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Oral Answers to Questions

Lord Tyrie Excerpts
Tuesday 16th November 2010

(13 years, 5 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Lord Tyrie Portrait Mr Andrew Tyrie (Chichester) (Con)
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The CSR is virtually silent on privatisation’s contribution to reducing the deficit. Will the Chief Secretary confirm that those receipts, which normally score in the accounts as negative spending, as he knows, will, when they come, be additional to and not a substitute for the spending reductions already announced in the CSR?

Danny Alexander Portrait Danny Alexander
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I can confirm that.