Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 02 Jul 2013 Finance Bill
"Yet again I am back on my old hobby-horse about the economy. If this measure is passed and people benefit from it, what will that do to the local economy? Will we see massive spending on our high streets? Will it help to regenerate the economy?..." Russell Brown - View Speech
"I come very much from the school that says that if someone is under a bit of pressure and struggling, it is only right for the Government to try to step in, but I am amazed by the figures. In 2011, the UK fund management industry was up 5%, after …..." Russell Brown - View Speech
"It is interesting that the mansion tax could raise £2 billion. I wholeheartedly agree with such a proposal. If we could transfer that £2 billion from the pockets of the wealthy and give it to the poorest, it would undoubtedly find its way back into the economy. That is very …..." Russell Brown - View Speech
"My hon. Friend and I arrived in this House in 1997. In government, Labour confined itself to the overall spending of the previous Government, but we had different priorities which we put in place. It is not as if we came to power in a golden era. There was a …..." Russell Brown - View Speech
"In reply to a question I tabled, which eventually ended up with the Cabinet Office, I was informed that between June 2010 and September 2012, 741,000 private sector jobs were created. Can the Minister explain the discrepancy between that figure and the fanciful figures of 1 million, and now 1.25 …..." Russell Brown - View Speech
"In the last couple of weeks, I received an answer from the Cabinet Office on the private sector jobs that have been created. The Government now talk about 1.25 million private sector jobs and for a long time spoke about 1 million. Is my hon. Friend surprised to learn that, …..." Russell Brown - View Speech
"We have listened long and hard to the Government about the number of private sector jobs that have been created—it went from 1 million, to 1.2 million, fell back to 1 million for some reason, and yesterday we heard an announcement of 1.25 million new jobs. Will the Secretary of …..." Russell Brown - View Speech
"I will try to be as quick as I can because I know that others want to make a contribution to this debate.
I will not get into the knockabout. If we are all honest with one another, every Government who come in after a period out of office inherit …..." Russell Brown - View Speech
"All I will say, as I have told the hon. Gentleman before, is that the previous Government—this is a fact—froze or abandoned potential increases on 13 occasions over nine years...." Russell Brown - View Speech
"Will the Minister remind the House what he did with the personal allowance for pensioners? Am I not correct in saying that he froze that?..." Russell Brown - View Speech