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HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe process surrounding the Budget was utterly chaotic. We had months of damaging speculation, fuelled by briefings and leaks from the Treasury itself. They included briefings on…09 Dec 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe Office for Budget Responsibility’s own guidance states: “The interim rounds are transmitted to the Chancellor in confidence”. Yet the Chancellor repeatedly stated before the…09 Dec 2025HANSARDOBR: Resignation of Chair(Urgent Question ): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if she will make a statement on the resignation of the chair of the OBR.03 Dec 2025HANSARDOBR: Resignation of ChairRichard Hughes was a respected chair of the OBR, and his departure is a matter of deep regret. The circumstances surrounding his resignation remain unclear—although for the…03 Dec 2025HANSARDOBR: Resignation of ChairDo Ministers agree with the OBR’s opinion that leaks and briefings about the forecasts damaged growth? If so, what action was taken by the Treasury regarding those leaks? May I…03 Dec 2025HANSARDOffice for Budget Responsibility ForecastsI begin with the matter of the report on the OBR leak. We will of course study that report in detail, but as the right hon. Gentleman concluded by saying, “We will respond to this…01 Dec 2025HANSARDBudget ResolutionsThat is absolutely true. Let us look at how we ended up at this sorry pass. In opposition, Labour assured the British electorate that they would not be putting up taxes left,…27 Nov 2025HANSARDBudget ResolutionsThe film “Groundhog Day” sees Phil Connors go to a place where he wakes up every morning to the same DJ playing the same song: “I Got You Babe” by Sonny and Cher. We have a very…27 Nov 2025HANSARDBudget ResolutionsWe will come on to why that is the case momentarily. What has happened to borrowing? One might have thought that the Government would have learned the lesson that ever-increasing…27 Nov 2025HANSARDBudget ResolutionsMy right hon. and gallant Friend is entirely right, as usual, and something else has also been going on. I have written to the OBR to ask Richard Hughes exactly what happened with…27 Nov 2025HANSARDBudget ResolutionsI will in a moment. It is there in black and white in the OBR’s report. The reason for that forecast is £26 billion of additional taxation in 2029-30, and, as the Parliamentary…27 Nov 2025HANSARDBudget ResolutionsThe Minister says from a sedentary position that inflation is coming down. The International Monetary Fund says that inflation will be the highest in the G7 this year and next…27 Nov 2025HANSARDBudget ResolutionsI congratulate the hon. Lady on reading accurately from the Whips’ circular. The Opposition stand by our record— [ Interruption. ] Absolutely. When we were in government, we were…27 Nov 2025HANSARDBudget ResolutionsThe hon. Lady has been very patient, so I give way to her.27 Nov 2025HANSARDBudget ResolutionsThe hon. Gentleman is absolutely right. The income tax threshold freeze—which has been extended for three years, even though the Government briefed that it would probably just be…27 Nov 2025HANSARDBudget ResolutionsThe Minister is having trouble containing himself, such is the punishment that he is receiving at the moment. They borrowed all this money, and what did that do? It stoked…27 Nov 2025HANSARDBudget ResolutionsI have already set out the fact that this Government’s ruinous taxation policy, including in the Budget yesterday, is to load up taxes on people who are in work, many of them not…27 Nov 2025HANSARDBudget ResolutionsMy hon. Friend is precisely right. I have set out the iniquitous impacts of the reduction of the national insurance threshold on younger people, as well as the impact that the…27 Nov 2025HANSARD Point of OrderOn a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. This morning we have seen an unprecedented leak of the Office for Budget Responsibility’s “Economic and fiscal outlook” report before…26 Nov 2025HANSARDBudget: Press Briefings(Urgent Question): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if she will make a statement on briefings to the press about the contents of the Budget.17 Nov 2025