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Parliamentary Debates
Call for General Election
157 speeches (25,757 words)
Monday 12th January 2026 - Westminster Hall
Cabinet Office
Mentions:
1: Patrick Hurley (Lab - Southport) of stagnation and decline under the Conservatives—the years of austerity under Eric Pickles, George Osborne - Link to Speech

Clause 1
211 speeches (38,370 words)
Monday 12th January 2026 - Commons Chamber
HM Treasury
Mentions:
1: Kit Malthouse (Con - North West Hampshire) Sadly, by continuing the modern trend, started under George Osborne, of taxing the return on risk, we - Link to Speech

Broadcasting: Recent Developments
60 speeches (21,549 words)
Thursday 8th January 2026 - Lords Chamber
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
Mentions:
1: Lord Hannay of Chiswick (XB - Life peer) Very relevant to the current charter review was the decision by George Osborne, then Chancellor of the - Link to Speech
2: Baroness Bonham-Carter of Yarnbury (LD - Life peer) George Osborne now admits that when Chancellor he was “somewhat shocked” to discover the power that the - Link to Speech

English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill
75 speeches (34,873 words)
2nd readingLorsd Hansard
Monday 8th December 2025 - Lords Chamber
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Mentions:
1: Lord Goddard of Stockport (LD - Life peer) It was eventually signed off in Manchester by the Chancellor himself, George Osborne, in 2014.The obvious - Link to Speech
2: Baroness Elliott of Whitburn Bay (Lab - Life peer) the economic opportunity of stronger regions, and the noble Lord, Lord O’Neill, who worked with George Osborne - Link to Speech

Child Poverty Strategy
105 speeches (13,170 words)
Monday 8th December 2025 - Commons Chamber
Department for International Development
Mentions:
1: Munira Wilson (LD - Twickenham) It was a cruel policy put in place by George Osborne and the Conservatives when they were left to their - Link to Speech

Official Secrets Act and Espionage
44 speeches (6,187 words)
Wednesday 3rd December 2025 - Commons Chamber
Cabinet Office
Mentions:
1: Dan Jarvis (Lab - Barnsley North) Prime Minister observed this week,“We had the golden age of relations under David Cameron and George Osborne - Link to Speech

Budget Resolutions
211 speeches (40,992 words)
Tuesday 2nd December 2025 - Commons Chamber
Department of Health and Social Care
Mentions:
1: Wes Streeting (Lab - Ilford North) now, this Conservative party does not even pretend to care.On public health, remember it was George Osborne - Link to Speech

China Espionage: Government Security Response
15 speeches (7,135 words)
Tuesday 18th November 2025 - Lords Chamber
Northern Ireland Office
Mentions:
1: Lord Moore of Etchingham (Non-affiliated - Life peer) Without wishing to be too personal, it is not wildly encouraging to hear that George Osborne, he of the - Link to Speech

Small Modular Nuclear Reactor Power Station: Wylfa
52 speeches (6,987 words)
Monday 17th November 2025 - Commons Chamber
Department for Business and Trade
Mentions:
1: Tom Hayes (Lab - Bournemouth East) nine years of the 14 years of Conservative Government, David Cameron sent Wylfa to the wall, George Osborne - Link to Speech

Economic and Taxation Policies: Jobs, Growth and Prosperity
86 speeches (28,458 words)
Thursday 13th November 2025 - Lords Chamber
HM Treasury
Mentions:
1: Viscount Chandos (Lab - Life peer) Janan Ganesh of the FT, the biographer of the architect of austerity, George Osborne, wrote in 2015:“ - Link to Speech

Taxes
279 speeches (30,224 words)
Wednesday 12th November 2025 - Commons Chamber
HM Treasury
Mentions:
1: Sam Rushworth (Lab - Bishop Auckland) Member a Conservative in 2010, when George Osborne promised not to put up VAT, or in 2019, when Boris - Link to Speech

Stamp Duty Land Tax
285 speeches (36,769 words)
Tuesday 28th October 2025 - Commons Chamber
HM Treasury
Mentions:
1: Jeevun Sandher (Lab - Loughborough) I say this to the Conservatives as well: I worked in the Treasury under George Osborne, and even he would - Link to Speech

A50/A500 Corridor
22 speeches (2,568 words)
Monday 20th October 2025 - Commons Chamber
Department for Transport
Mentions:
1: Jacob Collier (Lab - Burton and Uttoxeter) constituents and our businesses were first promised these upgrades in 2008 by a bloke called George Osborne - Link to Speech

Chinese Espionage: Parliament
33 speeches (2,219 words)
Monday 13th October 2025 - Lords Chamber
Northern Ireland Office
Mentions:
1: Lord Grocott (Lab - Life peer) Does my noble friend recall that we once had a Chancellor of the Exchequer called George Osborne? - Link to Speech

Planning and Infrastructure Bill
113 speeches (26,912 words)
Committee stage part two
Tuesday 9th September 2025 - Lords Chamber
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Mentions:
1: Baroness Young of Old Scone (Lab - Life peer) spite of some initial grumping, had tooled up to deliver it, when all of a sudden the Chancellor, George Osborne - Link to Speech

Universal Credit Bill
56 speeches (25,002 words)
2nd reading
Tuesday 22nd July 2025 - Lords Chamber
Department for Work and Pensions
Mentions:
1: Baroness Shawcross-Wolfson (Con - Life peer) I particularly thank George Osborne, who took a chance in 2007 that a spreadsheet-literate consultant - Link to Speech

Taxes
184 speeches (26,871 words)
Tuesday 15th July 2025 - Commons Chamber
HM Treasury
Mentions:
1: Joe Powell (Lab - Kensington and Bayswater) There is plenty that George Osborne and I disagree on, but he is absolutely right on that.At every turn - Link to Speech

Tax Increases
23 speeches (1,604 words)
Thursday 10th July 2025 - Lords Chamber
HM Treasury
Mentions:
1: Lord Vaizey of Didcot (Con - Life peer) George Osborne was undone by a pasty tax. - Link to Speech

Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill
209 speeches (36,402 words)
Committee of the whole HouseCommittee of the Whole House
Wednesday 9th July 2025 - Commons Chamber
Department for Work and Pensions
Mentions:
1: John McDonnell (Ind - Hayes and Harlington) some context, some Members may have listened today to an interview on the “Today” programme with George Osborne - Link to Speech
2: Stella Creasy (LAB - Walthamstow) for Hayes and Harlington (John McDonnell) is not in his place—because I was here in 2015 when George Osborne - Link to Speech

Government Performance against Fiscal Rules
101 speeches (7,313 words)
Monday 7th July 2025 - Commons Chamber
HM Treasury
Mentions:
1: Jas Athwal (Lab - Ilford South) Does the Chief Secretary to the Treasury agree not just with me, but also with former Chancellor George Osborne - Link to Speech

Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill
300 speeches (47,251 words)
2nd reading
Tuesday 1st July 2025 - Commons Chamber
Department for Work and Pensions
Mentions:
1: Siân Berry (Green - Brighton Pavilion) form, the Bill brings in the largest social security cuts since summer 2015, 10 years ago when George Osborne - Link to Speech

