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Spending Review and Autumn Statement — House of Commons, 2015-11-25
Topic: Law and Crime
James Michael Ellwood Berry (Conservative, Centre-right): The security of our nation starts at home, so may I welcome warmly the excellent news that the police budget will be protected in real terms and that an additional 30% will be spent on counter-terrorism? Does my right hon. Friend agree that protecting or increasing spending in important areas such as the NHS, schools and policing is simply not possible if difficult decisions are not made about public spending elsewhere, and that ideas for such spending cuts are never forthcoming from the Labour party?
Spending Review and Autumn Statement — House of Commons, 2015-11-25
Topic: Macroeconomics
George Gideon Oliver Osborne (Conservative, Centre-right): My hon. Friend is absolutely right. I am sure that the decisions taken on the NHS, education and policing will be very welcome in his constituency. They will enable us to deliver on the promises he made to local people. It is very easy for people to get up and say, "We want more money spent on this and more money spent on that," but I do not think I have yet heard an answer to my challenge to the Labour party to come up with a single public expenditure saving.
Spending Review and Autumn Statement — House of Commons, 2015-11-25
Topic: Education
Lucy Claire Leigh (Frazer) (Conservative, Centre-right): I commend the Chancellor’s commitment to the fairer funding formula. How precisely will it help students in Cambridgeshire, who historically have received about £2,000 less per pupil than those in some other areas of the country?
Spending Review and Autumn Statement — House of Commons, 2015-11-25
Topic: Education
George Gideon Oliver Osborne (Conservative, Centre-right): The current funding for schools is arbitrary and unfair. Children in different areas but with exactly the same circumstances can receive many thousands of pounds in funding at their schools, depending on where in the country they live. Cambridgeshire is one of the areas that has been underfunded historically. The new national funding formula will help address that unfairness. My hon. Friend has been championing that cause, and my right hon. Friend the Education Secretary will set out how the formula is going to work.
Spending Review and Autumn Statement — House of Commons, 2015-11-25
Topic: Education
Victoria Atkins (Conservative, Centre-right): May I thank my right hon. Friend for his commitment to fairer funding for schools so that the children in my constituency can get a fairer deal? On the subject of education, will he join me in thanking the shadow Chancellor for sharing his favourite book with us and therefore designing my next campaign leaflet?
Spending Review and Autumn Statement — House of Commons, 2015-11-25
Topic: Education
George Gideon Oliver Osborne (Conservative, Centre-right): My hon. Friend is absolutely right to champion the schools in her Lincolnshire constituency and to draw attention to the fact that the funding formula has not been fair to her constituents. That is why we are getting rid of it and introducing a new national funding formula, which will help to make sure there is a fair deal for Lincolnshire schools Having had a chance to look at it, I have discovered that this is a pretty well-thumbed copy of the little red book, so I do not think this is the first time that the shadow Chancellor has read from it.
Spending Review and Autumn Statement — House of Commons, 2015-11-25
Topic: Energy
George Gideon Oliver Osborne (Conservative, Centre-right): We are ensuring we have an efficient home efficiency scheme, and at the same time we are cutting the energy bills for families. I remember the Labour party in the last Parliament—it did not do Labour Members any good in the end—campaigning to freeze energy bills. They should be welcoming this cut in energy bills.
Spending Review and Autumn Statement — House of Commons, 2015-11-25
Topic: Education
Michael James Tomlinson-Mynors (Conservative, Centre-right): Time does not permit me to list all that is welcome in the Chancellor’s statement for residents of Dorset and the south-west, but I must mention Dorset Green, the new Dorset enterprise zone, which is incredibly welcome, and perhaps most importantly of all, the fairer funding formula for our schools in Poole and Dorset, which have until now been among the worst funded in the country.
