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HANSARDSpending Review 2025The changes we have made to the planning system and the changes we are making through the Planning and Infrastructure Bill provide the opportunity to build. Today, we have backed…11 Jun 2025HANSARDSpending Review 2025I thank my hon. Friend for the passion with which she speaks about schools, which is something I very much share. That is why we are rolling out breakfast clubs at primary schools…11 Jun 2025HANSARDSpending Review 2025It absolutely is.11 Jun 2025HANSARDSpending Review 2025The Prime Minister was in Ipswich yesterday with my hon. Friend to visit a local college. He came back from that visit even more determined to crack on and build Sizewell nuclear…11 Jun 2025HANSARDSpending Review 2025I once spent a day at Thomas the Tank Engine world. I hope that the trains and the tram lines that we are going to be investing in will be a little less talkative and a bit more…11 Jun 2025HANSARDSpending Review 2025I know that there is great need for affordable homes in Gravesham. With today’s spending review, as well as the planning reforms we have introduced and continue to…11 Jun 2025HANSARDSpending Review 2025I hope that my hon. Friend can already see the impact of our changed attitude and our changed perspective at the Treasury with our putting this record investment of £15.6 billion,…11 Jun 2025HANSARDSpending Review 2025There are huge opportunities in Stevenage, both in life sciences and in the defence sector, to take advantage of the investment that we are putting in—whether that is in research…11 Jun 2025HANSARDSpending Review 2025The investment we are putting into Derby and Nottinghamshire is significant, with small modular reactors, investment in defence and investment in fusion, creating good jobs and…11 Jun 2025HANSARDSpending Review 2025This Labour Government are giving real-terms increases in spending to local authorities every year. Compare that with the Conservative-Liberal Democrat Administration from 2010 to…11 Jun 2025HANSARDSpending Review 2025I thank my hon. Friend for welcoming the reforms we have introduced at the Treasury—the reform to the fiscal rules to unlock money for investment, the reform of financial…11 Jun 2025HANSARDSpending Review 2025I appreciate my hon. Friend’s welcoming of the breakfast clubs, free school meals and the capping of school uniform costs, which will help families living in poverty. The free…11 Jun 2025HANSARDSpending Review 2025The shadow Chancellor said: “The credibility of the UK’s economic framework was undermined by spending billions…with no proper plan for how this would be paid for.” I could not…11 Jun 2025HANSARDSpending Review 2025I thank the hon. Lady for her comments. I know she has not had a chance to look at the figures yet, but it is not right to say that there are real-terms cuts to public services.…11 Jun 2025HANSARDSpending Review 2025I will address the shadow Chancellor’s specific points in a moment, but I want to start by acknowledging the progress he has made. After all, it has been quite a week for him.…11 Jun 2025HANSARDSpending Review 2025The hon. Lady knows that we increased money for flood defences in the spending review in autumn last year, because we knew that there was no time to waste. We have already…11 Jun 2025HANSARDSpending Review 2025I thank the Chair of the Energy Security and Net Zero Committee for that question. Warm homes are a big part of our plan to tackle the cost of living crisis, and the money that we…11 Jun 2025HANSARDSpending Review 2025Okay, that is just the Tories—well, they need to explain how they would pay for it. I appreciate the fact that the hon. Lady welcomes some of our policies, but the job of the…11 Jun 2025HANSARDSpending Review 2025It sounds like it is a pretty good day to be an MP in Burton. We are pleased to be able to make those investments in the midlands rail hub and in nuclear technology. There will…11 Jun 2025HANSARDSpending Review 2025I thank my hon. Friend, the Chair of the Education Committee, for her question. I appreciate her welcoming the investment in children’s social care, in skills and in…11 Jun 2025