Oral Answers to Questions
180 speeches (11,259 words)
Tuesday 1st July 2025 - Commons Chamber
HM Treasury
Mentions:
1: Rachel Reeves (Lab - Leeds West and Pudsey) Even George Osborne now says that the shadow Chancellor has “no credible economic plan”. - Link to Speech

BBC World Service Funding
46 speeches (10,746 words)
Thursday 26th June 2025 - Westminster Hall
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
Mentions:
1: John Whittingdale (Con - Maldon) Then, as a result of pressures on public spending, the then Chancellor George Osborne decided to reduce - Link to Speech

AI and Creative Technologies (Communications and Digital Committee Report)
41 speeches (26,995 words)
Friday 13th June 2025 - Lords Chamber
Northern Ireland Office
Mentions:
1: Baroness Wheatcroft (XB - Life peer) However, it was not Rachel Reeves who said this; those were the words of George Osborne, quoted in a - Link to Speech

Decriminalising Abortion
88 speeches (17,830 words)
Monday 2nd June 2025 - Westminster Hall
Ministry of Justice
Mentions:
1: Stella Creasy (LAB - Walthamstow) Certainly, I encourage people to look at how George Osborne used secondary legislation powers to change - Link to Speech

Bus Services (No. 2) Bill [Lords]
150 speeches (28,295 words)
2nd reading
Monday 2nd June 2025 - Commons Chamber
Department for Transport
Mentions:
1: Laurence Turner (Lab - Birmingham Northfield) funding unless its municipal bus operations were sold off.That lingering attitude changed when George Osborne - Link to Speech

Business and the Economy
232 speeches (34,382 words)
Wednesday 21st May 2025 - Commons Chamber
Department for Business and Trade
Mentions:
1: Torsten Bell (Lab - Swansea West) Friend.That is not just my view, but the view of George Osborne. - Link to Speech

Oral Answers to Questions
126 speeches (9,727 words)
Wednesday 21st May 2025 - Commons Chamber
Northern Ireland Office
Mentions:
1: Keir Starmer (Lab - Holborn and St Pancras) As George Osborne said, the Leader of the Opposition does not have a credible economic plan. - Link to Speech

Oral Answers to Questions
156 speeches (9,927 words)
Tuesday 20th May 2025 - Commons Chamber
HM Treasury
Mentions:
1: Rachel Reeves (Lab - Leeds West and Pudsey) No wonder even George Osborne has said that the shadow Chancellor has “no credible economic plan”. - Link to Speech

Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill
45 speeches (27,722 words)
2nd reading
Thursday 15th May 2025 - Lords Chamber
Department for Work and Pensions
Mentions:
1: Lord Sikka (Lab - Life peer) The then Chancellor, George Osborne, and regulators combined to urge the US authorities to go easy on - Link to Speech

Business of the House
128 speeches (12,248 words)
Thursday 15th May 2025 - Commons Chamber
Leader of the House
Mentions:
1: Lucy Powell (LAB - Manchester Central) I do not know if he noticed what the former Chancellor, George Osborne, said last week about the stance - Link to Speech

Oral Answers to Questions
130 speeches (10,232 words)
Wednesday 14th May 2025 - Commons Chamber
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology
Mentions:
1: Jake Richards (Lab - Rother Valley) It is no wonder that George Osborne, the former Conservative Chancellor, has said that she has no economic - Link to Speech

Churches and Religious Buildings: Communities
61 speeches (13,538 words)
Tuesday 13th May 2025 - Westminster Hall
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Mentions:
1: John Glen (Con - Salisbury) A Chancellor is always looking for small items, or good news stories, as George Osborne did back in the - Link to Speech

UK-EU Summit
358 speeches (48,195 words)
Tuesday 13th May 2025 - Commons Chamber
Cabinet Office
Mentions:
1: Andrew Lewin (Lab - Welwyn Hatfield) Ash (Sir Jeremy Hunt) listen to a certain weekly political podcast featuring former Chancellor George Osborne - Link to Speech

Tax: Changes
25 speeches (1,667 words)
Tuesday 29th April 2025 - Lords Chamber
HM Treasury
Mentions:
1: Lord Boateng (Lab - Life peer) Was that not in fact the statement of George Osborne, the Tory Chancellor of the Exchequer? - Link to Speech

Food, Diet and Obesity Committee Report
43 speeches (20,250 words)
Friday 28th March 2025 - Lords Chamber
Department of Health and Social Care
Mentions:
1: Baroness Boycott (XB - Life peer) It is very interesting to note that when George Osborne imposed the sugar tax, he made it completely - Link to Speech

Planning and Infrastructure Bill
318 speeches (50,447 words)
2nd reading
Monday 24th March 2025 - Commons Chamber
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Mentions:
1: Luke Murphy (Lab - Basingstoke) George Osborne promised a major change in how we build infrastructure in this country. - Link to Speech

Winter Fuel Payment
304 speeches (27,016 words)
Wednesday 19th March 2025 - Commons Chamber
Department for Work and Pensions
Mentions:
1: Edward Argar (Con - Melton and Syston) in 1998; but it is worth remembering that, even in the challenging circumstances of the time, George Osborne - Link to Speech

Finance Bill
35 speeches (18,789 words)
2nd reading
Wednesday 19th March 2025 - Lords Chamber
HM Treasury
Mentions:
1: Lord Eatwell (Lab - Life peer) —established by George Osborne in 2010 and eliminated in the disastrous mini-Budget of 2022. - Link to Speech
2: Baroness Coffey (Con - Life peer) The noble Lord, Lord Smith, has been praised, understandably, but I extend some praise to George Osborne - Link to Speech

Welfare Reform
178 speeches (18,216 words)
Tuesday 18th March 2025 - Commons Chamber
Department for Work and Pensions
Mentions:
1: Liz Kendall (Lab - Leicester West) Members with this: a decade ago, former Chancellor George Osborne said:“Governments…let…unemployed people - Link to Speech

Crime and Policing Bill
263 speeches (50,624 words)
2nd reading
Monday 10th March 2025 - Commons Chamber
Home Office
Mentions:
1: David Taylor (Lab - Hemel Hempstead) down on these yobs.There is much more I would like to say, but much like our police force under George Osborne - Link to Speech

Warm Home Discount
8 speeches (2,282 words)
Monday 3rd March 2025 - Lords Chamber
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero
Mentions:
1: Baroness Young of Old Scone (Lab - Life peer) housebuilders got on with getting ready for zero-carbon homes, but then, at the last minute, George Osborne - Link to Speech

Inheritance Tax Relief: Farms
196 speeches (28,059 words)
Monday 10th February 2025 - Westminster Hall
HM Treasury
Mentions:
1: Graham Stuart (Con - Beverley and Holderness) should lead his colleagues to tell the Chancellor to change course, just as we did in 2012 when George Osborne - Link to Speech

Growing the UK Economy
33 speeches (6,499 words)
Monday 3rd February 2025 - Lords Chamber
HM Treasury
Mentions:
1: Lord Fox (LD - Life peer) hopelessly defy reality when it comes to projects of that scale.I think it was the former Chancellor George Osborne - Link to Speech

