Oral Answers to Questions

Baroness Bray of Coln Excerpts

Thursday 10th June 2010 Commons Chamber

[Andrew Stunell]

As the hon. Lady will know, the moratorium is in existence until the emergency Budget is announced, and I cannot go much further than that at this point. However, the reason why there will be an emergency Budget, and the reason why there is a moratorium, is that there is not enough money to complete the programme that was put in train by the Opposition’s Front Benchers when they were in government.

[Angie Bray (Ealing Central and Acton) (Con)]

Does the Minister agree that, although the previous Government made lots of pledges, the problem is that they never lived up to them?

[Andrew Stunell]

Yes.