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Introduction: Baroness Armstrong of Hill Top

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Sunday Trading
Tuesday 6th July 2010

(13 years, 10 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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My Lords—

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I really do think that it is time to hear from a Conservative Back-Bencher.

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My Lords, is my noble friend aware that in nine out of the past 10 years Treasury forecasts for growth exceeded the actual growth levels? Is he therefore not entirely entitled to review the process by which government statistics are worked out?

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