Low and No-Tax Jurisdictions
23 speeches (11,347 words)
Thursday 30th January 2025 - Lords Chamber
HM Treasury
Mentions:
1: Baroness Coffey (Con - Life peer) gave me the confidence early on in my parliamentary career to point out to the then Chancellor, George Osborne - Link to Speech

Welfare Cap
52 speeches (13,834 words)
Wednesday 29th January 2025 - Commons Chamber
Department for Work and Pensions
Mentions:
1: Helen Whately (Con - Faversham and Mid Kent) we are debating today was introduced back in 2014 by the Conservative Chancellor at the time, George Osborne - Link to Speech

Charter for Budget Responsibility
40 speeches (10,889 words)
Wednesday 29th January 2025 - Commons Chamber
HM Treasury
Mentions:
1: Richard Fuller (Con - North Bedfordshire) thoughts, really.The welfare cap, of course, was introduced in 2014 by Conservative Chancellor George Osborne - Link to Speech
2: Richard Fuller (Con - North Bedfordshire) me return to the charter for budget responsibility, which was established by former Chancellor George Osborne - Link to Speech

National Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) Bill
117 speeches (23,745 words)
Committee stage
Wednesday 29th January 2025 - Grand Committee
Cabinet Office
Mentions:
1: None In 2006, I did a tax commission report, while we were in opposition, for George Osborne and the then - Link to Speech

Economic Growth
45 speeches (20,240 words)
Thursday 23rd January 2025 - Lords Chamber
Cabinet Office
Mentions:
1: Lord Davies of Brixton (Lab - Life peer) When David Cameron and George Osborne became prime minister and chancellor respectively in 2010, they - Link to Speech

National Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) Bill
119 speeches (22,914 words)
Committee stage
Tuesday 21st January 2025 - Grand Committee
HM Treasury
Mentions:
1: Lord Forsyth of Drumlean (Con - Life peer) Tax Simplification was a recommendation from the tax commission that I chaired back in 2006 to George Osborne - Link to Speech

Obesity: Food and Diet
83 speeches (27,572 words)
Monday 20th January 2025 - Commons Chamber
Department of Health and Social Care
Mentions:
1: Andrew Gwynne (LAB - Gorton and Denton) taken thousands of tonnes of sugar out of the drinks we consume every day, and I give credit to George Osborne - Link to Speech

Women’s Changed State Pension Age: Compensation
124 speeches (13,984 words)
Wednesday 15th January 2025 - Westminster Hall
Department for Work and Pensions
Mentions:
1: Torsten Bell (Lab - Swansea West) On a second front, he reminds us that it was in fact George Osborne who said that the acceleration of - Link to Speech

Bus Services (No. 2) Bill [HL]
38 speeches (23,676 words)
2nd reading
Wednesday 8th January 2025 - Lords Chamber
Department for Transport
Mentions:
1: Lord McLoughlin (Con - Life peer) It was partly a Bill promised in a deal done by George Osborne, Sir Richard Leese and Howard Bernstein - Link to Speech

National Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) Bill
86 speeches (42,521 words)
2nd reading
Monday 6th January 2025 - Lords Chamber
HM Treasury
Mentions:
1: Lord Macpherson of Earl's Court (XB - Life peer) Healey implemented in his first Budget, or even an increase in VAT, as Sir Geoffrey Howe and George Osborne - Link to Speech
2: Lord Forsyth of Drumlean (Con - Life peer) Indeed, the tax commission that I chaired for George Osborne in 2006 recommended that, but they were - Link to Speech
3: Lord Horam (Con - Life peer) taxation at the beginning of their periods of government—Mrs Thatcher did it, and it was done by George Osborne - Link to Speech

China: Human Rights and Security
41 speeches (19,048 words)
Thursday 19th December 2024 - Lords Chamber
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
Mentions:
1: Baroness Smith of Newnham (LD - Life peer) Under the coalition but particularly, one sensed, when George Osborne was the Chancellor of the Exchequer - Link to Speech

Provisional Local Government Finance Settlement
15 speeches (4,828 words)
Thursday 19th December 2024 - Lords Chamber
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Mentions:
1: Lord Sentamu (XB - Life peer) Then one day, George Osborne called it the national living wage, but it was simply an enhancement of - Link to Speech

Oral Answers to Questions
137 speeches (9,695 words)
Wednesday 18th December 2024 - Commons Chamber
Cabinet Office
Mentions:
1: Keir Starmer (Lab - Holborn and St Pancras) In 2011, the former Chancellor George Osborne then accelerated those changes with very little notice. - Link to Speech

Women’s State Pension Age Communication: PHSO Report
16 speeches (5,513 words)
Tuesday 17th December 2024 - Lords Chamber
Department for Work and Pensions
Mentions:
1: Baroness Sherlock (Lab - Life peer) 1995 or to accelerate that increase in 2011—a decision that the then Conservative Chancellor George Osborne - Link to Speech

Women’s State Pension Age Communication: PHSO Report
95 speeches (10,827 words)
Tuesday 17th December 2024 - Commons Chamber
Department for Work and Pensions
Mentions:
1: Liz Kendall (Lab - Leicester West) 1995 or to accelerate that increase in 2011—a decision that the then Conservative Chancellor George Osborne - Link to Speech

National Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) Bill
199 speeches (38,808 words)
Committee of the whole House
Tuesday 17th December 2024 - Commons Chamber
HM Treasury
Mentions:
1: Graham Stuart (Con - Beverley and Holderness) The 2012 Budget by George Osborne, crudely and rudely called the omnishambles Budget, included a measure - Link to Speech

Rule of Law
51 speeches (34,642 words)
Tuesday 26th November 2024 - Lords Chamber
Scotland Office
Mentions:
1: Lord Sikka (Lab - Life peer) pleaded guilty to “criminal conduct” in the US and was fined $1.9 billion but the then Chancellor, George Osborne - Link to Speech

Property (Digital Assets etc) Bill
30 speeches (14,352 words)
Second reading committee
Wednesday 6th November 2024 - Grand Committee
Ministry of Justice
Mentions:
1: Lord Vaizey of Didcot (Con - Life peer) Those were the days when George Osborne, echoing what I have just said, wanted the British Government - Link to Speech

Ministerial Code: Policy Announcements
17 speeches (1,479 words)
Wednesday 30th October 2024 - Lords Chamber
Cabinet Office
Mentions:
1: Lord Wallace of Saltaire (LD - Life peer) Perhaps I should admit that, during the coalition Government, George Osborne, as Chancellor, was heard - Link to Speech
2: Lord Macpherson of Earl's Court (XB - Life peer) My Lords, back in March 2013, the Budget was comprehensively leaked and the then Chancellor, George Osborne - Link to Speech

Budget Resolutions
195 speeches (45,922 words)
Wednesday 30th October 2024 - Commons Chamber

Mentions:
1: Sammy Wilson (DUP - East Antrim) For about three years, I had to listen to George Osborne telling us that the previous Government had - Link to Speech

