Government Performance against Fiscal Rules
Debate between Kanishka Narayan and Darren Jones(5 days, 22 hours ago)
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Darren Jones
The Treasury obviously monitors all OBR forecasts and considers them in detail. As the hon. Gentleman knows, it is right and proper that the Treasury looks at OBR forecasts in an orderly way when it produces its forecast in line with the fiscal forecast. That is how we bring stability back to the public finances, and that is what we will be doing.
Kanishka Narayan (Vale of Glamorgan) (Lab)
The Leader of the Opposition has appointed every member of Liz Truss’s Treasury team to her Front Bench, apart from those booted out by the public. Does my right hon. Friend agree that a party that has no fiscal strategy but to believe “In Liz We Truss” cannot be trusted on any of it?
Darren Jones
In a more conciliatory tone to Conservative Members, let me say that they have so few MPs they had no choice.
Growing the UK Economy
Debate between Kanishka Narayan and Darren Jones(5 months, 1 week ago)
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Kanishka Narayan (Vale of Glamorgan) (Lab)
Harold Wilson said:
“The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.”
Today, we can add to that the Tory party. Will the Chief Secretary ditch that Tory past, seize the spirit of Wilson and bring the white heat of technology back to Britain’s shores, including an AI growth zone in the Vale of Glamorgan?
Darren Jones
Pithy, Madam Deputy Speaker! Yes, I completely endorse my hon. Friend’s question. He knows very well that in the technology space there are huge opportunities for investment in the UK. Our AI investment zone announcement will be the first of many such announcements in the years ahead.