Spending Review and Autumn Statement — House of Commons, 2015-11-25
Topic: Macroeconomics
George Gideon Oliver Osborne (Conservative, Centre-right): I think the hon. Lady should be fair about the situation that the United Kingdom finds itself facing. When she was Chief Secretary to the Treasury, the right hon. Member for Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford (Yvette Cooper) gave a very clear explanation of why, because of EU rules, the United Kingdom cannot reduce VAT on sanitary products below 5%. It is no good just standing up and asserting that we can do this, when Labour Ministers have stood at the Dispatch Box and explained why it is not possible. We will continue to campaign, as the previous Labour Government did, to get rid of that tax in the EU, but in the meantime, we are doing something they did not do, which is to take the money and put it into a fund. I ask the hon. Lady to come forward with some good causes that help both women who suffer from domestic violence and women’s health charities so that they can be funded from that pot.
Spending Review and Autumn Statement — House of Commons, 2015-11-25
Topic: Technology
George Gideon Oliver Osborne (Conservative, Centre-right): There is a £1.7 billion superfast broadband programme, which will help in the west country. Of course, we are also looking at a universal service obligation on telecom providers—as we have on other utilities—to help my hon. Friend’s constituents.
Spending Review and Autumn Statement — House of Commons, 2015-11-25
Topic: Transportation
Iain Aitken Stewart (Conservative, Centre-right): In the welcome context of increased capital investment in transport, may I ask my right hon. Friend to say more about the progress of the Hendy review, particularly the east-west rail project that is vital to unlocking economic and housing growth in Milton Keynes and Aylesbury Vale?
Spending Review and Autumn Statement — House of Commons, 2015-11-25
Topic: Transportation
George Gideon Oliver Osborne (Conservative, Centre-right): Peter Hendy is doing an excellent job in sorting out the finances of Network Rail. We funded the projects in control period 5 and funded additional spill-overs into control period 6. East-west rail is an important project and it will go ahead.
Spending Review and Autumn Statement — House of Commons, 2015-11-25
Topic: Agriculture
Kevin Paul Hollinrake (Conservative, Centre-right): I welcome the £50 million investment in our agri-tech centre at Sand Hutton and the protection for our North York moors, both of which are in my constituency. I welcome the apprenticeship levy as well. Will the Chancellor welcome the comments made during my visit to Karro Foods that the apprenticeship levy would allow it to employ more local people and fewer people from abroad?
Spending Review and Autumn Statement — House of Commons, 2015-11-25
Topic: Agriculture
George Gideon Oliver Osborne (Conservative, Centre-right): My hon. Friend is right that we have been able to boost skills in his Yorkshire constituency. We have been able to fund the great national parks of Yorkshire. We have also been able to invest in one of our great British industries, which has not always got a mention in Chancellors’ speeches in the past—farming. The big investment that we are making in agri-tech science with those four centres around the country, including one in York, will be very welcome.
Spending Review and Autumn Statement — House of Commons, 2015-11-25
Topic: Macroeconomics
George Gideon Oliver Osborne (Conservative, Centre-right): The OBR is forecasting a rise in household debt which is partly reflected in a rise in house prices and therefore household assets, against which the debt is secured. But of course there is a big difference from the unsecured debt that we found in 2008. The big difference we now have is a Bank of England with a Financial Policy Committee, which is able to step in when it sees debt levels reach worrying levels. The Governor of the Bank of England signalled before the Treasury Committee yesterday concern about buy-to-let prices, for example, and he is receiving the powers to do something about it. That is a big change from the situation five years ago.
Spending Review and Autumn Statement — House of Commons, 2015-11-25
Topic: Education
Richard Grosvenor Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax (Conservative, Centre-right): My constituents in South Dorset will want to thank my right hon. Friend for the enterprise zone at Winfrith Green, which is going to create thousands of jobs, for looking again at the education funding, which was very unfair to Dorset, and for the incentives to take on apprenticeships, which is so important for the future economy and particularly for the young people of this country.
Spending Review and Autumn Statement — House of Commons, 2015-11-25
Topic: Education
George Gideon Oliver Osborne (Conservative, Centre-right): I thank my hon. Friend. Dorset is a fantastic county. The enterprise zone will be a great success. Schools in Dorset will be boosted by the announcement today on the funding formula. He is absolutely right—we want great jobs in Dorset that are available to local people, so the apprenticeship support will mean that local people have the skills to get those jobs.
