Budget Leak Inquiry Debate

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Richard Graham

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Budget Leak Inquiry

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Business of the House
Thursday 22nd March 2012

(12 years, 1 month ago)

Commons Chamber
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David Gauke Portrait Mr Gauke
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That is clearly not an issue for the Treasury. The Government will respond to the points that the hon. Gentleman has raised in due course.

Richard Graham Portrait Richard Graham (Gloucester) (Con)
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I would not dream of accusing anybody on the Opposition Benches of hypocrisy, but the last time I saw more assembled piety than there is on those Benches today was when I visited a Catholic convent in the southern Philippines in 1985. Has it occurred to the Minister, as it has occurred to me, that this urgent question is simply a distraction from the debate on a Budget for jobs and growth that helps working people? That is what my constituents in Gloucester want to hear us debate today.

David Gauke Portrait Mr Gauke
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I understand concerns about there being a debate before the Budget, but now Opposition Members do not seem to want a debate on Government measures after the Budget. I think we should have that debate.

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