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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 14 Jul 2015
Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation

"It falls to me to comment on the excellent maiden speeches that we have just listened to. The hon. Member for Kensington (Victoria Borwick) made a lovely, warm and engaging speech, with some generous recollections of her predecessor. She need not feel trepidation in following him. We will all remember …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 14 Jul 2015
Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation

"I would like to ask the hon. Gentleman—although I am not inviting him to come back in—how he would explain the fact that in the latest quarter the growth rate was 0.4%, up from 0.3%. In the last three quarters it has gone down from 0.9% to 0.6%, and then …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 14 Jul 2015
Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation

"My hon. Friend makes a good point, and I will come on to comparing what the Government have achieved with what the Chancellor said in 2010.

Bearing in mind that it takes between 12 and 18 months for Budget measures to work their way through the economy fully, we should …..."
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Written Question
Bilderberg Group
Thursday 25th June 2015

Asked by: Michael Meacher (Labour - Oldham West and Royton)

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will publish the briefing packs received by John Kerr, Rona Fairhead, Ed Balls and himself at this year's Bilderberg Conference.

Answered by Harriett Baldwin - Shadow Minister (Business and Trade)

The First Secretary of State and Chancellor of the Exchequer attended the 2015 Bilderberg conference in a private capacity.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 04 Jun 2015
The Economy

"I pay tribute to the speech by my right hon. Friend the Member for Doncaster North (Edward Miliband), in terms of both content and statesmanship. He was a fine leader who was largely misrepresented and misunderstood, and I think he had admirable vision and conviction. He will be sorely missed, …..."
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Written Question
Taxation
Monday 9th March 2015

Asked by: Michael Meacher (Labour - Oldham West and Royton)

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the date, amount and reason for being additional is of each item of the £100 billion of compliance revenues secured since April 2010.

Answered by David Gauke

HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC)’s compliance performance is measured using internal management information systems. This data is constructed from information derived from individual compliance cases or activities within HMRC.

All items are additional tax revenues raised from compliance activities, hence the term additional.

The additional tax revenues collected from compliance activities by HM Revenue and Customs for each year since May 2010 is as follows.

(£bn)

2010/11*

2011/12

2012/13

2013/14

2014/15

Outturns

13.9

18.6

20.7

23.9

Target

26

*Note: the methodology for calculating additional tax revenues from compliance activity changed between 2010/11 and 2011/12, and so the figure of £13.9bn is not directly comparable to later years.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 03 Dec 2014
Autumn Statement

"With average wages still suffering the longest and biggest fall since Victorian times, productivity still one of the lowest in the OECD, business investment still flat and below pre-crisis levels, the deficit on traded goods now the biggest in British history and, to cap it all, the budget deficit is …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 26 Nov 2014
The Economy

"On 3 December, the Chancellor will be confronted with a whole array of facts and statistics that he never intended or expected to see. Like an echolaliac obsessive, he has constantly repeated on every available occasion—it has been the same today—that the Government have a long-term economic plan.

So was …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 20 Nov 2014
Money Creation and Society

"I, too, strongly congratulate the hon. Member for Wycombe (Steve Baker) on securing this debate, which everyone recognises is vital and which has not been debated in this House for 170 years, since Sir Robert Peel’s Bank Charter Act 1844. The hon. Gentleman drew that fact to my attention when …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 20 Nov 2014
Money Creation and Society

"My hon. Friend anticipates the main line of my argument, so if he is patient I think I will be able to satisfy him. Crucially, only 8% of the money referred to went to businesses outside the financial sector, with a further 8% funding credit cards and personal loans...."
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