPoverty ReductionIt was the hon. Member’s Government, when they were on this side of the House, who froze those allowances, taking more money out of the pockets of working people. Despite that,…01 Jul 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsIt was great to be with my hon. Friend in Warwickshire just a couple of weeks ago to welcome some of the investment, through our industrial strategy and our spending review, which…01 Jul 2025HANSARDPoverty ReductionThis Government changed the fiscal rules at the Budget last year with a stability rule, so that for the first time we pay for day-to-day spending through tax receipts, and an…01 Jul 2025HANSARDTransport Infrastructure FundingThe irony is that the last Government made a lot of commitments but did not put any money into delivering them. That is the difference that this Government are making, with fully…01 Jul 2025HANSARDTransport Infrastructure FundingIt is important that, as this Government put more money into infrastructure, including transport, it benefits companies and jobs here in Britain. It is not right the Scottish…01 Jul 2025HANSARDTransport Infrastructure FundingI really welcome the fact that the right hon. Gentleman supports the investment that this Labour Government are making in transport and infrastructure after the 14 of years…01 Jul 2025HANSARDTransport Infrastructure FundingIt was a pleasure to be in Cardiff just after the spending review to look at the difference made by the investment that the Labour Government are putting into transport in Wales.…01 Jul 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsYes, I can absolutely give my assurance to Jackie, and to other people who are currently claiming PIP, that they will see absolutely no change in their entitlement. That is what…01 Jul 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsIn the Budget last year, we increased taxes by £40 billion, but without affecting the pay packets of ordinary working people. We did not increase their national insurance, their…01 Jul 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsI thank my hon. Friend for that question. We are proud as a Government to back Rolls-Royce, and to have it as our preferred provider for the small modular reactor programme,…01 Jul 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsLet us look at the record so far. There are 385,000 more jobs in the UK economy today than there were when Labour came to office a year ago, which is more than 1,000 jobs a day.…01 Jul 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsI thank my hon. Friend for that question. He will know that this Government have already invested through the National Wealth Fund in the tin mine in his constituency, bringing…01 Jul 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsAs my hon. Friend will know, in last year’s Budget we got rid of the non-dom tax status, increased capital gains tax, put VAT on private school fees and ended the loophole for…01 Jul 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe hon. Lady, and other Members, will have seen the reference in the spending review to a real-terms uplift in schools spending in every single year of the current Parliament, as…01 Jul 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe problem with the Conservatives is that they support all the funding, but they do not support any of the ways of funding it. Agricultural property relief means that estates…01 Jul 2025HANSARDSpending Review 2025I thank the right hon. Gentleman for his question and the way in which he has put it. I was pleased to be able to announce the settlement for Northern Ireland in today’s spending…11 Jun 2025