Renters' Rights Bill (Second sitting)
152 speeches (31,772 words)
Committee stage: 2nd sitting
Tuesday 22nd October 2024 - Public Bill Committees
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Mentions:
1: Michael Wheeler (Lab - Worsley and Eccles) overgeared buy-to-let landlords, which is mainly a result of the section 24 tax changes that George Osborne - Link to Speech

Nuclear Industry: Cumbria
23 speeches (4,167 words)
Monday 14th October 2024 - Commons Chamber
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero
Mentions:
1: Tom Hayes (Lab - Bournemouth East) George Osborne begged the Chinese to invest in nuclear power, and we are now unpicking his mistake. - Link to Speech

Film Industry
29 speeches (6,478 words)
Thursday 10th October 2024 - Lords Chamber

Mentions:
1: Lord Stevenson of Balmacara (Lab - Life peer) It was then built on by the great work—I am surprised to hear myself saying it—of George Osborne, who - Link to Speech

Social Security
94 speeches (13,094 words)
Tuesday 10th September 2024 - Commons Chamber
Department for Work and Pensions
Mentions:
1: Liz Kendall (Lab - Leicester West) about those just above the pension credit threshold, when it was their former Tory Chancellor, George Osborne - Link to Speech

Winter Fuel Payment
31 speeches (4,689 words)
Tuesday 10th September 2024 - Westminster Hall
Department for Work and Pensions
Mentions:
1: Emma Reynolds (Lab - Wycombe) George Osborne, on taking office, cut that benefit and made it unavailable for younger pensioners, so - Link to Speech

Budget Responsibility Bill
43 speeches (18,745 words)
2nd reading
Monday 9th September 2024 - Lords Chamber
HM Treasury
Mentions:
1: Lord Eatwell (Lab - Life peer) My Lords, the OBR was created by George Osborne to“remove the temptation to fiddle the figures”.An entirely - Link to Speech
2: Lord Hain (Lab - Life peer) The OBR estimates that the decade of fiscal austerity imposed by George Osborne and Philip Hammond added - Link to Speech
3: Lord Bilimoria (XB - Life peer) decision by Labour gives the OBR the most power it has ever had since the Chancellor at the time, George Osborne - Link to Speech
4: Viscount Trenchard (Con - Excepted Hereditary) by either taxpayers or consumers.I was rather sceptical about the OBR when it was created by George Osborne - Link to Speech

Housing: Modern Methods of Construction
52 speeches (11,646 words)
Thursday 5th September 2024 - Lords Chamber
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Mentions:
1: Lord Teverson (LD - Life peer) That legislation was about to be enacted when the Government changed and George Osborne, as Chancellor - Link to Speech

Budget Responsibility Bill
92 speeches (23,910 words)
Committee of the whole House
Wednesday 4th September 2024 - Commons Chamber
HM Treasury
Mentions:
1: Graham Stringer (Lab - Blackley and Middleton South) This quango was set up by George Osborne to trap an incoming Labour Government and restrict and slow - Link to Speech

Public Spending: Inheritance
27 speeches (5,689 words)
Tuesday 30th July 2024 - Lords Chamber
HM Treasury
Mentions:
1: Lord Wood of Anfield (Lab - Life peer) Noble Lords will remember that, in 2010, when Conservative Chancellor George Osborne set up the Office - Link to Speech

Bank Resolution (Recapitalisation) Bill [HL]
23 speeches (16,796 words)
2nd reading
Tuesday 30th July 2024 - Lords Chamber
HM Treasury
Mentions:
1: Lord Sikka (Lab - Life peer) July 2016 report titled Too Big to Jail contained a two-page letter from the then Chancellor, George Osborne - Link to Speech



Select Committee Documents
Tuesday 13th January 2026
Oral Evidence - Office for Budget Responsibility

The UK’s fiscal architecture - Economic Affairs Committee

Found: There was not this relationship back when George Osborne had £80 billion-worth of headroom against his

Tuesday 13th January 2026
Oral Evidence - Office for Budget Responsibility

The UK’s fiscal architecture - Economic Affairs Committee

Found: There was not this relationship back when George Osborne had £80 billion-worth of headroom against his

Tuesday 16th December 2025
Oral Evidence - Office for Budget Responsibility, Office for Budget Responsibility, and Office for Budget Responsibility

The UK’s fiscal architecture - Economic Affairs Committee

Found: I think maybe Chancellor George Osborne in the mid-2010s was content to have a Budget or fiscal statement

Tuesday 9th December 2025
Oral Evidence - Panmure Liberum, PIMCO, and Deutsche Bank

The UK’s fiscal architecture - Economic Affairs Committee

Found: The first rules that George Osborne had targeted a structurally adjusted current deficit, which explicitly

Tuesday 2nd December 2025
Oral Evidence - Flint Global, and Trinity College, Oxford

The UK’s fiscal architecture - Economic Affairs Committee

Found: Bluntly, it was easier for George Osborne because he created the model of the institution together,

Tuesday 18th November 2025
Oral Evidence - University of Liverpool, Northstowe Arts, and Ebbsfleet Development Corporation

New Towns: Creating Communities - Built Environment Committee

Found: That is a George Osborne term that was used when we were set up as a development corporation.

Tuesday 11th November 2025
Oral Evidence - Policy Exchange, and Citizens Advice

Regulators and growth - Industry and Regulators Committee

Found: The Office of Tax Simplification was set up by George Osborne during the coalition years but was sadly

Tuesday 11th November 2025
Oral Evidence - Policy Exchange, and Citizens Advice

Regulators and growth - Industry and Regulators Committee

Found: The Office of Tax Simplification was set up by George Osborne during the coalition years but was sadly

Wednesday 5th November 2025
Oral Evidence - Rt Hon. George Osborne, former Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Rt Hon. Sir Vince Cable, former Secretary of State for Business and Trade

Treasury Committee

Found: George Osborne, former Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Rt Hon.

Wednesday 5th November 2025
Oral Evidence - Rt Hon. George Osborne, former Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Rt Hon. Sir Vince Cable, former Secretary of State for Business and Trade

Treasury Committee

Found: George Osborne, former Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Rt Hon.

Wednesday 5th November 2025
Oral Evidence - Rt Hon. George Osborne, former Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Rt Hon. Sir Vince Cable, former Secretary of State for Business and Trade

Treasury Committee

Found: George Osborne, former Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Rt Hon.

