Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between James Sunderland and Jeremy Hunt

Tuesday 19th March 2024 Commons Chamber

[Jeremy Hunt]

Let me say to the hon. Lady, who I very much enjoyed working with on the Select Committee, that our record is 800 more people in work for every single day of Conservative government since 2010. What will wreck that is Labour’s new deal for workers, which the president of the CBI says will destroy the job-creating machine that the UK has become.

[James Sunderland (Bracknell) (Con)]

I commend the Treasury for good fiscal policies that have resulted in inflation falling significantly since the pandemic. When might we see a commensurate fall in interest rates?

[Jeremy Hunt]

I am very sorry to disappoint my hon. Friend, but Chancellors never comment on decisions made by the Bank of England on interest rates. What I can say is that the Office for Budget Responsibility predicted at the Budget that inflation would fall to around target in the next few months. That gives the best possible prospect of interest rates starting to fall.

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between James Sunderland and Jeremy Hunt

Tuesday 5th September 2023 Commons Chamber

[Jeremy Hunt]

We are always ferociously determined to recover money obtained through fraud, but because of those bounce back loans we have the fastest recovery of any major European country.

[James Sunderland (Bracknell) (Con)]

I have recently been contacted by several self-employed constituents expressing concern about heavy fines being imposed for filing tax returns late even though no moneys are owed. Will the Treasury meet me with a view, perhaps, to reviewing this policy?