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HANSARDSpending Round 2019I will say two things on that to the right hon. Gentleman. First, as I said in reply to a previous question, for welfare and the DWP today’s settlement covers only day-to-day…04 Sept 2019HANSARDSpending Round 2019My right hon. Friend makes an important point. He talked about it in the context of health, but we could apply it to the spending of many other Departments. He is absolutely right…04 Sept 2019HANSARDSpending Round 2019What I can confirm to the right hon. Lady, and I hope she will find this helpful, is that for the Home Office my starting point was to roll over all funding in real terms that it…04 Sept 2019HANSARDSpending Round 2019I will gladly help my hon. Friend to organise such a meeting. I will certainly speak to Ministers in the relevant Department.04 Sept 2019HANSARDSpending Round 2019This spending round is focused on day-to-day resource spending. The hon. Lady may know that some very important investments that will need to be made on decarbonisation will be…04 Sept 2019HANSARDSpending Round 2019The general point my hon. Friend makes about infrastructure and value for money is of course absolutely right, and as we spend more on infrastructure we must make sure that that…04 Sept 2019HANSARDSpending Round 2019I welcome the warm words of my right hon. and learned Friend. I remember all the excellent work he did when he held this position and I hope that I can learn from the way in which…04 Sept 2019HANSARDSpending Round 2019I have to say, Mr Speaker, I did not detect many questions, so I will finish very quickly to give an opportunity for Members to ask proper questions. The simple truth is that…04 Sept 2019HANSARDSpending Round 2019At least the shadow Chancellor did not try to throw a little red book at me this time. He attacks the decisions that were made over the last decade to restore the nation’s…04 Sept 2019HANSARDSpending Round 2019Health and education are lifelines of opportunities, just as they were for me when I was growing up: the teachers and lecturers who persuaded me to study economics in the first…04 Sept 2019HANSARDSpending Round 2019Mr Speaker, you will recall that when I first took my seat as the Member of Parliament for Bromsgrove, the economy was in a very difficult and different position. Since then we…04 Sept 2019HANSARDSpending Round 2019Thank you, Mr Speaker. Let me reassure people of this: if we leave with no deal, we will be ready. Within my first few days as Chancellor, I provided £2.1 billion of extra funding…04 Sept 2019HANSARDSpending Round 2019Let me start by saying a few words about the circumstances surrounding today’s statement. We are in uncharted waters. I understand the strong feelings around the House on these…04 Sept 2019HANSARDSpending Round 2019Yes, I can absolutely give my hon. Friend that guarantee. I should also like to congratulate her on the excellent work that she has done locally to bring this issue to the…04 Sept 2019HANSARDSpending Round 2019The hon. Lady will know that local council funding will be a combination of grant funding and locally raised funding, so it is hard to say specifically what might happen to any…04 Sept 2019HANSARDSpending Round 2019I welcome the scrutiny from the hon. Lady’s very important Committee. She might not have enough time, but there is a lot of detail in the book has been published alongside my…04 Sept 2019HANSARDSpending Round 2019I want to take this opportunity to thank my hon. Friend for his campaigning and for the way in which he has worked with the Treasury and the Department for Education on this. I…04 Sept 2019HANSARDSpending Round 2019I will happily discuss with officials the issue that the hon. Lady has raised, and I am sure that they will be happy to meet her.04 Sept 2019HANSARDSpending Round 2019I agree with my hon. Friend, and she has made this point powerfully on a number of occasions. In the past, for example, we talked about making sure that police funding reflects…04 Sept 2019HANSARDSpending Round 2019I thank the hon. Lady for welcoming one of the changes I made a few weeks ago, which was to unlock or bring forward £1 billion of new capital investment in our hospitals and an…04 Sept 2019