Monday 3rd November 2025
Oral Evidence - Jonathan Hall KC, and Lord Sumption OBE PC, FSA, FRHistS

The National Security Strategy - National Security Strategy (Joint Committee)

Found: Lord Patten of Barnes: Can I just add one point about the golden age, launched when George Osborne was

Monday 3rd November 2025
Oral Evidence - Isabel Hilton OBE, Lord Patten of Barnes, and MI6

The National Security Strategy - National Security Strategy (Joint Committee)

Found: Lord Patten of Barnes: Can I just add one point about the golden age, launched when George Osborne was

Monday 20th October 2025
Oral Evidence - Irwin Mitchell LLP, The Law Society of Scotland, Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP), and The Law Society of England and Wales

Draft Finance Bill 2025–26 - Finance Bill Sub-Committee

Found: Ten years ago, the whole law and tax here was totally reformed by George Osborne when he was Chancellor

Tuesday 14th October 2025
Oral Evidence - Tax Policy Associates, Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), Resolution Foundation, and The University of Warwick

Treasury Committee

Found: I think that broadly, George Osborne reduced the rates, and now we are talking about equalising again

Tuesday 14th October 2025
Oral Evidence - Tax Policy Associates, Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), The University of Warwick, and Resolution Foundation

Treasury Committee

Found: I think that broadly, George Osborne reduced the rates, and now we are talking about equalising again

Monday 30th June 2025
Report - 8th Report - Lifetime Individual Savings Account

Treasury Committee

Found: On 16 March 2016, the then Chancellor of the Exchequer The Rt Hon George Osborne announced a new “Lifetime

Tuesday 20th May 2025
Oral Evidence - Sir John Kingman

Financing and Scaling UK Science and Technology: Innovation, Investment, Industry - Science and Technology Committee

Found: One was Gordon Brown; the other was George Osborne.

Tuesday 13th May 2025
Oral Evidence - Rt Hon Greg Clark, and Dr David Connell

Financing and Scaling UK Science and Technology: Innovation, Investment, Industry - Science and Technology Committee

Found: much they should put into this programme, or they have set, in the case of Gordon Brown and George Osborne

Thursday 8th May 2025
Written Evidence - ALTER
HLV0054 - Delivering 1.5 million new homes: Land Value Capture

Delivering 1.5 million new homes: Land Value Capture - Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee

Found: It was supported by George Osborne but bitterly opposed by some Conservatives in the Cabinet.

Tuesday 29th April 2025
Oral Evidence - Greater Manchester Combined Authority, North East Combined Authority, and Greater London Authority

Industrial Strategy - Business and Trade Committee

Found: Then we had the northern powerhouse in 2014 when George Osborne made that speech.

Tuesday 22nd April 2025
Oral Evidence - The Francis Crick Institute

Financing and Scaling UK Science and Technology: Innovation, Investment, Industry - Science and Technology Committee

Found: We went to see George Osborne in the Treasury. Do you follow the logic as to where that power is?

Tuesday 1st April 2025
Oral Evidence - Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA)

Get Britain Working – Reforming Jobcentres - Work and Pensions Committee

Found: I think it was almost in this room where George Osborne signed the devolution deal with the then 10

Tuesday 25th March 2025
Oral Evidence - Oxford Institute of Population Ageing

Preparing for an Ageing Society - Economic Affairs Committee

Found: If you remember, we were doing this at a time when we had George Osborne and the northern powerhouse

Tuesday 25th March 2025
Written Evidence - LISA0176 - Lifetime ISA

Treasury Committee

Found: It feels like when George Osborne came up with it, he was trying to marry two very different goals with

Tuesday 25th March 2025
Written Evidence - LISA0130 - Lifetime ISA

Treasury Committee

Found: Former Chancellor George Osborne introduced the LISA in the 2016 Budget, aiming to provide an alternative

Tuesday 25th March 2025
Written Evidence - LISA0088 - Lifetime ISA

Treasury Committee

Found: the Lifetime ISA, such that the initial philosophy and promise set out by former Chancellor George Osborne

Tuesday 25th March 2025
Written Evidence - LISA0029 - Lifetime ISA

Treasury Committee

Found: Introduction The Lifetime Individual Savings Account (LISA) was introduced by former Chancellor George Osborne

Tuesday 25th March 2025
Written Evidence - LISA0006 - Lifetime ISA

Treasury Committee

Found: Former Chancellor George Osborne introduced the LISA in the 2016 Budget, aiming to provide an alternative

Tuesday 25th March 2025
Written Evidence - LISA0010 - Lifetime ISA

Treasury Committee

Found: The house price cap has also not increased since introduction by George Osborne despite considerable

Tuesday 11th March 2025
Oral Evidence - Northern Gritstone, and The ScaleUp Institute

Innovation, growth and the regions - Science, Innovation and Technology Committee

Found: When people like George Osborne set up institutions headquartered in Manchester such as the Royce Institute

Tuesday 25th February 2025
Written Evidence - Michael Johnson
LISA0095 - Lifetime ISA

Treasury Committee

Found: Background I proposed a Lifetime ISA (LISA) in 2014, detailed in a published policy paper1, and George Osborne

Tuesday 17th December 2024
Oral Evidence - The Rt Hon Charles Clarke, and The Rt Hon Michael Gove

Prison culture: governance, leadership and staffing - Justice and Home Affairs Committee

Found: As I say, I was lucky, in that when I was appointed Justice Secretary both David Cameron and George Osborne

Wednesday 20th November 2024
Oral Evidence - 2024-11-20 10:00:00+00:00

Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee

Found: Providers had to deal with a 1% reduction in rents over a period under George Osborne.



Parliamentary Research
Budget 2025: Employee Ownership Trusts - CBP-10437
Dec. 15 2025

Found: company for the benefit of all the employees.1 In his 2013 Budget statement the then Chancellor George Osborne

The National Minimum Wage: Policy and developments - CBP-10353
Oct. 07 2025

Found: When then Chancellor George Osborne (Conservative) announced the introduction of the National Living

Direct taxes: Rates and allowances for 2025/26 - CBP-10237
Apr. 08 2025

Found: Conservative government’s first Budget after the 2015 general election, the then Chancellor George Osborne

The creative industries tax reliefs: Policy and development - CBP-10093
Sep. 05 2024

Found: the introduction of new reliefs for video games, high -end TV, and animation, then Chancellor George Osborne



Early Day Motions
Monday 14th July

Parthenon Sculptures

25 signatures (Most recent: 1 Sep 2025)
Tabled by: Andrew George (Liberal Democrat - St Ives)
That this House notes that the British Museum still holds about half of the Parthenon Sculptures, controversially removed from Athens by Lord Elgin between 1801 and 1812, during the Ottoman occupation of Greece, and that they remain on display in the British Museum to which they were transferred by Act …


Petitions

Scrap inheritance tax rules on existing defined contribution pensions.

Petition Rejected - 7 Signatures

Allow defined contributions that existed prior to the Labour 2024 budget to be free of Inheritance tax rules due to come into effect April 2027. It is unfair to apply IHT retrospectively.

This petition was rejected on 20th Dec 2024 as it duplicates an existing petition

Found: George Osborne made changes to defined pension contributions in April 6th 2015.