Spending Review and Autumn Statement — House of Commons, 2015-11-25
Topic: Transportation
John Philip Glen (Conservative, Centre-right): I thank the Chancellor for his unswerving commitment to welfare reform, enabling him to invest in schools, defence and the NHS, and in particular for his investment in infrastructure. Can he confirm that he will continue to take a close interest in the future of science jobs at Porton and the planned investment in the A303 at Stonehenge?
Spending Review and Autumn Statement — House of Commons, 2015-11-25
Topic: Technology
George Gideon Oliver Osborne (Conservative, Centre-right): I can give my hon. Friend that assurance. I am very keen to support the Porton science hub that he has championed and to make sure that as the public health laboratories move over a period of years, we build up a strong science hub there. That will be helped by the improved transport connections, including the huge billion-pound or so investment in the A303 past Stonehenge in his constituency.
Spending Review and Autumn Statement — House of Commons, 2015-11-25
Topic: International Affairs
George Gideon Oliver Osborne (Conservative, Centre-right): The overseas aid budget, which is going up substantially as our economy grows, is being refocused so that as well as helping the world’s poorest— for example, in sub-Saharan Africa and in countries such as Pakistan—we will also have money to help those states on the borders of Europe that are fragile or failing. Some 50% of our overseas aid budget will go towards those fragile and failing states in the world. We are therefore able to increase the resources going to Lebanon, Jordan and the camps in Turkey that are helping the refugees of that terrible crisis. I hope the SNP will look carefully at the arguments that my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister will make tomorrow in this House.
Spending Review and Autumn Statement — House of Commons, 2015-11-25
Topic: Energy
George Gideon Oliver Osborne (Conservative, Centre-right): The exclusion on the energy bills is for the various tariffs, such as feed-in tariffs. We are announcing at the Budget the results of our long-term consultation on energy taxes—we announced at the Budget earlier this year that it would take place—so we will have an answer for the hon. Gentleman then.
Spending Review and Autumn Statement — House of Commons, 2015-11-25
Topic: Technology
Matthew Robert Warman (Conservative, Centre-right): Across every Government Department the Chancellor is investing in a nationwide digital revolution, which I warmly welcome. Will he heed the more than 100 Members of Parliament across this House who have asked him to invest in broadband to make all that possible?
Spending Review and Autumn Statement — House of Commons, 2015-11-25
Topic: Technology
George Gideon Oliver Osborne (Conservative, Centre-right): We have got the £1.7 billion. We are committing to the superfast broadband rollout that will take it to 95% of the population. We are, as my hon. Friend knows, looking at a universal service obligation on the telecoms companies to reach more customers, as the other utilities already have. He is right that broadband is vital for the economic future of this country and helps rebalance our economy not just geographically from south to the north, but in the rural areas of our country, where it is now possible to run successful international businesses in a way that was not possible a decade ago.
Spending Review and Autumn Statement — House of Commons, 2015-11-25
Topic: Social Welfare
George Gideon Oliver Osborne (Conservative, Centre-right): There is additional support for disabled people who want to get into work. There is help for people who have been unemployed for 18 months through our help to work scheme. The additional conditionality that the hon. Gentleman refers to relates to people who are currently on housing benefit but do not face that conditionality. Housing benefit is becoming part of universal credit, so that is one category of people we can extend the conditionality to.
Spending Review and Autumn Statement — House of Commons, 2015-11-25
Topic: Transportation
George Gideon Oliver Osborne (Conservative, Centre-right): Kent is a very special place as the garden of England. My hon. Friend and other hon. Friends from Kent came to see me and made a compelling argument about what happens to local roads when the channel tunnel is blocked and how that affects his constituents and people in Folkestone near the tunnel mouth. We are making a quarter of a billion pound commitment to finding a permanent solution to that problem. I congratulate him and other Kent MPs on a successful campaign.
