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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 03 Mar 2021
Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation

"I am here to speak for the west midlands because we have a Tory Mayor who is failing to use his voice. The truth is that covid has hit our region harder than any other region in our country, and over the last four years, life in our region was …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 23 Nov 2020
Covid-19: Winter Plan

"On Friday, I met online with nurses in Birmingham who said that they had never seen so much death on the wards. They have had to bid goodbye to colleagues who have left the hospital in hearses. Many are suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. We owe it to them to …..."
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Written Question
Dominic Cummings
Wednesday 10th June 2020

Asked by: Liam Byrne (Labour - Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the public statement of 25 May 2020 by Dominic Cummings, whether funding from the public purse was expended on drafting that statement.

Answered by Chloe Smith

I refer the Hon. member to the answer given to PQs 52214 and 52215 on 4 June 2020.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 11 Mar 2020
Budget Resolutions

"The broad criticism that has been levelled at this Budget is that we surely needed a plan to decarbonise the transport system and it is not yet clear from today’s presentation whether we got that...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 11 Mar 2020
Budget Resolutions

"The growth figures the right hon. Gentleman quite rightly draws the House’s attention to are after the Government have chucked in a £174 billion fiscal stimulus and the Bank of England has slashed interest rates to an all-time low. I would draw his attention to the fact that productivity in …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 11 Mar 2020
Budget Resolutions

"It is a pleasure to speak in this Budget debate. I am only sorry that the former Chancellor and the former Prime Minister are not in their places, because I wanted to tell them how much I enjoyed the comedy of their remarks. I wanted to underline how extraordinary it …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 11 Mar 2020
Budget Resolutions

"I will in a moment.

We cannot build the new homes we need unless we start investing in remedial work on brownfield land, but the £400 million, at best, has to be spread between eight mayoralties. That means we might have about £50 million coming into the west midlands, but …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 11 Mar 2020
Budget Resolutions

"It is not a financial interest...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 11 Mar 2020
Budget Resolutions

"The right hon. Gentleman is a sophisticated thinker, so I will give him a sophisticated intervention. The judgment that had to be made in 2010 was how we closed the deficit. We said that one third of it should be closed by spending cuts and two thirds of it by …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 11 Mar 2020
Budget Resolutions

"I just want to say that the Conservative party backed our spending plans up until November 2009...."
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