Department Publications - Research
Monday 19th May 2025
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Source Page: Agriculture in the United Kingdom 1989 – 2010
Document: (PDF)

Found: Comprehensive Spending Review The Chancellor, George Osborne, presented the Government’s Spending Review



Department Publications - News and Communications
Thursday 27th March 2025
Home Office
Source Page: Home Secretary speech at the Community Security Trust
Document: Home Secretary speech at the Community Security Trust (webpage)

Found: I never thought I would hear myself say, certainly not 10 years ago – he is in Hong Kong with George Osborne



Department Publications - Transparency
Thursday 28th November 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
Source Page: FCDO ministerial gifts, hospitality, travel and meetings, April to June 2024
Document: (webpage)

Found: preview tickets Yes David Cameron 23/06/2024 Sir Lucian Graine, Universal Music Group (UMG) via George Osborne

Thursday 29th August 2024
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
Source Page: DCMS: ministers' gifts, hospitality, travel and meetings Q4 23/24
Document: (webpage)

Found: Alexander Marr To discuss Art History teaching in state schools Stephen Parkinson 2024-03-26 George Osborne



Non-Departmental Publications - News and Communications
Dec. 02 2025
Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street
Source Page: PM speech at Lady Mayor's Banquet: 1 December 2025
Document: PM speech at Lady Mayor's Banquet: 1 December 2025 (webpage)
News and Communications

Found: We had the golden age of relations under David Cameron and George Osborne, which then flipped to an Ice

Nov. 13 2024
Upper Tribunal (Tax and Chancery Chamber)
Source Page: DAVID BRIAN PRICE and TONI FOX-BRYANT v THE FINANCIAL CONDUCT AUTHORITY [2024] UKUT 00357 (TCC)
Document: David Bryan Price and Toni Fox-Bryant v Rge Financial Conduct Authority (PDF)
News and Communications

Found: People had been doing pension transfers before 2015, but in the 2014 budget George Osborne (the then



Non-Departmental Publications - Transparency
Jul. 29 2025
British Museum
Source Page: The British Museum Annual Report and Accounts 2024 to 2025
Document: (PDF)
Transparency

Found: George Osborne CH Chair of the TrusteesThe British Museum Report and Accounts 2024-25 2 Structure, governance

Aug. 02 2024
British Museum
Source Page: The British Museum Annual Report and Accounts 2023 to 2024
Document: (PDF)
Transparency

Found: George Osborne CH Chair of the TrusteesThe British Museum Report and Accounts 2023-242Structure, governance

Jul. 29 2024
Homes England
Source Page: Homes England Annual Report and Financial Statements 2023 to 2024
Document: (PDF)
Transparency

Found: Melanie also worked as Speechwriter and Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne

Jul. 26 2024
UK Government Investments
Source Page: UK Government Investments Annual Report and Accounts 2023-24
Document: (PDF)
Transparency

Found: Welfare and Pensions (2013-2017), Principal Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne



Deposited Papers
Friday 5th December 2025

Source Page: I. Independent Loan Charge Review 2025 [led by Ray McCann]. Incl. appendices. 71p. II. Government response to the Loan Charge Review 2025. Incl. annexes. 77p. III. Letter dated 03/12/2025 from Daniel Tomlinson MP to the Deposited Papers Clerk regarding 2 documents for deposit in the House libraries. 1p.
Document: Loan_Charge_Review_2025_-_Final_Report__003_.pdf (PDF)

Found: The Loan Charge was first announced by then Chancellor George Osborne in 2016.




George Osborne mentioned in Scottish results


Scottish Government Publications
Friday 17th January 2025
Propriety and Ethics Directorate
Source Page: Correspondence regarding the death of former First Minister: FOI release
Document: FOI 202400436889 - Information Released -Document 2 (PDF)

Found: from across the political spectrum and public life; confirmed contributors at present include George Osborne

Wednesday 13th March 2024

Source Page: Building prosperity through social solidarity and economic dynamism: First Minister's speech - 12 March 2024
Document: Building prosperity through social solidarity and economic dynamism: First Minister's speech - 12 March 2024 (webpage)

Found: warning about the austerity path his opposite number and, now of course, his podcast partner, George Osborne



Scottish Parliamentary Research (SPICe)
EU Emissions Trading System
Friday 5th April 2019
This briefing provides an overview of the EU Emissions Trading System, a carbon pricing policy central to the EU's action climate change. It covers the history, present functioning and planned reform of the policy and explores the options available to the UK after Brexit. This briefing also provides an account of UK and Scottish government policy to date, and the perspectives of key
View source webpage

Found: Commenting on the decision of former chancellor George Osborne to cap the CPF at £18/ tCO2, Senior Campaigner

Housing and Social Security
Monday 25th February 2019
This briefing considers the impact of housing related welfare reforms on landlords and tenants in Scotland. It sets these in the context of wider welfare reforms taking place across the UK.
View source webpage

Found: increase in the age to which the SAR applied (from age under 25 to age under 35) the then Chancellor George Osborne

Income Tax in Scotland: 2017 update
Wednesday 6th December 2017
This briefing provides information on income tax in Scotland, including legislation, recent policy developments, and facts and figures on Scottish taxpayer numbers, their incomes and income tax liabilities. It also discusses behavioural responses and includes modelling of illustrative changes to income tax in 2018-19.
View source webpage

Found: assessment of the 50p rate and noted:23 In his 2012 Budget speech in March 2012, the Chancellor George Osborne



Scottish Parliamentary Debates
United Kingdom Government Welfare Reforms
56 speeches (120,262 words)
Wednesday 23rd April 2025 - Main Chamber
Mentions:
1: Adamson, Clare (SNP - Motherwell and Wishaw) Those words of condemnation of cuts came when George Osborne and the Tories were cutting critical social - Link to Speech

Brexit (Impact on Rural Economy)
134 speeches (121,485 words)
Thursday 7th November 2024 - Main Chamber
Mentions:
1: Grahame, Christine (SNP - Midlothian South, Tweeddale and Lauderdale) for trade deals.Interestingly, before the referendum, Conservative Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne - Link to Speech
2: Grahame, Christine (SNP - Midlothian South, Tweeddale and Lauderdale) Frankly, I agree with George Osborne and his dire predictions. - Link to Speech

Pre-budget Scrutiny 2025-26
73 speeches (84,244 words)
Thursday 3rd October 2024 - Committee
Mentions:
1: Robertson, Angus (SNP - Edinburgh Central) In 2010, George Osborne delivered a UK budget in one month and 16 days. - Link to Speech
2: Robertson, Angus (SNP - Edinburgh Central) In 2010, George Osborne delivered a UK budget in one month and 16 days. - Link to Speech

Women’s State Pensions (Compensation)
44 speeches (81,807 words)
Wednesday 1st May 2024 - Main Chamber
Mentions:
1: O'Kane, Paul (Lab - West Scotland) Labour opposed it when George Osborne took the decision to accelerate increases in the state pension - Link to Speech

Two-child Benefit Cap
48 speeches (50,118 words)
Tuesday 23rd April 2024 - Main Chamber
Mentions:
1: Haughey, Clare (SNP - Rutherglen) The policies were the brainchild of the former Tory Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, who - Link to Speech

Budget (Scotland) (No 3) Bill
150 speeches (144,919 words)
Tuesday 27th February 2024 - Main Chamber
Mentions:
1: Johnson, Daniel (Lab - Edinburgh Southern) by what we have just heard: a desperate, flailing SNP speech—something akin to a second-rate George Osborne - Link to Speech