Spending Review and Autumn Statement — House of Commons, 2015-11-25
Topic: International Affairs
George Gideon Oliver Osborne (Conservative, Centre-right): As I have said, we have an increasing overseas aid budget and 50% of that budget will go to failing states. I assure the hon. Gentleman that if there was a political solution in Syria that enabled the Department for International Development to go to Aleppo and Damascus, we would be able to spend considerable sums on rebuilding those cities. It is frankly a bit unrealistic of the Scottish nationalists to ask about the city deal for Aleppo when it is in the middle of a civil war that we are all trying to bring to an end.
Spending Review and Autumn Statement — House of Commons, 2015-11-25
Topic: Macroeconomics
Thomas Christopher John Pursglove (Conservative, Centre-right): I strongly welcome my right hon. Friend’s announcements on police spending and the progress that is being made on exempting the steel industry from green taxes. Those are issues that I am hugely passionate about, as are my constituents. Will he clarify, however, when the exemption will kick in?
Spending Review and Autumn Statement — House of Commons, 2015-11-25
Topic: Energy
George Gideon Oliver Osborne (Conservative, Centre-right): My hon. Friend, who I believe is the son of police officers, made a persuasive argument to me about what we could do to our police when we discussed that matter. He has done his parents and his constituents in Corby proud. The support for energy intensive industries has been provided by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills out of its departmental budget this year. In the years ahead, it will be provided as an exemption from the green tariffs.
Spending Review and Autumn Statement — House of Commons, 2015-11-25
Topic: Macroeconomics
George Gideon Oliver Osborne (Conservative, Centre-right): The way in which we can support the hon. Gentleman’s constituents and ensure that businesses invest here is by being a competitive place to do business. He is right to draw attention to the fact that companies can choose to locate anywhere in the world. How do we address that? We make Britain the place to invest and we make Liverpool the place to invest, so that we attract those businesses here. Investment is coming into this country. Indeed, Britain has attracted more investment than the rest of Europe. As I set out today in the autumn statement, overall investment in our economy is going up by more than investment in any other G7 economy this year, and it will go up more here next year and the year after than in any other G7 economy. That will produce the jobs that he wants for his constituents.
Spending Review and Autumn Statement — House of Commons, 2015-11-25
Topic: Social Welfare
James Michael Davies (Conservative, Centre-right): I thank the Chancellor for an autumn statement that will be welcomed by my constituents in the Vale of Clwyd. Over the past few months, I have received several representations about the need to meet the growing cost of social care in north Wales. How will the very necessary new social care precept and the increase in the better care fund apply to Wales, bearing in mind the fact that local government functions are devolved?
Spending Review and Autumn Statement — House of Commons, 2015-11-25
Topic: Social Welfare
George Gideon Oliver Osborne (Conservative, Centre-right): The Barnett formula consequentials will apply. I am happy to write to my hon. Friend on the specific support that we can give to social care in Wales. As I say, his constituents will be beneficiaries of the relative protection for the NHS and things like social care in England through the Barnett formula. Crucially, the new funding floor will also provide protection. I will write to him specifically about the devolved arrangements in social care.
Spending Review and Autumn Statement — House of Commons, 2015-11-25
Topic: Social Welfare
George Gideon Oliver Osborne (Conservative, Centre-right): The last point that the hon. Lady raised was a perfectly fair one. At the moment, people can leave this country for up to 13 weeks and continue to receive housing benefit and pension credit, without any explanation of why they left. That is a very long time for the people she represents and the people I represent to pay the housing benefit of someone who is not even in the country and is not living in the house for which the housing benefit is being paid. We are reducing that to a month, which is still quite a long period. There will be arrangements and discretionary support to help people who face exceptional circumstances of the kind that she describes, such as a bereavement As part of the Welfare Reform and Work Bill, we will come forward with the results of the work and consultations that we have undertaken on the issue she raises about rape and violence.
Spending Review and Autumn Statement — House of Commons, 2015-11-25
Topic: Macroeconomics
George Gideon Oliver Osborne (Conservative, Centre-right): My hon. Friend is absolutely right. He is a champion of bringing businesses to Carlisle. I have made a number of visits with him to Carlisle businesses, including a sawmill and construction sites that are providing new homes for people there. He is right that none of those things is possible—people do not build houses and businesses do not expand—if there is no economic security and no confidence in the long-term plan of the Government. We have been able to provide a new enterprise zone for Carlisle, and buried in the detail of the document there is extra support for air routes from Carlisle as well.
Spending Review and Autumn Statement — House of Commons, 2015-11-25
Topic: Macroeconomics
George Gideon Oliver Osborne (Conservative, Centre-right): The block grant is going up, and there is a big increase in the capital budget. If the SNP had had its way and Scotland had become independent, there would have been savage cuts, because the OBR has just confirmed a massive fall in oil revenue income, which would have devastated Scotland. Thankfully, Scotland is part of a strong United Kingdom.
Spending Review and Autumn Statement — House of Commons, 2015-11-25
Topic: Education
Nusrat Munir Ul-Ghani (Conservative, Centre-right): Thank you, Mr Speaker A good education not only enables our children to reach their full potential but is empowering, and we now have 1 million children attending good or outstanding schools. May I thank the Chancellor for protecting our schools budget and for the good news about the commitment to a new funding formula, which will mean so much to my rural constituency?
Spending Review and Autumn Statement — House of Commons, 2015-11-25
Topic: Education
George Gideon Oliver Osborne (Conservative, Centre-right): The constituency of Wealden is dear to my heart, as my father grew up in Framfield, near the town of Uckfield, and I have been to see the area My hon. Friend is right that the support we are giving East Sussex in this statement is really compelling. It means that we can support the schools in her constituency, of which she has been such a strong champion.
Spending Review and Autumn Statement — House of Commons, 2015-11-25
Topic: Transportation
George Gideon Oliver Osborne (Conservative, Centre-right): I am glad that the hon. Gentleman has noticed the bid that we have made for the rugby league world cup. Let us just hope that England, and indeed all the home teams, are a bit more successful than we were in the rugby union world cup The TransPennine train route is being electrified as fast as is possible in engineering terms. It is not a question of money—we have said that we will spend the money required for the electrification. The timetable is simply being dictated by what is possible in the engineering. I am therefore confident that we are making progress as fast as we possibly can.
Spending Review and Autumn Statement — House of Commons, 2015-11-25
Topic: Energy
George Gideon Oliver Osborne (Conservative, Centre-right): It is now SNP policy that it wants a higher oil price, so presumably all the motorists would have to pay more for their car journeys in SNP Members’ constituencies and all the non-oil businesses would have to pay more as well. The truth is that not even the Scottish nationalist party is in control of the world oil price. It changes, and we have to ensure that that brilliant industry in the North sea is supported through the ups and downs of the world oil price cycle We have made huge cuts to North sea oil taxation this year and provided additional support for exploration. We have stepped in, with the industry, to create the Oil and Gas Authority for the UK and make sure it does everything it can so that we get every drop of oil we can out of the North sea, and indeed get the gas out too. I would have thought the hon. Gentleman wanted to work with us to make that possible. Of course, that kind of support would never be possible if Scotland were independent.
Childcare Bill [Lords] — House of Commons, 2015-11-25
Topic: Social Welfare
Eleanor Fulton Laing (Conservative, Centre-right): As we come on to the Childcare Bill [Lords], I have to remind the House that Mr Speaker has certified clauses 2, 4 and 6 under Standing Order No. 83J in relation to England. I further remind the House that this does not affect proceedings in the Second Reading debate or indeed in Committee or on Report. After Report, Mr Speaker will consider the Bill again for certification and, if required, the Legislative Grand Committee will be asked to consent to certified provisions.
Childcare Bill [Lords] — House of Commons, 2015-11-25
Topic: Social Welfare
Maria Frances Lewis Miller (Conservative, Centre-right): My right hon. Friend rightly says that she wants to make sure that her measures are delivering for all children. How is she going to make sure that this Bill delivers for disabled children and their access to childcare, which can be so important for helping parents who want to get back into work?