Budget Scrutiny 2024-25 (United Kingdom Context)
194 speeches (147,095 words)
Tuesday 12th December 2023 - Committee
Mentions:
1: None Previous fiscal targets that Gordon Brown, Alistair Darling and George Osborne set were tighter than - Link to Speech

Topical Question Time
29 speeches (16,834 words)
Tuesday 28th November 2023 - Main Chamber
Mentions:
1: Arthur, Tom (SNP - Renfrewshire South) the UK Government austerity agenda—one that has an excess of the austerity that was pursued by George Osborne - Link to Speech

Challenge Poverty Week 2023
11 speeches (44,681 words)
Tuesday 24th October 2023 - Main Chamber
Mentions:
1: Stewart, Kaukab (SNP - Glasgow Kelvin) George Osborne introduced the national living wage as the legal minimum amount that a worker can be paid - Link to Speech

Two-child Benefit Cap
152 speeches (118,372 words)
Wednesday 4th October 2023 - Main Chamber
Mentions:
1: Chapman, Maggie (Green - North East Scotland) The attempts to turn George Osborne into a sort of national treasure reveal some terrifyingly short memories - Link to Speech




George Osborne mentioned in Welsh results


Welsh Committee Publications

PDF - report

Inquiry: Financial Transactions Capital


Found: So, this is in the era of George Osborne as Chancellor, where the size of the deficit was a political



Welsh Government Publications
Tuesday 12th August 2014

Source Page: M4: corridor around Newport
Document: Summary of responses (PDF)

Found: There's not a bank manager in Wales who'd lend to a business without a plan, yet George Osborne appears

Monday 10th January 2011

Source Page: Written Statement - Changes to the Educational Maintenance Allowance Wales scheme (10 January 2011)
Document: Written Statement - Changes to the Educational Maintenance Allowance Wales scheme (10 January 2011) (webpage)

Found: On October 20 the Chancellor, George Osborne, announced to the UK Parliament that the EMA scheme in England



Welsh Senedd Research
The road to the Independent Commission on devolution in Wales - Research paper
Wednesday 11th June 2014
The road to the Independent Commission on devolution in Wales September 2011 On 19 July 2011 the Secretary of State for Wales, the Rt. Hon. Cheryl Gillan MP announced that an independent Commission would be established to look at the financial ac...

Found: 64 RoP, 21 June 2011 65 Ibid. 66 BBC News, Carwyn Jones praises George Osborne

Wales and the Scottish Independence Referendum - Research Paper
Wednesday 11th June 2014
National Assembly for Wales Research paper Wales and the Scottish Independence Referendum September 2013 Research Service The National Assembly for Wales is the democratically elected body that represents the interests of Wales and its people, ma...

Found: Hon George Osborne MP, stated in a speech to the Offshore Europe Conference in Aberdeen on 3 September

The Crown Estate in Wales - Research paper
Wednesday 11th June 2014
The Crown Estate in Wales July 2011 The purpose of this paper is to provide information about the Crown Estate in Wales and to outline the discussions taking place about the future of the Crown Estate on a wider basis elsewhere in the UK. The Cro...

Found: George Osborne MP, in the Comprehensive Spending Review.

Final Budget 2012-13 - Research paper
Wednesday 11th June 2014
Final Budget 2012-13 December 2011 This paper provides information on the Welsh Government’s Final Budget 2012-13. It provides an overview of spending plans for 2012-13, how these compare to 2011-12, looks at overall changes over the budget perio...

Found: BBC News, Welsh government budget gets £300m from George Osborne, 29 November 2011 [accessed 1 December

Autumn Statement 2011 - Quick guide
Wednesday 11th June 2014
1 Autumn Statement 2011 November 2011 April 2007 What are Assembly Measures? This quick guide provides information on the Chancellor’s Autumn Statement of 29 November 2011, summarising the headline policy announcements and the potential impact on...

Found: Introduction The Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, made his Autumn Statement on Tuesday

The road to the Independent Commission on devolution in Wales - Research paper
Wednesday 11th June 2014
The road to the Independent Commission on devolution in Wales September 2011 On 19 July 2011 the Secretary of State for Wales, the Rt. Hon. Cheryl Gillan MP announced that an independent Commission would be established to look at the financial ac...

Found: 64 RoP, 21 June 2011 65 Ibid. 66 BBC News, Carwyn Jones praises George Osborne

Chancellor’s Budget 2011 - Research paper
Wednesday 11th June 2014
Chancellor’s Budget 2011 March 2011 On Wednesday 23 March 2011 the Chancellor of the Exchequer, (George Osborne) presented the UK Government’s Budget 2011. This paper provides a range of information on the Budget 2011, including a summary of the...

Found: Chancellor’s Budget 2011 March 2011 On Wednesday 23 March 2011 the Chancellor of the Exchequer, (George Osborne

Spending Review 2010 - Impact on Wales - Quick guide
Wednesday 11th June 2014
Research Service Quick Guide Q u i c k G u i d e | 1 Spending Review 2010 – Impact on Wales Quick Guide November 2010 Introduction The Chancellor of the Exchequer (George Osborne) presented the UK Government’s Spending Review (SR) 2010 on 20 Octo...

Found: Impact on Wales Quick Guide November 2010 Introduction The Chancellor of the Exchequer (George Osborne

‘Emergency’ Budget 2010 - Quick guide
Wednesday 11th June 2014
Research Service Quick Guide Q u i c k G u i d e | 1 ‘Emergency’ Budget 2010 Quick Guide July 2010 Introduction The Chancellor of the Exchequer (George Osborne) presented the UK Government’s ‘emergency’ Budget 2010 1 on 22 June 2010. The Budget s...

Found: Emergency’ Budget 2010 Quick Guide July 2010 Introduction The Chancellor of the Exchequer (George Osborne

Impact of UK Spending Reductions on Wales - Quick guide
Wednesday 11th June 2014
Research Service Quick Guide Q u i c k G u i d e | 1 Impact of UK spending reductions on Wales Quick Guide May 2010 Overview On 24 May 2010, the Chancellor (George Osborne) and Chief Secretary to the Treasury (David Laws) announced details of how...

Found: spending reductions on Wales Quick Guide May 2010 Overview On 24 May 2010, the Chancellor (George Osborne



Welsh Senedd Debates
2. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care

Wednesday 11th June 2025
Mentions:
1: Mabon ap Gwynfor (Plaid Cymru - Dwyfor Meirionnydd) before Liz Kendall announced that she’d be going further with her welfare cuts than even George Osborne - Link to Speech

5. Urgent Debate: The impact of the Chancellor's recent welfare reforms

Wednesday 2nd April 2025
Mentions:
1: Sioned Williams (Plaid Cymru - South Wales West) How else to explain a decision to unleash welfare cuts that even George Osborne winces at, in the full - Link to Speech

6. Debate on the Finance Committee Report, 'Financial Transactions Capital'

Wednesday 29th January 2025
Mentions:
1: Mark Drakeford (Welsh Labour - Cardiff West) They were a device then, as Mike said, to allow George Osborne to invest without it being on the balance - Link to Speech

7. Welsh Conservatives Debate: Employment

Wednesday 29th January 2025
Mentions:
1: Hefin David (Welsh Labour - Caerphilly) It was David Cameron and George Osborne in 2010—. - Link to Speech
2: Hefin David (Welsh Labour - Caerphilly) the same level of plans to introduce austerity in the way that it was done by David Cameron and George Osborne - Link to Speech

6. Welsh Conservatives Debate: New UK Government's first six months

Wednesday 15th January 2025
Mentions:
1: Heledd Fychan (Plaid Cymru - South Wales Central) the withdrawal of the winter fuel allowance from half a million pensioners—something that even George Osborne - Link to Speech
2: Lee Waters (Welsh Labour - Llanelli) letter to the Prime Minister because he'd repeated that she'd crashed the economy, something even George Osborne - Link to Speech

9. Welsh Conservatives Debate: Welsh Government response to UK Government budget

Wednesday 6th November 2024
Mentions:
1: Joel James (Welsh Conservative Party - South Wales Central) You said at the start that it was George Osborne who was the architect of austerity. - Link to Speech
2: Mark Drakeford (Welsh Labour - Cardiff West) George Osborne—[Interruption.]. No, no, no—[Interruption.] Calm down. Calm down. Calm down. - Link to Speech
3: Joel James (Welsh Conservative Party - South Wales Central) So, to say George Osborne, and that it was his policy, again is factually incorrect. - Link to Speech
4: Mark Drakeford (Welsh Labour - Cardiff West) I’m afraid George Osborne himself wouldn’t agree with what the Member has said, because he set out, as - Link to Speech

3. Financial Transactions Capital: Evidence session 3

Wednesday 18th September 2024
Mentions:
1: Mark Drakeford (Welsh Labour - Cardiff West) So, this is in the era of George Osborne as Chancellor, where the size of the deficit was a political - Link to Speech

8. Plaid Cymru Debate: NHS waiting lists

Wednesday 18th September 2024
Mentions:
1: Sioned Williams (Plaid Cymru - South Wales West)   Even George Osborne, the architect of austerity, hadn’t considered taking the winter fuel payment - Link to Speech

7. Welsh Conservatives Debate: Winter fuel payment

Wednesday 18th September 2024
Mentions:
1: Sioned Williams (Plaid Cymru - South Wales West) So, it hadn’t achieved what the politicians such as George Osborne had said it was going to achieve. - Link to Speech

8. Welsh Conservatives Debate: NHS waiting lists

Wednesday 3rd July 2024
Mentions:
1: Carolyn Thomas (Welsh Labour - North Wales) I remember, in 2010, George Osborne wanting to shrink public funding and Philip Hammond saying in 2017 - Link to Speech

3. Social housing supply: Evidence session 7

Thursday 20th June 2024
Mentions:
1: None At that point, George Osborne had made a statement in Parliament about raising £5 billion from surplus - Link to Speech

5. Debate: The Local Government Settlement 2024-25

Tuesday 5th March 2024
Mentions:
1: Carolyn Thomas (Welsh Labour - North Wales) George Osborne started it in 2010. - Link to Speech

4. Debate: Budget flexibilities and the operation of the UK funding framework

Tuesday 27th February 2024
Mentions:
1: Alun Davies (Welsh Labour - Blaenau Gwent) Now, the Conservative Government, George Osborne as Chancellor, introduced the Office for Budget Responsibility - Link to Speech

2. Warm and fed this winter

Friday 8th December 2023
Mentions:
1: Mark Drakeford (Welsh Labour - Cardiff West) It was a decision by George Osborne when he broke up the national council tax benefit scheme and the - Link to Speech

7. Statement by the Minister for Economy: Investment Zones

Tuesday 7th November 2023
Mentions:
1: Luke Fletcher (Plaid Cymru - South Wales West) For example, the enterprise zone programme spearheaded by George Osborne fell far short of its ambitions - Link to Speech

3. Statement by the Minister for Climate Change: Net-zero Commitments

Tuesday 26th September 2023
Mentions:
1: Julie James (Welsh Labour - Swansea West) Who would have thought that you and I would be on the side of Boris Johnson and George Osborne and Janet - Link to Speech

2. Scrutiny session with the First Minister

Monday 18th September 2023
Mentions:
1: Mark Drakeford (Welsh Labour - Cardiff West) Government should remain as part of the fabric of the welfare state, but where the then Chancellor, George Osborne - Link to Speech

8. Statement by the Deputy Minister for Mental Health and Well-being: Update on healthy food environment legislation

Tuesday 27th June 2023
Mentions:
1: Mabon ap Gwynfor (Plaid Cymru - Dwyfor Meirionnydd) recently that children from the poorest backgrounds born and brought up during the David Cameron and George Osborne - Link to Speech

9. Welsh Conservatives Debate: Local government funding

Wednesday 29th March 2023
Mentions:
1: Carolyn Thomas (Welsh Labour - North Wales) As a councillor, I remember the Chancellor George Osborne delivering cut after cut to public services - Link to Speech

2. Cost of Living

Friday 24th March 2023
Mentions:
1: Mark Drakeford (Welsh Labour - Cardiff West) remember that the reason we have a discretionary assistance fund is that the then Chancellor George Osborne - Link to Speech

1. Questions to the Minister for Climate Change

Wednesday 19th October 2022
Mentions:
1: Lee Waters (Welsh Labour - Llanelli) we have had to the Welsh Government's budget in over 20 years of devolution was by Chancellor George Osborne - Link to Speech

1. Questions to the First Minister

Tuesday 18th October 2022
Mentions:
1: Mark Drakeford (Welsh Labour - Cardiff West) Llywydd, the biggest cut we've ever had to make in a single year came when George Osborne was Chancellor - Link to Speech

4. Statement by the Minister for Climate Change: Welsh Housing Quality Standard 2

Tuesday 10th May 2022
Mentions:
1: Jenny Rathbone (Welsh Labour - Cardiff Central) Gordon Brown introduced the zero-carbon standards for all new housing, which were torn up by George Osborne - Link to Speech

7. Welsh Conservatives Debate: Local Government funding

Wednesday 16th February 2022
Mentions:
1: Carolyn Thomas (Welsh Labour - North Wales) for the last 14 years, I have lived through painful years of austerity, a policy introduced by George Osborne - Link to Speech

4. Wales in the UK—round-table discussion with academics

Monday 1st February 2021
Mentions:
1: None I think, for Wales to be overlooked in aspects of central Government, and the intervention of George Osborne - Link to Speech

3. UK Emissions Trading Scheme: Evidence session 2 - Zero Carbon

Thursday 1st October 2020
3. Impact of variations in national and sub-national income tax: Evidence session 1

Thursday 27th February 2020
Mentions:
1: None So, when George Osborne was asked about this a few years ago when it first was raised in Scotland, his - Link to Speech

7. Welsh Conservatives Debate: Welsh Government Funding

Wednesday 27th November 2019
Mentions:
1: Huw Irranca-Davies (Welsh Labour and Co-operative Party - Ogmore) agree with him that the light-touch regulation was too light, but, curiously, it was backed by George Osborne - Link to Speech